Posted on 01/17/2019 5:31:21 PM PST by bitt
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s testimony about his meetings with FBI officials regarding dossier author Christopher Steele severely undercuts claims made in 2018 by California Rep. Adam Schiff and his fellow Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
Ohr told lawmakers Aug. 28, 2018, he briefed top FBI officials Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page in early August 2016, just days after he met with Steele, a former British spy who was investigating then-candidate Donald Trump.
Ohr testified he told McCabe and Page about his interactions with Steele, who was working at the time for Fusion GPS, a Democrat-funded opposition research firm.
The FBI relied heavily on Steele’s unverified dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republicans have focused on the Ohrs’ link to the dossier and Steele.
In a memo dated Feb. 2, 2018, House Intelligence Republicans, led by then-Chairman Devin Nunes, asserted the FBI filed to disclose in their FISA applications Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS. They also noted in the so-called Nunes memo that the FISA applications do not reveal Steele’s anti-Trump bias. Ohr claimed Steele told him during a meeting Sept. 23, 2016, he was “desperate” that Trump not win election.
Ohr testified he had shared details of his contacts with Steele with the FBI prior to the election.
In addition to the meeting in early August 2016, Ohr met in late September 2016 or early the next month with Page, FBI counterintelligence deputy chief Peter Strzok, and Justice Department officials Bruce Swartz, Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissmann. Ahmad and Weissmann are currently working on the special counsel’s investigation.
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this should be top news on all the FakeNewsMSM.
We all knew he was lying at the time...
The Daily Caller needs a proofreader. Do they mean FILED or FAILED? If it’s FILED, the entire article is meaningless. I can’t believe they misspelled the most important word in their report
“Ohr met in late September 2016 or early the next month with Page, FBI counterintelligence deputy chief Peter Strzok, and Justice Department officials ... Andrew Weissmann.”
This whole charade has shown the Dept. of Injustice and FIB to be crookeder than a barrel of fish hooks. Out of all of these sleazeoids, however, Weissmann could well be the sleaziest.
FYI
When I first heard about that so called dossier was that the claims in it were so absurd that it was a satirical piece intended to be sent to some UK paper like the Guardian.
Weismann specializes in withholding esculpatory evidence, and using tainted evidence. These are process crimes by FBI, DOJ.
This is so sick. I hate government.
Schiffty doesn’t care. If teh facts contradict teh narrative, then the facts lie.
Muddied waters. Nobody cares.
It’s all in the text messages that anybody can look at that Mueller has. Oh wait...
Boy, did he look like a Sad Sack slinking off The Bus To Nowhere this afternoon... ;-)
Shifty was in the passenger list for Nancy’s junket to the middle east. That trip looked to me like an attempt to undermine Trump and undo all of his work over there. I pray that he continues to prevent the trip for whatever reason he can scare up.
It’s indefensible.
PM, PR - whatever.
Traitors should be hanged on the WDC mall...and left there for animals to pick at their bones. That might make potential traitors think twice.
-PJ
This testimony also damns House Democrats who heard this testimony and still went out in public denying the scandal and accusing Republicans of lying about it.
Bump
Schiff is an a hole,time to expose all of these scumbags
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