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Defense Department Whistleblower Reveals FBI’s Russia Probe As The Big Setup That It Was
IWB ^ | Bob Shanahan

Posted on 09/01/2018 4:01:04 PM PDT by davikkm

On Tuesday, Senior Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, testified on Capitol Hill. During this closed-door session, Ohr revealed that prior to getting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump campaign volunteer, Carter Page, the FBI was wholly aware that the fake anti-Trump dossier author, Christopher Steele, was biased against the transformational Republican candidate for president.

Ohr also divulged that the FBI knew about his wife, Nellie Ohr, who worked for Fusion GPS, the research firm hired by the Clinton campaign (AKA the Democratic National Committee) to put together the ridiculous but ultimately effective dossier with Mr. Steele. During his hours-long testimony to members of Congress, Ohr stated that the FBI failed to disclose the true source of the dossier, blatantly misleading the court in an obvious move to hide the authors’ political motivations. This allowed the FBI the ability to spy on and wiretap the Trump campaign.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: fbi; whistleblower

1 posted on 09/01/2018 4:01:04 PM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Finally, it’s Over!


2 posted on 09/01/2018 4:06:23 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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During his hours-long testimony to members of Congress, Bruce Ohr stated:

<><> that the FBI failed to disclose the true source of the Steele dossier,

<><> that the FBI blatantly mislead the court,

<><> that this was an obvious move to hide the dossier authors’ political motivations.

<><> that this gave the FBI the ability to spy on and wiretap Hillary's opponent.

3 posted on 09/01/2018 4:06:35 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: davikkm

Bottom line; the FBI lied and cheated to get the predetermined result it wanted. Find, indict, try, and incarcerate all involved to send the message the standards will not be lowered that way again.


4 posted on 09/01/2018 4:10:06 PM PDT by Boomer
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I wouldn’t call Ohr a Whistleblower.

He’s protecting the people above him in return for him and his wife not being Prosecuted.

Only the Justice Dept can Prosecute, and he just avoided Prosecution.

He’s only saying people that could not authorize his illegal behavior had knowledge. They simply say they thought his bosses were directing him.

He’s a Liar, and his wife’s a Spy against this Country.

More of the Cover-up


5 posted on 09/01/2018 4:10:37 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Liz

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And what Prosecution and charges come of that with Mueller, Rosenstein, and Sessions part of the cabal?

None.

The higher ups are protected and the others get fat GoFundMe accounts.

The DoJ is refusing to prosecute McCabe.

Lynch, Yates, Strzok, Ohr, Moffa, Clinesmith, Page, Axelrod, Comey, Rosenstein, Sessions, and a dozen more in the DoJ / FBi.

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6 posted on 09/01/2018 4:15:36 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: Liz

cont

When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.

CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal things the author never intended——ala Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.

powerlineblog.com

WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF........the extraordinary email Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017........within minutes of President Trump’s inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?

If you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?

Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier. The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:

Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

This is pure boilerplate.

It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)

The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.

CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.

Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.

Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.

If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.

What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.

There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.

The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything. And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.

Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.


7 posted on 09/01/2018 4:17:37 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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PROOF POSITIVE THAT OBAMA KNEW

Obama’s CYA maneuver of January 3, 2017-——the signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 by AG Lynch —— is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State. Obama’s after-the-fact ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333”:

NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.

But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.

Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive CYA.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.

cont


8 posted on 09/01/2018 4:18:09 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

If you read the article, it’s not Ohr being referred to as a whistleblower


9 posted on 09/01/2018 4:23:31 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Big Red Badger

All this stuff finally coming out after long preparation so that it is accepted abd believed by the people wasnecessary to secure the death grip on at least the JD and CIA portions of the Deep State. If Trump and Sessions had gone for immediate swamp clearing and arrests, even with overwhelming solid evidence, it would have led to Impeachment and banshee wailing the likes we have NOT had to undergo. with the loooong drip drip of the evidence, the swamp thangs are being induced to themselves present, the framework for some irreversible housecleaning is being stone by stone erected.


10 posted on 09/01/2018 4:27:18 PM PDT by arthurus (|||\)
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To: Liz

Laid out beautifully. Now what happens? My guess is nothing! If they allow Meuller and Weissman to continue, despite an obvious conflict and crime, then nothing will ever happen. The DS is policing themselves and doing a rather poor job of it.


11 posted on 09/01/2018 4:31:30 PM PDT by DrDude (Waiting for the Game to start. Gotta move the Goal Posts again!)
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To: Liz

Should it be;
Hillary’s Opponents.
.
If they did a number on Trump,
Why wouldn’t they do the same
to the other candidates?


12 posted on 09/01/2018 5:38:22 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: davikkm

So many people in this saga who just ignored the law to accomplish something that, unless they were lacking common sense, knew that their actions were sure to be discovered.

This is bad enough for the FBI agents, the DOJ professionals, and just as or perhaps more importantly it appears that:

THE FISA JUDGES WERE ALL OR MOSTLY...GUILTY OF THE WORST KIND OF QUESTIONABLE ACTIVITIES.

They were where the “buck stopped,” they were the teachers, they were the parents...and they let us down.

Makes one sad to contemplate.


13 posted on 09/01/2018 6:00:51 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: DrDude

In politics-—as in life-—timing is everything.


14 posted on 09/01/2018 6:08:06 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: davikkm

Are the Q military tribunals to come?


15 posted on 09/01/2018 6:26:28 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: davikkm

Are the Q military tribunals to come?


16 posted on 09/01/2018 6:26:37 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: davikkm

Tick-tock........once the midterms are over, i predict things will move very quickly and some folks will be getting nasty surprises as the table completes its turn....


17 posted on 09/02/2018 3:43:13 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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