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But despite an intensive two-year investigation, Mueller’s team found no evidence of any such tape. The New York Times, in a lengthy article on the Steele dossier's current standing, noted that there is no evidence in the Mueller report on a number of claims: “DNC moles, Romanian hackers, Russian pensioners -- or years of Trump-Putin intelligence trafficking.” But a lawyer for Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the dossier, told The Times that the Mueller probe backed up “the core reporting” in the Steele memos -- including that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed “a covert operation” to have Trump elected. Horowitz has said he will address the question of whether the FBI followed all "legal requirements" when applying for that warrant. One official told the outlet that he had the impression that the IG report “is going to try and deeply undermine” Steele. Republicans in Congress have long focused on the dossier, claiming that it formed the origins of what became Mueller's Russia investigation. They and the president have noted in particular the dossier's funding by the DNC and Clinton campaign. "You can't have the FBI using one party's opposition research document to launch an investigation and spy on the other party's campaign," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on “Cavuto Live” on Saturday. On Thursday, California Republican Devin Nunes told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the report shows that the dossier also formed part of the memo that established the scope of the special counsel’s investigation. Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers that he intends to review FBI and DOJ conduct during the formative days of the Russia investigation -- where the Steele dossier played a role. Trump, meanwhile, has pledged to “get to the bottom” of the origins of the Russian probe, and has promised to “turn the tables” and investigate the investigators -- which could include closer scrutiny of the role that Steele's infamous dossier played.

A source briefed on the matter confirmed to Fox News the details of the Caller’s reporting. Gohmert also had told Fox News on Tuesday that the emails were obtained by a foreign country’s intelligence, though he declined to name the country in question. But on Wednesday, the FBI sharply disputed the claims, saying it “has not found any evidence the servers were compromised.” In his overnight statement, Gohmert argued it was the ICIG -- not the FBI -- that discovered the breach. “It’s not surprising that the FBI ‘has not found any evidence’ regarding Clinton’s servers being breached,” Gohmert, R-Texas, said. “It was the Obama-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General that discovered the breach. It was not the FBI that found it, so their statement was technically correct, but very deceptive in its omission.” The FBI also had referred Fox News to the Justice Department’s Inspector General report, which was released in June, to push back on the Caller's reporting. That report, which examined the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Clinton’s private email server and her handling of classified information, detailed how the FBI conducted an intrusion analysis into the server to look for evidence of a breach. The report notes the FBI “was limited in its intrusion analysis due to the ‘FBI’s inability to recover all server equipment and the lack of complete server data for the relevant time period. “When I asked Peter Strzok about this, he said that he remembered being briefed by the ICIG investigator but did not remember what it was about. Strzok, who served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team until his anti-Trump text messages were discovered, lost his security clearance in July and was fired from the FBI earlier this month.

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Strzok wants you to suspend all logic and rationale to believe in the fantasy that his actions were not biased at all. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as…

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Tough news for Adam Putnam continues to pour out of an inspector general’s report showing his staff botched review of hundreds of conceal carry permit applications. MORE IG WOES — “Putnam’s office mischaracterized interviews for concealed carry investigation, withheld records from media,” by POLITICO Florida’s Matt Dixon: Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam’s bid for governor has been dogged over the past month by an explosive report that his office didn’t fully review applications for hundreds of concealed carry gun permits. His department’s own investigators signed off on a final report looking at the issue that said every interview conducted with department staff was done under oath and recorded, but according to records reviewed by POLITICO, two key interviews were not. Read more. In May 2017, Eric Robinson — a Sarasota County School Board member and an accountant well known for representing Florida Republican political committees, including Curry’s — wired $119,797 from one of Curry’s main political committees, Build Something that Lasts, to four different addresses ranging from Wyoming and Ohio to Missouri. The payments were purportedly for catering and consulting services, paid to people with no known connection to Curry or anyone who runs his political operation.” Read more GOING GREEN — “Algae problems impacting election-year politics,” by Ocala Star Banner’s Zac Anderson: “Environmental protection quickly is becoming a big issue in the 2018 election as more toxic algae blooms slime estuaries, kill sea life and choke coastal Florida communities with foul air. But on the 2016 campaign trail, then-candidate Trump promised to nominate ‘pro-life’ justices to the Supreme Court in order to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in all fifty states.” Read more ** Presented by AARP: There’s only one true deciding factor in this year’s elections: 50-plus voters. ENVIRO POLITICS — “Political muscle halts release of Lake O’s foul water. ‘I can tell you from where I sit … never has the outcry from the public within downtown been as high as it’s been over the last six months for us to do something about aggressive panhandling,’ Thomas Chatmon, executive director of the Downtown Development Board, testified at a recent Community Redevelopment Agency meeting.” Read more TOUGH JOURNEY — “Torres: Local teens make it to Port-au-Prince safely amid rioting and violence in capital,” by Florida Today’s John A. Torres: “The saving grace in traveling to a country like Haiti is that people are inherently good. Then find a major city in that state that also has this property.

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