seven in the first application and a total of 17 by the final renewal application. for example, the crossfire hurricane team obtained information from steele's primary sub source. in january 2017 that raised significant questions about the reliability of the steele reporting. this was particularly noteworthy because the fisa applications relied entirely on information from the primary subsource's reporting to support the allegation that page was coordinating with the russian government on 2016 u.s. presidential election activities. however, the fbi did not share this information with department lawyers, and it was, therefore, omitted from the last two renewal applications. all of the applications admitted information that the fbi obtained in august 2017 -- sorry -- august 2016 from another u.s. government agency