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Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm
Fox News ^ | James Rossen

Posted on 12/07/2017 9:57:17 AM PST by EVO X

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 titles 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.”

Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of “Main Justice.”

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.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: brucegohr; bruceohr; california; christophersteele; devinnunes; doj; fbi; fusiongps; goldenshowersdossier; jamescomey; mi6; mueller; ocdetf; ohr; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; russia; spying; steele; steeledossier; trumpdoj; trumpdossier
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Comment #81 Removed by Moderator

To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Yes. The IG is in charge of finding the leakers.

One of the most troublesome government actions I've ever heard about is the lack of an IG while Hillary served as SOS. This should never, ever happen again...

82 posted on 12/07/2017 1:03:11 PM PST by EVO X
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To: piasa

btt


83 posted on 12/07/2017 1:05:01 PM PST by Fedora
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Hell, I think the real question is when is he going to be prosecuted and imprisoned!


84 posted on 12/07/2017 1:35:01 PM PST by Regulator
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To: gubamyster

“Who ever it is, it seems to be working........slowly”

These things have a tendency to accelerate on an exponential curve.

Once folks see major power centers collapsing, they run for the exits and become willing to implicate many, many more.

Getting Ohr and that Strzok fella adds powerful momentum, especially considering Rosenstein, Comey and others in DOJ/FBI are under immediate scrutiny for national security crimes. And Muellers BS story collapsing.

Crimes against the American people.

Expect to see more, on an accelerating curve.


85 posted on 12/07/2017 3:26:45 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Billthedrill

“The linchpin to this case is whether that dossier was used to justify otherwise outrageously illegal surveillance. If it was, then people don’t need to be demoted, they need to go to prison. And if that surveillance was used to set a perjury trap for Flynn, he walks.”

My sentiments exactly.


86 posted on 12/07/2017 3:28:21 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Travis McGee

My guess is whistleblowers are making contact with JIm Jordan and company THEY Know it all!


87 posted on 12/07/2017 3:33:19 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: EVO X

Pretty soon we will have taken the “RAT” out of “DEMOCRAT”, at least at DOJ/FBI and Mueller’s crooked crew of Clinton Cronies.


88 posted on 12/07/2017 8:59:18 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: AAABEST

#20. This might be the grounds for Flynn to ask to withdraw his guilty plea and demand an investigation of the DOJ/FBI agents and Clintonistas who tried to set him up.


89 posted on 12/07/2017 9:01:44 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: All

Jail for lawless DCians or DC isn’t part of USA.


90 posted on 12/08/2017 9:57:08 AM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: EVO X

Layers of the onion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3611869/posts

The difference between the Democratic Party and an onion? Nobody cries when you chop up the Democratic Party.


91 posted on 12/08/2017 11:54:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: EVO X

>> Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr’s demotion

We, the people, have the right to know. I am sick and tired of the government providing cover for people whose salaries we are paying and who are working against us. This should be 100% in the open.

And he should not just be demoted. He should be fired, lose ALL pension and benefits, and possibly be put into prison. I’m pretty sure there was a crime committed here.


92 posted on 12/08/2017 3:26:38 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally
It looks bad, but I guess we will have to wait and see what happens. He does appear to be a key player with the FBI acquiring the dossier. According the article, he knew Steele for a long time which suggests he may have been the point of contact in handing over the dossier to the FBI before the election. Then after the election, he went to talk with Simpson at Fusion GPS. The article leaves us hanging with the question why.

I think we will find out soon enough.

93 posted on 12/09/2017 4:57:01 AM PST by EVO X
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