As much as we know about the Deep State’s efforts to block Donald Trump from becoming president via“Spygate” and then depose him once he took office, there is still so much we don’t know.

Like the roles each of the people most associated with the scandal played, including one figure at the center of it all: Fired FBI Director James Comey.

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According to a Wednesday report at Breitbart News, however, we now know just a little been more — about Comey and about how the Spygate operation progressed.

The site reported:

Newly declassified documents raise serious questions about James Comey potentially withholding damning information regarding the credibility of Russia collusion charges repeatedly relied upon to obtain four successive warrants to spy on a member of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The documents indicate that a senior FBI official under Comey was alerted early on by other colleagues that the author of the ‘Russia dossier,’ ex-British spy Christopher Steele, exhibited “poor judgment” on many occasions, had a “lack of self-awareness,” and difficulty validating claims.

The official was given the “assessment as part of an FBI review of Steele’s reliability,” Breitbart reported further.

Nevertheless, the bureau continued to rely repeatedly, as we now know, on the debunked claims of Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign that were contained in Steele’s dossier — which was ultimately paid for by the Clinton campaign.

Also, the FBI repeatedly used the bogus information in the dossier to justify at least four warrants from the secretive FISA court to spy on then-Trump campaign official Carter Page.

The negative assessments of Steele’s character were collected in November and December 2016 during meetings between colleagues familiar with the former MI6 agent’s work in a previous capacity, according to the documents seen by Breitbart News.

“At issue for Comey is a sentence about Steele’s reliability that featured on the first warrant obtained from the FISA court to spy on Page but went conspicuously missing from three renewal applications,” the news site reported.

The original FISA warrant application signed by Comey on October 20, 2016 informed the FISA court in an extensive footnote that the bureau was “unaware of any derogatory information” regarding the British operative.

That was just a month before an FBI official examining Steele’s credibility met abroad with “persons who previously had professional contacts with Steele or had knowledge of his work.”

Not everything about Steele was considered a negative trait; there were some positive ones as well. For instance, a professional colleague reported that Steele is “smart,” a “person of integrity,” and “[i]f he reported it, he believed it.”

But it’s the assessment of Steele’s methods of collecting information that is damning.

Colleagues note that he “[d]emonstrates a lack of self-awareness,” exercised “poor judgment” and was “[k]een to help” but that was “underpinned by poor judgment.”

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Other negatives include: “Judgment: pursuing people with political risk but no intel value,” and “[d]idn’t always exercise great judgment sometimes [he] believes he knows best.”

Colleagues also told the FBI that Steele does “[r]eporting in good faith, but not clear what he would have done to validate.”

Breitbart reported that there is no indication that any of these misgivings were reported to the FISA court in any of the FBI’s applications for the original warrant to spy on Page or the subsequent applications, meaning the bureau likely defrauded the court — a crime.

However, language in the subsequent FISA applications did remove the sentence that the FBI was “unaware of any derogatory information” about Steele.

Breitbart added: