Was Obama Paying Steele Before He Went to Work For Fusion?

… [Senators] Grassley and Graham noted that “there is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility.”The pair of lawmakers also allege that Steele was compiling information on Trump and his campaign before being hired by now embattled research firm Fusion GPS, which was paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Campaign for his work.

Judicial Watch’s reporting noted some key items –

1. The documents provided by the Deep State FBI were heavily redacted, consistent with all their previous efforts to hide to their crimes and misdeeds.

2. There were 11 payments to Steele but the dates of payment and the amounts are redacted.

3. Steele was cutoff as a spy for the FBI (i.e. Confidential Human Source) on November 1st, 2016.  The report reads that the FBI’s relationship with the CHS would change completely and that “it was unlikely the FBI would continue a relationship with the CHS”.  This was all coordinated with Steele’s FBI “Handling Agent” who is unknown at this time.

4. Finally, and possibly most damning, is the fact that the CHS (Steele) was “admonished for unknown reasons in February 2016.”

The first question I would ask is why the amounts and the dates redacted? What possible reason pertaining to national security could there be?