Thread by @The_War_Economy

"FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet"

John Solomon, The Hill, December 5, 2018

thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…

"The email exchanges included then-FBI Director James Comey, key FBI investigators in the Russia probe and lawyers in the DOJ's national security division, and they occurred in early to mid-October, before the FBI successfully secured a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page."

"The email exchanges show the FBI was aware - before it secured the now-infamous warrant - that there were intelligence community concerns about the reliability of the main evidence used to support it: the Christopher Steele dossier."

"The exchanges also indicate FBI officials were aware that Steele, the former MI6 British intelligence operative then working as a confidential human source for the bureau, had contacts with news media reporters before the FISA warrant was secured."

As a reminder, between September 21 - 23, 2016, Steele met with Jonathan Winer (collecting the Shearer memo), The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, Yahoo! News (most likely Michael Isikoff), The New Yorker (Jane Mayer), Bruce Ohr and most likely Julia Ioffe of Politico.

Now, according to John Solomon, all of these e-mails between Comey, FBI investigators, et cetera, happen from early October 2016 to mid-October 2016.

It was in early October 2016 that Christopher Steele travelled to the United States, where he was debriefed by the FBI for over a week. Steele also provided some names of informants.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

Steele also shared the Cody Shearer memo at the exact same time as the week debrief.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/devin…

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

Let's also not forget that Steele then briefed the State Department on the dossier.

dailycaller.com/2018/06/20/ste…

Alternatively, Christopher Steele met with Michael Gaeta in early October 2016, and then was debriefed by the FBI in the middle of October.

nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/…

washingtonpost.com/world/national…

In either case, as these e-mails were being flung around by the top heavy FBI people such as Comey and whatever, the FBI was literally meeting with Steele.