Posted on 12/18/2017 6:56:13 PM PST by SSS Two
- Fox News analyst on Monday highlighted claim FBI offered cash for Trump dirt
- Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein refused to answer when asked in inquiry last week
- Republicans accuse disgraced agent Peter Strzok of using dossier for wiretap
- Questions over FBI integrity are mounting as Mueller election probe nears end
Claims have resurfaced that the FBI offered the British spy behind the 'golden showers' dirty dossier $50,000 to corroborate his claims about now-President Donald Trump.
'I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn't, didn't, wouldn't, and they didn't pay him the money,' news analyst Andrew Napolitano told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Monday.
Former MI6 agent Steele's dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and alleges the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Napolitano appears to be basing his claim on an April report from the New York Times, which cited two sources claiming that an FBI agent met Steele in Rome in October of 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.
The agent offered Steele $50,000 if he could get 'solid corroboration of his reports', which the FBI ultimately never paid out, the report said.
Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to tell the House Judiciary Committee whether the FBI had paid or offered to pay for the dossier.
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Steele claimed his reports have a 70% track record of accuracy. Uncle Psy on Duck Dynasty says his stories are 95% true.
He is pulling our leg by making you think that if you don’t know the 5%, then none of it is trustworthy.
Our intel community at work. They must be radically downsized, retasked, and some even closed. They have abused every power given them. Time to give a solid jerk on that dog leash and bring them to heel.
And voter registration history. RATs need not apply.
I think the word “HAM radio” has been used in the wrong way when this whole topic came up.
If this was a Citizens Band Radio situation....you’d just pay roughly $20, and it’d require NO test. Any guy could set up his antenna and equipment in an hour, but be limited to roughly 20 miles.
If this were the HAM radio situation....there would be a 35-question test, pay $15 to take the test, and you’d have put up a fair sized antenna in the backyard. I doubt that the NSA or CIA folks monitor HAM radio transmissions and that might explain why she went at this angle. Plus you are correct, the HAM radio has range to easily reach the UK.
it could well be that the website i found a couple of days ago mistakenly conflated citizens band with amateur ham radio range. i do not do either (regularly, at least) and i am no authority at all on it. so i am content at least for the moment to let others provide input on this (and thanks for the input so far). in a brief but more recent re-check, i did read some claims that use of morse code and/or digital can reduce the power requirements / up the range capabilities considerably.
Brennan got past the lie detector test after sweating over voting for CPUSA candidate Gus Hall in the 1976 election, didn’t he? (But he admitted it. And still got in.)
Proverbs 6 : 16-19
All of this would bring me to this conclusion that Nellie Ohr felt that any correspondence with the Fusion GPS would draw eventual NSA interest.
Maybe we ought to ask the question....just how many people in the shadow of DC....have a HAM radio license, and we might be shocked that several thousand exist.
Discredit, and eventually dismantle, the FBI.Approaching endgame, looks like.
— Communist goal #35
It appears that this goal has been altered. At the time the communist groups were planning all these goals, J. Edgar Hoover was the FBI and had been for years. Since the integrity and the effectiveness of the FBI was so well established and accepted, the communists may have decided later that it would be better in the long run to slowly infiltrate the FBI and take it over rather than pursue the almost-hopeless task of discrediting it. They may also have realized how effective a tool it could be for them if they had control of the FBI and could use it for their purposes, like the Gestapo in Germany or the KGB in Russia. […] Obviously, over time things can change as more and more new people are hired. That fear seems to be unfolding in early 2012. Several startling developments have recently occurred which would indicate that the once great and independent FBI may have become just another government agency doing the partisan bidding of those in power. …Five years after 2012, it is quite obvious what the FBI did become. And it is doing the bidding of the previous administration still.
Rosenstein should be fired ASAP. He’s blocking a legitimate congressional investigation inquiry. He could have asked to go into Executive Session where his answers would be classified against any leaks.
Rosenstein does not smell like a Rose-garden.
Way more than 5k miles. Hams radio stations can easily talk and receive anywhere on earth if conditions are adequate.
It’s true, during bad conditions, Generally CW or Morse Code can be heard/received over and above voice when the static and or noise associated with bad conditions exist.
We need Nuremberg style trials for the FBI.
Well, not really applicable here, since Brennan was CIA. But the FBI would be overlooking such things too, I suspect (ref. Comey).
“All of this would bring me to this conclusion that Nellie Ohr felt that any correspondence with the Fusion GPS would draw eventual NSA interest.”
Either that or it is stone cold coincidence. I suppose coincidence is in theory possible, but there is a lot happening just before the license got issued (the alleged hacking of the DNC computers in late april and the license granted in mid may) which leads me to be cautious on presuming with much weight it is coincidence.
“Maybe we ought to ask the question....just how many people in the shadow of DC....have a HAM radio license, and we might be shocked that several thousand exist.”
Yes! That had occurred to me also and I had forgotten to push it out to FR in my comment. Here in SF bay, Nellie Ohr and most if not all of her activities would probably not raise any eyebrows, with (so far as I am aware) the glaring exception of the sudden interest in ham radio. The people interested in ham radio in SF bay are mostly retired engineers who spent their boyhood days getting their eagle scout badges. So far as I am aware, it is a male nerd thing, imho totally incongruous with liberal female lifestyle which is typically limited (in the technical dimension) to bringing their volvo or subaru to the local mechanic and then bitching about the mechanic to their female friends at the local wifi cafe. That is obviously a totally subjective and probably less than fair stereotype, but still... The point was made in an earlier response in another thread that ham radios are very handy for concealing the identity of recipients of outbound transmissions. Another thing that would be interesting to know is whether or not the local ham radio transmissions are monitored/recorded. Imaginably someone out there knows the generic answers to these generic questions. Hopefully the Congressional committee staff is doing some basic homework and coming up with good questions to ask Nellie which could help pin down what her ham radio licence was all about.
A new thought (to me) is if (following the devil’s advocate train of thought) that, presuming the ham radio has sufficient range to correspond with Russia (several folks here have asserted so), that Nellie could have been using the radio to conduct legitimate (in the sense of collecting factual information, not generating false information) research about Russia. Perhaps that is not very far fetched as using it for a cutout, but others might have more informed comments since from my vantage point almost everything from me is speculative.
The latest is encrypted Ham radio transmissions.
Since the encryption is a digital signal it has a greater range than voice transmissions and probably farther than Morse Code.
You’re making me laugh.
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