TY Baker!!! Baker babe just for you.
Great analysis. I'll admit, I had no interest in watching C-SPAN before Q. I always had an interest in politics, but was so quickly disheartened by my suspicions about how lobbying works, and how laws are created/executed in the US that I just became a disgruntled observer.
Q has given me a vehicle in the understanding of how the corruption has worked, and a way to participate in the dismantling of the old guard.
Good problem to have!
Ha… Marital privilege invoked, at page 96:
Q Didn't you say you had no reason to doubt your husband's testimony that he took, I believe you called it a flash drive, from you, and provided it to the FBI?
A I have no reason to doubt his testimony.
Q So do you know the flash drive that we are talking about? [Discussion off the record.]
Mr. Berman. If this is a continuing way to ask her about communications with her husband –
Mr. Brebbia. No, I am asking her – did you –
Mr. Berman. What was the question then? Sorry.
Mr. Brebbia. Did you compile information on Russia and put that onto a flash drive that you then gave your husband?
Mr. Berman. Providing her husband, whether she did or didn't, that is a form of communication. We have –
Mr. Brebbia. The hand-to-hand interaction from her to her husband is covered by the marital privilege?
Mr. Berman. To the extent that there was such a – such a transmission, or a handing over, or a communication by physical act, yes.
Mr. Somers. Did you ever put information on a flash drive to give to someone other than Fusion GPS?
Ms. Ohr. Yes.
Mr. Brebbia. Just so we are clear, the marital privilege covers non-testimony – in your view, non-testimony – non-testimony but the actual transaction of handing a physical object to her husband, the physical object which was then handed off to a third party, the FBI? So the contents, we agree whatever the contents are, are not privileged?
Mr. Berman. I am simply suggesting that the act, the hypothetical act, of handing a flash drive, or something that you are suggesting, to her husband – would be covered by the marital privilege. What some other person, in your hypothetical, Mr. Ohr or someone else, does with it, it isn't covered by the privilege. It is just what goes on between Ms. Ohr and Mr. Ohr –
Mr. Brebbia. Okay.
Mr. Berman. – that is the privilege. I have no problem
Q Okay. I want to jump – I don't know if this is jump back or jump ahead. I don't think this issue has been addressed. Do you have, or are you familiar with, a shortwave radio or a Ham radio?
A I own a Ham radio.
Q And you own it for what purpose?
A Emergency communication in case of a storm, that sort of thing. If the cell towers go out, uh-huh.
Q How long have you had a Ham radio?
A Well, I bought it shortly after I got my Ham license and I got – yeah, I – I – I am guessing it is 2015, but I don't remember exactly. It was – you know, in 2014, I was underemployed, and I had some time, and I took a citizens emergency – community emergency response team training. And, you know, it was just something sponsored by the DHS and the local fire department, you know, taught these courses and then they said, hey, if you are going to be helping with community response in case of an emergency, why don't we have – you know, some people take Ham radio lessons in case the communications towers go out. And so I took the Ham radio class. I passed the test.
Q That is a difficult test, isn't it or –
A Sixteen questions, something like that. I squeaked past it.
Q And are there different levels of licensure?
A There are. I was the lowest level.
Q Do you have any desire to reach a higher level for your purposes?
A No.
Q So your obtaining of a radio, and your taking the class, and your sitting for the exam and ultimately passing and receiving the license, it had nothing to do with your employment at Fusion GPS?
A It was well before.
Q Well before?
A Yeah.
Q And it was – you had time on your hands, something to do – was this something you were always interested in doing and this is an opportunity that you had to pursue it?
A I saw an ad for the community emergency response training, and I thought, now is a good time for me to do it since I have a little bit of time.
Q Have you ever communicated with anyone in Russia using your Ham radio?
A No.
Mr. Somers. Did you monitor any broadcasts from Russia using the Ham radio?
Ms. Ohr. No.
Yep; like Snowden.
Important distinction. Specifically, which intelligence groups.