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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Federal Judge Orders FBI to Search for More Christopher Steele Docs

2019-08-21

[PJMEDIA] After years of legal wrangling, a federal judge has given the FBI 60 days to cough up records of their communications with former British spy ~~Remington~~ Christopher Steele after he was terminated as a confidential human source.

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch first sought FBI documents on Steele in May of 2017 through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The court initially sided with the FBI but reopened the case in 2018 when evidence emerged that Steele was an FBI informant. Judicial Watch again asked the FBI to search for their Steele records, but the FBI continued to stonewall, declining to confirm or deny that they even existed.

Now, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper has put an end to the cat-and-mouse game.

"Those records might either bolster or weaken Steele’s credibility as a source," Judge Cooper said in his ruling. "That information, in turn, could provide a basis on which to evaluate the FBI’s performance of its law-enforcement duties, including its judgment in selecting and relying on confidential sources, especially in connection with such a politically sensitive subject."

Posted by:Fred

#4 FBI Just waiting for a big delivery of cloths

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-08-21 12:07

#3 "PJ Media has headline wrong. The docs are already ~~collected~~ destroyed. The FBI had been refusing to produce them."

FIFY lord garth

Posted by: Warthog 2019-08-21 10:50

#2 Fire Christopher Wray.

Posted by: SR-71 2019-08-21 09:07

#1 PJ Media has headline wrong. The docs are already collected. The FBI had been refusing to produce them.

should have been

Federal J... FBI to produce Steele Docs

Posted by: lord garth 2019-08-21 00:43

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