Sifting through the DOJ IG’s report we find something very interesting.
Andrew McCabe pushed hard to get the ridiculous “pee dossier” included in the body of the January 6, 2017 U.S. Intelligence Community report, known as the ICA. The CIA disagreed and thought the entire dossier belonged in the footnotes as they considered the entire diossier as internet rumors. Still McCabe persisted and disgraced james Comey signed off on the effort.
Referencing Steele’s charges, McCabe wrote:
We oppose CIA’s current plan to include it as an appendix; there are a number of reasons why I feel strongly that it needs to appear in some fashion in the main body of the reporting, and I would welcome the chance to talk to you about it tomorrow.
But in their testimony, McCabe, Comey, James Clapper and John Brennan have been playing pass the buck on who authorized what. The emails that the IG found prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was McCabe and Comey who pushed for it’s inclusion in the body of the report.
In an email to Strzok, McCabe and others, Comey described a phone call he had with then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, writing that he told Clapper to include the Steele reports.
“Looks okay to me,” Comey wrote, approving of the FBI submission that encompassed Steele’s dossier charges.
Comey’s email continued:
FYI: During a secure call last night on this general topic, I informed the DNI that we would be contributing the [Steele] reporting (although I didn’t use that name) to the IC [Intelligence Community] effort. I stressed that we were proceeding cautiously to understand and attempt to verify the reporting as best we can, but we thought it important to bring it forward to the IC effort.
Comey went on to document that he vouched for Steele’s so-called sources while admitting that he didn’t tell Clapper about FBI efforts to verify the claims. The FBI at the time could not verify the charges.
Comey wrote:
I told him the source of the material, which included salacious material about the President-Elect, was a former [REDACTED] who appears to be a credible person with a source and sub-source network in position to report on such things, but we could not vouch for the material. (I said nothing further about the source or our efforts to verify).
States the IG report:
The Supervisory Intel Analyst explained that the CIA believed that the Steele election reporting was not completely vetted and did not merit inclusion in the body of the report. The Intel Section Chief stated that the CIA viewed it as “internet rumor.”
