FBI analysts cited a tweet from the sister of a DNC operative for its analysis of the dossier’s most salacious claim: that the Kremlin had recorded Donald Trump with prostitutes in Moscow. 

FBI analysts relied on a tweet from the sister of a DNC operative as part of its analysis into the Steele dossier’s most explosive allegation: that the Kremlin was blackmailing Donald Trump with a videotape of him with prostitutes in Russia.

An FBI spreadsheet declassified last week and released on Monday shows that investigators cited an allegation from author and activist Andrea Chalupa.

Chalupa’s sister, Alexandra Chalupa, was a contractor for the Democratic National Committee through at least June 2016. The two sisters have been staunch critics of President Trump, and have helped push the since-debunked allegation that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election, according to The Daily Caller.

The spreadsheet, which the FBI provided to two Senate committees, provides the first glimpse inside the FBI’s attempts to prove or disprove allegations in the dossier, which was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC.

The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a report released in August that the FBI’s analysis of the dossier was “lacking in both thoroughness and rigor.”

The committee also said that within the FBI, “the dossier was given a veneer of credibility by lax procedures, and layered misunderstandings.”

The FBI spreadsheet points to a story published in the Australian press on Nov. 1, 2016, quoting Andrea Chalupa regarding a report of an alleged Russian sex tape of Trump.

“An uncorroborated source, journalist and author Andrea Chalupa, was cited in an Australian magazine article dated 1 November 2016 as mentioning Trump having an orgy in Russia,” the FBI analysts wrote in a column labeled “Corroboration/Analyst Notes.

Chalupa had actually made the remark about Trump in a tweet a day earlier.

Chalupa’s tweet was an apparent reference to a story published by Mother Jones on Oct. 31, 2016 that cited a “former Western intelligence officer” who claimed that the Russian government had sexually compromising material on Trump.

The spreadsheet also shows that the FBI investigated allegations contained in a dossier on Trump that was compiled by Cody Shearer, a longtime associate of the Clintons.

Trump has vehemently denied engaging with prostitutes in Moscow during his 2013 visit, and people who were him during his Moscow visit have also cast doubt on the dossier’s allegation.

The FBI’s handling of Steele’s information has come under intense scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the Justice Department’s inspector general and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which grants surveillance orders against American citizens.

The FBI relied heavily on Steele’s unverified information to obtain four warrants to surveil former Trump aide Carter Page.

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