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“Just Incredible”: Tom Fitton Stunned After DOJ Official Bruce Ohr Ditches Senate Intel Comm
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 12/18/2017 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 12/18/2017 5:11:41 PM PST by bitt

“Just Incredible”: Tom Fitton Stunned After DOJ Official Bruce Ohr Ditches Senate Intel Committee Hearing (VIDEO)

Fox Business Network reported Monday afternoon that demoted Justice Department official Bruce Ohr unexpectedly ditched his hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“Demoted Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr was set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee today. The testimony never happened,” reported the news network.

Asked if he was surprised by the news, Fitton replied, “unfortunately it’s par for the course from the Justice Department and FBI in terms of cooperating with Congress,”

“You may remember Andy McCabe had to reschedule his interviews last week and to have this key official not show up is just incredible.”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; bruceohr; contempt; corruptdems; fittoninterview; houseintelligence; ohr; senateintel; trumpdoj; trumprussia
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To: bitt

Why can’t Sessions or Trump order him to testify? There is something very wrong with government personnel policies if an employee can just blow off something like this.


61 posted on 12/18/2017 6:04:40 PM PST by brianr10
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To: doorgunner69
Sternly worded letter to follow shortly?

Not enough...Trey Gowdy needs to get in there and 'really' shake 'em up...

62 posted on 12/18/2017 6:04:54 PM PST by Iscool
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To: bigbob

Unfortunately the IG has zero ability to prosecute. In several months they will have a fancy report but in the meantime every bit of evidence will have vanished.


63 posted on 12/18/2017 6:05:43 PM PST by Kahuna
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To: dontreadthis
1/2 of the country is counting on your analysis,the other half continues to give us the finger

Yep, but the finger is not very effective in a courtroom.

64 posted on 12/18/2017 6:06:31 PM PST by Always A Marine ("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
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To: DesertRhino

“This is fantastic! Basically FBI and CIA rats are running to hide from the disinfecting sunlight.”

They’re not running anywhere. They’re giving the middle finger to the capons in congress and to the American people.

What happened with Lois Lerner?

That’s what I thought


65 posted on 12/18/2017 6:07:29 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: bitt
Ut Oh! Someone just got put on the Naughty List!

That will be about the extent of it.


66 posted on 12/18/2017 6:10:23 PM PST by CapnJack
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To: Kahuna
WTF....Hey Jeff, for God’s sake man. Did you recuse yourself of all responsibilities? It’s time that your balls drop and you man up.



67 posted on 12/18/2017 6:14:05 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Electric Graffiti
They’re not running anywhere. They’re giving the middle finger to the capons in congress and to the American people. What happened with Lois Lerner?

Congress can hold them in CONTEMPT! That is so serious! I mean.....the penalties for being held in Contempt of Congress are........err.......wait......


68 posted on 12/18/2017 6:18:10 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: blam

So true.


69 posted on 12/18/2017 6:23:02 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: bitt

Frankly, no one seems to KNOW the extent of authority that congressional committees have over much of anything having to do with uncooperative witnesses.

Many of us offer declarative statements, but the actions of the committees are proving to be seldom congruent with any of our opinions.

No one wants to step up and cite anything that makes these endless arguments mute. Not the Constitution, nor the specific law, nor any specific congressional committee rules nor existent standards that authorize these committees to issue against a witness anything punitive, beyond charging them with failure to appear, issuing to them a subpoena, and charging them for defying a subpoena.

They can throw up their hands and make a “referral” to the Justice Department, on the basis of some charge and hope for a prosecution.

That is the working parameter for Congress. They are not arresting, they are not kicking any doors in and they are not the judge, jury or penalizer.

So, what is their point to having these blasted show trials?Nothing of substance or real value comes from LIVE TV, but only from closed door inquiries. PERIOD.

Witnesses do not want to testify on live TV. They are probably advised by their attorneys not to appear in that format.


70 posted on 12/18/2017 6:24:09 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: Wolfie

Pretty sure, These pantywaist republiturds can’t even manage that !!


71 posted on 12/18/2017 6:38:48 PM PST by bantam
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To: bitt

Congress gets the behavior they put up with. They have a police force and the power to jail. Hell, they used to have a prison.


72 posted on 12/18/2017 6:38:49 PM PST by Poison Pill
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To: Kahuna
Unfortunately the IG has zero ability to prosecute. In several months they will have a fancy report but in the meantime every bit of evidence will have vanished.

Justice Department IG Horowitz works directly for Attorney General Sessions, who does possess the authority to prosecute. Horowitz has quietly gathered evidence while the unsuspecting conspirators continued to work as government employees in government offices using government computers and phones. Essentially, Horowitz watched and recorded as they dug their own graves, and the evidence is not going to vanish.

73 posted on 12/18/2017 6:47:55 PM PST by Always A Marine ("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
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To: bitt

I think his wife is the one that Wrote the ‘insurance policy’ ...


74 posted on 12/18/2017 7:02:32 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: bitt

Well, if you aren’t going to hold anyone accountable, how do you expect anyone to be accountable.

You have as much respect as you have earned.


75 posted on 12/18/2017 7:10:18 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: SkyPilot

Classic! thanks


76 posted on 12/18/2017 7:13:04 PM PST by Kahuna
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To: bitt

DUMP SESSIONS NOW!!!!!!!


77 posted on 12/18/2017 7:27:56 PM PST by Logical me
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To: bitt

Aaaah. Another UNaccountable bureaucrat/criminal/socialist/scumbag/POS. Where have we seen that before?

Enemies domestic ALERT!


78 posted on 12/18/2017 7:32:27 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Reno89519
Won’t testify, fire him. Trump needs to tell DOJ/FBI that they WILL cooperate and fire anyone that does not.

Makes too much good sense. But Trump wouldn't do it. I don't know what is happening to Trump but he is letting us down in this area.

79 posted on 12/18/2017 7:33:28 PM PST by Logical me
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To: RitaOK; All

Congress Has a Way of Making Witnesses Speak: Its Own Jail

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html

from 2007, maybe it has been changed...

...”The Congressional Research Service issued a report in July that confirmed Congress’s inherent contempt powers. It explained how they work: “The individual is brought before the House or Senate by the sergeant at arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned in the Capitol jail.” Congress can do this, the report concluded, to compel them to testify or to punish them for their refusal to do so.”

snip

...”This country has seen far too much of this sort of dismissal of Congress’s authority. There is a simple way to avoid a constitutional showdown: If Congress holds witnesses in contempt, the Justice Department should enforce the subpoenas. “...


80 posted on 12/18/2017 8:06:33 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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