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Steele Dossier Information on Trump Originated with the Hillary Clinton Campaign

<p>Allegations against the Hillary Clinton campaign just got worse&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Monday&comma; Republican Senators Chuck Grassley &lpar;IA&rpar; and Lindsey Graham &lpar;SC&rpar; released a criminal referral accusing Christopher Steele of using information provided by a Clinton operative in his infamous anti-Trump dossier&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clinton associates were &ldquo&semi;feeding&rdquo&semi; Christopher Steele with allegations while he was compiling the anti-Trump dossier&comma; reads the referral&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Grassley and Graham sent the referral to the DOJ in January&comma; at which time they publicly called for an investigation into whether Steele lied to the FBI about his contacts with journalists&period; The memo&comma; now published but heavily redacted&comma; accuses Steele of misleading the FBI about his contacts with the media and claims at least one of his sources of information was a Clinton operative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The referral references a report received by Fusion GPS from a &ldquo&semi;foreign sub source who is in touch with &lbrack;redacted&rsqb; a friend of the Clintons&comma; who passed it to &lbrack;redacted&rsqb;&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;It is troubling enough that the Clinton campaign funded Mr&period; Steele&rsquo&semi;s work&comma; but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr&period; Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility&comma;&rdquo&semi; wrote the senators&period; &ldquo&semi;There is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr&period; Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts&comma; one which bears on his credibility&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following the declassification of the House Intelligence Committee memo on Friday&comma; lawmakers are now asking the DOJ and FBI to review the Steele referral and provide an unredacted copy to the Committee as soon as possible&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> This is the worst scandal in modern political history&period; The Clinton Campaign made up a story about Trump&comma; hired someone to write it&comma; fed the guy information&comma; then used its operatives within the FBI and DOJ to press a criminal investigation against Trump&period; I still don&&num;8217&semi;t see the liberal media picking this up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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