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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I want Comey looked at.
This is why FJB had to be installed in ‘20.
The statute of limitations for the crimes that were committed had to be allowed to run out (a la Hunter Biden), suits had to be settled (a la Strozk/Page) for silence payoffs and pardons had to be issued. No better person for the job than FJB - which explains all in the indifference to the Biden Family Syndicate and their associated crimes.
Sure makes sense now . . .
IRT #37 I don’t remember Boasberg signing any of the CH FISA warrants. He did become chief judge of the court sometime after the first of the four FISA warrants were issued against Carter Page.
We here
Most of us
Knew all along
That they knew all along
And facilitated it
Dude. You need to “trust the plan.”
They may be beyond the statute of limitations, but they aren’t immune from civil action.
There’s a simple reason there is government corruption at any and all levels....no accountability ever.
Obstruction of Justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, perjury, leaking classified information. Trying to work in crimes against humanity, but that is the Fauci gang, which does include some in the Department of Defenestration.
Yes...you told me before you don’t want to hear from me. Sorry about that.
I don’t keep these lists of people not to contact.
This isn’t a ping list, just that you were interested (or not) in this subject because you were on this thread.
My apologies. I will try to remember not to include you in these responses.
Strzok needs to be arrested along with all other perps!!!! There is no room in our government for insurrectionists like these people. And don’t tell me the ‘FBI’ knew, tell me WHO in the FBI knew. Those are the people who need locked up, not the ‘FBI.’
Yes, “the FBI” knew all along, but there is NO WAY a federal bureaucrat took this on as a project on his own initiative.
They would absolutely not have offered Steele a million dollars to lie without being either told by Holder/Obama to do it or been assured that those two had approved the plan.
Yes, punish the messenger boys, but unless this goes higher what’s the point? The fish rots from the head, the idea that Obama’s FBI operated independently from DOJ and the White House is ridiculous.
“ the FBI knew it was just a Clinton hoax”
Hillary Clinton in 2016 did not have the power or the mojo to pull this off. Her only involvement was her willingness to serve Obama’s third term.
Again, wake up! No bureaucrat, however afflicted by TDS, would even CONSIDER being this exposed without knowing the boss wanted it done.
You think Strzok, a career bureaucrat, dreamed up this op on his own and decided to execute it?
You must not know too many bureaucrats.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC will be forced to pay $8,000 and $105,000 respectively for mislabeling payments that ultimately went to Fusion GPS, the consulting firm that commissioned the dossier, according to FEC documents viewed by the Post.
The fines stem from a complaint originally filed in 2018 by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which was informed of the outcome on Tuesday.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid more than $1 million combined to powerful Democratic law firm Perkins Coie, which engaged Fusion GPS to dig for dirt on Trump. Fusion GPS, in turn, hired former British spy Christopher Steele — whose namesake dossier included allegations that Russian security services possessed a tape of Trump in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes who were supposedly urinating on a bed where the Obamas had previously stayed.
If I remember correctly the Clinton Campaign paid about $6M, A DNC account controlled by Hillary paid about $7M and BHO paid $900K to Perkins Coie for this operation. Hillary and the DNC were fined by the FEC for this, but that barely made the news and no one seems to remember it.
I recall that Obama and Biden were briefed on the operation and agreed to it early on. I can't find links to articles about that because searches don't seem to work well on this topic. I think that the FBI were so corrupt under Obama that they feared prison time if Trump won so they were probably willing to do anything.
Thank you for the detailed reminder. I still believe a lot of folks will ultimately be arrested and charged for the illegal actions committed against POTUS Trump and his administration.
If that slime-ball goes downi will be sooo happy.
I would like to hope so, but like other more knowing and less patient than me...I am just not sure anymore.
Outside of Trump and his immediate team, there is huge resistance to making anyone accountable. Sad.
Bttt.
5.56mm
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