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
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When are charges going to be filed?
Hold your breath
Firing squad.
outright treason rewarded with a pension instead of a prison. what could be more American than that?
Haven’t we known most all this already?
The FBI knew all along?
So did we.
When are charges going to be filed?
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“We’re all going to hang.” is long overdue.
Yes, but now official FBI documents can be used as evidence.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, me neither.
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.
Efrem Zimmbast Jr is spinning in his grave.
Everyone can agree that none of these crimes should be tried in DC. Automatic acquittal for any Leftist.
I’d like to see more accountability, but good luck with that in DC.
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.
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