Print this article The FBI agent who handled British ex-spy Christopher Steele as a confidential human source for the bureau for years trashed him as “completely untrustworthy” during sworn testimony last year for leaking to the media before the 2016 presidential election. Michael Gaeta, a longtime FBI agent, known only as “Handling Agent 1” in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s damning December 2019 report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse but identified by name in a variety of news reports, heaped criticism on the former MI6 agent and discredited dossier author according to newly released transcripts from when he spoke behind closed doors with the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2020.