NEW: The Justice Department has just released the next batch of Mueller documents to @BuzzFeedNews & @JasonLeopold. I’ll be using this thread to highlight our findings.
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@BuzzFeedNews @JasonLeopold On June 7, 2017 — just less than a month after his firing — former FBI Director James Comey got a visit from FBI agents at his home. During an interview, Comey provided the agents four memos he had written about his interactions with the president.
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While at his house, the FBI agents also provided Comey some memos for his review. He said two were missing. Also: "Comey observed that the second page of the memo dated March 30, 2017, had the incorrect banner line classification of SECRET//NOFORN rather than UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO"
Also included in this batch were the 302s (interview summaries) for Bruce Ohr. They’ve been previously released under FOIA, but I’ll still tweet some interesting elements.
The documents show the extent of the relationship between Ohr and Christopher Steele, the Trump dossier author.
“OHR believes Russian oligarchs will provide information to the FBI because in Russia everyone talks to the police. Following the 2014 Ukrainian invasion OHR met [redacted]...
“...OHR recalled the three talked about engaging with prospective oligarchs, and that meeting led to a meeting between the FBI, [redacted]”
In his Nov. 22, 2016, interview with the FBI, Ohr tells them he had breakfast with someone who appears to be Steele in July 2016. “The FSB had Trump over a barrel,” it appears Steele told Ohr, but it’s hard to fully understand what’s being said due to redactions.
Ohr also recounts a breakfast he had in Dec. 2016 with Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS. It appears Simpson told Ohr that Alexander Torshin "may have funneled Russian money to the National Rifle Association (NRA) to use in support of Trump.”
"An NRA lawyer, [redacted] found out about the money pipeli ne a nd was very upset, but the election was over by the time she learned of it."
Ohr appears to have been telling the FBI every time he heard from Steele. It’s unclear if Steele knew that. It seems Steele felt Ohr was his link to the DOJ, though.
Steele contacted Ohr after Sally Yates was fired in Jan. 2017, asking if Ohr would be fired too "and, if so, who in the Department of Justice could he continue to reach out to."
"Interviewing agents asked OHR to ask Steele if he would be comfortable getting the name of an FBI agent."
In May 2017, Ohr said Steele told him he had been contacted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which wanted information about the scope of Steele's investigation and contacts with the USG.
“Steele mentioned that [the committee] was considering sending staffers to the UK.”
“Steele mentioned that [the committee] was considering sending staffers to the UK.”
Some background on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s efforts to have Steele speak with them: buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…
Our main post has been fleshed out with a whole bunch of details from these new docs. Check it out: buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
