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Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm
EXCLUSIVE: A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump “dossier,” the department confirmed to Fox News.
Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two les at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy.”
Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr’s demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the “dossier.”
Later, a Justice Department official told Fox News: "It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus—director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combating transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the attorney general."
Additionally, House investigators have determined that Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS – the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. By that point, according to published reports, the dossier had been in the hands of the FBI, which exists under the aegis of DOJ, for some five months, and the surveillance on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, had started more than two months prior.
Former FBI Director James Comey, testifying before the House in March, described the dossier as a compendium of “salacious and unverified” allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump and his associates. The Nunes panel has spent much of this year investigating whether DOJ, under then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, used the dossier to justify a foreign surveillance warrant against Page.
The contacts between Ohr and Steele, and between Ohr and Simpson, have not been publicly disclosed nor shared with HPSCI staff.
The panel has issued numerous subpoenas for do ents and witnesses related to the dossier but claims DOJ and FBI have “stonewalled,” an assertion that House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., seconded in a rare public statement in October.
While the agencies say they have cooperated extensively with Nunes and his team, including providing several hundred pages of classified do ents relating to the dossier, it was only last weekend that DOJ and FBI agreed to make available to the committee for questioning Peter Strzok, the high-ranking FBI official who was disciplined in July for having sent-anti-Trump texts to a colleague while playing a decisive role in last year’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private server.
Strzok was removed from the staff of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and demoted to a position on the FBI’s human resources division. The agencies’ decision to make Strzok available to House investigators came on the same day that The New York Times and The Washington Post disclosed the existence of the anti-Trump text messages, and Fox News disclosed that Strzok’s conduct in the Clinton case was under review by the FBI’s Office of Inspector General.
The demotion of Ohr thus marked the second time within a matter of months that the Justice Department and the FBI have disciplined for misconduct a senior official connected in some form or fashion to the Trump-Russia case.
According to congressional sources, Simpson and Ohr met sometime around Thanksgiving last year, when President-elect Trump was in the process of selecting his cabinet, and discussed over coffee the anti-Trump dossier, the Russia investigation and what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump’s victory.
How exactly Simpson and Ohr came to know each other is still being investigated, but initial evidence collected by the House intelligence committee suggests that the two were placed in touch by Steele, a former FBI informant whose contacts with Ohr are said by senior DOJ officials to date back to 2006.
Nunes, who has instructed HPSCI staff to draft contempt-of-Congress citations against Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray – preparatory to a House vote on whether the citations should be enforced – issued a fresh subpoena on Thursday specifically covering Ohr and his files.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...sier-firm.html
No. You’re just ing lazy.
Oh, well just humor me and answer this simple question for the record then:
What is the source of your theory?
There is a reason that it is called "stupid Watergate". Those involved really are that dumb.The cartoon boutons posted actually shows the stupidity of the Russia collusion conspiracy.
Why demoted?
Ought to be fired. These people will simply move up in in a few years.
Must not be that serious to only get a slap in the wrist for such evil.
What do you think is going to happen to Clinton now, Darrin? Comey? Whatever FBI agent is accused of bias?
Darrin has yet to explain why Jr lied about adoptions.
attorney client privilege
No thanks. Your pathetic begging is enough humor for me.
GOWDY! GOWDY! GOWDY!
So this is dodge #7 or 8 from you? More?
What is the source of your theory, TSA?
It is a simple, direct question.
On your knees begging
I got what I was looking for today and more.TSA melting down after he didn't get what he was looking for.
Just asking a simple question. Might as well ask it again since I'm sure you'll answer directly and quickly and not dodge or try to insult me for no reason -- after all, it's your theory.On your knees begging
What is the source of your theory, TSA?
TSA where is your source
This
and this
Next time I get questioned about something I will just say I'm not prepared
Jim Jordan. The same guy who got shut the down by Jeff Sessions the last time.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politi...ing/index.html
No collusion
Brags about collusion in emails.
Poor Darrin.
Two things.
1. Why did Jr lie and say it was about adoptions?
2. Why did Jr lie and say there were no followup emails?
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