EX-FBI LAWYER CLAIMS HE WAS ‘CONCERNED’ WITH STEELE DOSSIER, BUT STILL USED IT TO GET CARTER PAGE SPY WARRANT
by Chuck Ross | The Daily Caller News Foundation Former FBI general counsel James Baker said Friday he viewed the Steele dossier “skeptically” and was “concerned” about the veracity of the document when the bureau received it before the 2016 election. But despite those concerns, Baker was one of the FBI officials who reviewed the Carter Page surveillance warrant application, which relied heavily on information from the dossier. The dossier, which former British spy Christopher Steele wrote, has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel’s report, which undercut Steele’s core claim of a “well-developed conspiracy of co-ordination” between...
by Chuck Ross | The Daily Caller News Foundation Former FBI general counsel James Baker said Friday he viewed the Steele dossier “skeptically” and was “concerned” about the veracity of the document when the bureau received it before the...
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