The Bruce Ohr Transcript

Thanks so much, Daughn!

Some of my ruminations on the transcript.
The Freedom Caucus really led the way with the questioning. There are a lot questions from Meadows, Jordan and Ratcliffe, along with Gowdy starting things off and some Issa near the close. Gaetz was identified as attending in the beginning of the transcript but I didn’t see a question from him to Ohr. Also Goodlatte was not present or at least never offer a question.
Dem members were not in attendance but represented by staff lawyers. Seems strange since they have to have some lawyers by training but maybe it’s an optics thing similar to the Senate Judiciary Republicans handing off to the female attorney during the Kavanaugh hearing.
Republicans while questioning Ohr kept coming back to why did Steele even need Ohr to get info to FBI when he was formerly a source for them. During minority questioning it was revealed that there have been times when FBI breaks ties with a source only to later return to using the same source in some circumstances. So Bruce Ohr, a Justice Dept official not at FBI, wasn’t needed neccessarily for Steele to reconnect to FBI as a source. So why did it happen?
Bruce Ohr explained that he has been in the Organized Crime divisions of law enforcement for a long time and had developed relations with people like Steele (and others) from other countries’ security apparatus and had a long standing practice that if he would receive information (verbal usually) from them regarding law enforcement matters he would pass it along to the FBI at the agent level to look at it and decide if it merited attention. He seemed to stick to this habit in a strange kind of without-question manner even when it involved Steele after his formal break as a source for the FBI (although he was sketchy about when he learned of this), or when his wife(!) handed him a USB stick to pass along to the FBI (?!!), or even after Steele had been more explicit with him about being desperate to keep Trump out of the White House, or even during the episode where Glenn Simpson meets with him and hands him a USB stick and Ohr assumed it was some form of the Dossier (??!?!?!!?!!!!).

Tracy Beanz has some very interesting findings in the Ohr transcript…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dn_6rY55HU

Bruce Ohr & Nellie Ohr: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
https://heavy.com/news/2017/12/bruce-ohr-dossier-fusion-gps-trump-demoted/

Nellie Hauke Ohr
Ohr was the third contributor to the dossier. She earned a degree in history and Russian literature from Harvard-Radcliff 1982–1983 and MA and PhD in history from Stanford 1986-1990.
She spent some time in Russia during the 1990s and according to at least one source, had powerful political connections there. In her book Adventures in Russian Historical Research, Cathy Frierson writes: “Nellie encouraged me to call the Smolensk archive [the home of Russia’s historical state secrets] director, assuring me that he would welcome me.”
My initial impression reading the dossier was that the writing was sloppy and that it did not resemble an intelligence report. It exhibited multiple writing styles and writers, both English and non-English speakers, and it was assembled in haste. I also thought that in many ways, it paralleled the plot line of the Dreyfus Affair. As in the case of the “dossier” and the Bordereau from the Dreyfus case, the Trump dossier was presented as undeniable proof of collusion. Yet, it’s uncertain who composed it, how it was collected, or even if the document is genuine.
Just like its nineteen century French predecessor, the Trump dossier too had a powerful social and political impact in the US. Its content has dominated the news and has raised substantial questions about the rule of law, the political impartiality of senior federal career bureaucrats, and the true extent of the separation of powers in government.
Considering all of the dossier’s unusual aspects, I decided to take a little time and do a deeper dive into its structure and content. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how by using readily available OSINT tools and techniques, video analytics, and writing style analysis, we can pinpoint the likely sources, methods, and the individuals involved in the creation and distribution of this document.
I would like to apologize for the lengthy and somewhat overwhelming amount of detail in this write-up. Contrary to common belief, the truth is rarely concise, pure, and never simple. As Proverbs 1:2-7 implies, the acquisition of knowledge and understanding does require an investment of time and effort. in the spirit of full disclosure, I was not paid to produce this research and I am not affiliated with democratic or republican circles. My objective in writing this posting was to provide the layman reader not otherwise versed in intelligence gathering and analysis techniques with basic facts and insight so that they can form their own educated opinions on the matter.
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Posted on March 17, 2018 By Yaacov Apelbaum
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