HIGHLIGHTS:
- Manafort stole from Deripaska back in the day;
- Ohr had no chain of command of evidence when dealing with the thumbdrive;
- Ohr had no clue where the thumbdrive passed to him came from;
- Ohr did not know what was on the thumbdrives he was passing to his FBI handler;
- Andrew Weissman may be anOSC whistleblower;
- Was Steele lobbying for Deripaska?;
- Is there a second dossier?;
- Ohr used WhatsApp to chat? <===Seriously???? ;
- Ohr was the overseas face of the DOJ Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force ;
- (obviously, he did not do a very good job.)
- Daniel Jones, a former Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staffer, works for, or is the founder of a group called Penn Quarter Group that raised approximately $50 million from Democratic donors to continue the Fusion GPS investigation.
Mr. Jordan. Were you aware of the money trail, the fact that the DNC and the Clinton campaign had paid Perkins Coie, the law firm who then had paid Fusion, who were then paying Christopher Steele, were you aware of that? Mr. Ohr. I don't believe I was aware of that at the time. p185
Who is Kathleen Kavalec?
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Kathleen Ann Kavalec of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Albania.
Ms. Kavalec currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the Department of State with over three decades of experience as an American diplomat. Previously, she served as the Director of the Office of Russian Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Mission to UNESCO in Paris, France, Deputy Coordinator for Assistance in the European Bureau, and Director for Conflict Prevention in the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. Ms. Kavalec earned her A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley and M.S. from Georgetown University. She speaks French, Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
Interesting partisan line of questioning if you are trying to find out if you or your crew is part of the second dossier, but, hey, what do I know?
I know that I had better make sure I have cocktails and popcorn stocked up for everyone when they get to Detroit!
Q -- I think you said earlier that you became aware, or Mrs. Ohr became aware that her research was intended to be about Russia and, you know, about the potential ties between the campaign and Russia. Is that correct?
A Yes. At some point, yes.
Q Okay. Are you aware of any efforts by Fusion GPS to conduct sort of research about other politicians?
A No.
Q I'm -- A I mean, I know Fusion GPS did research on different topics, so I don't specifically know of research on other politicians.
Q Okay. For example, anyone who may have been in this room today --
A No. Q -- or -- okay. A Not aware of anything like that.
Q Senator Grassley?
A No, not --
Q Devin Nunes?
A No, not that I'm aware of, no.
Q Okay. Bob Goodlatte?
A No. Again, not aware of any Fusion GPS research on other Senators, Congressmen, other officials.
This morning, I requested the link https://t.co/yA4Ig4L8at be placed in the record so the American people can review the transcript of Bruce Ohr’s interview. pic.twitter.com/wz2A2h78Na— Rep. Doug Collins (@RepDougCollins) March 8, 2019
IN SURPRISE MOVE, HOUSE REPUBLICAN RELEASES BRUCE OHR TRANSCRIPT
Georgia Rep. Doug Collins unilaterally released a 268-page transcript Friday of a deposition that Justice Department official Bruce Ohr gave to Congress in August.
Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, took the unusual step by reading a statement on the House floor and providing a link to the Ohr transcript in the public record. The representative said his patience with the Justice Department “has grown thin.”
Ohr served in 2016 and 2017 as a back channel between the FBI and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the anti-Trump dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
(RELATED: Bruce Ohr’s Testimony Contradicts Glenn Simpson’s)
(RELATED: Bruce Ohr’s Testimony Contradicts Glenn Simpson’s)
Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele.
Bruce Ohr was interviewed on Aug. 28, 2018 by a task force of members from the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees.
Collins said Friday that he plans to release additional transcripts from interviews conducted by the task force. Lawmakers have also interviewed Nellie Ohr and FBI and Justice Department officials such as former FBI general counsel James Baker and former FBI attorney Lisa Page.“Out of an abundance of caution, we gave DOJ an opportunity to review them for information that would endanger national security, but after many months and little progress, our patience has grown thin,” Collins said.
“The proposed redactions have nothing to do with national security and are anathema to our goal of government transparency,” he continued, adding that “I am, therefore, today making one of these transcripts public.”
“I intend to make other transcripts public soon,” he said. “I’m willing to consider any reasonable redactions DOJ makes in a timely manner, but won’t allow these transcripts to remain shrouded in secrecy.”
Parts of Bruce Ohr’s testimony have already been leaked to the press. In the hearing, Bruce Ohr undercut several claims made by Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, and California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Bruce Ohr testified that he met with Simpson on Aug. 22, 2016 to discuss information from the dossier. That contradicted Simpson’s testimony to House Intelligence on Nov. 14, 2017 that he did not meet with Bruce Ohr until after the election.
Bruce Ohr also told lawmakers that he told the FBI about his contacts with Steele in early August 2016, days after he and Nellie Ohr met the former British spy in Washington, D.C.
Schiff claimed in a memo released on Feb. 24, 2018 that Bruce Ohr did not tell the FBI about his contacts with Steele until after the election.
Ohr testified that he generally trusted Steele, who he first met in 2007, when Steele still worked for the British government. But Ohr had less confidence in Steele’s sources, since their information originated with Russians.
“I think — my impression is that Chris Steele believed his sources,” Ohr said in one exchange.
“What I should say in addition, though, is that whenever you are dealing with information from Russia, you have to be careful, because it is a very complicated place. And so even information from a good source has to be looked at carefully.”
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