Top DOJ official demoted - contacts with Trump dossier firm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

The FBI is a part of Justice. They work together.

That does not answer my question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

And 2) Why would Bruce Ohr keep these meetings secret from his FBI boss? -DP

Which boss? You mean Comey, Boente, Rosenstein, or Sessions? Isn't Sessions recused?

Rosenstein.

Um, crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

And 2) Why would Bruce Ohr keep these meetings secret from his FBI boss? -DP

Which boss? You mean Comey, Boente, Rosenstein, or Sessions? Isn't Sessions recused?

Rosenstein.

Um, crickets.

Why would Oh keep meetings secret? I don't know, did he? The Fox article doesn't say he did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, he met with both Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. Why?

A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump “dossier,” the department confirmed to Fox News.

Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy.”

Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of “Main Justice.”

Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr’s demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the “dossier.”

Later, a Justice Department official told Fox News: "It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus—director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combating transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the attorney general."

Additionally, House investigators have determined that Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS – the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. By that point, according to published reports, the dossier had been in the hands of the FBI, which exists under the aegis of DOJ, for some five months, and the surveillance on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, had started more than two months prior.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/07/top-doj-official-demoted-amid-probe-contacts-with-trump-dossier-firm.html

Evidence of the corrupted "Mueller Investigation" is mounting. This can't be good for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

Determining the legal implications of this and the role of Russia in the election is their job?

Just spitballing here. But COME ON. You think DOJ would not get it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

Determining the legal implications of this and the role of Russia in the election is their job?

Just spitballing here. But COME ON. You think DOJ would not get it?

DP here, but would you please rephrase what you're trying to say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, he met with both Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. Why?

A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump “dossier,” the department confirmed to Fox News.

Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy.”

Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of “Main Justice.”

Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr’s demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the “dossier.”

Later, a Justice Department official told Fox News: "It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus—director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combating transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the attorney general."

Additionally, House investigators have determined that Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS – the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. By that point, according to published reports, the dossier had been in the hands of the FBI, which exists under the aegis of DOJ, for some five months, and the surveillance on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, had started more than two months prior.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/07/top-doj-official-demoted-amid-probe-contacts-with-trump-dossier-firm.html

Evidence of the corrupted "Mueller Investigation" is mounting. This can't be good for him.

If it helps Trumpkins sleep better to think so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, he met with both Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. Why?

A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump “dossier,” the department confirmed to Fox News.

Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy.”

Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of “Main Justice.”

Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr’s demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the “dossier.”

Later, a Justice Department official told Fox News: "It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus—director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combating transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the attorney general."

Additionally, House investigators have determined that Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS – the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. By that point, according to published reports, the dossier had been in the hands of the FBI, which exists under the aegis of DOJ, for some five months, and the surveillance on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, had started more than two months prior.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/07/top-doj-official-demoted-amid-probe-contacts-with-trump-dossier-firm.html

Evidence of the corrupted "Mueller Investigation" is mounting. This can't be good for him.

Not really...

[Anonymous]

First of all, this is originating from Devin (I am not corrupted by Trump and Russia) Nunes.

Second, the reason given was to have a singular focus on his job. That seems reasonable.

Third, why would be meet with Fusion/GPS? Maybe he was given the Dossier and wanted to have a preliminary discussion about how the document was created, who was behind it etc.

You know, doing his job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

Determining the legal implications of this and the role of Russia in the election is their job?

Just spitballing here. But COME ON. You think DOJ would not get it?

DP here, but would you please rephrase what you're trying to say?

DOJ and FBI work together.

DOJ has the lawyers.

There are any number of reasons the FBI would run something with a backstory this complex and with implications this important by the lawyers. Starting with, should we be opening/can we open criminal investigations.

It is DOJ’s job to play this role for the FBI.

Excellent chance Ohr was doing his job, at the request of the FBI, with the support of whomever his boss was.

Why is this hard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First of all, this is originating from Devin (I am not corrupted by Trump and Russia) Nunes.

Second, the reason given was to have a singular focus on his job. That seems reasonable.

Third, why would be meet with Fusion/GPS? Maybe he was given the Dossier and wanted to have a preliminary discussion about how the document was created, who was behind it etc.

You know, doing his job?

Interesting that this guy’s role at DOJ is the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy. That is his “singular focus” as you put it. And, it is evidently a demotion. Reasonable, yeah. For an explanation to cover up misdeeds.

Why is an attorney who works primarily with organized crime drugs “investigating” the dossier?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

Determining the legal implications of this and the role of Russia in the election is their job?

Just spitballing here. But COME ON. You think DOJ would not get it?

DP here, but would you please rephrase what you're trying to say?

DOJ and FBI work together.

DOJ has the lawyers.

There are any number of reasons the FBI would run something with a backstory this complex and with implications this important by the lawyers. Starting with, should we be opening/can we open criminal investigations.

It is DOJ’s job to play this role for the FBI.

Excellent chance Ohr was doing his job, at the request of the FBI, with the support of whomever his boss was.

Why is this hard?

We’ll see. Smells bad to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, this is originating from Devin (I am not corrupted by Trump and Russia) Nunes.

Second, the reason given was to have a singular focus on his job. That seems reasonable.

Third, why would be meet with Fusion/GPS? Maybe he was given the Dossier and wanted to have a preliminary discussion about how the document was created, who was behind it etc.

You know, doing his job?

Interesting that this guy’s role at DOJ is the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy. That is his “singular focus” as you put it. And, it is evidently a demotion. Reasonable, yeah. For an explanation to cover up misdeeds.

Why is an attorney who works primarily with organized crime drugs “investigating” the dossier?

Sigh. At least read the crock of shot article. Before he was demoted this week, he was the Assocaite Deputy AG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. The FBI had the Steele dossier, it makes sense that someone (probably more than one someone) at Justice also knew about it.

What reason would a DOJ attorney have for meeting with Steele and with Fusion GPS?

Determining the legal implications of this and the role of Russia in the election is their job?

Just spitballing here. But COME ON. You think DOJ would not get it?

DP here, but would you please rephrase what you're trying to say?

DOJ and FBI work together.

DOJ has the lawyers.

There are any number of reasons the FBI would run something with a backstory this complex and with implications this important by the lawyers. Starting with, should we be opening/can we open criminal investigations.

It is DOJ’s job to play this role for the FBI.

Excellent chance Ohr was doing his job, at the request of the FBI, with the support of whomever his boss was.

Why is this hard?

We’ll see. Smells bad to me.

That smell is what happens when they forget to change the Depends at the Adult Daycare. Nothing to do with DOJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all, this is originating from Devin (I am not corrupted by Trump and Russia) Nunes.

Second, the reason given was to have a singular focus on his job. That seems reasonable.

Third, why would be meet with Fusion/GPS? Maybe he was given the Dossier and wanted to have a preliminary discussion about how the document was created, who was behind it etc.

You know, doing his job?

Interesting that this guy’s role at DOJ is the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy. That is his “singular focus” as you put it. And, it is evidently a demotion. Reasonable, yeah. For an explanation to cover up misdeeds.

Why is an attorney who works primarily with organized crime drugs “investigating” the dossier?

He has a lot of experience in organized crime, racketeering, and transnational organized crime and international affairs. Seems like a good person to consult about the dossier.

From this 2016 bio:. http://nationalrxdrugabusesummit.org/biographies/bruce-g-ohr/