There may be a valid explanation for what I am about to briefly note; something akin to Nellie Ohr being the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, such that she is a target therein, but don’t get your hopes up. The Occam’s Razor within this specific example is that DC interests (current FBI, CIA, DNI and DOJ) are controlling the protection of the coverup operation.
Keep in mind, according to DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe the current redactions to the declassified John Durham Annex, were determined by current Intelligence officials. Here’s the example/issue.
On page #5 of the declassified report [DIRECT LINK HERE] Durham notes an issue with the transcription from Russian to English of the source information to the CIA giving the U.S. intelligence service a head’s up on what Hillary Clinton was doing. However, notice the 3-line redaction at the bottom of the second paragraph.
You can tell from the visibility of footnote #14 and footnote #16 that inside the redacted sentence is footnote #15.
As customary in these releases, the IC reviewers make mistakes. We look at the bottom of the page and find they forgot to redact the footnote that pertains to the redacted sentence.
Footnote #15 references “Nellie Ohr report of 4 March 2016.” That means the redacted sentence is referencing work product and analysis done by Nellie Ohr about Trump’s reported ties with Russian Oligarchs.
Why redact that?
Why protect Nellie Ohr with a redaction to avoid attribution?
♦ Additionally, if you are reviewing this part of the Durham annex, keep the following in mind.
Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS, hired Bruce Ohr’s wife Nellie Ohr, in late 2015 to work on the Trump opposition research project. That oppo research effort evolved into the Christopher Steele authored dossier after the DNC and Hillary Clinton hired Fusion-GPS in April of 2016.
“Bruce Ohr testified that Fusion approached his wife for a job and that she began working for the research firm in late 2015″. [link]
Simpson’s wife, Mary Jacoby, visited the White House on April 19, 2016, the day after NSA Director Mike Rogers shut down contractor access to the NSA and FBI database on April 18, 2016.
The wife of Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS), Mary B. Jacoby, with years of Russia-angled reporting –including Donald Trump– visits the White House on April 19, 2016. The next day, April 20th, the Clinton campaign hires Fusion GPS to conduct the opposition research on Donald Trump, surrounding Russia. [WH Log Link]
I will try and put the Durham Annex into a timeline to help people see the bigger picture.
More soon… But these redactions are annoying!
Some people on X are deducing that the Lovely Nelli was accessing the NSA database as a contractor (or is she a CIA operative?) and “they” don’t want that info out now or ever.
Of course she was.
Always the coverup. Always the letting certain people stay hidden and seldom if ever any accountability. Always acting like the public is the enemy. Never letting the scope of the law run its course. Hide the guilty to protect the money.
Ten years after the crimes, the perps are still playing the cat and mouse game with investigators and law enforcement gathering evidence. YOU COULD NOT DO THIS! Our government has become one continuing circus of hoax-war-scam and repeating as the Dems and Repub battle for supremacy of party proceeds to fund their “game”! I see nothing that will change that either! I find the administrative governance by bitter partisan politics is NOT in the interest of The United States and in fact is leading it further into societal ruin! They become corrupt! Let’s try the Civil Service, privatization, outsourcing, contractual or something NOT political!
Unfortunately, history shows us that eventually, EVERYTHING becomes political, because of the proximityto taxpayer (“free”) money. . . As Jesus said, even a little leaven (yeast) leavens the whole loaf.
Now, everywhere you look in gov’t, including affiliated contractors, vendors, services, ad nauseum, is corrupt. At every level.
In my county (blue), half of our county commissioners have gone to prison for some kind of fraud. And the entire system becomes self-perpetuating and deeply rooted.
Many in the red counties have just not been revealed with their hands in the cookie jar. The Epstein files show that many congress people on both sides of the political spectrum visited Little Saint James where atrocities were done on little people. What has been revealed to date about Epstein’s activities are that deemed what the the public can tolerate. At least the evil is being partially unveiled. This is good. It is enough for now, but full disclosure of the rot, the BIG UGLY needs to happen eventually so that this country can be cleansed of this evil.
“Group size: 6” … who were the other 5?
The stench of corruption continues to waft around DC. Arrests must be done.
Forget about arrests. Turn the DC Beltway into a 20 foot high wall, and mud-flood its interior.
Let the citizens in a future millennium dig down and discover the remains of our era’s cryptids.
I find redactions mostly there to protect politician’s (et al) reputations! Not necessarily secret info! I worked intel in the early 70’s (Army Security Agency) and I never thought it was all that “secret”! Connecting dots back then was a bit different than now!
Been researching this EVIL in our governments and the “elite” since 2005, finding things back then was MUCH EASIER, still available if you KNOW where to look!
Nothing has changed at the FBI but the politics. Same focus and methods. Completely corrupt and opaque.
It’s possible that Nellie is THE informant (to Patel, Bongino, et. al.) about the ‘secret room/secret files’ stuff. Childers makes the point that some insider had to reveal this stuff to Patel AND that they’ve likely had the material for quite some time.
No, it would be someone that was high in the FBI.
Most likely Andy McCabe.
I agree, higher up. Also, Nellie does not have the temperament to be a whistle blower and she has her husband in tow on the big reveal. So, I think not Nellie but someone else. Nellie is being protected because of her affiliations and her skillset, so, CIA, Mossad, MI6 fits.
What “IF” a clever Anon had access to everything? And, decided to PUBLISH EVERYTHING w/o “redactions”, we ALL KNOW that the internet of things are “FOREVER”, I wonder if WE “do have it all?
The internet is not forever. Recent Sundance stories have told us of inconvenient history disappearing from the Internet Archive.
There is a way to get something deleted. I am not sure that it is available to us Lilliputins. I would sure like to delete all my personal info, account info, etc.
These people are public servants,seriously?
Thank you for all you do, Sundance. What you provide for us is priceless.
CTH has been a beacon of openness and unique perspectives since I started following in the spring/summer of 2015.
There are other worthwhile websites… however, CTH has been more deeply informative…
and able to ‘put the puzzle pieces together’ more consistently and more thoroughly than anyone else I’m aware of.
Over the years, I’ve also followed Mark Steyn – who has been quite prescient on the issue of immigration.
So many times, now.. Steyn will refer to an issue or event by stating:
“As I said (15,20,25) years ago…”
CTH is now like that.
‘As The Treehouse mentioned/explained/
uncovered, 5, 10, 15+ years ago’…
so many of these issues were correctly analyzed at CTH.
As I’ve mentioned before… nobody bats
1.000…
but CTH wins the batting title,
every year.
Sorry , but I don’t see The President ditching Wiley… !
Akin to not seeing him sever the AIPAC Shackles, nor having revealed /investigated by Main Justice the Epstein/ CIA/Mi6 / Mossad connection .
Won’t want to wrangle the evangelicals Christian-Zionist base and attendant political/financial
“support” that flows there-from. Huckabee’s recent visit to GAZA will be another “nothing to see here” nothingburger flipped to COMPLETELY blame Hamas, with no ( even partial) culpability laid at Netenyahu’s feet…
Wish Trump would stretch his arms with force need (ala Sampson) to shatter the chains he’s bound by even with attendant collateral damage risk of collapsing pillars.
To do nothing , at times ,is to do something… and that inaction would be unsustainable for all at the end of the day…
“ fear NOT their fear”!
Love your Sampson analogy…
POTUS faces threats on his and his family (nuclear and extended), if he reveals too much. Adelson is a major financial backer and Jewish. Trump’s adult children are married to Jews except Baron. I don’t think we can fault him too much for protecting his family. He and his administration keep revealing what’s been going on for decades. They can’t fix it all. If he just returns the illegals to their own countries en masse he will have saved the country. Everything else is gravy. Unfortunately, our inattentiveness has led to a right awful Gordian knot of evil. While we/he may not complete the cleanup, the rest may clean itself by circumstances beyond our control.
lol! So they left in the footnote that likely covers the redaction outlining who recommended to Fusion that Bruce Ohr’s wife could be of assistance.
Streisand Effect on steroids.
I wonder if there is some old codger so into CB’s that they record that stuff.
Wouldn’t that be fun??
Bueller?