Michael, then-FBI informant Christopher Steele “briefed” you for your September 23, 2016 Yahoo story on Carter Page.
Steele would leak the information, then the Comey FBI would use the media reports planted by their own source to bolster its investigations.
They cited your article in the FISA application knowing it had handed you unverified, false information—and used it to manufacture justification for the bogus warrant.
Publishing Steele’s fabricated allegations under your byline didn’t turn them into independent confirmation. You were in on the con from the jump.
The Inspector General later identified 17 significant errors or omissions in the Page FISA applications.
The FISC ultimately rescinded those warrants based on the corruption exposed in the Nunes Memo.
Lecturing this FBI about accountability when you helped author its weaponization is the epitome of everything wrong with fake news and the politicization of law enforcement.
