Sara Carter is a real journalist!

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In a footnote on the warrant application to the court, the FBI stated that the “identified U.S. Person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1’s ties to Russia.” Meaning that now embattled Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to conduct the research, never advised him of who was paying his bill. The FBI submitted the FISA application on Carter Page, a former volunteer for the Trump campaign, on Oct. 21, 2016. Steele, according to testimony provided by Fusion GPS owner and former Wall Street Journal Reporter Glen Simpson was hired in the Spring of 2016. The New Yorker article also states that Steele was hired in the Spring. That means that Steele would have known who was paying him by the time he met with the FBI in Italy during the summer of 2016. Which leads to another question, did Steele lie to the FBI or did the FBI choose not to disclose this information to the secret court?

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The committee’s findings revealed that the FBI did not disclose to the courts that the DNC and Clinton campaign funded the research used as the bulk of their evidence in obtaining the warrant. If proven true it would be a violation of federal law. On March 2, Nunes demanded in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the DOJ investigate what appears to be clear violations of FBI protocol and possible criminal violations under federal law when the bureau obtained the warrant. He asked the DOJ to provide answers to what the committee deemed was a “clear violation of FBI protocols” in the warrant application. The potential criminal violations listed by Nunes in the letter are 18 USC 242 and 50 the SC 1809:

18 USC 242: using color of law to conduct a targeted investigation based on the pretext of law enforcement

50 USC 1809: surveillance conducted under color of law in a manner not authorized by FISA.

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