Case Agent 1 also failed to disclose potentially exculpatory information to the Justice Department’s Office of Intelligence that Page and George Papadopoulos told Halper, the FBI informant, in secretly recorded meetings in August and September 2016.

The statements were “inconsistent” with Steele’s allegations in his dossier of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to the IG report.

Page denied in a meeting with Halper on Aug. 20, 2016 that he had ever met Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, or that he had ever heard of a Kremlin insider named Igor Diveykin. He also denied playing any role in the Trump campaign’s work at the Republican National Convention to table an amendment to the party’s platform regarding military aid to Ukraine. News reports at the time suggested that Page might have been involved in the issue, but he denied it to Halper.

Steele alleged in the dossier that Page was working under Manafort’s direction in the Trump-Kremlin conspiracy. That project involved Page allegedly meeting Diveykin in Russia to discuss the exchange of compromising materials on Hillary Clinton.

Case Agent 1 told the IG that he “may have overlooked” Page’s comments to Halper, and in hindsight should have included them as exculpatory information in the FISA package.

The agent said that an “oversight” on his part led him not to include Papadopoulos’s statements to Halper in the Page FISA materials.

Papadopoulos denied in a Sept. 15, 2016 meeting with Halper in London that the Trump campaign was working with Russian to steal and release Democrats’ emails.

The IG also said that the agent “did not fully or accurately describe” the information about Page’s past relationship with the CIA.

The agent deemed information from the CIA about a past relationship with Page to be “out of scope.” He said that Page had a relationship with the spy agency when he lived in Moscow until 2007. The IG said the agent’s claim was “inaccurate,” and that the CIA had told the FBI on Aug. 17, 2016 that Page was an “operational contact” for the CIA.

According to the report, when an attorney with the Office of Intelligence “explicitly” asked the agent in late September 2016 about information regarding Page’s prior relationship with the CIA, the agent “did not accurately describe the nature and extent of the information the FBI received” from the CIA.

An attorney in the Office of Intelligence said he would likely have included the information in the FISA application.

Case Agent 1’s final omission involved information that Justice Department Bruce Ohr shared regarding Steele in September 2016. Ohr, who met with Steele multiple times before and after the 2016 election, told FBI agents that the ex-spy was “desperate” that Donald Trump lose the election. Ohr’s statement made its way to the FBI team investigating Page, but Case Agent 1 did not include the information in the Page FISA warrant.

Republicans have long complained that the FBI failed to disclose that Steele harbored a personal bias against Trump that could have colored the information he gave the bureau.

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