March, 2021: "The top analyst assigned to the FBI’s Russia “collusion” case, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, admitted under oath that neither he nor his team of half a dozen intelligence analysts could confirm any of the allegations in the dossier, including ones the FBI nonetheless included in several warrant applications as evidence to establish legal grounds to electronically monitor a former Trump adviser for almost a year.
FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten made the admission under questioning by staff investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee during closed-door testimony in October. The committee only this year declassified the transcript, albeit with a number of redactions including the name of Auten, who was identified by congressional sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Yet Auten and his Crossfire teammates, who referred to the dossier as “Crown material,” as if it were valuable intelligence from America’s closest ally, Britain, never informed a secret surveillance court that the dossier was a bust. In addition, Auten personally met with Steele and his “primary sub-source,” a Russian emigre living in the U.S., as well as former British intelligence colleagues of Steele."
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/31/this-russiagate-fbi-analyst-couldnt-verify-anything-in-the-steele-dossier-yet-said-nothing-for-years/