"We submitted a series of FOIA requests to the FBI, the CIA, the ODNI asking for any communications about the Steele Dossier. All of the agencies said to the court, 'We don't have any of these documents.'"

Kimberly Hermann, President of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, states that a subsequent whistleblower report revealed the documents did exist at the time, alleging that federal agencies knowingly withheld the information and misinformed the court and the public.