Nellie Ohr deleted emails sent from husband's DOJ account

Washington Examiner ^ | May 16, 2019 01:52 PM | Daniel Chaitin |

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told her husband she was deleting emails sent from his government account.

The revelation comes as both Ohrs remain under intense scrutiny for their ties to Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier that was used to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a series of April 2016 emails from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department that show a correspondence between the Ohrs, an aide to Bruce Ohr named Lisa Holtyn, and Stefan Bress, a first secretary at the German Embassy.

They discussed setting up a dinner for the German delegation as well as a meeting to discuss Russian organized crime. Included in a proposed agenda is the “Impact of Russian influence operations in Europe (‘PsyOps/InfoWar’).”

On April 20, responding to the email thread with the subject line, “Analyst Russian Organized Crime – April 2016," came the email from Nellie Ohr about deleting the emails. "Thanks! I’m deleting these emails now," she said.

Bruce Ohr was an associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force while his wife Nellie was an independent contractor and Russia specialist.

Emails previously released by Judicial Watch show Bruce Ohr acting as an unofficial back channel between the FBI and Steele. He was demoted when it was revealed he met with Steele and Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which commissioned Steele's work. Ohr also told lawmakers his wife shared a thumb drive with him to hand over to the FBI.

[TXnMA]

"Is there some difference between these two that I should be aware of?"

There is, indeed a YUGE legal difference between the two:

See #20 for the answer to your question.

[sgt_lau]

I can’t wait for the day that her ugly mug is shown with the “I’m in really big trouble, aren’t I?” look on it. She thought she was un-touchable. Hag.

[chris37]

That may be true, but she was certainly engaged in treason and in the destruction of the evidence of treason.

[TXnMA]

No question that Nellie Orr is guilty of many evil acts; I hope both she and Bruce are put away for a long time. Unfortunately, destruction of her own e-mails may not be one of the acts she can be charged with.

OTOH, Avoiding FOIA archiving of HRC's evil doings (Clinton Foundation, etc...) was one of her prime motivations -- and a definite Federal crime, when she destroyed 30K of her e-mails. (Did you know that she absolutely refused to allow a government e-mail address be issued to her?)

I believe your understanding of the magnitude of HRC's crimes would benefit if you watched this video I created in advance of the 2016 election: "No Intent?!?" ...

Even today, the only detail of fact I would change is that some of that "stack of 'lost' Blackberries" were actually physically destroyed -- as in "smashed with a hammer".

Enjoy!
TXnMA