FBI May Have Broken 5 Laws by Using Unverified Anti-Trump Dossier, Lawmaker Says

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) (2nd L) and Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) leave the committee's secure meeting rooms in the basement of the U.S. Capitol House Visitors Center Feb. 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The FBI may have violated five federal criminal statutes and its own operations guide by using an unverified, Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier in a court application for a warrant to surveil an associate of President Donald Trump, according to a letter from Rep. Devin Nunes to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In the letter sent on March 1, Nunes (R-Calif.) wrote that “former and current former DOJ and FBI leadership have confirmed” to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the unverified anti-Trump dossier composed by ex-British spy Christopher Steele “comprised an essential part of the FISA applications related to [Trump associate] Carter Page.”