The source claimed that the President-elect and his top campaign advisers knowingly worked with Russian officials to bolster his chances of beating Secretary Clinton were fully knowledgeable of Russia’s direction of leaked Democratic emails and were offered financial compensation from Moscow.”
The now-declassified FBI annex says, referring to Steele: “The most politically sensitive claims by the FBI source alleged a close relationship between the President-elect and the Kremlin.
The two-page FBI annex to the intelligence community’s assessment on Russia goes beyond the Steele dossier’s claims. Trump alleges he was the victim of a “hoax” intended to undermine his presidency. Steele’s work and the FBI’s role in investigating Trump remains a subject of intrigue in Washington, with Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans now investigating the FBI’s work, including its use of Steele’s information to acquire surveillance court orders against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, despite widely held doubts about the information’s accuracy. He leaned on a network of sources to compile a dossier of allegations including unverified rumors.Īn investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller later found no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia including on the distribution of hacked Democratic emails. Steele was paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to find dirt on Trump. CBS News first reported Thursday that the document was partially declassified by intelligence director John Ratcliffe. The claims were made by former British spy Christopher Steele and detailed by the FBI in a classified annex to an intelligence community assessment on Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
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