by Jack Cashill at Jack’s Substack
The Ohr Interview proves to be ‘Smoking Gun’ of the Crossfire Hurricane Documents
The media have chosen not to see the smoking gun of the recently declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents. I refer here to the FBI’s December 19, 2016, interview with the DoJ’s Bruce Ohr. A rare truth teller in this story, Ohr casually related just how early in the game Comey and his colleagues knew the Steele dossier was worthless, Hillary-funded opposition research.
In the way of background, on July 31, 2016, the FBI launched its counterintelligence operation into the Trump campaign, code named “Crossfire Hurricane.” FBI agent Peter Strzok was assigned to head it up.
If the goal was to cripple Trump regardless of the evidence, Strzok was the man for the job. “Damn this feels momentous,” he texted lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page, upon getting the assignment. Two weeks later he explained to Page his motives. “There’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
Ohr played a curious role in the whole affair. He served as unofficial DoJ contact with the notorious Christopher Steele, the author of the eponymous Steele dossier. According to Ohr, the two met for breakfast on the same day the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. Steele wanted to discuss some “serious stuff” involving low-level Trump adviser Carter Page.
More interesting than what Steele claimed to know about Page is what Ohr
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