Grassley-Johnson statement on newly unredacted footnotes:

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/fbi-ignored-early-warnings-debunked-anti-trump-dossier-was-russian-disinformation

"The footnotes reveal that, beginning early on and continuing throughout the FBI’s Russia investigation, FBI officials learned critical information streams that flowed to the dossier were likely tainted with Russian Intelligence disinformation."

"Despite later intelligence reports that key elements of the FBI’s evidence were the result of Russian infiltration to undermine U.S. foreign relations, the FBI still pushed forward with its probe."

“It’s ironic that the Russian collusion narrative was fatally flawed because of Russian disinformation..."

"...These footnotes confirm that there was a direct Russian disinformation campaign in 2016, and there were ties between Russian intelligence and a presidential campaign – the Clinton campaign, not Trump’s.”

"The surveillance warrant against Page was renewed two more times – in April and in June of 2017 – raising questions about when exactly the FBI received and reviewed these new intelligence reports, and what it did with them."

"Grassley and Johnson expect the footnotes to be further declassified in the coming days."

Like so many of the other redactions that have subsequently been made public there appears to be no basis for the actual redactions in the first place.

Other than to serve as cover for the activity the FBI and our IC were undertaking.