intelligence officials vehemently deny this, and maintain it was an inside “leak,” not a hack. (The official line is Russians hacked the DNC computers and gave the emails to WikiLeaks. We also learned the press played favorites with Clinton, getting her approval before running stories and forwarding debate questions to Clinton in advance. When thousands of DNC emails were leaked to the public through Julian Assange’s organization WikiLeaks, we learned that Hillary Clinton had abused the primary process, nearly bankrupted the DNC and effectively stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders. The FISA court was never told any of that. He was demoted for failing to disclose not only his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS, but also his own meetings with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. Bruce Ohr is alleged to have passed his wife’s anti-Trump research to the FBI. In another incredible coincidence, Fusion GPS had hired scholar and professor Nellie Ohr as a “paid Russian expert.” Nellie Ohr happens to be married to Bruce Ohr, deputy attorney general in the Justice Department. In other words, the FBI used oppo research paid for by the Democrats as justification for government spying on a political opponent and other Americans.īut there’s more. The allegations were scandalous and completely unverified, in violation of federal statutes and FISA court rules. Steele was hired during the 2016 presidential campaign by opposition research firm Fusion GPS, who was paid by Hillary Clinton’s law firm Perkins Coie, who was paid by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. This dossier was provided to the FBI by British spy Christopher Steele. Obtained by Judicial Watch, the 400-plus pages of (heavily redacted) documents support the conclusions earlier drawn by the House Intelligence Committee (and denounced by Democrats as hysteria): the FISA warrants were obtained through obfuscation and deceit.Īs various commentators predicted would be proven, the bulk of the information that formed the basis for the FISA warrant applications was the “dossier” of allegations about Donald Trump’s activities in Russia. Last week saw the release of the applications used to obtain warrants from the FISA court to spy on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump presidential campaign. Our media’s valiant efforts to distract us notwithstanding, information continues to seep out that underscores how badly a housecleaning is needed in Washington, D.C.