the memo cites an article by michael isikoff. first here's the reference in the memo.he carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on page's july 2016 trip to moscow. this article does not corroborate the steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by steele himself to yahoo news. david corn's work is also cited in the memo. he and isikoff are the authors of russian roulette that comes out on march 20th. michael isikoff joins me tonight. >> so, michael, first of all, did you have any idea that your name was going to appear in this memo? >> absolutely not. i was as stunned as anybody. look, clearly i did -- the story i wrote for yahoo news in september of 2016 was the first story to disclose that there was a u.s. intelligence investigation into anybody associated with the trump campaign. but what kind of stunned me when i read the memo is it asserts that this story was then used as -- extensively cited as corroboration for the fisa warrant against carter page, which baf

and meeting with prostitutes there sleeping on obama's former badly you know in a hotel then michael isikoff takes an interview from this guy and then finally decides oh the whole possible fits together that there is a conspiracy against the night that's all you do also know that the face of court was not made aware of the origins and the author of this dossier ok what is not in there also were not told this article that was in the yahoo newsletter was also my suggestion i think i could correct them very easily you know let the fights record just to read my stories about russia and i think we should because that is the evidence was so should it be that they were in this rubber stamp court one said no had to be light to get the word instead it's that. we should stress this again this was the evidence put forward to wiretap an american citizen who was working for trump's campaign or had recently stopped working. in the case of of quarter page that when it was renewed that they not only use this dodgy opposition research tabloid scandal news from a foreign spook that the u.s. intelligence commu

hotels meeting with prostitutes there sleeping on obama's former badly you know in a hotel then michael isikoff takes an interview from this guy and then finally decides oh the whole possible fits together that there is a conspiracy against the night that's all you do also know that the face of court was not made aware of the origins and the author of this dossier ok what is there not being in there also were not told this article that was in the yahoo newsletter was also my suggestion i think i could correct them very easily you know let the farce of court just dreamed my stories about russia i think we should say by. the evidence was so should it be that they were in this rubber stamp court one said no had to be light to get the word and it's that bad and it's that. we should stress this again this was the evidence put forward to wiretap an american citizen who was working for trump's campaign or had recently stopped working. in the case of carter page that when it was renewed that they not only use this dodgy opposition research tabloid. scandal news from a foreign spoke that the u.s. intell

meeting with prostitutes there sleeping on obama's former badly you know in a hotel there and michael isikoff takes an interview from this guy and then finally decides oh the whole possible fits together that there is a conspiracy against the night that's all you do also know that the feis of course was not made aware of the origins and the author of this dossier ok what is there not being in there also we're not told this article that was in the yahoo newsletter was also my suggestion i think i could correct them very easily you know let the farce of court just to read my stories about russia i think we should say by. the evidence was so should it be that they were in this rubber stamp court one said no had to light to get the word it's that bad and it's that. we should stress this again this was the evidence put forward to wiretap an american citizen who was working for trump's campaign or had recently stopped working. in the case of of carter page that when it was renewed that they not only use this dodgy opposition research tabloid scandal news from a foreign spook that the u.s. intellige

news article by michael isikoff focusing on the july 2016 trip to moscow.he nunes memo claims, quote, this article does not corroborate the steele dossier, because it is derived from information leaked by steele himself to yahoo! news. joining me now is michael isikoff, the chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news, coauthor with david corn of the forthcoming book, "russian roulette: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump" out next month. michael, this gets confusing for some who are not read in. give me context so i understand the reference to you in that memo. >> well, i've got to say, i was as surprised as anybody that i was cited in the memo, and apparently having -- was cited before the fisa court. but the story that i wrote in september 2016 was the first story to reveal that there was u.s. intelligence investigation of somebody associated with the trump campaign. and that was carter page. christopher steele, the author of the dossier, has acknowledged in a british court filing that he came to the -- to was

isikoff joins me tonight. >> so michael, first of all.our name was going to be in the memo? >> absolutely not. i was as stunned as anybody. look, clearly i did the story the story i wrote for yahoo news in september of 2016 was the first story to disclose there was a u.s. intelligence investigation. into anybody associated with the trump campaign. but what kind of stunned me when i read the memo is they it's asserts that this story was then used as extensively cited as corroboration for the fisa warrant against carter page. which baffled me because the story was based reported there was already an investigation. and it was based on information that the fbi already had. so it's not quite clear to me why they would have needed to cite my story. to corroborate their allegations. it was about the information they already had. >> let's break it into parts. the memo says on the fisa warrant it used your article as corroborating information to the steele dossier. the article doesn't corroborate the steele dossier because it is derived from infor

. >> one of paula jones' attorneys had been speaking with journalist michael isikoff when he dropped involving testimony from other women. >> he told me about this anonymous phone call he got from a woman who alleged that something similar had happened to her in the white house. that struck me as quite a bombshell. >> isikoff eventually figured out that the mystery woman was kathleen willey, a former volunteer on the clinton campaign. >> she was much more polished than paula jones. she had been active in democratic fundraising circles, so she certainly didn't seem to be a part of any plot by bill clinton's enemies. >> he tracked her down and asked if anyone could verify her story. >> and she mentioned to me, "yeah, there was this woman who used to work in the white house named linda tripp." >> so isikoff headed to the pentagon and convinced linda tripp to talk. >> he caught me completely off guard. and he was writing a story about kathleen willey. >> linda tripp didn't think that kathleen willey was sexually harassed. she thought that kathleen willey wanted to have a sexual relations

hotels meeting with prostitutes there sleeping on obama's former badly you know in a hotel then michael isikoff takes an interview from this guy and then finally decides oh the whole possible fits together.

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michael isikoff was first to s yahoo! news. quote, u.s. intelligence officials are seeking to determine whether an american businessman identified by donald trump as one of his foreign policy advisers has opened up private communications with senior russian officials, including talks about the possible lifting of economic sanctions if the republican nominee becomes president. the activities of trump adviser carter page have been discussed with senior members of congress during recent briefings about suspected efforts by moscow to influence the presidential election. after one of those briefings, senate minority leader harry reid wrote fbi director james comey, citing reports of meetings between a trump adviser, reference to page, and high-ranking sanctioned individuals in moscow over the summer. he cited them as evidence of significant and disturbing ties between the trump campaign and the kremlin. some of those briefed were taken aback when they learned about page's contacts in moscow, viewing them as a possible back channel to the russia

look, you've got two journalists who were name checked in the memo michael isikoff and david corn andld these two now are trying to cash in on all of that with a book that is set to be released in march. and so the core corruption of our intelligence agencies in that infrastructure would not have been possible without the collusion of the core corruption of investigative journalism in this country. and it's interesting to go back and i'm old enough to remember during the bush years when there wasn't a leak that the blabber mouths at the "new york times" and all of the other liberal media outlets wouldn't love to blab all over the front pages of their papers and airwaves when it endangered the lives of our military and our intelligence officers and now they're going to accuse our president of threatening the rank and file when he made very clear that he stands behind rank and file of these intelligence agencies and law enforcement? shame on them. but they have no shame. >> laura: of course not. dan, really quick, last word. >> yeah. that's really filthy. nicolle wallace should be embar

let's try to make sense of this week, if that's possible, with michael isikoff. he's the chief investigative correspondent at yahoo! news and he's mentioning the memo. he's the co-author of the upcoming book, russian roulette, the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump. also with me, cnn politics media and business reporter, hadas gold, and zaidavid zurwick, med critic with the boston sun. david, what happened here? do you agree that hannity won or am i giving him too much credit? >> i don't know about -- hannity won sounds strong. but i agree with the premise, totally. i am shocked at the traction this hannity narrative has gotten. and here's what's shocking to me this week. when i saw -- when you see ron johnson, the senator from wisconsin, out there talking about, we have an informant, there's a secret meetings being held off-site. that's a loop. it goes from hannity to someone like johnson and the president and that is gaining real traction in this country. >> and we have to remember, hannity is a presidential adviser. >> exac

. >> michael isikoff ofnewsweek came in, and it turned out he knew a great deal. in some ways, he seemed to know more than we did. he'd been in touch with linda tripp for a long time. >> suddenly, all this stuff seemed to be in sort of this murky netherworld that might never become an actual news story was transformed instantly. >> he was giving us a very short time, just a day or two, before he was going to start making calls to people who were involved in the story. >> if ken starr, who had been named to investigate whitewater, had veered off in this direction, that was a bombshell. >> isikoff wanted corroboration and told them that at some point, he would need to reach out to the white house and bill clinton for a response. >> if this comes out before he goes in to testify at his deposition in the paula jones case, then he's warned, and he's going to protect himself. >> faced with a new avenue of investigation and concerned that the story might go public, the prosecutors rush to the justice department. >> under the independent counsel act, we did not have juris

the fbibi also used the yahoo ns article written by michael isikoff about the carter trip to russia. they were using it as separate and independent source to corroborate the phony dossier before thehe fisa judge, except the source for the yahoo story was christopher steele. so they never corroborated the information becauseus steele was the source of the dossier and the fake new story by michael isikoff. we also know that no one ever verified what was in the dossier. of course the memo shows that steele was suspended and terminated as an fbi source for leaking to the press, demoted doj official bruce ohr had a close relationship with him. remember, ohre had an office for doors down from the deputy attorney general, rodt rosenstein, who would later appoint robert mueller. ohr's wife, nellie, want to talk about coincidences in life? his wife was employed by fusion gps specifically working on the anti-trump opposition research. bruce ohr said that steele said "he was desperate, the author of the dossier, desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being

all of the information can be analyzed, not this back and forth battle of three paige memos. >> michael isikoff, the spin on the nunes memo is that the fisa court initially in the first of those four orders relied on a guy who had an ax to grind, christopher steele, who you have interviewed who was funded by the clintons, by the dnc, by some group of individuals antagonistic to donald trump. might we see in the democratic respond if it is forthcoming that there was more presented to the fisa court in that first order in terms of allowing surveillance of carter page? isn't that what this potentially is all about? >> right, and not potentially. i think that is what the democratic memo is all about. that's what we've been told, that is what members of the committee have said. problem is we haven't been able to see it. there are steps that the committee could take that might illuminate to some degree some of this. for instance, there is the back and forth about what andrew mccabe then the deputy director of the fbi testified to about how much weight the steele dossier had in that fisa application,

michael isikoff, why are you in the memo. does it suggest, as viewers have been told, that you did something wrong? or that your sources did something wrong in dealing with you? >> i was as surprised as anybody to see my story cited in the memo as having been extensively cited to the fisa court. number one, everything in the story that i broke in yahoo news in september of 2016 was information that was already known to the fbi. so it is a little baffling as to why they would have needed to cite my story to the fisa court. now what we don't know -- >> you are baffled that if true your story was cited to the court? >> yeah. what we don't know is what they were citing in the story. they are trying to suggest in the memo that it was the information that came from christopher steel, which was clearly a big part of the story, although the gist of the story was that the fbi, that the u.s. intelligence community was investigating the allegations about carter page that christopher steel had brought to them. but there was lots else in

they used this yahoo news article written by michael isikoff to corroborate the former domain phony dossierthe source for the story for isikoff was christopher stele. the fbi never corroborated the information from two different sources and they presented it to the judge like it was two sources corroborating the same thing. that was never the case. as it relates to steele, he was also suspended and terminated as an fbi source for leaking to the media.us the memo also exposes the bruce ohr maintained a close relationship with steele. we know that bruce ohr had an office four doors down from jim comey! we know that his wife was working forr fusion gps. specifically hired to build that trump dossier.t she was kind of paid by the clintons when you look at it logically. as "the daily caller" points out, sure does look like fusion gps was trying to buy influence in the obama state department. bruce ohr revealed that during september 2016, steele said he was, quote, desperate, desperate that donald trump not get elected, passionate about him not being president. the memo also exposes during the in

and michael isikoff's source was christopher steele.o the fbi never actually independently verified any of this. so is that what clapper is talking about? so it's time now for both breneman and clap tore face congress. they need to go back under oath and talk about what they knew, what they found and when they found it. we did reach out to harry reid, john brennan and james clapper for comments. they didn't get back to us. i'm not going to hold my breath. pressure is mounting on former obama national security advisor susan rice to start answering questions. why did she email herself on president trump's inauguration day about an important meeting that president obama had with former fbi director comey way back 15 days earlier on january 5th? now senators grassley and graham are out with a letter demanding that rice explain herself. according to the senators, they discussed the january 5th email as part of a national archives request about meetings between president obama and former fbi director james comey regarding the bureau's russia

they didn't tell the judge that the same source for michael isikoff, right? >> that's right. but we have one case there, sean. what we need to look at, and i think the inspector general is going to do this is how many other cases out there that we don't know about. cases that aren't public. that is what they're going to be looking at. they're going to be talking to people at the foreign intelligence surveillance court. they're going to possibly be talking to the judges. they're going to be looking at the documents, documents that we weren't prifby too because they're classified. look how difficult it was to get to the bottom of just carter page. so i think this is what the attorney general wants to do. he wants to expand this investigation. take a hard look at this to ensure this does not happen again in the future >> hannity: sarah, great investigative work on both issues. david shone, we appreciate your involvement and contribution. our top two stories, more reaction, is he bastian, dan, and gerlado next, stay with us. >> hannity: joining us on two top store others, former

stunned when his reporting was mentioned in the house intel committee memo released by republicans, michael isikoff is back. and tom fuentes is here, foerrm assist at any time direct to have assistant director for the fbi. so what do you think we might seeany time direct to have assistant director for the fbi. so what do you think we might see should we see the democratic response? >> it is actually not a surprise to me that the white house didn't release this memo because from everything we know, the democratic memo is about the context for that fisa application. all the other stuff it mad beyond the steele dossier that gave them suspicions about carter page and his ties to the russi russians. and if you read the transcript that was released yesterday of the house intelligence committee meeting earlier this week, there is references to a human source overseas, there is references to signals intelligence picked up by the nsa. that stuff is highly classified. the justice department and the fbi would have had valid reasons to object to that being released. so we shouldn't necessarily sort of assume t

most of us might be that yahoo is still out there and they're going to go out and by the way michael isikoff has a book coming on this is a subject you know and i wonder if he's going to have to do you would do somebody you were mentioning i'm doing a good thing here if you wrote the number of books on russia on the middle east you know just read his stories on russia and the media is he's an extremely unobjective doing this but i just loved what feist actually believe so far so warrant mentioned information on george papadopoulos which one. will stroll down australian diplomat in the long haul that the multi-use profess connected to russia and then he in russia during the clinton well even starred in secret police will not accept it you know like you dr salomone in the london. connection to the really bad script hollywood script here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after. short break we'll continue our discussion on the memo saying with our team. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the fina

michael isikoff has a book coming on this very subject next month and i wonder if he's going to have to do you would do if somebody were president and i'm doing a thing here if you wrote a number of books on russia on the middle east you know just read his stories on russia and the media is he's an extremely unobjective journalist but i just loved what. so far so warrant mentioned information on george papadopoulos which one papadopoulos told an australian diplomat in a long time more that the mounties prefers connected to russia really in russia he said during the clinton well even start in secret police would not accept it you know like you would talk to someone in the london bar who works for a long time quit reportedly in connection to the really bad script elements but if you're gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the mental state with our team. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see them. despite its title an

jessica, one of the things that struck me was a yahoo story by reporter michael isikoff cited in the memo as having been cite to the judges. isikoff was on cnn and he said he was as surprised as anyone. he said the fbi already knew what he was reporting. your reaction to the use of the media or attempted use of the media at that time. jessica: it's concerning. i think catherine herridge did a good job. i was sitting on that couch on "outnumbered" with you. i think is cover -- i think i* did a great job explaining happened. they made sure there were multiple sources. this idea which republicans are basing this on that only an unverified salacious dossier is the source for the warrant is unsubstantiated. howie: we have other developments. andrew mccabe forced out this week among reports that the president asked for his loyalty. the communications director said on and conference call about the donald trump, jr. meeting that the emails would never come out. his lawyer disputes that. whatever the revelations about this dispute and carter page, it doesn't affect the investigation. is that

the carter page fisa application cited a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on a jewel 2016 trip to moscow. page denied working with the russians. >> i have never broken any law or done anything untoward in russia or relating to any russian person. >> according to the memo an fbi counter intelligence chief said the corroboration of the steele dossier was in the early stages even as the initial fisa was submitted. comey later testified he told the president reflect at trump tower the dossier was quote salacious and unverified but it was used repeatedly to review the surveillance of page, by comey, deputy mccabe then obama sally yates and rod rosenstein. >> republicans raise a specter of legality over the trump dossier. today the attorney general sent a formal repersonal to the inspector general. >> shannon: catherine herridge on top of this story for months now. thank you very much. we return to chief correspondent ed henry and claims the president is ready to release top doj officials. what do you know about that? >> there's a lot of talk, the w

news article from michael isikoff to be able to justify it before a fisa court. >> you're asserting a of things that i don't know to be dem strabl fact. one thing i know about, when you talk about what you know about papadopoulos, we have no idea what papadopoulos knows. >> mccabe did. he was aware of all those facts and he testified before the intelligence committee that this dossier was the approximate cause of these surveillance warrants. that, alone, is far bigger than the russia investigation, far big ger than donald trump's presidency. it goes to the very core of our democracy and whether or not we want to have political documents to serve as the basis to spy on americans. >> it's an excellent question, whether or not it was just this political document. but fbi officials that we've been talking to and christopher wray and the fbi director himself, all of them saying that there is no way a dossier like this would be presented in a fisa court without corroboration of some of the things they're talking about. >> right. but the corroboration was the yahoo! news article. the corrobo

that thee schiff memo confirms, the fisa application, they mentioned a yahoo news article about michael isikoffschiff lied about the fact that the judge was never made aware that the source for the yahoo article was christopher steele. the republican memos detailed how this was a major problem because this means that the information was never verified by two independent sources since steele was the only source. those are the points of the schiff memo confirming. here are the key facts that the schiff memo flat out lies about. the congressman claims of the trump campaign was never spied on. that is a lie, 100% false, and here's's why. when the federal government granted a fisa warrant, that gives them access to every one of carter page's old emails, all text messages, and they know every phone call he made, which could date back to when he was with the trump campaign. schiff claims that former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe, that he never testified that without the dossier, they neverr would have been a fisa application.ap but the schiff memo never offers any proof, which likely means it does

news article by michael isikoff that focuses on the trip to moscow.t of the senate side, they note the existence of a news article dated december 23rd 2016 which in particular containments about the same dossier information compiled by mr. steel. some of you want to know about my colleagues here at fox and my twitter habits, catherine harwich is absolutely my favorite female reporter, she doesn't have a twitter so i can tell her. i will tell her and i do tell her a lot, that's one of the number one things i hear, people want to hear why catherine doesn't have her own twitter account. it's because she's busy out there digging up stories. she is always sniffing up national security stories and the details other people want find. we would love to hear more from you. meanwhile, most watched, trusted, grateful you spent the evening with us ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannity. a lot of breaking news this friday night. new information, new developments on a lot of issues. politico is reporting this hour that the former white house chief of staff strategist s

news, michael isikoff and they regurgitated. >> sean: is it fair to say that this informant knows abouteverybody cares about russia and the media, but they are involved in these crimes, they wanto to get a foothold in america's uranium network, is it fair to say he was risking his life? >> yes, he was threatened on numerous occasions. john solomon goes to the justice department after these leaks came out, and he gets an interview with a justice department official who says, those leaks weren't authorized. they were unauthorized and they were not accurate. >> sean: is it illegal? >> the leaking was illegal, yes. the first leg. there is a second time, though, that they give falsefa information. a afterme john's article comes ou, saying the justice department says no, that's not -- >> sean: is it fair that there is an effort to trash this 30-year cia fbi informant who risked his life because of politics? >> i have no idea why. i just know that john got the quote from a justice department officials, who said w the leaks weren'td authorized. guesscc what, ten days later, senior justice, just

aims to discredit the infamous steele dossier, partly because he leaked his findings to reporter michael isikoff discuss. but what if the dossier is neither proof of trump wrongdoing, nor democratic propaganda, but rather russian espionage disinformation to disrupt both parties, and our country? and if this 2005 picture of barack obama and louis farrakhan was made public back when it was taken, it might have derailed his election.

and comey's fbi then they also used that you yahoo news article written by michael isikoff about carter they were corroborating the dossier. well, here's the problem they knew the source for the yahoo story was christopher steele. and the fbi never independent lid verified the information nor did fusion g.p.s. because steele was their only source. and by the way from there it only gets worse. according to the grassley-graham memo, the bloinbluck,let me remeet the bet the hillary clinton phony dossier. comey told congress he didn't bother corroborating the dossier because the fbi felt christopher steele was credible. really? you don't have to corroborate these things? and comey also testified under oath that the same dossier that he used to get the fisa warrant was, quote, salacious and unverified. and comey also told then president-elect the same thing in january 2016. but it was only just a couple of months earlier the dossier was used to get a warrant. did he tell the fisa judge it's unverified? did he tell the fisa judge any of this information? no, he did not. okay. that is guilt bi

while not explicitly stated, this is presumably the article written by michael isikoff entitled u.s. intel officials pro-ties between trump advisor and kremlin. we americans with disabilities acted the application, attempts to explain away the inconsistency between steele's assertion to the fbi and the existence of the article apparently to shield mr. steele's credibility on which it still relied on the renewal request of the fisa application. have you got to renew it every 90 days. it said given that the information contained in the september 23rd news article generally matches the information about page, that steele discovered, doing hirst/her research redacted. stop for a second. so they used the same information from the same pinner. they presented to the court like they are two separate yet corroborating pieces of information to put emphasis to the court, oh, see, we have got two sources. the only problem is the source of the yahoo news article is the same source of the dossier, same guy didn't want trump to win and same guy being paid by the clinton campaign. this is so corrupt

carter page fisa application also cited extensively a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff, which focused on page's july 2016 trip to moscow. this does not corroborate the steele dossier, because it's derived from information leaked by steele himself. michael is here. first, facts. let's get to the facts. does what we read from the memo accurately describe your report? >> well, i have no idea if it accurately describes what was cited to the fisa court, which i think is the key issue because it doesn't say what it was they were citing in my article to corroborate whatever other information they were presenting to the court. the article, look, christopher steele has said in a british court filing that yahoo news, that's me, was among the news organizations he briefed about his work when he came to washington in september of 2016. so yes, there's no question that christopher steele was a source for my article. he has acknowledged as much. there was a lot else in the article, including the fact that the fbi had already begun its investigation into carter page and his trips to m

and gave it to yahoo news, michael isikoff and reuters and they just printed whatever they rejunk atussia and the media that they're involved in these crimes. they want to get a foot hold in russia's uranium network is it fair he is risking his life. >> he was threatened on two occasion. john solomon goes to the justice department after these leaks came out and he gets an interview with a justifiable department official who says those leaks weren't authorized. they were unauthorized they were not accurate. sawn sean it was illegal. >> the first leak there was a second time they gave false information. >> sean: right. >> after john's article comes out saying the justice department says no, that's not. >> sean: is it fair that there is an effort now to trash this 30-year cia, fbi informant who rinked his life because of politics? >> i have no idea why. i just know that john got the quote from the justice department officials saying leaks weren't authorized and were inaccurate. guess what, 10 days later, senior justice department officials go up to brief the hill and they give the same

comey's fbi used that yahoo news article written by michael isikoff.y never verify the information, and ordered fusion gps because steele was their only source. from there it only gets worse. according to the grassley-grandmama, the bulk -- let me repeat, the bulk of their applications to the fisa court, the fbi, put before, consisted -- the bulk of it -- the phony dossier, the hillary clinton 20 dossier. in march of 2017, comey told congress that he didn't bother collaborating or corroborating the dossier because the fbi felt christopher steele was credible. really?se you don'tng have to corroboraten these things? comey also testified under oath that the same dossier that he use to get the fisa warrant was "salacious and unverified. comey also told the president to elect the same thing in january 2016 but it was just a couple of months earlier the dossier was used to get a warrant. that he tell the fisa judge that it's unverified? that he tell the fisa judge any of this information? no, he did not. that is killed by omission. purposely omitting inform

news by michael isikoff in late september 2016 that talked about intelligence reports being given toe, and cited a western intelligence source as giving that information. we now know from these ongoing libel suits that christopher steele did meet with yahoo! in that time frame. however, according to senator grassley, the fisa court that gave permission to monitor carter page was told the fbi did not believe that steele had directly given the information to yahoo!. that was actually in the fisa application. so he's raising questions, did steele lie to the fbi to lead them to that conclusion. and, you know, we're told that this has been particularly dismaying, this notion that these actions to kind of warn the u.s. government has resulted in a criminal referral has been particularly dismaying to steele, and in fact my colleague tom hamburger spoke to a number of members of parliament in the uk saw this as a special affront to great britain. you have this guy, respected public service career in the uk, who, you know, did have a private client but was trying to warn our government, and n