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FBI's Man in Europe Undercut Ohr's Claim of Limited Russiagate Role
By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations
May 12, 2020
Above right, FBI agent Michael Gaeta at a 2016 seminar in Rome.
By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations
May 12, 2020
An FBI agent's newly released testimony undercuts top Justice Department official BruceOhr'sdenial of a conflict of interest between his Trump-Russia efforts and his wife’s work for Fusion GPS, producer of the discredited Steele dossier.
Bruce G. Ohr: He wanted to make sure the FBI was “doing something” with the dossier,agent Gaeta testified.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The agent, Michael Gaeta, told congressional probers that Ohr had pressed him to make sure the FBI was “doing something” with the dossier. According to Gaeta, Ohr pushed Steele's collection of memos alleging nefarious ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in part because Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for the same company that had hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
Gaeta's testimony was released last week along with 56 other Trump-Russia interviews conducted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He recalled an August 2016 phone call from Ohr.
“August, he calls me and says, ‘Have you seen this stuff from Steele?’ – Chris or Steele, whatever he says. I said yes,” Gaeta recalled. “And so now I assume he had either spoken to Steele or had seen him. I didn't know, and I didn't ask.” Ohr, the agent said, wasted no time in making a request: “And he goes, ‘We just want to make sure – we, or me and my bosses – want to make sure the FBI is handling it and doing something about it.’”
Gaeta told Ohr, “I am putting it in the hands of this unit at headquarters who's going to look at it.”
“Okay, good,” was Ohr’s reply. “We just want to make sure.”
Gaeta’s description of Ohr’s active role in pushing the dossier contrasts with Ohr’s testimony before Congress describing a more disinterested role as intermediary between the FBI and his wife’s employer, which was hired by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Asked if his role represented a conflict of interest, Ohr said it did not because “I was not part of the investigation.”
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/12/fbi_man_in_europe_undercut_ohrs_claim_of_limited_russiagate_role_123578.html