FBI’s Dossier Work May Have Been ‘Criminal’

By WND. The FBI’s decision to use the unverified “dossier” about President Trump in a top-secret spy court that authorized surveillance on the Trump campaign may have been a crime, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

The dossier contains the salacious claims that were assembled by a former British spy using Russian sources for a company linked politically to and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.

The dossier was the basis for the FBI’s investigation of Trump’s campaign, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s so-far failed hunt for evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Fox reported House Intelligence Committee chief Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the FBI, “in this instance,” violated “basic operating guidance.”

“The FBI may have violated criminal statutes, as well as its own strict internal procedures, by using unverified information during the 2016 election to obtain a surveillance warrant on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee charged Thursday,” Fox reported. (Read more from “FBI’s Dossier Work May Have Been ‘Criminal'” HERE)

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Rep. Devin Nunes says the FBI violated its own rules, and may have skirted federal law, by using a Democratic Party-bought dossier to spy on a Trump campaign volunteer.

By The Washington Times. Rep. Devin Nunes says the FBI violated its own rules, and may have skirted federal law, by using a Democratic Party-bought dossier to spy on a Trump campaign volunteer. . .

The manual, Mr. Nunes says in his March 1 letter, states, “The accuracy of information contained within FISA applications is of utmost importance …. Only documented and verified information may be used to support FBI applications [FISA] to the court [FISC].”

He said that Justice Department and FBI witnesses confirmed that the unverified dossier made up a big part of the warrant application and without it there would have been no application.

Mr. Sessions already announced Tuesday that Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz will investigate how Justice Department and FBI agents handled the warrant presentation, which was renewed three times. (Read more from “Nunes: FBI on Shaky Legal Ground With Use of Dem-Funded Dossier to Wiretap Trump Campaign” HERE)

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