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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4917572" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p><h2>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/09/inspector-generals-report-russia-key-takeaways-079030[/URL]</h2><h2>The FBI did not use the Steele dossier to open Russia probe</h2><p>A key accusation among Trump’s allies has been that the FBI predicated its investigation of Trump campaign officials Carter Page, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn on information the bureau received from former British spy Christopher Steele.</p><p></p><p>But Horowitz found that the Crossfire Hurricane team — the code name agents gave to the Russia inquiry — did not receive Steele’s election reporting materials until after the investigation had already been opened using information about Papadopoulos the team received from an allied nation.</p></blockquote><p></p>