[Spectator] Nellie Ohr: Woman in the Middle. It might be easier to refer to her as....'the dealer.'
Gotta hand it to Special Counsel Robert Mueller: He knows how to set off a stick of dynamite. I refer, of course, to his office’s recent indictment of thirteen Russians in Russia, which we are now to chase after, yelling “Pearl Harbor!” on the Left and “No collusion!” on the Right, forgetting all about the coalescing revelations of corruption and conspiracy and, yes, Russian influence, to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016, and, failing that, to destroy the Trump presidency.
The key is still in the “dossier” spying scandal.
Nellie Ohr is the “dossier” spying scandal’s woman in the middle.
To one side of Ohr, there is the Fusion GPS team, including fellow contractor Christopher Steele. To the other, there is husband Bruce Ohr, who, until his “dossier”-related demotion, was No. 4 man at the Department of Justice, and a key contact there for Steele.
As central as Nellie Ohr’s placement is, her role in the creation of the “dossier” remains undefined. For example, the House Intelligence Committee memo on related matters vaguely tells us that Nellie Ohr was “employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump”; the memo adds that Bruce Ohr “later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research.” Senator Lindsey Graham more sensationally told Fox News that Nellie Ohr “did the research for Mr. Steele,” but details remain scarce.
Still, relevant facts have emerged. These include Nellie Ohr’s study in the USSR in 1989; her fluency in Russian and Ph.D. in Russian history in 1990; a 2010 CIA affiliation, which practically makes her former MI6 agent Steele’s “opposite number”; and the extremely curious detail, harkening back to earlier eras of spycraft, that on May 23, 2016, around the time she came on board Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr applied for a ham radio operator’s license.
Notably, the “dossier” men in her life have tried to shield Ohr from public scrutiny, even at professional risk. Her husband, as the Daily Caller News Foundation reports, failed to disclose his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS and seek the appropriate conflict-of-interest waiver, which may have been an important factor in his demotion from associate deputy attorney general late last year.
Under Senate and House questioning, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson consistently failed to disclose Nellie Ohr’s existence as one of his firm’s paid Russian experts, let alone that he hired her for the red-hot DNC/Clinton campaign Trump-Russia project.
Even Christopher Steele may have tried to keep Nellie Ohr “under cover.” Steele, put forth as the “dossier” author ever since its January 2017 publication in BuzzFeed, does not appear to have let on to his many media and political contacts that he had “dossier”-assistance from at least two fellow Fusion GPS Russian experts, Nellie Ohr and Edward Baumgartner. Baumgartner, interestingly, was a Russian history major at Vassar in the 1990s when Nellie Ohr taught Russian history there.
Thus, Nellie Ohr’s exact activities inside one of the great Russian-American disinformation campaigns of all time remain opaque. What most observers don’t realize, though, is that we already have a window onto her thinking through her strongly-etched, ideological view of Soviet history.
This is in contrast to what we know of Steele, aside from his widely reported anti-Trump animus. We may read that Steele was widely known as a “confirmed socialist” while president of the Cambridge Union debating society in 1986; we may see, thirty blank years later, that he chose to break the sensational outlines of his relationship with the FBI and role in its investigation of the Trump campaign in Mother Jones, a media outlet named for a famous American socialist; but Nellie Ohr has a paper trail. Emphasis added.
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"Stalin would have been OK with better messaging"
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Thus, Nellie Ohr’s exact activities inside one of the great Russian-American disinformation campaigns of all time remain opaque. What most observers don’t realize, though, is that we already have a window onto her thinking through her strongly-etched, ideological view of Soviet history.
Gaining the trust and cooperation of select target nation personnel through (paid interviews) the writing and publishing of pro-Stalinist/pro-Putin propaganda is an effective recruitment technique. Nothing "opaque" about it.
She was obviously working for one or more intelligence agencies. You may decide which ones.
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My guess, and only a guess.... is she was part of a long-standing penetration and recruitment campaign that conveniently morphed into a 'cover for action' for political scandal and misdeeds (Trump Russian collusion).
Sources and methods cannot be revealed you know.... sources and methods.
I still await the news of a fatal lorry-Rover crash in the North of Scotland.
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yes Tail Gunner Joe was right. We are and have been up to our eyeballs in communist operatives in the media, entertainment, law enforcement, CIA, NSA, you name it.
we came pretty close to it when they elected Zero, I am convinced he was the Manchurian Candidate groomed for years by communists to unwind our country. And he had a lot of help from people every where. How else could he get away with sealing his transcripts and birth records, how else could an unknown, back bench State senator get elected to the Senate and then with little or no record, run for President and get elected. With drug abuse, criminal associations, and millions in campaign contributions from foreign entities???
Nellie Ohr is the tip of the iceberg.
At some levels, the Trump Collusion thing may be the biggest SQUIRREL in history to divert attention from the massive takeover of our government by foreign operatives.
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.....how else could an unknown, back bench State senator get elected to the Senate and then with little or no record, run for President and get elected. With drug abuse, criminal associations, and millions in campaign contributions from foreign entities???
I believe you've asked a question we already have the answer to. The Hildebeest was clearly the planned follow-on. I'd love to see Brennan, Soetoro, and Clinton 'on the box' in front of Israeli polygraphers.
So Zero and Shillary, the odious, loathsome, well connected sadistic sociopath, were the end result of a long running operation dating back to the Soviet Union?
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I don't know SPOD, but a man named Bill Harvey from the FBI was detailed to the CIA in 1951 to run Operation Gold (named Stopwatch by the Poms). These foks have been listening to one another, spying, and telling bullshi* stories for a very long time. Writer Rufina Pukhova was Kim Philby's fourth wife. Nellie and her could have been great friends.
Operation Gold (also known as Operation Stopwatch by the British) was a joint operation conducted by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1950s to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin using a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone. This was a much more complex variation of the earlier Operation Silver project in Vienna. Soviet authorities were informed about Operation Gold from the very beginning by their mole George Blake and "discovered" the tunnel in 1956.
Details of the project are still classified—especially by the British—and whatever authoritative information can be found is scant. This is primarily because the then-Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Allen Dulles ordered "as little as possible" be "reduced to writing" when the project was authorized.
[Daily Caller] New York’s attorney general oversaw and facilitated secret surveillance on pro-life counselors outside an abortion clinic as well as the creation of a fake identity in an attempt to win an ongoing case, according to a witness’s testimony. Wonder how he figured he'd ever get away with that ?
Testimony in People v. Griepp et al ‐ New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman against pro-life advocates counseling women outside of Choices Women’s Medical Center in Jamaica-Queens, N.Y. ‐ illustrated Schneiderman used a witness to spy on pro-lifers via creating a fake Facebook account to access their information.
The witness testified she had used someone else’s photo, listed her occupation as a bank teller, created a fake residency ‐ even posting about the weather there to gain credibility ‐ and went under the guise of "Shelly Walker." The witness also allegedly accessed hundreds of pro-life activists’ personal information around the country ‐ she gave the data to Schneiderman’s office, according to The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC).
"I’m appalled at the Attorney General’s lack of respect for the First Amendment and his offices’ encouragement and use of fraudulent means to obtain information so that he can persecute peaceful pro-life citizens who have become the voice of the voiceless," TMLC president Richard Thompson said. "He [Schneiderman] has forsaken his responsibilities as an independent law-enforcement officer and is now acting as an agent of the abortion industry," Thompson added.
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Higher office is inevitable following the precedent set by the 'most honourable' Alcee Hastings...
Ain't it great to have a (D) following your name? (/s)
[NYTimes] Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri was indicted on a felony invasion of privacy charge on Thursday by grand jurors in St. Louis.
Mr. Greitens, a first-term Republican, photographed a nude or partially nude person without the person’s knowledge or consent in 2015 Switched party in 2015 from the Dems. Doubt the MSM will talk much of that historical bit.
according to charging documents released by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office. The indictment said Mr. Greitens then transmitted the photo in a way that allowed it to be seen on a computer, which prosecutors said made the crime a felony rather than a misdemeanor.
The indictment comes weeks after Mr. Greitens acknowledged having an extramarital affair in 2015, before he took office, but denied claims that he blackmailed a woman or took a nude photo of her without permission. Mr. Greitens has resisted calls to resign, insisting that he had done nothing illegal and had recently toured the state touting his tax cut plans.
A spokesman for Mr. Greitens, Parker Briden, did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment on the indictment. City officials said that the governor was booked into the city jail on Thursday, and was released on his own recognizance. Mr. Greitens is permitted to travel throughout the United States as a provision of his release, court records show. He is scheduled to appear in court on March 16.
Kimberly M. Gardner, the St. Louis prosecutor, said the statute of limitations for charges to be filed would have expired next month. Continues.
[AA.TR] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... threatened to remove federal immigration and customs agents from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Thursday over the state's refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement efforts.
"Frankly, if I wanted to pull our people from California, you would have a crime mess like you've never seen in California. All I'd have to do is to say 'ICE and Border Patrol, let California alone," Trump said during a meeting on school safety, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"It's a disgrace, the sanctuary city situation, the protection of these horrible criminals... that if we ever pulled our ICE out, if we ever said 'hey, let California alone, let them figure it out for themselves,' in two months they'd be begging for us to come back, they would be begging. And you know what? I'm thinking about doing it," he added.
California has refused to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown, making it the largest locality to do so.
It is unclear whether Trump's diatribe is rooted in reality or if he is just exaggerating. California is a major border state, abutting Mexico and much of the U.S. West Coast, casting doubt on the feasibility of Trump following through on his threat.
Later Thursday, the White House said "sanctuary cities", or localities that do not cooperate with federal law enforcement efforts, are a public safety threat that encourage further illegal immigration.
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Move them to Arizona and Nevada to patrol the California border instead. If California wants illegals that bad, make them keep them all in their state.
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Instead of abandoning those people in CA who would prefer not to live in a $h1thole, I would prefer jugging the asses who break the law of the land by encouraging illegal immigration.
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Enforce the law, especially in California. Abandoning the Americans here is unconscionable. I cannot believe that the reaction of my government to seditious behavior by public officials is tacit acceptance. Enforce the law and charge those who undermine it through malfeasance in office. Start with the state Capitol and governor.
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Okay. So start rounding up local officials and LEO who will not enforce the Law.
If they are not up to the task then the FEDS cannot be there. One way or another, something must give with that idiot Governor assclown.
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Brown is on his way out - again. It's the Newsoms, Villaraigosas, Becerras, Gonzalezes, Garcettis all trying to out-left and out-pander. At this point, Chung seems to be the best possible alternative. We're fucked
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