Thread by @JohnWHuber

NEW: Partially declassified IG report footnotes, quick side by side analysis

h/t @CBS_Herridge

THREAD 🚨

The four footnotes that @ChuckGrassley and @RonJohnsonWI wanted declassified as crucial to understanding the IG report are:

302, 334, 342* and 350

*342 is still fully redacted, the others are partially redacted

FN302 - Sergei Millian (Person 1) was suspected of being a Russian Intelligence Office

Also confirmation that Bruce Ohr mentioned Millian in Dec 2016 to Joe Pientka

FN334 - HUGE - the “Primary Sub Source” Steele’s entire dossier relied on, told the FBI that he/she “did not view his/her contacts as a network of sources” 🚨🚨🚨

So Steele had 1 source - the PSS - who had *no* sources, just people they shot the breeze with over drinks?

FN342 - Still fully redacted. Apparently related to an attempt by a foreign entity to penetrate Steele or his companies 🤔

FN350 - FBI aware of allegations that Russian disinformation may have been responsible for the allegations against Michael Cohen AND the Trump pee tape. Hey @Comey just a reminder that’s the part you briefed POTUS on...

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N.B. This is from Executive Summary of the IG report stating as a FACT that the Primary Sub Source (PSS) used “his/her network of sub-sources to gather information”

This is directly contradicted by Footnote 334 where the PSS themselves said they didn’t have a “network” at all 🤔

N.B. 2 - Comey’s FBI first interviewed the Primary Sub Source in Jan 2017

They found out the PSS did NOT claim a “network of sub sources”

Then the FBI went back to the FISA court, saying they found the PSS “credible” & this *bolstered* the dossiers sub sources! Unbelievable

UPDATE: Footnotes 342 and 347 now almost fully declassified as well

https://twitter.com/cbs_herridge/status/1250526350768775172?s=21

https://twitter.com/cbs_herridge/status/1250526350768775172