Opinion: Top DOJ official discussed getting Steele back into FBI, Mueller probe (fall of 2017)

The Hill ^ | John Solomon

[Bigtigermike]

Months after being dismissed from the FBI's Russia probe for misconduct, British intelligence operative Christopher Steele discussed being reinstated with a senior official working for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, so Steele could assist special counsel Robert Mueller.

"Whenever convenient, I would like a chat, there's a lot going on and we are frustrated with how long this re-engagement with the Bureau and Mueller is taking," Steele texted Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr on Aug. 6, 2017. "Anything you could do to accelerate the process would be much appreciated."

"Chris, good to hear from you," Ohr texted back as he proposed times when the two could discuss the idea.

The exchange - one of several in which Steele proposed a return to the Russia probe - has captured the attention of investigators in Congress and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Some of them told me they are stunned that a top Rosenstein aide would even consider restoring Steele to the case, and with good reason.

After all, Steele was paid by a firm working for Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to dig up Russia dirt on Donald Trump. Then, in November 2016, he was deemed "not suitable" to serve as an FBI informer after being caught leaking information to the media.

[Sacajaweau]

Don’t forget to look under the sink and in the trunk of O’Connor’s wife’s car.

[Sacajaweau]

it menas “burn” these notes or use “like a cloth”.

[Pietro]

“Any involvement Mr. Ohr had in this matter was without my knowledge.””

As a supervisor I'm required to be aware of what the people under me are doing because I am responsible for their work output.

Apparently this doesn't apply to our betters in DC who are NEVER responsible for anything that happens on their watch.

[Cboldt]

The way I see it, some players were worked around (Priestap), and the scheme had more than one path - it did not have a rigid "chain of command," rather a loose knit or even independent actors all with the same mission. Comey or McCabe didn;t need to direct Strzok, Strzok would run in the correct direction without being told to. Ohr is just another person of similar cut, out to get Trump, feels justified that such is the correct, righteous thing to do, and acts accordingly.

Similar acorss various agencies, Brennan, Clapper, many players in State Department (Farkas), and even Samantha Power over at the UN were involved in spying on Trump, and subsequently doing anything they could get away with to undermine his agenda.

Rosenstein being unaware of Ohr's activity doesn't clear Rosenstein.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Cboldt]

Bruce Ohr, who met with dossier author Christopher Steele, to be hauled before Congress - December 7, 2017

Ohr's participation has been known for months. The details are of course hidden from view.

[Ann Archy]

Where is STEELE?

[Cboldt]

-- Where is STEELE? --

Heheh. And Halper. And Misfud.

All this attention on DOJ side of the soft coup, I bet the diplomatic corps (and to a lesser extent, the spooks) is feeling mighty secure they got away with their part.

[Jim Noble]

WHY has Steele NOT been arrested? WHY has Bruce Ohr not been ARRESTED?

Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Arkansas, New York, and in the District of Columbia, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law,

Now therefore, I, Donald John Trump, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed. The details, for this object, will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the Defense Department.

I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

[Jim Noble]

Apparently, nobody on Our Guy’s legal team has ever heard of the Insurrection Act or the Calling Forth Act.

[Ann Archy]

Mifsud DISAPPEARED the day after he met with the FBI!!! Is he DEAD or HIDDEN????

[Ann Archy]

HUH?? HELP!

[monkeybrau]

This can’t be right, fall of 2017? We already knew a lot by then about this fraudulent character and the dossier. That just doesn’t seem reasonable.