by the agencies, who also have verify the information was verified
"If dossier claims were still unverified when Comey testified to Congress in mid 2017 (and thereafter), then those claims could not have been verified when the Obama Justice Department and FBI submitted it to the FISC as a “VERIFIED APPLICATION” in October 2016. It also had to have been unverified on January 6, 2017, when the Obama administration chose to include a sliver of the dossier in the briefing of President-elect Trump — the day after intelligence chiefs met with President Obama in the Oval Office and discussed what Russia information should be shared with the incoming Trump team."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/the-steele-dossier-and-the-verified-application-that-wasnt/Edited by Sal at 16:29:49 on 11/26/19