Schiff Says FISA Court Knew There Was a ‘Political Actor’ Behind Dossier, Won’t Say Who

‘Glenn Simpson has testified that Christopher Steele was not told the identity of the lawyer or the party behind the lawyer’

STEPHANOPOULOS: And — and that’s one of the problems you’ve pointed out with the memo. I want to dig into some of the other ones that have been raised. Number one, the memo says that the FISA court should have been told that the dossier was financed by Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It’s relevant information, isn’t it?

SCHIFF: It is relevant information to alert the FISA court — is there a political motivation, was there a political actor involved. And the court was notified a political actor was involved. And that’s part of the misleading nature of the FISA application. In terms of the identity of the political actor, the most important information for the court is what did Christopher Steele know. And Glenn Simpson has testified that Christopher Steele was not told the identity of the lawyer or the party behind the lawyer.

That’s the most important information, evaluating (ph) Christopher Steele’s bias.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But you’re saying the court was told that the dossier was funded by a political actor?

SCHIFF: Yes, that there was a political actor behind it. And this is, again, part of the misleading character of this document. And George, I want to, you know, comment on this claim by my Republican colleagues that this is oversight. They’re just doing this as a matter of oversight in asking these questions about why wasn’t this included. If this was oversight, the committee members would want to read the underlying documents.

I made a motion to allow them to read the documents. They voted it down. I made a motion to bring the FBI in and ask the FBI these questions. You know, why was this included, why was that not included. That’s what oversight looks like. That’s the oversight we’ve done for 10 years (ph) —

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