MYSTERY FOOTNOTES FROM FISA REPORT SET FOR DECLASSIFICATION
Four Footnotes From The Justice Department Inspector General’s Report On The Trump-Russia Probe Will Soon Be Declassified.
by Chuck Ross
U.S. intelligence officials are close to declassifying four footnotes from the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the Trump-Russia probe, with a Justice Department official telling the Daily Caller News Foundation that the release of the documents is “imminent.”
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, the chairmen of the Senate Finance and Senate Government Affairs Committees, respectively, asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Justice Department on Jan. 28 to declassify the footnotes.
The Republican senators sent a follow up letter to Amb. Richard Grenell, the acting director of ODNI, on April 2 urging him again to declassify the information. They said they had had “fruitful” discussions with the Justice Department but that career intelligence officials were hesitant to declassify the footnotes.
The letter seemingly spurred on the decision to declassify the documents.
The website Just the News first reported that the footnotes will soon be declassified. Two sources confirmed to the DCNF that the information will be released soon.
The senators have not publicly identified the four footnotes in question, but sources have previously told the DCNF that they dealt with information related to dossier author Christopher Steele’s interactions with Russian oligarchs, and information from Steele’s sources for the dossier.
One of the footnotes refers to evidence that Steele, a former MI6 officer, may have published Russian disinformation in his dossier, the source familiar with the situation told the DCNF.
Lawmakers and other government officials have long questioned whether Russian sources intentionally misled Steele as he was investigating Donald Trump in 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.
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