Obama-era officials have until Friday to tell Congress what they knew about misuse of the Steele dossier

I'll tell you right now that this is going to be portrayed by the media as a partisan witchhunt by Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and by other congressional Republicans. The emphasis in coverage of the story will be on the notion that Republicans are seeking to distract from "collusion with Russia" and to turn a negative story for President Trump onto the Obama Administration instead. Do not believe that narrative. That is not what's happening here. Here's what is: There is a growing body of evidence that the Obama Administration and the Clinton campaign used a highly questionable dossier - much of it culled from Russian sources - to falsely portray Donald Trump as in collusion with the Russian government to turn the 2016 election in his favor. What's more, it also appears that after Trump won the election and the transition was underway, the outgoing Obama Administration used this same questionable dossier - which, remember, was bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign - to inappropriately unmask Trump transition officials in wiretap transcripts and otherwise undermine the incoming administration.

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