6/11/2023 0 Comments Dossier testimony"I first met then-President-Elect Trump on Friday, January 6 in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York. We found a few relevant portions of Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, 2017. (We owe a debt in this fact-check to writings by two conservative blogs, RedState and HotAir.) What we found in the public record suggests a more limited assertion under oath by Comey - that he’d said portions of the memo were "salacious and unverified," not the whole thing. The House Intelligence Committee did not respond to an inquiry for this article. What we’re looking at in this fact-check is whether Comey actually said that the Steele dossier was "salacious and unverified." The Nunes memo is effectively leveraging Comey’s credibility - as someone who was fired by President Donald Trump, thus not a strong supporter of the president - to undercut the dossier. The Nunes memo recounts the history of the dossier leading up to Trump taking office before concluding, "in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was-according to his June 2017 testimony-'salacious and unverified.' " It describes some of Donald Trump’s trips to Russia, before he became president, describing who he interacted with and things he did there. The dossier in question was compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele on behalf of Fusion GPS, a research firm whose work had been funded in part by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The memo suggests that Comey had said the Steele dossier was bunk in its entirety. One small portion of the memo, however, has attracted special scrutiny from experts and pundits: how former FBI Director James Comey characterized the " Steele Dossier" under oath to Congress. The memo assembled by aides to House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has spawned lots of debate, both before it was released on Feb.
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