They hid those sources even from the vast majority of members of Congress, because based on intelligence community tradecraft standards, they were deemed even at the time to be not acceptable. We had Senior officials in the CIA... objected to then CIA Director John Brennan using these as sources because they were not credible. One of them was the Steele dossier, this manufactured political document that was filled with falsehoods. So then you see, after that, this assessment again leaked to the media, briefed to Congress. (10:06–10:17)
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