Republicans may 'compel' testimony from Fusion GPS researcher Nellie Ohr, ex-FBI official James Baker

Could they have something to hide??

Republicans may 'compel' testimony from Fusion GPS researcher Nellie Ohr, ex-FBI official James Baker

Nellie Ohr, who worked as a contractor for the firm behind the anti-Trump dossier and whose Justice Department husband became a backchannel for passing along that information, has refused multiple requests to appear voluntarily before House committees, Fox News has learned.

Former FBI general counsel James Baker also has refused similar requests.

The House judiciary and oversight committees have spoken to numerous other witnesses, including Nellie’s husband Bruce Ohr, as part of their joint investigation into actions taken by DOJ during the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations. Bruce Ohr testified in late August about his relationship with former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele.

But with the committee unable to secure a commitment to appear from Nellie Ohr or Baker, a Republican House Judiciary Committee aide indicated subpoenas are an option.

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James Baker, as former FBI general counsel, also is a focus of the Republican investigation into alleged FISA abuse, and congressional sources believe Baker can explain why information about Steele’s bias, among other issues, was withheld from the national security court.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/20/republicans-may-compel-testim...

So Mrs Ohr doesn’t WANT to talk? That’s too bad. As for Mr Baker, he knows exactly how much trouble they’re in. If I were him I’d maybe start taking night classes. He may not have that license to practice law for much longer. THIS is why Pelosi, Schumer, Warner, and Schiffty don’t want those FISA documents released.
This is like a soap opera. An expensive, overdrawn, ridiculous, taxpayer-funded farce.

But maybe we’ll find out why old Nellie got that HAM radio license? Because that’s just bizarre.

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If so, Nellie better start rethinking her game.

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An option? Well okay then. Take your time and think whether you actually want to find out what happened and put a stop to this farce. Seriously? The key players for getting the information between Fusion GPS and the FBI are married and yet they are only thinking about getting subpoenas? OTH I heard that Baker was testifying about what the FBI and others did or didn't do?

I don't understand the ham radio license? I've seen this mentioned elsewhere.

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An overlooked method of communication.
The internet is so pass'e.
Big brother forgets or intentionally ignores old pastimes. Actually, I'm sure that morse code would confuse many in our current government. Nobody talks like that anymore.
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What Was Happening When Nellie Ohr Got Her License

On May 23, 2016, she received a technician-level amateur radio license. The timing is significant. The presidential campaign was underway and she and her employer, Fusion GPS, were digging for dirt in Russia to use against Trump. Given her cybersecurity knowledge, was Nellie Ohr hoping to use non-cyber short wave communications to hide her participation in that nefarious effort from the NSA?

Recall that, in early 2016, NSA head Admiral Mike Rogers became aware of “ongoing” and “intentional” violations and abuse of FISA surveillance, which he subsequently exposed in testimony before Congress. Thereafter, pressure mounted within the Obama administration to fire him.

The week after the presidential election, when he was facing removal from his post, Rogers visited the president-elect at Trump Tower. On November 19, 2016, Reuters reported that Rogers’ decision “to travel to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday without notifying superiors caused consternation at senior levels of the [Obama] administration

The day following Rogers’ visit, the president-elect’s transition team vacated Trump Tower and moved its operations to New Jersey. Was this because Rogers had warned Trump that he and his transition team were being subjected to illegal government surveillance? While that is unknown, it is clear that Rogers was not and had never been an Obama team player, such that he and his agency posed a potential threat to Fusion GPS’s operation as well as the anti-Trump elements at the FBI and DOJ.

So, was Nellie Ohr’s late-in-life foray into ham radio an effort to evade the Rogers-led NSA detecting her participation in compiling the Russian-sourced Steele dossier? Just as her husband’s omissions on his DOJ ethics forms raise an inference of improper motive, any competent prosecutor could use the circumstantial evidence of her taking up ham radio while digging for dirt on Trump to prove her consciousness of guilt and intention to conceal illegal activities.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/02/fusion-gpss-anti-trump-researcher-av...

EDIT: deleted a paragraph

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This makes sense now. Linda posted an article yesterday about Rogers finding out that the FBI gave private companies access to the FISA system. I guess that's okay after the NSA gave them access to our information. The constitution has become null and void hasn't it? Private companies getting to do whatever the Hell they want regardless that it's illegal. Then there's Facebook wanting access to our bank information. Just why the holy hell do they need that?

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I thought I had seen a Q drop saying something about that.

>>>/patriotsfight/267

>>221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOwr9PX05p4
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>>221
Panic in DC.
James Baker testifying against Comey?
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13:35 (transcript)
Joe DiGenova
"As I've been saying for two years, there's been a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton in the email case and then if she had lost, to frame Donald Trump. And that is exactly what these texts are about. Whether or not Mr. Strzok and Lisa Page and others are indicted is certainly a question people can debate, but let me just say I know there is a grand jury underway, testimony is being taken about Strzok, Page, McCabe and others involved in this case and the reason we know it is that James Baker, the former general counsel of the FBI, as turned State's evidence is fully cooperating with the Inspector General and with the Federal Grand Jury. I can assure you, Mr. Comey has been very silent in recent weeks and the reason is very simple: he knows he's going to be indicted."

Good grief. I'm watching Fox ..... but I agree with Graham. A real special counsel needs to address what went on during the investigation into Trump's campaign. Rosenstein knows that and yet he isn't coming forward and calling for one. Could it be because he knows that he would be caught up in it? Not reading the information that they used to get FISA warrants. If people don't get charged for any of that then we really are a banana republic. Or more of one.

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Or did it happen at breakfast or dinner or somewhere else?

It's not power corrupts absolutely.

It's corruption is absolutely corrupt.

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