Here are the major findings from IG Michael Horowitz’s review of the FBI’s handling of its investigation of the Trump campaign in 2016
The FBI did not use the Steele dossier to open Russia probe
Steele also met with the IG investigators. Two witnesses — Glenn Simpson and former State Department official Jonathan Winer — turned down requests for voluntary interviews and the IG chose not to force the issue. While the agents did not have corroborating information to support Steele’s reporting, Horowitz found, he also “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the FBI’s decision to seek FISA authority on Carter Page.”The IG review puts some distance between the big decisions at the center of the Russia probe and the two top FBI officials who have been castigated by Trump and his allies for exchanging politically biased text messages.
Papadopoulos, a former unpaid Trump campaign adviser whose interactions with a suspected Russian agent are what ultimately led the FBI to open the Russia probe, has repeatedly claimed that the Crossfire Hurricane team sought and obtained a FISA warrant to surveil him. And CNN reported in 2017 that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was under FISA-authorized surveillance before and after the election.
Page’s statements to an FBI confidential human source in August 2016 — in which he said he had never met or spoken with Manafort — were also omitted, Horowitz found, as were his denials about meeting with the Russian officials cited in Steele’s reporting.The FBI dropped Steele as a confidential source after he admitted to the bureau in November 2016 that he’d been a source for a Mother Jones story published that Halloween. That article suggested the intelligence official was helping U.S.
Steele was pursuing a potential business opportunity with the Trump Organization as part of his investigative work for his private company Orbis at the time, which included research on Russia and Eastern Europe where Trump’s company was looking to expand. But the talks ultimately petered out.In January 2016, the FBI initiated a money laundering and tax evasion investigation of Paul Manafort related to his payments from the Ukrainian government, Horowitz found.
According to the IG report, Ohr met with Andrew McCabe in mid-October 2016 to tell the FBI deputy director what he’d heard from Steele and Simpson. After that came 13 meetings between late November 2016 and mid-May 2017 with the Crossfire Hurricane team, a time span that concluded just after Trump fired Comey but before the appointment of Mueller. Ohr also met with State Department officials about Steele’s election reporting in November 2016.
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