Now we have it ostensibly from then-FBI Director James Comey as well as former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that there might have been no surveillance of Carter Page without the Steele dossier. If so, that’s probably because the dossier provided the one thing the FBI lacked and was unlikely to find (because it didn’t exist): a reason to believe Mr. Page was important. In the dossier accumulated by former British spy Christopher Steele, Mr. He meets secretly with Vladimir Putin’s No.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 09, 2018 22:50 UTC