Perkins Coie, as we know, paid Fusion GPS to produce opposition research assembled by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele in his now infamous "Steele Dossier," which suggested that Donald Trump colluded with Moscow during the 2016 election.

By the time Perkins attorney Sussman reached out to the FBI's James Baker, the Steele dossier had already made its way inside the FBI. Sussman, however, "augmented it with cyber evidence that he claimed showed a further connection between the GOP campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin," according to Solomon. Some of this digital evidence was delivered on a thumb drive, according to Baker.

"[Sussmann] told me he had cyber experts that had obtained some information that they thought they should get into the hands of the FBI," Baker testified. "I referred this to investigators, and I believe they made a record of it," he added, telling his colleagues to "Please come get this."

Baker acknowledged that the Clinton-linked attorney's evidence did not follow the typical route into the FBI - but since he was the bureau's top attorney, agents snapped-to and collected it from him.

Rewinding to Steele's first outreach

According to Solomon, "the tsunami began when former MI6 agent Steele first approached an FBI supervisor, his handler in an earlier criminal case, in London" on July 5, 2016 - the same day that former FBI Director James Comey made the shock announcement that he would not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified emails on her homebrew server.

Steele's approach was not initially embraced, however, and the FBI took no action on the dossier according to congressional investigators. Then things escalated…

Steele traveled to Washington later that month where he would reach out to two political contacts who were in positions to influence the FBI; a former State Department official under John Kerry, and former #4 DOJ official Bruce Ohr - who immediately took Steele's "research" to then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Ohr would eventually warn the FBI that Steele's information was biased opposition research, which the agency ignored.

Bume!

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