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115 Mr. Would it be unusual for the Bureau to tell a source or an informant, you can't have media contacts while you're working for the Bureau?

Mr. I don't know whether that's part of the standard warnings or directions to a source.

Mr. And you're not familiar --

Mr. Excuse me. One second, please.

Mr. Okay, thank you.

I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Mr. How did Chris Steele's information reach the FBI?

Mr. I don't know for sure. I have some recollection that he passed it to an agent that he knew and that that agent sent it on to headquarters. I think that's the way in which it reached the Counterintelligence Division, but I don't remember the specifics of that.

Mr. How did the Bureau investigate whatever information Steele provided?

Mr. I don't know in particular. I know that the Counterintelligence Division was investigating various aspects of the reports he had supplied, and that investigation was ongoing when I was fired.

Mr. Do you know whether the Bureau endeavored to either contradict or corroborate factual assertions made in what has later been described as the Steele dossier?