Brennan: the Steele Dossier ‘Was Not Used in Any Way to Undergird’ Intel Community’s Trump/Russia Claims

‘I am very comfortable with how the intelligence community came out on that’

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WALLACE: “You talked about the FISA warrant to surveilled Carter Page and inspector general for the FBI said that that was improper, the lawyer who took actually some statements from the CIA and doctored them has pled guilty to a crime. What about what seems to be the pretty total discrediting of the Steele dossier?”
BRENNAN: “Well, as we have said previously, the Steele dossier was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election, and so the Steele dossier was something that I never, you know, looked at from the standpoint of credibility because it wasn’t something that the CIA had acquired. And so I think, you know, people point to the Steele dossier is this reason why the whole thing was a hoax. No, there was so much other evidence and intelligence to support those judgments. So I am very comfortable with how the intelligence community came out on that 2016 election.”

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