Michael Gaeta in Rome. (Credit: public domain)
“The Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed Gaeta on March 3, 2020 as part of a GOP-led investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.
(…) Gaeta offered a harsh assessment of Steele in the interview, according to the transcript. Gaeta’s ire stemmed from Steele’s unauthorized contact with a journalist from the liberal magazine Mother Jones, which published details from the dossier in a story on Oct. 31, 2016.
Gaeta testified that he cut Steele off as an FBI confidential human source (CHS) in a conversation after the Mother Jones story was published.
“It told me that he was completely untrustworthy at that point as a source and could not be handled and would not be reliable,” Gaeta testified.” (Read more: The Daily Caller, 1/15/2021)
Page 33-35 of Gaeta’s testimony:
(Senate Judiciary Committee, 1/15/2021) (Gaeta Transcript Archive)