The evidence of surveillance abuses by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI during their investigation into Russian activities during the 2016 presidential campaign is "overwhelming," Fox News host Sean Hannity told "Special Report" Thursday. RUSSIA ORIGINS PROBE TO YEILED SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS: BARRDocuments recently released by the Senate Intelligence Committee indicate that there were strong doubts about the reliability of the Steele Dossier as early as December 2016. As the FBI and CIA worked together to create an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to present to President Barack Obama, those in the CIA camp, according to the now-declassified interviews conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, worried that the FBI was playing up the Steele Dossier too much. "The whole thing was debunked that early and then they continued with what I called premeditated fraud on the FISA court," Hannity told Bret Baier. "Despite numerous warnings going back as early of August of 2016," Hannity emphasized, "we know that in January of 2017, the sub-source for Christopher Steele was very clear with the FBI.

Source: Fox News August 21, 2020 00:00 UTC