FBI accused of lying to Congress about Steele dossier

Washington Examiner:
A top Republican defended his committee releasing the declassified FBI interview with a top source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele and said a forthcoming document would show the bureau misled Congress about the reliability of his anti-Trump dossier.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, criticized the former MI6 agent, said Steele’s dossier was compromised by Russian disinformation, and argued newly public FBI notes from a January 2017 discussion with Steele’s "primary subsource" demonstrated the FBI knew the dossier was unreliable but continued to use it anyway. During his interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News, he also previewed new bureau records to be released in the upcoming week he said would show the FBI misled not just the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the Steele dossier, but also lawmakers.
“We also now have found, and this will come out next week, that Congress got suspicious about the Russian subsource and reliability of the Steele Dossier, and that members of Congress asked to be briefed about it,” Graham said. “Here is what I think I’m going to be able to show to the public: not only did the FBI lie to the court about the reliability about the Steele dossier, they also lied to the Congress. And that is a separate crime.”
Graham said congressional investigators “got suspicious … about Steele and the reliability about the dossier” and “so they started asking questions to the FBI... and I found the notes that the FBI used to prepare that briefing.” The South Carolina Republican said, “You’re gonna find not only did the FBI lie to the FISA court, they lied their ass off to the Congress" in 2018.
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Democrats do not seem to be upset about the lying because it fit their narrative in pushing the Russian collusion hoax.  Nor does the liberal media which was in on pushing the false narrative to facilitate the coup attempt against the President.

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