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A Damning NSD Email Chain Exposes the Steele Dossier

A Damning NSD Email Chain Exposes the Steele Dossier
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens as former President Bill Clinton speaks during the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Ill., on Oct. 16, 2018. Joshua Lott/Getty Images
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On both Dec. 5 and Dec. 6, reporter John Solomon at The Hill released two bombshell columns in which he made massive revelations about the ongoing SpyGate & Uranium One scandals.

A Damning NSD Email Chain Exposes The Steele Dossier

In his first column titled “FBI Email Chain May Provide Most Damning Evidence Of FISA Abuses Yet”, Solomon revealed that House Representative Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) recently added an email chain from the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD) to the list of SpyGate documents that Republicans in Congress want President Donald Trump to declassify.

Solomon’s report starts this way:

“Just before Thanksgiving, House Republicans amended the list of documents they'd like President Trump to declassify in the Russia investigation. With little fanfare or explanation, the lawmakers led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) added a string of emails between the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to their wish list.”

Nunes and other sources say this email chain from inside the NSD reveals that top officials in the DOJ, the FBI, and NSD lawyers had “concerns” about the reliability of the biggest piece of evidence that was going to be proffered to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. That main piece of evidence is the now infamous Steele dossier.

Here’s a brief summary of the major problems with the Steele Dossier:

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