LOL hap0206, you never fail to come through. It is you who is "so blinded by trumphate you fail to recognize reality" Yes, that fine was well known back then and there were many who didn't see it as warranted. If the Clinton campaign did actually do wrong there, it was good they were caught.
However, and here it is a crucial however, hap, crucial to your case because your fellow terrible troll firebag1 said "how about the whole russia gate that hillary paid for" .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=177001271 , whereas the Steele document was not nearly the whole russia gate, as firebag1 claimed.
That's why i said what he said was rubbish. Am sorry you are so blinded by loyalty to tragic Trump you miss so much.
The Steele document as you have had to be reminded of too many times was simply one single raw intelligence document. And you also know that it was not even crucial to the Russian interference investigation. See: ---- Joecanada13, The Inspector General’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Report: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
JUST so i know you have been given it.
"IG Destroys GOP Claims Of FBI Spying On Trump" [...] Note an interesting feature of this passage. The investigation was not an investigation of the Trump campaign. It was four investigations of individuals—Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn—associated with the campaign but about whom there was specific reason for concern. In other words, investigators were not spying on the Trump campaign. They had concerns about specific people and their relationship with Russia, just as the FBI has always said.
This, of course, raises the question of whether the FBI had adequate predication for these investigations. What does Horowitz say on this point?
--- We ... concluded that the FBI had sufficient predication to open full counterintelligence investigations of Papadopoulos, Page, Flynn, and Manafort in August 2016. The investigation of Papadopoulos was predicated upon his alleged statements in May 2016 to an employee of [an allied foreign government]. According to the opening [electronic communication], Papadopoulos was “identical to the individual who made statements indicating that he is knowledgeable that the Russians made a suggestion to the Trump team that they could assist the Trump campaign with an anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to the Clinton campaign.” The three other cases were predicated on information developed by the Crossfire Hurricane team through law enforcement database and open source searches, conducted to determine which individuals associated with the Trump campaign may have been in a position to have received the alleged offer of assistance from Russia. ---
This brings me to the next key point: The investigation did, in fact, begin when the Australian government communicated to the U.S. information about Papadopoulos’s conversation with the former foreign minister, Alexander Downer, in London: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155171253
hap, You should not have had to be reminded of any of that.
Repeat: It is you who is "so blinded by trumphate you fail to recognize reality."
So now, are you man enough to admit you were wrong.