Despite suspending its relationship with an ex-British spy who wrote the unverified dossier on President Donald Trump over the ex-spy’s unauthorized contact with the media, the FBI presented him as a credible source to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court multiple times after that suspension, according to two Republican senators.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) late Tuesday afternoon released a new version of a Jan. 4 criminal referral he wrote with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) that asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump dossier author Christopher Steele for allegedly lying to the FBI, which is a crime.
At Grassley’s request, the FBI removed multiple heavy redactions to the senators’ criminal referral, which the senators first released Monday and asserts that Steele wrote a second memo with help of at least one of Hillary Clinton’s friends.
“I appreciate the FBI’s quick turnaround on a tight deadline to my request for a classification review of the Steele referral,” Grassley said in a statement. “The more clarity we can provide to the American people about decisions at the FBI and Justice Department, the better.”
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