We knew that Christopher Steele the now disgraced British spy and author of the Hillary/DNC dirty dossier passed information on to the FBI. But what we didn’t know until someone found it buried in the IG report is that the FBI was passing highly classified information to Steele. Not only that but they paid him $15,000 to attend the meeting and receive the information.
The FBI met with Steele in Rome and they gave him an outline of Operation Hurricane and the names of key members of Trump’s campaign staff, even though they knew Steele was being paid by Hillary’s campaign and the DNC to compile the fake dossier. And then on top of that they paid him.
From RealClearInvestigations:
Much of the public reporting regarding this meeting has focused on the information Steele shared with the FBI – and the many reasons agents should have doubted its credibility. But largely neglected has been the opposite side of the equation – what the FBI told Steele. The Inspector General reports that the bureau revealed to him much of the highly classified information that it had gathered regarding alleged Trump-Russia links.
Just weeks after “unlawfully” sharing highly classified information with Steele, the FBI severed its relationship with the British spy for leaking information to the media, according to the report.
The IG report states that the breach of classified information was investigated, but action was not taken against the agents responsible.
Instead, “the IG report offers possible explanations for the agent’s behavior,” RealClearInvestigates noted.
The report, though, suggests the agent had permission to share classified information with Steele, but such permission, if it had been granted, was not properly recorded.
Unfortunately, Office of the Inspector General spokesperson Stephanie Logan declined to comment, RealClearInvestigations reported.