- A new book by Josh Campbell, a former FBI assistant to Jim Comey, reveals new details about an infamous briefing to President Donald Trump about the Steele dossier.
- Campbell, who is now a CNN analyst, writes that Comey took the unusual step of requesting a top-secret laptop be handy to write notes following the Trump meeting.
- Campbell’s claim appears to back up an inspector general’s report released on Aug. 29 said that FBI officials and Comey wanted to use the meeting to gather information from Trump as part of the Russia probe.
- Comey has told a different story in public, saying that the meeting was intended only to make Trump aware of the dossier’s allegations.
In a book to be released Tuesday, a former FBI aide to James Comey describes the lead-up to a briefing where then-President-Elect Donald Trump was first told about allegations in the unverified Steele dossier.
Josh Campbell, who served as special assistant to Comey and is now a CNN analyst, traveled with the then-FBI chief to the Trump Tower meeting, where top intelligence community officials briefed Trump about an assessment of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
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