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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 application relied entirely on information from the steele -- from the primary sub source's reporting to support the allegation that page was coordinating with the russian government on 2016 u.s. presidential election activities. however, the f.b.i. did not share this information with department lawyers and it was therefore omitted fr...

Credible. >> bill: the quote that horowitz were used. they were not scrupulously accurate in obtaining that basic information. that's on page 4. on page 3 is the timeline for how it all starts. mid august 2016 they went for the warrant on page. denied by f.b.i. lawyers who considered it then a close call. then they get more information from steele a month later and then they get the approval for the warrant and we're off to the races. right smack dab in the middle of a national campaign. andy, stand by. we'll squeeze in a commercial and be back with you and others. >> sandra: jun date on the s...

Immediately following mr. page, carter page, going to news outlets after word of the fisa hit the news media and said to the news media i was someone who worked with u.s. intelligence agencies, not someone who worked against them, lawyers and agents went and said weave got to figure out what's the story, is that what happened? the lawyer, the ogc attorney for the fbi reached out to a liaison at the other government agency that was at issue, asked the question is, was plfrmt page a source or contact of some sort for your organization. the report back and the email referenced the august 2016 mem...

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 departmen...

We concluded current department and fbi policies are not sufficient to ensure appropriate oversight and accountability when such operations potentially implicate sensitive, constitutionally protected activity and that requiring department consultation at a minimum would be appropriate. we make a recommendation to that effect. one investigative tool which the department and the fbi policy does expressly require express advance approval by a senior department official is the seeking of a court order under fisa. when the crossfire hurricane team first proposed seeking a fisa order targeting carte...