FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to prove dossier claims, senior FBI analyst testifies

[Yorkie Mom]

FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to prove dossier claims, senior FBI analyst testifies

Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump, a senior FBI analyst testified Tuesday.

The cash offer was made during an October 2016 meeting between Steele and several top FBI officials who were trying to corroborate Steele’s claims that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to win the election.

FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that Steele never got the money because he could not “prove the allegations.”

Auten also said Steele refused to provide the names of any of his sources during that meeting, and that Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/steele-dossier-fbi-durham-danchenko/index.html

[Turbineguy]

1. I'd enjoy that myself!

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Is Brian Auten more believable than Steele?

Don't care, Putin has his claws in Donald Trump's economic life.

[Midnight Writer]

3. This sounds fishy.

[Nevilledog]

5. Sounds like unadulterated bullshit.

Why would the government ever offer someone money to "prove" Intel?

They either prove it themselves, or it would not be accepted as legit.

[dpibel]

4. A bit of editorial comment at the end

This is supposed to be news, at least as I read it.

The article closes with:

Trump vehemently denied the claims, and Steele’s work has lost a significant amount of credibility over the years. Today, the dossier is largely seen as an unproven collection of rumors and gossip.

I'd be interested to know the reporter's source for those two conclusory statements.

I'm not aware that either claim is established truth.

[Nevilledog]

6. Neither of those claims are truth.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier-retrospective

[Mr.Bill]

7. How much of the dossier

has been disproved?

[FakeNoose]

8. Doubtful, hard to believe this

Why would the FBI pay anyone for the truth? It would set an awful precedent.

[Nevilledog]

10. This Auten douchebag is also gunning for Hunter Biden. My guess is he's dirty.

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_to_justice_deptfbipoliticalbiasfollowup.pdf

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. And we never heard about this until just now?

Seems likely

[chowder66]

11. It wasn't up to him to prove what people were telling him.

He gathered raw intelligence and gave it to the FBI.
Why would he give his sources?

This smells like bullshit (and Trump's FBI plants).

[RANDYWILDMAN]

12. BS, they did not offer a million dollars of tax payer money !

To anyone for anything.

Is chris wray spewing propaganda again..f-that guy,

The steele dossier has been proven mostly right, trump and trumpers wouldn't know the difference and they really don't care.

[Poiuyt]

13. The same FBI that worked so hard to defeat Hillary?

Come on, man

[Tickle]

14. I think Durham is

taking Steele to court