The recent DOJ Inspector General's Report reveals clearly the extent to which Bruce Ohr was willing to avoid accountability and deliberately conceal important evidence in a criminal case against a candidate toward whom both he and his informants held open contempt.
Fusion GPS hired Steele to write the document, which was then provided by Ohr to the FBI and the Operation Crossfire Hurricane team to use against Page and the POTUS. Additionally, Ohr's wife Nellie was an independent contractor for Fusion GPS, and she and its founder Glenn Simpson routinely conveyed material to her husband.
Bruce Ohr was on a mission to tarnish President Trump, was the sole unauthorized conduit of the Steele dossier, hid the degree of Steele's antipathy toward the President, and inappropriately couriered the information to numerous contacts.
As we describe in Chapter Eight, the late discovery of Ohr's meetings with the FBI prompted NSD to notify the FISC in July 2018, over a year after the final FISA renewal order was issued, of information that Ohr had provided to the FBI but that the FBI had failed to inform NSD and 01 about, including that Steele was "Desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President."
This fully affirms the much-derided Nunes memo, which also stated that "...Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information." Bruce Ohr oversaw the creation of a file, hid the intensity of its author's bias, clandestinely ushered it to any and all investigative entities that would listen, and thereby single-handedly caused a criminal investigation of a political candidate's campaign.
Scores of journalists had refused to report on Steele's dossier despite zealous efforts by Fusion GPS to circulate it: Bob Woodward dismissed it as "Garbage." Presented with the imprimatur of a Deputy Attorney General, the Steele dossier instead became pivotal in securing government surveillance.
"Steele hated Donald Trump openly and was trying to track down money from Paul Manafort for a Russian oligarch, and his work product was kid-gloved through an acting government attorney to obtain surveillance on United States political candidates. What was it again that Donald Trump was alleged to have done? In judging questionable motives, Steele points out that the most critical criteria [sic] for judging disinformation is"whether there is a palpable motive for spreading it"...." The American Left has resisted application of that criterion to Steele's earnest creation of his dossier.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/politicized_government_servants_bruce_ohr_and_the_steele_dossier.html
Fusion GPS hired Steele to write the document, which was then provided by Ohr to the FBI and the Operation Crossfire Hurricane team to use against Page and the POTUS. Additionally, Ohr's wife Nellie was an independent contractor for Fusion GPS, and she and its founder Glenn Simpson routinely conveyed material to her husband.
Bruce Ohr was on a mission to tarnish President Trump, was the sole unauthorized conduit of the Steele dossier, hid the degree of Steele's antipathy toward the President, and inappropriately couriered the information to numerous contacts.
As we describe in Chapter Eight, the late discovery of Ohr's meetings with the FBI prompted NSD to notify the FISC in July 2018, over a year after the final FISA renewal order was issued, of information that Ohr had provided to the FBI but that the FBI had failed to inform NSD and 01 about, including that Steele was "Desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President."
This fully affirms the much-derided Nunes memo, which also stated that "...Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information." Bruce Ohr oversaw the creation of a file, hid the intensity of its author's bias, clandestinely ushered it to any and all investigative entities that would listen, and thereby single-handedly caused a criminal investigation of a political candidate's campaign.
Scores of journalists had refused to report on Steele's dossier despite zealous efforts by Fusion GPS to circulate it: Bob Woodward dismissed it as "Garbage." Presented with the imprimatur of a Deputy Attorney General, the Steele dossier instead became pivotal in securing government surveillance.
"Steele hated Donald Trump openly and was trying to track down money from Paul Manafort for a Russian oligarch, and his work product was kid-gloved through an acting government attorney to obtain surveillance on United States political candidates. What was it again that Donald Trump was alleged to have done? In judging questionable motives, Steele points out that the most critical criteria [sic] for judging disinformation is"whether there is a palpable motive for spreading it"...." The American Left has resisted application of that criterion to Steele's earnest creation of his dossier.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/politicized_government_servants_bruce_ohr_and_the_steele_dossier.html
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