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THREAD Read @jsolomonReports piece @thehill below: it details Bruce Ohr's contact with Steele and also Ohr relaying inform to FBI and DOJ on July 31, 2016. This detail (if accurate) is HUGE for three reasons, which I explained @FDRLST. First, I have long thought that Ohr 1/
2/ relayed his July 30 meeting to the FBI and DOJ. BUT Rosenstein claims he had no knowledge of Ohr's involvement. But did Yates? I explain these points @FDRLST thefederalist.com/2018/08/15/bru… Beyond this, though, as Solomon notes the FISA application didn't mention concerns over
3/ Steele's bias or that Clinton paid for dossier. That's a problem. But there's a bigger problem: The dossier said that the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane because of Papadopoulos. I've explained that that reason was pretextual and believed it was Steele and the dossier.
4/ and hammered the July 30, 2016 meeting between Steele and Ohr as link. Remember at that time Steele had already completed several memos in the dossier, including 2 written in July that purported to connect Trump campaign to the Wikileaks hack of the DNC. But until Solomon's
5/ piece today we didn't have anything showing Ohr passed on info from that meeting to FBI/DOJ. I thought that was case and if so, that destroys the FISA application's assertion that they launched investigation b/c of Papadopoulos. I laid it out @FDRLST thefederalist.com/2018/08/14/new…
6/ (please read that piece in #5 I just linked--it is THAT important to understanding the thread). And also remember that FBI has claimed it didn't receive the dossier until much later. Hopefully, in questioning Ohr, they asked whether he passed on the memos or content of memos
7/ and to whom. Solomon's reporting indicates Ohr did--and if so we now have another two lies sewn up: (1) the impetus for launching Crossfire Hurricane; and (2) when FBI got the dossier. And remember the first lie made it into the FISA application. END
