Fusion GPS Confidante/NBC Reporter Dilanian Defends FBI Using Fusion Doc for FISA Warrant

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TODD: "And let me bring in Ken Delaney an. Let me start with the memo itself. And I think what the central question and critique of the memo is — should the FBI have included more information about Steele and his potential motives to the FISA judge? Was that an error and is that in fact what happened?"
DILANIAN: "The problem is it is pretty clear we can’t rely on the memo to tell us what they did and didn’t include. Because as you mentioned, a Democratic source told me that in fact the FISA judges were there was a political context and some of the information came from trump political opponents. The House Nunes memo makes it seem like that was completely omitted. So we just — we don’t know what to believe here. But the other thing to remember is the FBI gets information all of the time from criminals, from spurned spouses, from turncoats. This is how investigations are built. So it wouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary they would get information with someone with an ax to grind."
TODD: "There are some thing in the memo — the type indicated that this could be — this was going to be sort of a — a silver bullet in the Mueller investigation. And it was the — the implication was the Steele dossier was the lone document, the lone piece of evidence used to launch the investigation but the memo admits the investigation was launched beforehand. So in some ways, does that give the memo more credibility?"
DILANIAN: "Actually I think that makes the memo pretty much a bust. For me, as a journalist, I was hoping to learn something about the Mueller investigation. I learned nothing from this memo. And you’re absolutely right."