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You asserted how they used the Isikoff article. I don't know how they did, so show me your evidence they used it to corroborate the Steele information. Nunes never claims the article was used to corroborate Steele, and Schiff affirmatively denies that's how the article was used, so where are you getting this information?
Here, let me help you...
The republican memo claims the Yahoo article is used to corroborate the Steele dossier. The democrats dispute this on page 7 of the democratic memo, claiming the Yahoo article was “to inform the Court of Page’s public denial of his suspected meetings in Russia”.
There are 2 problems with the democrats claim:
1. No such denials by Page were reported in that article. (see for yourself) Page merely declined to comment.
2. The Grassley-Graham memo contradicts what the democrat memo says, by providing the following quote taken directly from the FISA application "Given that the information contained in the September 23rd news article generally matches the information about Page that [Steele] discovered during his/her research, [two lines redacted.] The FBI does not believe that [Steele] directly provided this information to the press. [Brackets in original]"
So according to what the FBI said on the FISA application, that article was in fact used to corroborate the Steele dossier and the claim made in the democratic memo that it wasn't, is totally false.
Anything else I can do for you?
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