Steele admonished by FBI but they still trusted him

Former MI-6 ex-British spy Christopher Steele was formally admonished by the FBI for misconduct in 2016. But in spite of that, FBI agents vouched for him and relied heavily on his anti-Trump dossier that led to wiretaps on a Republican campaign volunteer.

The verbal admonishment was found in 70 pages of highly redacted FBI documents, on what Steele reported as a "confidential human source," or CHS, how much he was paid and how he lost his job as a key FBI undercover source. When you read 'CHS' think 'Steele.'

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, obtained the documents through the court.

There were 11 pay request forms showing payments made in 2016, but they don't reveal the project. Steele runs Orbis Business Intelligence in London and had a previous FBI association, so the payments could have been for other work unrelated to the Hillary Clinton-sponsored dossier.

If the payments was for Trump-related spying or Russia intelligence, then Steele was being paid by the FBI and the Hillary Clinton campaign/Democratic Party. They hired Fusion GPS to run Steele as a source for opposition research on Trump.

The redacted documents' most significant disclosure points out that Steel was disciplined by the FBI on Feb. 2, 2016. The form entitled "admonishments" does not show his offense.

The un-redacted part of the document states, "verbally admonished the CHS with CHS admonishments, which the CHS fully acknowledged, signed and dated. The signed CHS AGG [attorney general guidelines] admonishments form is attached."

Yet after the admonishment, Steele went on to play a highly important role in leveling charges that ignited the probe into President Trump and helped lead to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, a close friend of former FBI Director James "Holier Than Thou" Comey.

By the end of April, Steele was hired by the Democrats and in June, he was sending out memos that accused the Trump campaign of an "extensive conspiracy" with the Kremlin to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Steele continuously sent the FBI collusion charges. In Oct. 2016, the FBI requested a wiretap from a judge on volunteer Carter Page. The dossier alleged Page met with shady Russian figures in Moscow and this is what made up most of the evidence to a judge that Page acted as a foreign agent for Russia.

Page is an investor who lived in Moscow and has many Russian contacts. He called Steele's charges a fabrication and has not been charged.

But still Mueller's investigation persists.

On his phony book tour this year, Comey vouched for Steele because scumcrumpets tend to sticking together.

Comey spoke about the dossier to ABC News and said, "This guy, [Steele] who's credible, says these things are true. Okay. That means we should try and replicate that work to see if we can develop the same sources."

In other words, the dossier was to be believed and used as the FBI's anti-Trump bible. In fact, the FBI cited Steele in three subsequent wiretap renewals stretching for a year. This allowed them to view all of Page's previous electronic messages.

By this time, Steele had been admonished and by November 2016 he was fired by the FBI for violation of the rules.

Because he was angry that he wasn't able to stop Trump's candidacy, he went to the far leftist rag "Mother Jones" magazine and spilled all of his charges as an unnamed intelligence source.

The article alarmed his FBI handlers who labeled him "not suitable for use as a CHS."

The firing document read: "At that time, handling agent advised CHS that the nature of the relationship between the FBI and CHS would change completely and that it was unlikely that the FBI would continue a relationship with the CHS. Additionally, the handling agent advised that CHS was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI."

Which now brings us to Fusion GPS.

That fall, Fusion GPS established a backchannel flow of anti-Trump information to then-Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr, whose wife worked at Fusion, to FBI agent Peter Strzok. He headed the probe and hated Trump's guts, as witnessed by his messages sent to his paramour, who was an FBI attorney with a slight overbite.

But now we must ask, did Steele continue to funnel information against Trump to the FBI after the agency told him to cease?

Last year, Daniel Jones, an ex-senior intelligence staffer to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), told the FBI his firm was paid $50 million by political donors to continue investigating President Trump. He said he hired Fusion GPS and Steele to do the job.

And still the Mueller investigation goes on . . .

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