The media and Bruce Ohr?
Weekly Standard:
It looks like the Times is writing a misleading brief for Ohr. Could he have been one of their sources? Most of the media has been far to close to Fusion GPS's operations and defensive about its work for Clinton. It makes me suspicious of their motives.
The NYT's Strange Insistence That Bruce Ohr Is a Big NobodyWhy did he act as a back channel for Steele if he was a nobody?
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What the Times fails to mention was Ohr’s role as a go-between allowing Steele to feed his unverified reporting to the FBI long after the bureau had officially dropped Steele as a source. The dossier was a key part of the initial warrant application the FBI filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court October 21, 2016, to surveil Carter Page. In that application, Steele is touted as Mr. Credibility. But soon after that original filing, the bureau discovered Steele had been talking to the press, which they had forbidden him to do. When it came time to renew the warrant, the bureau told the FISA court it had “suspended its relationship” with Steele. When it came time to renew the warrant again, the bureau stated—and they underlined it for emphasis—that it had “ closed” Steele “ as an FBI source.”
And yet, all that time, the FBI continued to collect information from Steele—just not directly. Bruce Ohr would talk with Steele and then report back to FBI agents who wrote down Steele’s stories in official “302” memos summarizing the Ohr-Steele conversations. That’s no mean accomplishment for a little-known, mid-level worker from deep in the bureaucracy. Especially one who, according to the New York Times, “has no direct involvement in the inquiry.”
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It looks like the Times is writing a misleading brief for Ohr. Could he have been one of their sources? Most of the media has been far to close to Fusion GPS's operations and defensive about its work for Clinton. It makes me suspicious of their motives.
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