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. Ohrs wife, Nellie, a Russia researcher, worked for Mr. Steeles 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. Steeles 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Michael Cohen hires Lanny Davis to represent him. Whats wrong with this picture?
If you dont see that Mueller is using the Steele dossier as his roadmap, then you are truly blind. I suggest you read the dossier. It is an eye opener.
I read the dossier and it verifies what many of FR have been saying for over a year.
This is from the “make everything complex beyond belief” school of writing.
Very poor quality work.
This is great because it now gives the congressional committees legal reasons to subpoena the hell out of the DOJ/FBI/GPS and Marxist swamp of collusion against Donald Trump.
In no particular firing squad order:
* Bruce Ohr
* Nellie Ohr
* Glen Simpson
* David Corn (an old Marxist shit from The Nation and possibly even the other IPS Marxist paper, In These Times. Corn’s connections will be very interesting if exposed.
* Michael Isikoff - Newsweek, Yahoo, etc. (a buddy of Phil Agee colleague and security risk (in England), Mark Hosenball (now of Reuters)
* Any DNCers who had business with Fusion GPS including the financing of the Steele Dossier for Fusion GPS. THIS SHOULD INCLUDE THE CLINTONS/FOUNDATION AND OTHER FRONTS.
* Any other FBI agents or DOJ officials who had contact with Fusion GPS
* Any Dept. of State officials who had contact with Fusion GPS
* Any CIA officials who had contact with Fusion GPS, in America or overseas (i.e. England, through Christopher Steele, the Australian diplomat, Russians, etc). The same for overseas FBI agents and Dept. of State operatives/officials.
* Possibly James Comey and his professor friend, Richmond?
The list is endless. I just want to printing concession for subpoenas. I’ll donate 25% of my profits to building a new jail for this bunch of fools, traitors, opportunists and Soviet collusionists.
Verifies what? IMO Mueller is using the dossier as the road map for his investigation. If Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, et.al., have conspired to frame Trump, I have some real concerns.
I am sure there has been a FBI file on Trump at least since his birther attacks on Obama in 2011. Trump humiliated Obama forcing him to produce his long form BC, which heretofore was denied existed. Arpaio did a thorough job of proving it was a phony document. Obama and DOJ then proceeded to go after Arpaio on trumped-up charges.
Deep State and Mueller are hell bent on destroying Trump. The dossier is central to this effort. If the majority of the allegations are somehow validated, then the actions of Deep State, including the FISA warrant and surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition teams as well as a sitting President will be validated. In that context, it is clear the incredible pressure being placed on Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, and others mentioned in the dossier is key.
The Reps must take the dossier seriously and do whatever is necessary to debunk it.
Great points! That was the immediate thought I had when I first heard this...a Russian speaking broad with a HAM radio whose husband is in the FBI (or CIA)!...they happen to be in contact with British spies and the press. It’s likely that the hack of the DNC server and attempted hack of the RNC was set up by these people. Even if they’re just Trump haters and not just traitors, the GRU/KGB or whatever would target these people immediately. We need to check their off-shore accounts and vacation homes!
Is is just me or does Peter Strzok speak with the arrogance and narcissism of the psychopath?
Scary, but he reminds me of the first interviews with Ted Bundy after his arrest in 1978. Bundy thought he was SO SMART and SUPERIOR... he never imagined hed pay for his crimes. I see the same arrogance and attitude and facial expressions as was with Bundy, shortly after his capture.
In his sick mind (IMHO) Strzok is “tolerating idiots” in the same way as did Bundy. #Justathought.
Bump!
Drip, Drip, DRIP. Out Comes the Dossier.
Of course, all those you mention have been involved are trying to get rid of our president. We here knew this immediately as soon as that absurdity was publicized. All that has been revealed since the beginning are details which do nothing to make the claims believable or any less absurd.
That dossier should be laughed out of court it is ludicrous from start to finish. Nothing but “unnamed sources”, “people close to ....”, “anonymous this...”, “anonymous that”, “sources close to major people..”
And the pretense that the authors of this poorly written report have gained nothing, it is just the opposite, making it clear that there was no collusion or meddling except on the part of the DNC and the FBI.
This dossier should be ridiculed at every opportunity, just about anytime a camera is trained on them.
WOW...1st time Ive seen that!
It’s suggested many times in comments by Comey and others that it was not believed, certainly by the second FISA warrant application, and the Presidents Daily Briefings.
Transcripts released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee say that Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, had dinner with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya both the day before and the day after she met with Donald Trump, Jr. at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. (11-7-17)
just wanted to make note of this for posterity
Yup. There are some more links in regards Sessions meeting Russians.
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