Some things just don’t add up.
It is well known that the largely discredited Steele dossier was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee. We know that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr was funneling information from his wife- who was working for Fusion- to the FBI. Ohr failed to disclose his wife’s involvement and compensation and was demoted.
Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice official who brought opposition research on President Donald Trump to the FBI, did not disclose that Fusion GPS, which performed that research at the Democratic National Committee’s behest, was paying his wife, and did not obtain a conflict of interest waiver from his superiors at the Justice Department, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his post as associate deputy attorney general after the relationship between Fusion GPS and his wife emerged and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting with Ohr. Willfully falsifying government ethics forms can carry a penalty of jail time, if convicted.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) hired Fusion GPS to gather and disseminate damning info about Trump, and they in turn paid Nellie Ohr, a former CIA employee with expertise in Russia, for an unknown role related to the “dossier.” Bruce Ohr then brought the information to the FBI, kicking off a probe and a media firestorm.
Tonight we learn that both Steele and Fusion GPS are even more deeply linked to the Obama administration. In 2012 the Obama campaign employed Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Mitt Romney:
The Barack Obama presidential campaign hired Fusion GPS in 2012 to dig up dirt on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to a book released on Tuesday.
The Obama campaign hid its payments to Fusion GPS through its law firm, Perkins Coie. The arrangement is similar to the one that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee used to pay Fusion for its investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016.
That contract led to the creation of the infamous Steele dossier, which was written by former British spy Christopher Steele.
“In 2012, Fusion GPS was hired to do opposition research on Mitt Romney for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign,” reads “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and Donald Trump’s Election.”
The book is written by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, two veteran reporters who met during the 2016 campaign with Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.
We also learned that it was an Obama State Department official who initiated the Christopher Steele-FBI alliance:
A senior Barack Obama State Department official gave the green light to an FBI agent in 2016 to meet with dossier writer Christopher Steele, a meeting that touched off a relationship that would fuel the ongoing investigation into possible Donald Trump-Russia election collusion.
And, the sensational Steele allegation that led to an FBI wiretap on Trump volunteer Carter Page came from “pillow talk” with the lover of a Kremlin official, a new book says.
The disclosure that Victoria Nuland started the process is contained in “Russian Roulette,” a book released Tuesday by Yahoo News report Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine’s David Corn.
Two committees, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee, are investigating how Obama officials promoted Mr. Steele’s 35-page dossier. It makes a series of criminal charges against President Trump and his associates, contending there was an “extensive conspiracy” between them and the Kremlin. This supposed collusion has not been substantiated publicly. House intelligence committee Republicans on Monday said their 14-month investigation found no collusion.
“Russian Roulette” shows Obama people played a deeper role in promoting the dossier to get it into the hands of law enforcement.
Mr. Steele, who was excited over his findings about Mr. Trump supposed dalliance with Russian prostitutes and purported collusion with the Kremlin, pressed his handler, Glenn Simpson, of Fusion GPS, to let him go to the FBI.
This puts Barack Obama and his regime right in the middle of the anti-Trump conspiracy. Obama had experience with Fusion GPS, known for smearing the opponents of its clients. Now we know how the Clinton campaign came to know Fusion. The Obama campaign and the Clinton campaign utilized the same law firm- Perkins Coie. When Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie for funding the dossier he was approaching a former client.
In a February interview with CBS, Nuland had this to say:
Former State Department official Victoria Nuland told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was brought to the State Department’s attention in July of 2016, which then shared the information with the FBI. Nuland’s new details concerning the dossier comes on the heels of the release of a newly declassified memo crafted by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Rep Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, and two staff investigators.
“He [Steele] passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding, and our immediate reaction to that was, ‘This is not in our purview,'” said Nuland, who served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs during the Obama administration. “‘This needs to go to the FBI, if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian federation. That’s something for the FBI to investigate.'”
She added, “our reaction when we saw this [was,] it’s not our — we can’t evaluate this. And frankly, if every member of the campaign who the Russians tried to approach and tried to influence had gone to the FBI as well in real time, we might not be in the mess we’re in today.”
She failed to mention that she was one who contacted the FBI.
But what’s interesting is that in July 2016 Steele was already in the employ of Fusion GPS and by default, the Clinton campaign and the NC. So when Nuland says that the Steele dossier was brought to the attention of the State Department, it was brought by Fusion GPS under the aegis of the Clinton campaign- who was paying for the dossier. This seems to have happened very quickly as Steele wrote his first memo on June 20, 2016.
The FBI Russian investigation began in July 2016. Agent in charge? Peter Strzok.
The Clinton campaign wanted the dirt spread by the press in time for the election:
As the election approached, the Clinton campaign, through Fusion GPS, directed Steele to give the dossier information to a few journalists. At the “end of September,” and again in October, according to British court papers, Steele personally briefed reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, the New Yorker, and Yahoo.
Including one Jane Mayer.
The dossier’s author, former British spy Christopher Steele, bragged to Mother Jones magazine in October 2016 that he successfully urged the FBI to begin investigating the Trump team based on his memos. Republicans have ridiculed the bureau for trusting a paid agent of the Clinton campaign.
In contacting the press, Steele committed a crime:
Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations–an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, 2016 Mother Jones article by David Corn. Steele should have been terminated for his previous undisclosed contacts with Yahoo and other outlets in September–before the Page application was submitted to the FISC in October–but Steele improperly concealed from and lied to the FBI about those contacts.
Comey was curiously uninterested in pursing that crime.
It’d be really fun to know which FBI agent took the information from Nuland. It was speculated that Comey conveniently put Wayne McCabe in charge of the Russia investigation. As you will recall, the Clinton campaign had already invested in McCabe some time earlier.
Just prior to that PAC money went into Jill McCabe’s campaign, Hillary Clinton did a campaign fundraiser event for the very PAC (Common Good VA) that would soon shovel that money into the campaign of the wife of the FBI agent was promoted as the Clinton investigation began and who within a month would be put in charge of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
None of this says Russia favored Trump. So we’re left with this question:
If Russia wanted Trump to win, why did they feed Steele prurient information on Trump, knowing he would relay it to Fusion, Hillary and the US news media?
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Except for liberals being foolish.
In 2015, just as he began his run for office, the liberal, progressive magazine, Mother Jones, tried to show how odd Donald Trump was/is:
Donald Trump Is a Germaphobe
In that article it says:
In addition to making Trump seem a bit weird, Mother Jones also destroyed the Steele Dossier which claimed he just loved having loose women urinate on him.
By the time I met Donald Trump on his campaign stop in Salt Lake City, he was shaking hands with those in the front of the crowd, all veterans plus active duty people.
But early in his campaign stops he worried his fear of germs might hold him back so he was fighting it.
Most normal folks can figure out the right answer to that one which is why the left will never get the right answer.
To put a finer point on it, the Obama administration successfully (till now) buried their payments for their clandestine dirt digging so they passed their little secret along to the Hillary campaign. Had Hillary won, their secret would still be secure.
It’s a liberal mainstay.
The statute of limitations have run out on some of the instances of perjury committed by the Obama administration. What is the statute of limitation on sedition?
I’ve always wondered why the Russians would want President Trump to win.
After all, they had so much blackmail material on Hillary they could have made her dance to their tune 24-7, 365.
@Petercat: Not only was Hillary a blackmail magnet, but she demonstrated how easily she can be bought outright. I’m sure she was dreaming of the greatest payday in political history as President.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: #5
But at this point in time, hasn’t she earned enough?
@Petercat: She has earned her just reward, she just hasn’t received it yet.
The obvious is this was a set-up from the very start, colluding with foreign agents to set up the Trump team and entangle them in endless investigations and special councels. Every where you turn is a Clinton operative an Obama connection. The Manafort connected with Podestas, Carter Page connected with the deepstate, none of them charged with collusion.
I know it is hopeless to teach reading here, but the fact that an informant disclosing that relationship is a most serious violation of the FBI’s rules for informants does not imply that it is therefore a criminal act.