The Justice Department's inspector general blasted the FBI in a report in December 2019 for failing to verify the dossier's allegations about Page before using them to obtain surveillance warrants. The FBI relied heavily on the dossier to obtain warrants to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The dossier played a key role in the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign, as well as the media's narrative of collusion between Trump and the Russian government. Democrats' ties to the dossier were not discovered until October 2017, amid an investigation led by House Republicans into the origins of the salacious document. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump. BuzzFeed News published the dossier on Jan. This effort is paid for by a law firm that is also working for Clinton’s campaign. Steele eventually fed the dossier to the FBI, while Fusion GPS peddled it to numerous journalists in Washington, D.C. Fusion GPS in turn paid $168,000 to Steele, who operates a private intelligence firm in London. The firm paid more than $1 million to opposition research firm Fusion GPS to collect damaging information about Trump and Russia. The Clinton campaign and DNC commissioned the dossier through their law firm, Perkins Coie. "This may well be the first time that Hillary Clinton-one of the most evidently corrupt politicians in American history-has actually been held legally accountable," he told the Examiner. The recent release of the committee transcript shows that Podesta, who was the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, admitted under oath that the Clinton Campaign and the DNC BOTH paid for the Christopher Steele dossier on Trump. Special Counsel John Durham last year indicted Steele's primary source, Igor Danchenko, on charges that he lied to the FBI about his sources.ĭan Backer, who in 2018 filed the FEC complaint on behalf of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, praised the ruling. Numerous federal and congressional investigations have debunked Steele's allegations. He also alleged that the Kremlin blackmailed Trump to do its bidding. Former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, accused the Trump campaign of leading a "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation" with the Russian government. The ruling, first reported by the Washington Examiner, vindicates claims that Democrats improperly hid their links to the dossier. The commission fined the DNC and Clinton campaign $105,000 and $8,000, respectively. The DNC and Clinton campaign paid more than $1 million in 2016 to fund the dossier project, but labeled the payments as legal expenses. The commission fined the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign for "misreporting the purpose of certain disbursements" related to the infamous Steele dossier, according to a ruling released on Wednesday.
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