In an astonishing admission, the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz conceded to lawmakers Wednesday that the FBI’s FISA applications used to continue surveillance on the 2016 Trump campaign were based entirely on sources for the widely discredited Steele Dossier funded by the Democrats.

“The FISA applications relied entirely on information from the Steele… from the primary sub-source’s reporting to support the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential election activities.” Horowitz said.

On August 17, 2016, Comey received information from the CIA establishing that Dr. Page was an “operational contact” for the CIA during the period of 2008 -2013.

On September 7, 2016, the CIA sent an investigation referral to Defendant Comey and Defendant Strzok regarding "U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning U.S.Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server."

Thus, Defendant Comey was expressly warned and aware of the political agenda driving the claims against Dr. Page at a very early stage. He was similarly well aware of Dr. Page’s status as a CIA contact, yet he chose to move forward with an investigation that he knew was based on a political distraction campaign during a hotly contested election against an innocent American citizen.

Next, on September 25, 2016, Dr. Page sent Defendant Comey a letter denying he had had communications with any sanctioned Russian officials. Dr. Page stated in the letter that he had a decades’ long record of interactions with the CIA and FBI. This was consistent with the prior CIA reports provided to the FBI involving Dr. Page, which established that he had such a record. It is clear that Defendant Comey received this letter, as he distributed it to the Crossfire Hurricane team, including its supervisor, Defendant Strzok.

By the end of September, probably no later than the third week of that month, Defendant Comey learned of the existence of the Steele dossier. Defendant Comey understood at that time that the dossier was funded by political opposition to Presidential candidate Donald Trump and knew that Dr. Page’s letter of denial was a response to those unfounded accusations.

This was exactly the political tactic he had been warned about by the CIA about several weeks earlier. Yet Defendant Comey approved use of the dossier anyway.