Disinformation horse dose

GOP seizes on newly declassified material to raise further questions about Steele dossier

Senate Republicans are touting newly declassified information that suggests Russian disinformation, in two instances, may have been passed onto ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele when he compiled an opposition research dossier on Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.
The newly unredacted footnotes from a Justice Department inspector general report bolster criticisms of the FBI's handling of the dossier, and two Senate Republican chairmen received the material with the help of senior Trump administration officials skeptical of the FBI's Russia investigation into Trump.
The new information provided to the Republicans this week and earlier this month comes from previously classified footnotes in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the FBI's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants obtained on former Trump adviser Carter Page. The inspector general report outlined 17 "significant inaccuracies and omissions" in the four applications for the Page warrants in 2016 and 2017, including the use of Steele's unverified intelligence reports.