Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Last month, Rep. Devin Nunes and Rep. Adam Schiff (center) issued dueling memos over alleged Justice Department and FBI abuses at the nation's secret surveillance court when securing warrants.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2017, during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Bruce Ohr
Besides the dossier, a flow of anti-Trump data went to the FBI via the husband-and-wife team of Bruce and Nellie Ohr. Bruce was an associate attorney general; his wife was an anti-Trump researcher at Fusion GPS.
What research products continued to be supplied to the FBI has not been publicized. After the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence discovered Mr. Ohr’s role, he was demoted, Fox News reported. Mr. Ohr met with Mr. Steele during the election. He told the FBI that Mr. Steele said he as “desperate” to stop Mr. Trump.
Andrew McCabe
As Deputy Director, McCabe and the FBI knew, but did not tell the judge the dossier was a partisan scandal sheet financed by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
Agents bolstered the dossier by citing the Fusion-inspired Yahoo News story on Trump aide Carter Page that was actually not a second source, but was based on the same dossier. Mr. Steele lied to the FBI by saying he had not spoken to Yahoo News, when in fact he had, the Senate report said.
The FBI planned to pay Mr. Steele to continue investigating Mr. Trump. But the bureau suspended him in late October when he went to Mother Jones magazine and disclosed the collusion investigation.
Yet, the FBI continued to cite the Yahoo News story as corroboration in three subsequent wiretap renewals, the Senate report said.
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is seated before President Barack Obama and FBI Director James Comey arrive at an installation ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington. A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election meddling after the discovery of an exchange of text messages seen as potentially anti-President Donald Trump, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Former FBI Director James Comey, FBI special agent Peter Strzok and special counsel Robert Mueller are shown here, left to right. On Jan. 18, 2018, the House House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to release a FISA abuse memo, which, according to sources close to the committee, addresses text messages between FBI agent Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page which prove the so-called Steele dossier was used to justify FISA warrants.