Nellie Ohr transcript... UPDATE: FBI 702 "About Search" Queries Unconstitutional

[wahoofanchicago]

Nellie Hauke Ohr
Ohr was the third contributor to the dossier. She earned a degree in history and Russian literature from Harvard-Radcliff 1982–1983 and MA and PhD in history from Stanford 1986-1990.



Nellie Ohr
Image 5: Nellie Ohr

After graduation she worked for:

Accenture iDefense (acquired from VeriSign) – Principal Mar 2017
VeriSign iDefense – Cyber Threat Intelligence Researcher Dec 2016 – Feb 2017
Fusion GPS – Analyst content Creator Mar 2016 – Dec 2016
Miklos Systems – Senior Analyst Mar 2015 – Dec 2015
Plessas Experts Network – Analyst content Creator Oct 2013 – Jan 2015
Open-Source-Works – Senior Analyst Sep 2008 – Sep 2014
MITRE Corporation  – Linguist analyst Jan 2000 – Dec 2008
Vassar College – Assistant Professor, History Department Jan 1990 – Dec 1998

I don't really know anything about her but look at that recent work history, 6 different employers in 5 years.  On average she stayed at each place less than a year.  Good chance that she's a pain in the ass.

[lrrps21]

Bruce Ohr Received $28k Bonus During Work on Dossier… http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/...052219.pdf

DOJ Gave Embattled Bruce Ohr $42,520 in Bonuses After Being Demoted

https://saraacarter.com/doj-gave-embattl...g-demoted/

[cincydawg]

Did others at his level in the DoJ get similar bonuses? Is this commonplace or something unusual?

[BoyGenius]

Did others at his level in the DoJ get similar bonuses?  Is this commonplace or something unusual?

Much ado about nothing? smh. Same shtick : Different day.

[lrrps21]

Did others at his level in the DoJ get similar bonuses?  Is this commonplace or something unusual?

I'm guessing being financially rewarded for being demoted was the point.

[cincydawg]

Well, if others received even larger bonuses and this is commonplace, it would mean it's not out of the ordinary, and he was not rewarded for doing bad things. Maybe his bonus was decided before he was demoted.

[BoyGenius]

Per The Wall Street Journal... FBIâ€s Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans†Privacy Rights, Court Found

U.S. discloses ruling last year by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that FBIâ€s data queries of U.S. citizens were unconstitutional... some of the Federal Bureau of Investigationâ€s electronic surveillance activities violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, a secretive surveillance court has ruled.

The intelligence community disclosed Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year found that the FBIâ€s pursuit of data about Americans ensnared in a warrantless internet-surveillance program intended to target foreign suspects may have violated the law authorizing the program, as well as the Constitutionâ€s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.

[The] court ruling identifies tens of thousands of improper searches of raw intelligence databases by the bureau in 2017 and 2018 that it deemed improper in part because they involved data related to tens of thousands of emails or telephone numbers—in one case, suggesting that the FBI was using the intelligence information to vet its personnel and cooperating sources. Federal law requires that the database only be searched by the FBI as part of seeking evidence of a crime or for foreign intelligence information.

The WSJ... https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-use-of...1570559882
2018 FISC ruling... https://www.intelligence.gov/assets/docu...8Oct18.pdf
2017 FISC ruling... https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icot...r_2017.pdf
Release of Documents Related to the 2018 FISA Section 702 Certifications... https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/18...-2018-fisa

[BoyGenius]

Per The Hill... Court rules FBI surveillance violated Americans' rights.

The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ruled last year that some FBI surveillance violated the targets†constitutional rights, the intelligence community revealed Tuesday.

The ruling, a rare loss for the government on surveillance matters, found that the FBI may have violated the law, as well as constitutional protections against unreasonable searches, as it searched through databases connected to its a warrantless communications surveillance program.

Judge James Boasberg, who sits on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, found last year that the FBI's efforts to query the sensitive databases and purge unnecessary results were "inconsistent with statutory minimization requirements and the requirements of the Fourth Amendment."

https://thehill.com/policy/national-secu...ans-rights