Notable from the Forbidden City...
IG Report Bombshell: Did The FBI And DOJ Ask Putin’s Buddy
To Help Get Trump?
DOJ official Bruce Ohr called a meeting of several federal
agencies to discuss ‘working with’ a Russian oligarch
because of his belief, premised on the unverified Steele
dossier, that Trump was corrupt.
By Margot Cleveland
January 13, 2020
A previously unnoticed passage in Inspector General Michael
Horowitz’s report on federal surveillance abuse suggests
Bruce Ohr and his compatriots were willing to bargain with a
Russian oligarch to take down Donald Trump.
Two-hundred-plus pages into the IG report, while discussing
former Associate Deputy Attorney General Ohr’s continued
contacts with Crossfire Hurricane dossier author Christopher
Steele, Horowitz revealed a significant detail that to date
has been overlooked: “On December 7, 2016, Ohr conveyed an
interagency meeting (including representatives from the FBI)
regarding strategy in dealing with Russian Oligarch 1.”
The IG report added that after the meeting “one of Ohr’
s junior Department colleagues who attended the meeting”
asked “Ohr about why the U.S. government would support
trying to work with Russian Oligarch 1”—the moniker used in
the IG report to refer to one of Vladimir Putin’s closest
confidants, the aluminum oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Ohr’s reported response is shocking: “Ohr told her that
Steele provided information that the Trump campaign had been
corrupted by the Russians,” and that the corruption went all
the way to president-elect Trump. Ohr’s junior colleague
told the IG that Ohr explained “this information was ‘the
basis for the [Deripaska] discussion” in the interagency
meeting they had just left….
LONG article credibly written and sauced
Visit the sauce to read it all:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/13/ig-report-bombshell-did-the-fbi-and-doj-ask-putins-buddy-to-help-get-trump/
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Nurse Ransom! If I take my meds will you let me back into the ward, er, thread??
Yikes! I've been in here since 29 Dec 2019 - 12:06:19 PM!
(Is Nurse Rachette working again tonight? Brrrr!)
