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The FBI Knew All Along
American Thinker ^ | 14 Apr, 2025 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 04/14/2025 4:14:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber

You do not have to wade far into the recently declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents to be shocked. I had only read three pages of the FBI’s December 19, 2016 interview with the DoJ’s Bruce Ohr before learning just how early in the game the FBI brass knew that the Steele dossier was worthless.

In the way of background, on July 31, 2016, the FBI launched its counterintelligence operation into the Trump campaign, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane.” FBI agent Peter Strzok was assigned to head it up.

If the goal was to cripple Trump regardless of the evidence, Strzok was the man for the job. “Damn this feels momentous,” he texted his lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page, upon getting the assignment. Two weeks later he explained to Page his motives. “There’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he texted her. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

Ohr played a curious role in the whole affair. He served as unofficial DoJ contact with the notorious Christopher Steele, the author of the eponymous Steele dossier. According to Ohr, the two met for breakfast on the same day the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. Steele wanted to discuss some “serious stuff” involving low-level Trump adviser Carter Page.

More interesting than what Steele claimed to know about Page is what Ohr already knew about the funding of the Steele dossier. As Ohr told his FBI interviewer, Joe Pientka, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS “hired Steele to dig up Trump’s connection to Russia.” Complicating matters is that Ohr’s wife Nelli worked for Simpson.

Protecting Nellie, a Russian interpreter, Ohr claimed she was “hired to conduct open source research.” He conceded, however, “Even though she did not know the goal

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: arrestandexecute; bruceohr; christopherwray; crossfirehurricane; falsewitness; fbisedition; fusiongps; glennsimpson; jamescomey; joepientka; lisapage; nelliohr; peterstrzok; robertmueller
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1 posted on 04/14/2025 4:14:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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When are charges going to be filed?


2 posted on 04/14/2025 4:15:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hold your breath


3 posted on 04/14/2025 4:16:53 AM PDT by Strict9
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To: MtnClimber

Firing squad.


4 posted on 04/14/2025 4:17:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

outright treason rewarded with a pension instead of a prison. what could be more American than that?


5 posted on 04/14/2025 4:20:20 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber

Haven’t we known most all this already?


6 posted on 04/14/2025 4:21:40 AM PDT by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!cper)
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To: MtnClimber

The FBI knew all along?

So did we.


7 posted on 04/14/2025 4:22:40 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MtnClimber
When are charges going to be filed?

When are charges going to be filed?

When are charges going to be filed?

When are charges going to be filed?

When are charges going to be filed?

When are charges going to be filed?

WHEN are charges going to be filed?

8 posted on 04/14/2025 4:25:44 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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“We’re all going to hang.” is long overdue.


9 posted on 04/14/2025 4:27:35 AM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: Trumpette1954
Haven’t we known most all this already?

Yes, but now official FBI documents can be used as evidence.

10 posted on 04/14/2025 4:29:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I don’t think there is anything really new in the documents that is jaw dropping if you followed the Russian collusion hoax back in the day...


11 posted on 04/14/2025 4:32:44 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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There is just the documentation that the FBI knew it was just a Clinton hoax and they ran with it anyway. The documentation is very important if people are going to be held accountable.


12 posted on 04/14/2025 4:42:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Trumpette1954

Yep. After reading the article, it appears that one would need to wade far into the recently declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents to find any new crumbs of information.


13 posted on 04/14/2025 4:44:04 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Airtight cases have to be built before charges are filed.

Not saying the DOJ—or Kash’s team—won’t drop the ball. But if this is going to stick, it has to be done carefully and methodically.

Some folks have complained that Pam and Kash haven't cleaned house like RFK, Jr. It's important to keep in mind that Jr. is cleaning out a bureaucracy. The elements in the FBI and DOJ that need to be cleaned out are criminal. And they are experts at hiding their crimes.

14 posted on 04/14/2025 4:44:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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In the end, Repugnant or DemocRAT, they're all mountain top dwellers and nobody's going to push anybody off. Heck, remember the RINOs who got on board invalidating all pedo Joe's EOs cause they were done by autopen by an unnamed WH source?

Yeah, me neither.

15 posted on 04/14/2025 4:45:40 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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his grandfather took down the Titanic
(actually the ship in its place).
so they let HIM attempt to take out the Elected President.

he should have been Tried and long gone.


16 posted on 04/14/2025 4:45:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Efrem Zimmbast Jr is spinning in his grave.


17 posted on 04/14/2025 4:50:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: RoosterRedux

Everyone can agree that none of these crimes should be tried in DC. Automatic acquittal for any Leftist.


18 posted on 04/14/2025 4:51:25 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: MtnClimber

I’d like to see more accountability, but good luck with that in DC.


19 posted on 04/14/2025 4:56:49 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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Seeing as they had an “off books” investigation before the pee-pee document, it’s pretty obvious they know everything was fake. They could have tried the excuse of being naive, but seeing the pattern shuts it down.


20 posted on 04/14/2025 4:57:16 AM PDT by dgbrown
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