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Christopher Steele swore under oath that he met with at least eight news organizations in September, mid-October, and late-October 2016: “at Fusion’s instruction“. Michael Isikoff said he met with both Simpson and Steele at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson. The information Simpson and Steele gave to Isikoff was information Isikoff used in September 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article - which the Obama DOJ used to corroborate the ''Steele dossier'' when it was presented to the [[FISA court]] as [[probable cause]] to seek a FISA warrant.

Christopher Steele swore under oath that he met with at least eight news organizations in September, mid-October, and late-October 2016: “at Fusion’s instruction“. Michael Isikoff said he met with both Simpson and Steele at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson. The information Simpson and Steele gave to Isikoff was information Isikoff used in September 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article - which the Obama DOJ used to corroborate the ''Steele dossier'' when it was presented to the [[FISA court]] as [[probable cause]] to seek a FISA warrant.

Under oath Steele said,

Under oath Simpson responded to questions: {{quotebox|Q Prior to the publication on January 10th, how many journalists would you estimate that you talked to either with Mr. Steele or separately related to this information?

 

 

 

A I am not going to guess, but I will say that again, the depiction of this document as having been peddled around town, it wasn't peddled around town by me. And if someone was peddling it, it was without my knowledge and against my wishes.<ref>https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:House-Intel-Glenn-Simpson-Transcript.pdf/147</ref>}}