Chuck Grassley just released 'unredacted' memo - just look at what it says about FBI & Steele

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) just released an “unredacted’ version of the FISA memo that has thrown Washington D.C. into turmoil.

The memo, addressed to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, shows more about the FBI’s relationship to Christopher Steele, the ex-Brit spy whose name is attached to the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier.

2018-02-06 CEG LG to DOJ FBI (Unclassified Steele Referral) (1) by Kyle Becker on Scribd

The side-by-side comparison of the earlier more redacted memo and the “unredacted” (technically, less redacted) memo is striking.

Twitter blogger @drawandstrike had snap analysis.

Wow. The unredacted Grassley memo claims that:

1) Steele lied to the FBI about his media contacts

2) Even *after* the FBI knew Steele was the source of the media stories, they LIED to the FISA court about this & *still* proffered the Isikoff article to the Court.

— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018

3) The FBI was still claiming to the FISA Court Steele hadn't talked to the media when they knew he had. They did this during EACH of the three renewals of the warrant.

— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018

Remember, the FBI had to *pretend* to the FISA Court they didn't know Steele was reporter Michael Isikoff's source for that Yahoo News article they proffered to the Court to corroborate the dossier allegations about Carter Page.

— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018

Adam Schiff is about to have a very bad week.

— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018

It looks like Hillary Clinton’s seedy associate Sidney Blumenthal’s name is coming up again and again.

If I was right about this redaction https://t.co/Q4gmSGrhwr

I think we might be right about the Sid Blumenthal Cody Shearer (still) redactionshttps://t.co/9OBZY9nHih

Cc: @SaraCarterDC @seanhannity @chiIIum @kevinh07 @TheLastRefuge2 .. @EveryOtherPersonOnHere pic.twitter.com/FjTkQSdGb7

— Zhuang Zhou’s Crooked yet Steadfast Tree (@politicalwilli) February 7, 2018

Grassley's newly-declassified criminal referral on Steele indicates the ex-spy lied to FBI about his media contacts.

Maybe he forgot about his secret dinner with @Isikoff when he was the source for the infamous Yahoo News article. Me for @theamgreatness https://t.co/sBdVgyirPp

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) February 6, 2018

It may very well be the case that Hillary Clinton commissioned the opposition research via Sidney Blumenthal and Shearer, who then used ex-Brit spy Christopher Steele as a “cut-out” to append his name to the “dossier” and then it was dropped to Yahoo! News editor Michael Isikoff. After Buzzfeed latched onto it and published it “as is” with the fairly obvious aim of steering the election, the toothpaste was out of the tube. It’s a despicable mess, now let’s hope we get to the bottom of it.

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