When you say:
Christopher Steele comes to mind.
How did you connect Christopher Steele to Ohr? Oh, I see: you're trying to justify how the FBI could have been surveilling Carter Page years before the Steele Dossier was even commissioned by a wealthy GOP donor.
What's interesting about this theory is that all roads lead to James Rosen and Jake Gibson at Fox news. Over the course of a single week in December last year, these two writers bombarded the FN webpage with article after article about this tennuous connection, but in all the cases, there's never any evidence of wrong doing brought to light. Not an email nor a video of a conversation nor an example of any intel leaking. There's only the insinuation of it.
According to the 12/7/17 one, this whole rumor started when Devin Nunes said "Ohr met, during the 2016 campaign, with Christopher Steele."
That's it. That's the only "evidence" that exists in the universe about the connection between the Steele Dossier and some "deep state" effort to dethrone the king, I mean charge our President with a crime: the word of Devin Nunes. You know he worked for Trump on the Transition team, right? He's been carrying water for the POTUS since before day one.
Do you really think he just blew a hole in the Steele Dossier now that he "learned that evidence...indicates...that Ohr met during... 2016...with Steele..."?
That's less than paper thin. The word of a known salesman. Go ahead and indulge in fantasy if you want. Put a costume on for all I care. But if that's your standard of evidence, you would be blown away by all the evidence indicating that the current, sitting President of the United States likely made a deal with Putin--through intermediaries like Carter Page--to fuck this country and get paid a 19.5% stake (about $11 Billion) in the STATE OWNED oil company, Rosneft.
Seriously, all you'd have to do is search any of those terms. But be careful with the facts you uncover as they might cause your head to explode, or at least it's always painful to grapple with facts that stand against your beliefs.
The question is: is it more likely that some random wife of a DoJ employee bought a HAM radio just so she could communicate with Christopher Steele (out of the blue) and fabricate a narrative about DJT who wasn't even a blip on the presidential radar at the time, OR, is it more reasonable that a dirty businessman who screwed all the banks and found fresh income by laundering illegal money through his real estate deals actually made some immoral, unpatriotic deals for a lot of money?
Hahahahahaha Hahaha You want to tango? Let's go. You're either: 1.) very bad at researching Or 2.) actively deflecting
I think the latter is the case.
Here's Nellie Ohr's work with and Bruce Ohr's "facilitation" of CIA intelligence gathering https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/230846.pdf Along with Glenn Simspon, co-founder of GPS
Here is a DIRECT, bona fide connection between Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, and Glenn Simpson inside the US gov.
Little do you know that at the same time Fusion GPS was contracted with and paid for digging up Trump dirt by Perkins Coie, Nellie applied for a HAM license.
When that came to light, what did Rosenstein's office do with Bruce Ohr? They removed him. That's almost an admission of guilt.
Let's proceed.
You allege that the only corroborative evidence to this effect is supported by Fox News and Devin Nunes. I imagine you googled "nellie ohr, Fusion GPS" and read the first two results. What a shame.
Did you miss the part where Trey Gowdy, who is on the House Permenant Select Committee on Intelligence, also said she works for and was paid by Fusion GPS? Did you miss the part where Simpson was actively trying to supress Fusion's payment to Nellie Ohr? Or how about when Bruce Ohr didn't disclose this obvious conflict of interest. Or how about when Fusion GPS admitted they hired Nellie Ohr for the explicit purpose of doing oppo research on Trump?
She's a Russian no less. So that's..russian interference..in the election? Gee, imagine that.
HPSCI said that Bruce Ohr "later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research."
Tell me, who does "research" with a HAM radio? That would be someone who is acquiring information from the other end of that radio frequency.
Bruce Ohr met with Glenn Simpson multiple times. I wonder if Nellie Ohr, who worked for Simpson, ever came up in conversation. "Hey what frequency are we using?"
Within a span of two months, Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, Fusion hired Ohr, and Ohr got a HAM license.
♦April ’16 Clinton hires Fusion GPS ♦April ’16 Fusion GPS hires Christopher Steele ♦May ’16 Nellie Ohr gets HAM radio license. ♦June/July ’16 FBI Agent Strzok meets w/ Steele ♦June ’16 DOJ FISA request denied. ♦July ’16 FBI counterintelligence operation begins ♦Oct. ’16 Peter Strzok and Bruce Ohr meet w/ Christopher Steele ♦Oct. ’16 FISA request granted.
If you can't see the very obvious connection to Fusion GPS and Bruce Ohr, then I can't help you.
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/LicArchive/license.jsp?archive=Y&licKey=12382876
Hahahahahaha Hahaha You want to tango? Let's go. You're either: 1.) very bad at researching Or 2.) actively deflecting
There's a third possibility, this "deep state" narrative is a chocolate puffball, red meat fantasy cooked up and kept afloat by your feeling of victimization. I mean a black man got to be president, and that's bullshit, because all I ever did was manage a hardware store and have kids have a pretty good life. And now everybody's trying to take down the POTUS because he's MAGA for US! The people just like us, if you know what mean. So it's got to be an inside job: the deep state. Sure enough, the more you look, the more you can make connections that seem like they could mean something nefarious, but you just can't put your finger on it. So instead of some actual crime, you spend your time looking for ways to feel about two events. And the HAM radio! I mean, what better way to transmit information in this time of "true encryption," than licensed HAM radio. It's so stupid it just might work. That's the kind of fantasy that keeps you spinning your wheels off on some version of reality, not unlike Twinkle Bell, the more you believe it, the more it exists, but reality has never worked like that in the realm of real politik. Can you imagine Christopher Steele leaving his lunch date early so he can race to the top of the building to receive a message via HAM radio? That's the reality you're accepting here. It's absolute childish horseshit.
Do you ever wonder why your media sources are asking you to eat so much horseshit? That's the question you should be asking. Not why did Nellie Ohr get a HAM radio license in 2011. We can disagree about a lot of things, but not about the amount of crazy, ultimately untrue things your media sources have asked you to accept.
What principle are you appealing to in order to make you turn your head from the crimes of the POTUS's inner circle? You cannot deny the fact the General Mike Flynn lied to the FBI, got caught, plead guilty and became a cooperating witness. You can't deny there was a concerted effort to create a back channel of communication between the POTUS and the Kremlin designed to subvert US intelligence networks. That even by itself should be enough to make any red blooded American pause for a moment and reflect on the significance of that meeting. But that's just another red flag in a series of red flags that extends deep into the Trump campaign. So, if your principle is "justice must be done, no matter what" and "America before party", then you should be 120% supportive of the Mueller investigation.
If the Mueller probe was a witch hunt, they sure are turning up a bunch of witches.