This is another brick in the wall I have been expecting. Last week I wrote a post in which there was a timeline of the Russian connection and investigation. We learned that FBI agent Peter Strzok had been demoted to the HR department at the FBI in light of the discovery of his anti-Trump texts to his mistress. FBI agents are allowed to have their political leanings, so Strzok must have done something considerably worse than what we know about to have received such a punishment.
It had been revealed that obama administration Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr had been in contact with both Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson– Steele before the election and Simpson after.
Devin Nunes newest advisory explains why democrats filed phony ethics complaints against him- to keep him from getting to the truth:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News on Friday that his investigators have already uncovered evidence of “abuse” in the U.S. government’s surveillance practices.
“I believe there’s evidence that abuses have occurred,” Nunes said in his first interview since the House Ethics Committee dismissed allegations he had wrongly released classified information as part of the panel’s Russia investigation.
“We have had an ongoing investigation into DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI since mid-summer for both FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] abuse and other matters that we can’t get into too much. But it is very concerning.”
Nunes pointed to the leaked conversation of former national security adviser, Gen. Mike Flynn with the Russian ambassador. The congressman said he is unaware of any leak investigation by the FBI or Justice Department.
“I hate to use the word corrupt, but they become so dirty that, who is watching the watchmen? Who is investigating these people? There is no one.”
Corrupt indeed. Tonight we learn that Deputy AG Ohr’s wife was on the payroll of Fusion GPS:
A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document, than have been disclosed, Fox News has confirmed: The official’s wife worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.
Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr’s duties – including whether she worked on the dossier – remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.
Fusion GPS has attracted scrutiny because Republican lawmakers have spent the better part of this year investigating whether the dossier, which was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, served as the basis for the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain FISA surveillance last year on a Trump campaign adviser named Carter Page.
“The House Intelligence Committee,” Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News in a statement on Monday, “is looking into all facets of the connections between the Department of Justice and Fusion GPS, including Mr. Ohr.”
If she worked on the dossier, hoo boy.
We are inching closer to find out who secured the FISA warrant and on exactly what it was based. Congressional investigators are saying that they are being stonewalled and slow-walked in getting documents. Current FBI Director Christopher Wray said he could not legally give Congress access to the FISA warrant but there was someone who could:
FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Thursday he could not “lawfully” give them access to a confidential warrant application for permission to surveil members of the Trump campaign, but President Donald Trump could lawfully order him to do just that through his subordinates at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ).
The FBI’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant application would reveal whether the bureau relied upon the Steele dossier – unverified opposition research on President Donald Trump financed by the Clinton campaign – to obtain a warrant allowing them to surveil Trump campaign officials.
During his Thursday testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Wray managed to conceal the extent to which the FBI relied upon the Steele dossier to obtain a warrant from the secretive FISA court, citing the document’s confidential status and deference to the ongoing inspector general (IG) investigation into whether the conduct of FBI officials was politically motivated.
I think Trump already knows the answer already. I think Trump knows a lot of things already. I think Trump is intentionally letting this play out a little at a time, and having various people leak contrived stories such how much he watches TV or how much Diet Coke he drinks.
Everyone is being played, and it’s working. It’s part of the reason a frenzy is growing on the left. Democrats sidelined Sessions and Nunes intentionally, but half of that is ended and Rosenstein is going to have to answer some questions soon. At some point we will learn how far up the obama administration this went. Remember, Trump wasn’t supposed to win.
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