Still-employed DOJ official Bruce Ohr says he was simply doing his "Duty as a citizen" when he distributed the infamous Steele dossier through "Numerous meetings, phone calls and emails" while acting "As a link between the FBI and Hillary Clinton forces" to take down Donald Trump, according to the Washington Times.
All this, while he was the #4 official at the Department of Justice - associate deputy attorney general, and in charge of the agency's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, titles Ohr was stripped of by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein after his crusade to take Trump down was uncovered by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz in November, 2017.
Recall that both Bruce and Nellie Ohr had ongoing communications with Christopher Steele, the dossier's author, even having breakfast with him on July 30, 2016 at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington D.C. - one day before the FBI launched operation Crossfire Hurricane, and one week after Steele had given installments of his Clinton-funded anti-Trump research to the FBI. Mr. Horowitz's 434-page report on FBI abuse of wiretap laws to target Trump campaign associate Carter Page includes scores of pages on Mr. Ohr and his one-man Washington operation.
On November 21, 2016, Ohr met with Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec, who he told the dossier was "Kind of crazy ... kind of wild ... quite a tale." Later in the day, Bruce went to FBI headquarters for "His most high-powered meeting," just one month after the FBI had executed its first warrant to electronically and physically surveil Carter Page after they were finally granted a FISA warrant by the surveillance court.
"Ohr's colleague said that Ohr told her that Steele provided information that the Trump campaign had been corrupted by the Russians," reads the IG report.
"The colleague told us that she asked Ohr if the allegations went 'all the way to the President' and that Ohr responded 'yes.'".
"None of the FBI witnesses we interviewed," the report continues "Recalled anyone tasking Ohr to gather information from Steele or to act as an intermediary between the FBI and Steele."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bruce-ohr-covered-crusade-distribute-steele-dossier
All this, while he was the #4 official at the Department of Justice - associate deputy attorney general, and in charge of the agency's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, titles Ohr was stripped of by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein after his crusade to take Trump down was uncovered by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz in November, 2017.
Recall that both Bruce and Nellie Ohr had ongoing communications with Christopher Steele, the dossier's author, even having breakfast with him on July 30, 2016 at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington D.C. - one day before the FBI launched operation Crossfire Hurricane, and one week after Steele had given installments of his Clinton-funded anti-Trump research to the FBI. Mr. Horowitz's 434-page report on FBI abuse of wiretap laws to target Trump campaign associate Carter Page includes scores of pages on Mr. Ohr and his one-man Washington operation.
On November 21, 2016, Ohr met with Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec, who he told the dossier was "Kind of crazy ... kind of wild ... quite a tale." Later in the day, Bruce went to FBI headquarters for "His most high-powered meeting," just one month after the FBI had executed its first warrant to electronically and physically surveil Carter Page after they were finally granted a FISA warrant by the surveillance court.
"Ohr's colleague said that Ohr told her that Steele provided information that the Trump campaign had been corrupted by the Russians," reads the IG report.
"The colleague told us that she asked Ohr if the allegations went 'all the way to the President' and that Ohr responded 'yes.'".
"None of the FBI witnesses we interviewed," the report continues "Recalled anyone tasking Ohr to gather information from Steele or to act as an intermediary between the FBI and Steele."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bruce-ohr-covered-crusade-distribute-steele-dossier
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