Thread by @themarketswork

1) Devin Nunes went on Hannity. It was a short segment.

It was also explosive. If you were paying attention.

Bruce Ohr is going to become more and more important in this investigation. I think people should pay close attention to it. – Devin Nunes
themarketswork.com/2018/08/07/nun…

2) Nunes specifically highlights several important points:

Point 1 - Declassification

The ongoing push by House Republicans to get President Trump to declassify the redacted pages of the Carter Page FISA Warrant.

3) Point 2 - Bruce Ohr's Role

Bruce Ohr’s role and the 302’s from his FBI interviews.

Nunes: “Bruce Ohr is going to become a more and more important figure in this.”

This will prove most important.

4) Point 3 - Exculpatory Evidence

Exculpatory evidence Nunes has seen - presumably on Carter Page - that should have been presented to the FISA Court and was not.

5) Point 4 - No Five Eyes Intelligence/Alexander Downer

Remember: There was no Official Intelligence used in opening the FBI's Counterintelligence Investigation.

6) Point 5 - The media’s role in 2016.

Nunes: “The media in 2016 had all this information too. So they know that this information was being generated by the Clinton campaign.”

7) For this thread we will stay focused on Bruce Ohr and touch on Page.

The article contains details on the other points.
themarketswork.com/2018/08/07/nun…

8) On March 18, 2018, we reported on a letter Grassley sent to the Inspector General.
themarketswork.com/2018/03/18/gra…

9) The letter to IG Horowitz was attached to a request for a second Special Counsel that Grassley sent to AG Sessions.

Also included was a less-declassified version of the Grassley Memo.

10) Grassley’s letter to IG Horowitz requested a “comprehensive review of potential improper political influence, misconduct, or mismanagement in the conduct of the counterintelligence and criminal investigation” into Russia and Trump.

Grassley's IG letter was sent on 2-28-18

11) Grassley identified six sets of documents being sent to IG Horowitz as attachments. Among them was this:

12) Grassley also sent a classified memo:

"Additional relevant documents to which the Committee was provided access to review cannot be identified in this unclassified letter. Thus, those documents are detailed more fully in the attached classified memorandum."

13) Grassley also posed a series of 31 questions for Inspector General Horowitz to pursue.

For more on Grassley’s questions:
themarketswork.com/2018/03/18/gra…

14) Footnote 5 of Grassley’s letter showed that Ohr was extensively interviewed by the FBI – indicating significant ongoing contact with Steele.

Here are Ohr’s form 302 dates along with actual interview dates from footnotes contained in Grassley’s letter:

15) Note the difference between actual interview date and 302 date.

It was previously known that Bruce Ohr had multiple contacts with Steele in 2016.

Not known (until Grassley’s letter) was this contact continued into 2017 – potentially well into May.

16) Here’s a listing of events immediately before and after the initial December 19, 2016 documentation of Ohr’s interview. Full timeline in link.
themarketswork.com/2018/06/01/a-p…

17) Interesting is the proximity to Obama’s Data-Sharing Order.

Clapper signed off on 12-15-16. Lynch finalized on 1-3-17.

This order appears to have been delayed. It had been expected mid-year 2016
themarketswork.com/2017/12/17/the…

18) Prior to formal signing of Section 2.3, it appears that greater latitude existed in regards to collection of information.

Once signed into effect, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency SHARING of information.

19) Also of note is proximity to timing of Steele & Fusion beginning their post-election work with Daniel Jones and Penn Quarter Group.

This importance of this needs to be emphasized.
thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/is-…

20) The potential declassification of Ohr’s interviews might prove the final key to what transpired.

The interviews run from late November 2016 to mid-May 2017.

Steele and Fusion GPS were apparently working with the Penn Quarter Group during this time.

After the 2016 election.

21) Imagine what information and details those interviews with Bruce Ohr might contain.

22) Point 3: Exculpatory Evidence - probably on Carter Page

NUNES: In that the Carter Page FISA – the judges should have been presented with this exculpatory evidence that the FBI and DOJ had.

23) There’s always been a problem with calling Page an Agent of a Foreign Power.

The FISA Application references an FBI Interview with Page.

To my knowledge, Page was never interviewed by the FBI regarding his status as a spy.

24) Page did have a March 2016 meeting with the U.S. Attorney’s Office regarding the Evgeny Buryakov case which began in 2012.

Page also spoke with someone from the FBI regarding that case at this time.

This was the last time Page would speak with the FBI.

25) Page was providing testimony against Podobnyy in the Buryakov case.

Page assisted the FBI in their case against Buryakov.

I suspect the exculpatory evidence may be related to these events.

26) Nunes:

"You had DOJ, FBI...meeting regularly with Steele."

"You had Bruce Ohr, the #4 at the Department of Justice – who I think is going to become a more and more important figure in this – a lot of the investigators and reporters should be looking closer at Bruce Ohr."

27) Hannity would prove more helpful if he would just SHUT UP.

He continually interrupts – generally at crucial points and with information that is often unimportant.

Nunes was forced to talk quickly towards the end.

Imagine what might have been said w/Bartiromo.
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