The FBI’s
agreement to pay the author of the unsubstantiated dossier on Donald Trump
while he was working for an opposition research firm tied to Hillary Clinton
raises questions about the bureau’s “independence from politics,” the chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee is claiming.
In a letter sent to FBI director James Comey on Monday, Iowa
Sen. Chuck Grassley asked for more detail about revelations made in a
Washington Post article last week about an agreement the FBI made with
Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier and a former MI6 agent.
The Post
reported that the FBI agreed in October to pay Steele to continue his research
on potential ties between Trump associates and the Russian government. Steele
was also working at the time for Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C.-based
opposition research firm that had been hired by an ally of Hillary Clinton in
June to dig up dirt on Trump. (RELATED: Why Was The FBI Attempting To Buy A Partisan Dossier On Trump?)
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