Reports: Nunes Traveled To London, Tried To Ask Intel Chiefs About Christopher Steele

House Intelligence Committee Chairman and Trump Bootlicking Dirtbag Devin Nunes (R-CA) traveled to London earlier this month in an attempt to meet with British intelligence agencies, seeking information about former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the author of the so-called “Steele Dossier,” the Atlantic reported Tuesday.

Two unnamed people familiar with Nunes’ trip confirmed it to The Atlantic. Nunes, according to the report, sought meetings with the heads of three British agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. Those meetings never happened, though Nunes did meet with the UK’s deputy national security adviser, Madeleine Alessandri.

Among other things, the Atlantic’s sources said, Nunes sought information on “Steele’s own service record and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S. Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr,” in the magazine’s words.

Nunes trip to London is seen as part of a larger orchestrated effort by Trump stoolies to discredit the Russia probe by targeting, smearing, and discrediting DoJ's Bruce Ohr for removal. In recent weeks, Trump has tweeted about Ohr nine times, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes recently predicted Ohr would become a key figure in House investigators' sights.

Ohr is a tantalizing target for Republicans because he's at the center of various strands of their frustration with the Russia probe. For one thing, he was in touch in 2016 with Christopher Steele, the British ex-spy behind a now-famous dossier alleging connections between Trump and Moscow. Republicans have obtained communications between the two that they say show Ohr was in contact with Steele even after the latter ceased to have a formal relationship with the FBI.

Meanwhile, Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS, the company that hired Steele to dig into Trump’s background on behalf of the Clinton campaign in 2016. In late 2016, Ohr passed along a version of Steele’s dossier to the FBI, Strzok told lawmakers last month.

The Atlantic and Reuters noted that, last year, two Nunes aides traveled to London in an unsuccessful attempt to question Steele in person.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/devin-nuness-curious-trip-to-london/568699/