James Comey failed to disclose that FBI was planning to hire author of MI6 Trump-Russia dossier

| 2:55 pm EST February 28, 2017
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In a stunning new revelation which lends significant credibility to the famous “Trump-Russia dossier” and its author, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, it turns out the FBI had been planning to hire him before the election so he could continue his investigation. The plan only broke down when word of the dossier leaked publicly. This casts further scrutiny on why FBI Director James Comey failed to notify the public of the Trump-Russia scandal before election day.

Christopher Steele was originally hired by a private client to begin his investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. When the client ceased paying him for his work, he felt it was so important that he continued doing the research anyway. But at some point he worried about running out of money, and thus he ended up entering into a tentative agreement in which the FBI would begin paying him to continue his research. But word of the existence of the dossier leaked publicly around that time, effectively compromising Steele’s ability to continue clandestinely digging, even though the dossier itself didn’t publicly surface until January.

According to the Washington Post, which broke this latest development, the agreement took place a “few weeks” before the election. This makes it unlikely that Steele could have gotten to the bottom of Trump-Russia by election day even if he had been hired. But it demonstrates the seriousness with which the FBI was taking Trump-Russia by October. So where was Comey in all of this?

The Washington Post timeline places the tentative deal between the FBI and Christopher Steele in mid to late October. FBI Director James Comey decided to keep this information from the public. However he did send a letter to Congress in late October in which he created the false appearance that Hillary Clinton was being newly investigated over her emails – only to subsequent admit in another letter two days before the election that this was not the case.

This means that even as the FBI was concluding that the Trump-Russia dossier was credible enough that it wanted to fund the continued research, James Comey decided to keep this information from the public while simultaneously inventing a phony new scandal about Hillary Clinton. In other words, why isn’t Comey in prison? Help us investigate Trump-Russia!