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In June of 2016, Steele was subcontracted to [[Hillary Clinton]] through the American firm [[FusionGPS]] to spy on [[Republican]] presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]]. The Obama FBI had been conducting illegal FISA wiretaps on political opponents since at least 2012. Through FusionGPS's contacts in the [[Obama administration]], Steele received raw [[FISA]] surveillance information from the [[FBI]] and authored an opposition research document known as the [[Steele dossier]], with fanciful embellishments intended to impugn Trump and associates. The dossier was fed back to the Obama [[Department of Justice]] and FBI, and presented again to the FISA court as [[probable cause]] to extend illegal [[wiretap]]s against candidate, president-elect, and president Donald Trump.
In June of 2016, Steele was subcontracted to [[Hillary Clinton]] through the American firm [[FusionGPS]] to spy on [[Republican]] presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]]. The Obama FBI had been conducting illegal FISA wiretaps on political opponents since at least 2012. Through FusionGPS's contacts in the [[Obama administration]], Steele received raw [[FISA]] surveillance information from the [[FBI]] and authored an opposition research document known as the [[Steele dossier]], with fanciful embellishments intended to impugn Trump and associates. The dossier was fed back to the Obama [[Department of Justice]] and FBI, and presented again to the FISA court as [[probable cause]] to extend illegal [[wiretap]]s against candidate, president-elect, and president Donald Trump.
Steele was identified as a British spy in 1999, and was head of the Russia desk when Russian assassins killed [[FSB]] defector Alexander Litvinenko in a sushi restaurant in the [[London]]. Steele was hardly in a position to make discreet inquiries with the [[Kremlin]], which he claimed in the ''Steele dossier''.
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