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2020-04-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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FBI Official Withheld Negative Information About Christopher Steele Because Of Agreement With Brits
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 [Daily Caller] Bill Priestap, the FBI’s former chief of counterintelligence, told Justice Department investigators he agreed not to disclose information he learned about Christopher Steele as a precondition for a meeting with British government officials regarding the former MI6 officer, according to recently declassified information.
Priestap and his deputy, Peter Strzok, traveled to the United Kingdom in November and December 2016 to assess the reliability of Steele, a former MI6 officer whose dossier the FBI used for its investigation into the Trump campaign.
Priestap and Strzok received mixed reviews about Steele from his former colleagues, according to a Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s probe.
Some vouched for Steele’s honesty and integrity, but several others questioned his judgement and "lack of self-awareness." Some colleagues described Steele as "smart," and a "person of integrity," their notes said. (RELATED: FBI Received Evidence Of Russian Disinformation In Steele Dossier)
"[I]f he reported it, he believed it," one contact said.
But their notes also reflected negative reviews on Steele. He "[d]emonstrates lack of self-awareness, poor judgment," was "underpinned by poor judgment," and "[r]eporting in good faith, but not clear what he would have done to validate," one source said.
Priestap and Strzok embarked on the fact-finding mission weeks after the FBI had already used Steele’s anti-Trump dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) order against Carter Page.
They shared those assessments with the FBI team conducting the Trump probe, but did not include the information in Steele’s so-called Delta file, which the FBI maintains for its confidential sources. 
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