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The '''Steele dossier''', sometimes referred to as the '''Clinton-Steele dossier''' is a discredited political work originally put together as opposition research by the Clinton campaign and Democratic party, which was funneled to the Obama FBI and used to justify illegal surveillance on candidate and President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454709/steele-dossier-source-fisa-warrant-against-trump-campaign Was the Steele Dossier Used to Obtain a FISA Warrant Against Trump’s Campaign?], [[National Review Online]]</ref>
On January 10, 2016, ten days before Trump's inauguration, Obama [[DNI]] [[James Clapper]] leaked the phony ''Steele dossier'' to [[CNN]] and [[BuzzFeed ]] who then jointly made it available to the public. The dossier alleges [[Russian collusion hoax|Russian collusion with the Trump campaign]]. [[Barack Obama]] approved declassification and widespread dissemination of the dossier's smears and fake allegations, and violation of the [[Fourth Amendment]] rights of American citizens.
The [[FISA]] court was not told that the dossier was a [[2016 Clinton campaign|Clinton campaign]] opposition-research project, and that its author, Christopher Steele, had been terminated as an informant for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the media.
