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Top Mueller Officials Coordinated With Fusion GPS Spouse In 2016
The Federalist ^ | January 17, 2019 | by Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 01/17/2019 10:51:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Subtitle: The Department of Justice's Bruce Ohr claimed he repeatedly said information was not verified, risked bias, and had been obtained under political circumstances.

A senior Department of Justice official says he repeatedly and specifically told top officials at the FBI and DOJ about dossier author Christopher Steele’s bias and his employer Fusion GPS’ conflicts of interest, information they kept hidden from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. These conversations involved high-level officials, including some who are now senior officials in the special counsel probe. And the conversations began taking place in the earliest days of August 2016, much earlier than previously revealed to congressional investigators seeking to learn the facts about the FBI’s decision to spy on the Trump campaign.

Testimony from Bruce Ohr, the demoted associate attorney general at Justice, informs a years-long partisan debate about the role he played in funneling information to the FBI from the terminated source.

Ohr also admitted he was talking to top DOJ officials about his chats with Steele and Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson.

Bruce Swartz was deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division. Andrew Weissmann was the head of the criminal division’s fraud section. A top official on the special counsel, Weissmann is known for destroying the 85,000-employee Arthur Anderson before the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction he got. Zainab Ahmad also works for the special counsel. She previously worked for none other than Attorney General Loretta Lynch, as this glowing profile of her in The New Yorker details.

That Ohr was briefing one of Lynch’s top deputies, and heads of various divisions, counters the previous narrative that Justice officials were in the dark about Ohr’s work.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dossier; fusiongps; mueller; witchhunt

1 posted on 01/17/2019 10:51:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That was on May 20th of last year. Did Trump ever officially make that request the next day?


2 posted on 01/17/2019 11:15:32 AM PST by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Book em Danno. People need to be arrested, NOW.


3 posted on 01/17/2019 11:16:14 AM PST by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bttt.

5.56mm


4 posted on 01/17/2019 11:30:47 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
fisagate
5 posted on 01/17/2019 11:35:28 AM PST by timestax
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Headline reads: Top Mueller Officials Coordinated With Fusion GPS Spouse In 2016

I believe that “colluded” would be a more descriptive word than “coordinated.”


6 posted on 01/17/2019 2:47:25 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Just what is the difference between a "centrist democrat" and a "moderate republican?")
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

PING!!!


7 posted on 01/17/2019 7:10:29 PM PST by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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To: RobinOfKingston; bitt; little jeremiah

Headline reads: Top Mueller Officials Coordinated With Fusion GPS Spouse In 2016

I believe that “colluded” would be a more descriptive word than “coordinated.”

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I’m certainly not a lawyer, but it seems like for the past couple years, l keep reading that collusion (at least in the russia, russia, russia probe) is not a crime.

So maybe coordinated may be more appropriate, imo, as coordination by more than one person to commit a criminal offense could make it subject to RICO


8 posted on 01/17/2019 7:36:43 PM PST by thinden
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Sing along everybody...

Bruce just threw them under the bus, under the bus, under the bus.
Bruce just threw them under the bus, to escape prosecution.

9 posted on 01/17/2019 7:38:00 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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10 posted on 01/17/2019 7:40:25 PM PST by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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