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   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/07/25/this-should-not-be-   
   included-read-all-the-objections-in-the-steele-dossier-n2660941   
      
   It has been revealed that some senior intelligence officials were not   
   pleased with being spoon-fed what to include in the Obama-ordered   
   Intelligence Community Assessment, the report that triggered the Russian   
   collusion hoax. The core of the file centered on the tidbits in the Steele   
   Dossier, a knowingly false and unverified opposition research project   
   subsidized by the Hillary Clinton campaign. The initial intelligence   
   assessment, which was that Russia didn’t impact the race, incensed Barack   
   Obama, who ordered his inner circle to manufacture a new one to prop up   
   the unhinged hysterics about Russian collusion that the liberal media   
   bubble was spewing daily at the time.   
      
   His intelligence chiefs complied, even those, like then-DNI James Clapper,   
   who reportedly felt the Steele Dossier was hot garbage. The recent   
   declassified documents about the Russian collusion hoax have delivered a   
   death blow to the narrative. Yes, it was on life support because there are   
   still enough gullible liberals who believe this myth, but this was the   
   knockout punch. New files revealed that career intelligence analysts were   
   aghast that the higher-ups at the FBI and CIA wanted this document   
   included, let alone to be a significant portion of the main body text.   
   They knew it was trash, made notes, and were roundly rejected by the   
   brass. For those wondering, these actions are why ex-FBI chief James Comey   
   is under investigation at the new bureau helmed by Kash Patel. Comey   
   directed that the dossier be a prominent part of the new ICA. The   
   Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Margot Cleveland have more, and it’s   
   brutal [emphasis mine]:   
      
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   EXCLUSIVE: ‘This Should NOT Be Included’ — Read Intel Officials’   
   Objections To ‘Extremely Sketchy’ Steele Dossier   
   https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/24/exclusive-this-should-not-be-   
   included-read-intelligence-officials-objections-to-extremely-sketchy-   
   steele-dossier/   
      
   Senior intelligence officials strenuously fought the demands of former FBI   
   Director James Comey and other Obama intelligence chiefs to include the   
   false and unverified Steele dossier in an official assessment of Russian   
   activities ordered by President Barack Obama in the closing weeks of his   
   presidency, records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist show. The   
   records, which are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Comey   
   and other top intelligence officials for their roles in launching the   
   Russia collusion hoax, provide damning evidence of Obama intelligence   
   chiefs’ malfeasance beyond the explosive information released Wednesday by   
   Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.   
      
   […]   
      
   “Based solely on what we DO know now, my bottom line is this – unless FBI   
   is prepared to provide much better sourcing – I believe this should NOT be   
   included in the paper,” one official wrote, caps and all. Noting that the   
   document had not been formally issued as an FBI product, the official   
   stressed it suffered from “POOR SOURCE TRADECRAFT,” had “extremely   
   sketchy” sourcing, and “simply does not meet normal [intelligence   
   community] standards.”   
      
   […]   
      
   Former FBI Director James Comey’s demand the ICA include the Steele   
   dossier helped Brennan develop the false but explosive narrative that   
   Russia interfered in the 2016 election in order to help Trump.   
   Intelligence officials immediately pushed back on including the dossier in   
   the ICA, with one senior official recorded as saying, in materials   
   reviewed exclusively by The Federalist, that the fact that the source was   
   paid at first by an “anti-Trump Republican, and later a different Democrat   
   client” meant the author knew what his clients wanted. He “clearly had a   
   motive to pass along info, however poorly sourced, since it generated   
   revenue,” the official warned.   
      
   Intelligence officials also worried that Steele had relied on sub-sources   
   whose identity and credibility were unknown to the FBI. The concern was   
   validated in January 2017 when interviews with the primary subsource, Igor   
   Danchenko, showed the document’s scurrilous allegations lacked   
   credibility. Rather than admit their error, FBI officials continued to   
   defend their use of the dossier for years and hid Danchenko’s identity   
   from congressional scrutiny by hiring him as an informant.   
      
   […]   
      
   The previously unreported records reviewed by The Federalist also showed   
   the FBI stressing that since the Steele dossier was already “out there,”   
   it should be included in the body of the ICA.   
      
   A senior intelligence official eviscerated the argument, responding: “Just   
   how ‘out there’ is it? All we know for sure is that much of the content of   
   the document appeared in [Mother Jones] in October and a copy of something   
   is in Sen. McCain’s hands.” The senior official added that including the   
   dossier in the ICA would essentially confirm the salacious reporting,   
   punctuating his point by comparing the Steele reporting to a December 12,   
   2016 National Enquirer story headlined, “MUSLIM SPIES IN OBAMA’S CIA!”   
   That article included quotes from sources alleging that the agency had 55   
   double agents, so the analyst asked rhetorically if that detail should be   
   included in an intelligence assessment as well.   
      
   It was all in vain. Assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence   
   Division Bill Priestap and disgraced ex-counterintelligence agent Peter   
   Strzok were all behind following Comey and the larger IC’s directive of   
   weaponizing the Steele Dossier to maximum effect, even if it was riddled   
   with disinformation and knowingly false intelligence. There is no Russian   
   consulate in Miami, as noted in the file.   
      
   This document was included and then leaked to the media to create maximum   
   chaos for the incoming Trump administration in 2017. They knew it. We knew   
   it, but the press always points to the official stamp. Now that we have   
   all the documents with the same official markings, these individuals want   
   us to either ignore or move on. That’s not going to happen. What   
   transpired here is worthy of capital punishment for those involved.   
      
   There must be a strong deterrent against this from ever happening again:   
   the most extensive intelligence operation in American history was executed   
   against the American people because whiny liberals were made about the   
   2016 election.   
      
   How depraved is that?   
      
      
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