Posted on 07/15/2018 3:22:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
The lengths to which the FBI relied on the Hillary Clinton opposition research dossier to investigate her political rival came into sharper focus with the testimony of the lead investigator, FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Mr. Strzok told a joint House committee last week that the FBI received from Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr a raft of documents — including sections of the anti-Trump dossier — during the investigation into Russia election interference.
The first-time disclosure is significant because it confirms an unusual and continuing channel for collusion accusations that started outside the government with anti-Trump people and reached Mr. Ohr at the Justice Department and then the FBI.
Around that time, Mr. Ohr was communicating with dossier writer Christopher Steele. Mr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, a Russia researcher, worked for Mr. Steele’s paymaster, investigative firm Fusion GPS, which was trying to damage Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Mr. Ohr met with Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson after the November 2016 election.
Mr. Strzok, who led the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign, testified that he began receiving dossier sections in September 2016, but not from Mr. Ohr, and continued receiving documents into 2017. Mr. Strzok testified that he met with Mr. Ohr during that time.
The arrangement suggests that the FBI used the partisan, anti-Trump dossier and was eager to receive its episodic chapters from June to December 2016.
None of the Russia-Trump collusion charges has been publicly confirmed to date. Mr. Steele’s sources resided in the Kremlin.
Mr. Steele, a former British spy who told Mr. Ohr he wanted to destroy the Trump candidacy, ultimately was paid by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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A Trump dossier was published to the public and it was quickly deemed to be a load of crap by most thinking people. Doesn’t the fact that they picked it up and ran with it prove bias? Do we really need anything more to prove that Strzok and others allowed their biases to dictate their official actions?
Worse than Watergate
Much worse
The FBI now appears to be a tool of the Deep State. If Sessions doesn’t produce some results, it will be confirmed.
Bump! Nothing more for me.
Amen to that, this is so much worse than Watergate it’s pathetic.
Bump!
None Dare Call It Treason
A question that has not been asked: Were all three versions of the Pee Pee Dossier use in all four FISA applications?
Agreed if the public can critically evaluate it as a load of crap, how is it that the FBI couldn’t? The FBI should be the experts in critical thinking. That they failed to dismiss it, shows bias or collusion on the part of the FBI.
Agreed if the public can critically evaluate it as a load of crap, how is it that the FBI couldn’t? The FBI should be the experts in critical thinking. That they failed to dismiss it, shows bias or collusion on the part of the FBI.
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The FBI is corrupt. Plain and simple.
Right on!
While their villainy and arrogance know no bounds, fortunately their stupidity is equally profound. No sensible person would have thought that that kind of twaddle would pass muster by normal people. I guess it goes to show the degree that Strzok's psychopathy is symptomatic of the rest of that circle in the FBI.
I wish that were true. Mueller is using it as a road map to investigate Trump. Unfortunately, not very many people have taken the time to read the 35 page dossier. I suggest that everyone read it to gain an understanding of what is going on. The Dems claim most of it has been verified. The FBI used it to initiate a FISA warrant on Carter Page and to monitor the Trump campaign and transition teams as well as the Trump administration as a sitting President.
Mueller and the Dems are moving heaven and earth to seek verification of the dossier. It is their only hope of justifying what they have done. Look at the references in the dossier to Manafort and Michael Cohen. Does anyone think the Mueller hardball tactics on both of them is not related to what is said about them in the dossier? They are being squeezed to verify the allegations in the dossier against them.
Because it's not treason. It's sedition.
this isn’t even comparable to watergate. this amounts to an attempted coup, and the more we learn about it, the more it’s even beneath the wildest weirdos in the worst of the banana republics.
PING!
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