A declassified document from the Senate Judiciary Committee confirms that the FBI "relied heavily" on an unverified dossier in order to obtain FISA surveillance warrants on one-time Trump advisor Carter Page.
Unredacted portions of the document reveal the FBI's extensive involvement with the creator of the dossier, former UK spy Christopher Steele.
Despite Steele lying to the FBI which led to the agency ending their relationship, they still used his unverified memo and vouched for his reputation to obtain the FISA warrants The unredacted memo clarifies that the FBI notified the FISA court of the dossier's political origins "to a vaguely limited extent".
The FBI has withheld the notes from their meetings with Steele.
Steele received information for an unpublished second dossier from the Obama State Department led by John Kerry at the time.
Much of the information in this "Grassley Memo" matches with the contents of the "Nunes Memo" released by the House Intelligence Committee last Friday.
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