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1) IG: “In addition to the lack of corroboration, we found that the FBI’s interviews of Steele, the Primary Sub-source, a second sub-source, and other investigative activity, revealed potentially serious problems with Steele’s description of information in his election reports.”

https://twitter.com/StevenLHall1/status/1205877401986555904

2) "The FBI omitted information from persons who previously had professional contacts with Steele or had direct knowledge of his work-related performance."

3) "Some of the criticisms leveled were that Steele demonstrates “lack of self-awareness,” “poor judgement,” “pursued people with political risk but no intelligence value,” and claimed that Steele “didn’t always exercise great judgment."

4) Steele’s handling agent told the IG that “he would not have approved the representation in the application because only ‘some’ of Steele’s prior reporting had been corroborated.”

Steele’s information had not been corroborated and was never used in a criminal proceeding.

5) The IG report notes that the FBI conducted three interviews of the Primary Sub-source in January, March, and May 2017 “that raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting.”

6) “among the most serious of the10 additional errors we found in the renewal applications was the FBI’s failure to advise OI or the [FISA] court of the inconsistencies … between Steele and his Primary Sub-source on the reporting relied upon in the FISA applications.”

7) Steel had only one source - referred to as the Primary Sub-Source in the IG’s report.

In other words, contrary to popular belief, Steele did not have a network of direct sources that he worked with. In fact, he only had a singular source.

8) The Primary sub-source told the FBI:

“that he/she had not seen Steele’s reports until they became public that month, and that he/she made statements indicating that Steele misstated or exaggerated the primary sub-source’s statements in multiple sections of the reporting.”

IG: “We concluded that the information that was known to the managers, supervisors, and senior officials should have resulted in questions being raised regarding the reliability of the Steele reporting and the probable cause supporting the FISA applications, but did not.”

10) Isikoff “When you actually get into the details of the Steele dossier, the specific allegations, we have not seen the evidence to support them, and, in fact, there’s good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely false"

11) Greg Miller of WAPO:

There’s an assertion...that Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, went to Prague to settle some payments that were needed at the end of the campaign. We sent reporters through every hotel in Prague...to try to figure out if he was ever there, and came away empty."

12) Greg Miller, of the Washington Post, regarding the possibility that Michael Cohen was in Prague as detailed in Steele dossier:

“We’ve talked to sources at the FBI and CIA and elsewhere. They don’t believe that ever happened.”