Senate Judiciary Committee declassifies FBI’s files outlining plot to undermine Trump

Washington Times ^ | Editorial Board

[MtnClimber]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been hiding the truth from Congress and the public, and they’ve just been caught. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Friday called for an investigation of the internal tools the G-men have been using to conceal their official actions from legitimate oversight.

Material released by the Iowa Republican senator confirms the existence of a secretive electronic file drawer within Sentinel, the FBI’s case management system, allowing the bureau to reply, “We have no responsive documents” when a congressional committee subpoenas information locked within.

The issue came to light in a recently declassified 2019 memo from an agent on the public corruption team asking then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller to release a set of covert files related to Nellie Ohr, a key player in the plot to frame then-candidate Donald Trump as a Russian asset.

“[R]elevant FBI/DOJ information related to this assessment was inaccessible to FBI investigators given that the Trump/Russia-collusion investigations were in FBI systems under ‘Prohibited Access’ status which, unlike ‘Restricted Access’ status, precludes investigators from detecting the existence of potentially relevant serials,” the FBI memo explains.

House Oversight Committee Republicans had sent a criminal referral that accused Mrs. Ohr of lying to Congress when she feigned ignorance of the Justice Department’s collusion investigation. The public corruption team had to come up with a response to the lawmakers.

Mrs. Ohr worked for Fusion GPS, the outfit Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign hired to orchestrate a dirty-tricks operation against Mr. Trump. As the wife of Bruce Ohr, one of the DOJ’s most senior officials, she had privileged access to what was going on.

Emails between the Ohrs did discuss the GOP candidate who went on to become the 45th president. According to the FBI memo, Mrs. Ohr also contributed to the creation of the mendacious

[bitt]

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[tinamina]

Sounds like you have been reading Sundance over at the conservative treehouse.

[thinden]

Two felonious b*****ds.

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s+r!ng +#em up

[miniTAX]

‘House Oversight Committee Republicans had sent a criminal referral that accused Mrs. Ohr of lying to Congress’

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Hughh?? Sent to whom or what?
If to DOJ, Bondi will say “okey donkey, we are busy building a bullet proof case against those mecreants and we’ll call you back as soon as their status of limitation (5 years) has expired. Oh, it has? So bad”

[Liz]

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[Liz]

yvw

[circlecity]

“This means that if a false statement is made to Congress, the government has five years from that point to initiate a prosecution.”

Yet the law also hold that if you act to conceal your crime it tolls or extends the state of limitations.

[milagro]

8÷)

[BHI2025]

I am cautiously optimistic.

[Montana_Sam]

Margot Cleveland had this story up on 'The Federalist' on June 2nd.