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DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title

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DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title

DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title | Fox News

"A Justice Department official demoted late last year for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” has been stripped of yet another title, Fox News has learned.

Bruce Ohr is no longer head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Separately, sources familiar with the discussions tell Fox News that the Justice Department is expected to comply with demands from the House Intelligence Committee to provide Ohr for an interview. He is scheduled to visit the committee on Jan. 17, sources said.

Fox News first reported in December that Ohr had been demoted from the position of associate deputy attorney general, after it was revealed he had conducted undisclosed meetings with dossier author Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that produced the salacious document. "

Well I saw this coming. Bruce Ohr of-course met with Steele prior to the election and his wife was hired by Fusion GPS.
 
Fenton said:
DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title

DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title | Fox News

"A Justice Department official demoted late last year for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” has been stripped of yet another title, Fox News has learned.

Bruce Ohr is no longer head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Separately, sources familiar with the discussions tell Fox News that the Justice Department is expected to comply with demands from the House Intelligence Committee to provide Ohr for an interview. He is scheduled to visit the committee on Jan. 17, sources said.

Fox News first reported in December that Ohr had been demoted from the position of associate deputy attorney general, after it was revealed he had conducted undisclosed meetings with dossier author Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that produced the salacious document. "

Well I saw this coming. Bruce Ohr of-course met with Steele prior to the election and his wife was hired by Fusion GPS.
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The wheels are really starting to come off and it's not with who everyone thought it was going to be.
 
It's almost adorable how hard you folks are trying to discredit the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the media -- all to protect the grifter-in-chief. In the land of make-believe, everyone is corrupt but Trump. lol
 
Fishking said:
The wheels are really starting to come off and it's not with who everyone thought it was going to be.
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Yes, they're coming off all right. People that bury their head in a book known to be filled with BS and or who watch MSNBC every night really have no idea how serious this has become.
Left wing media outlets have tried to get ahead of this, like the NYTs running that article on Popadopolis being the trigger to the investigation, or Fusion GPSs hilarious Op-Ed where they called the Republican investigations " fake ", but they're just making things worse....for themselves
 
GhostlyJoe said:
It's almost adorable how hard you folks are trying to discredit the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the media -- all to protect the grifter-in-chief. In the land of make-believe, everyone is corrupt but Trump. lol
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All the credit goes to people like Bruce Ohr, Peter Sztrok, Lisa Page, James Comey, etc, etc, etc. Its their actions that have discredited them and their agencies, all we're doing is posting updates and no amount of wining from you is going to make this growing scandal go away

If you dont like your Politicians or Party investigated and or criticized ? Quit supporting and voting for low life Democrats
 
Fenton said:
All the credit goes to people like Bruce Ohr, Peter Sztrok, Lisa Page, James Comey, etc, etc, etc. Its their actions that have discredited them and their agencies, all we're doing is posting updates and no amount of wining from you is going to make this growing scandal go away

If you dont like your Politicians or Party investigated and or criticized ? Quit supporting and voting for low life Democrats
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Exactly my point. The scandal is a contrivance -- and an obvious one. Let me counter your list with my own: Flynn, Manafort, Papadapolous, Gates. Indictments. Guilty pleas. Let me repeat that: GUILTY PLEAS!

The desperate attempt to smear the names in your list betrays your real concerns: They're closing in on Trump.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
Exactly my point. The scandal is a contrivance -- and an obvious one. Let me counter your list with my own: Flynn, Manafort, Papadapolous, Gates. Indictments. Guilty pleas. Let me repeat that: GUILTY PLEAS!

The desperate attempt to smear the names in your list betrays your real concerns: They're closing in on Trump.
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:lamo This news just broke...

FBI agents' text messages spur congressional probe into possible news leaks | TheHill


" Republican-led House and Senate committees are investigating whether leaders of the Russia counterintelligence investigation had contacts with the news media that resulted in improper leaks, prompted in part by text messages amongst senior FBI officials mentioning specific reporters, news organizations and articles.

In one exchange, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page engaged in a series of texts shortly before Election Day 2016 suggesting they knew in advance about an article in The Wall Street Journal and would need to feign stumbling onto the story so it could be shared with colleagues.

“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct. 24, 2016.


“Wsj? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted back, using the initials of the famed financial newspaper. “Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”

The text messages, which were reviewed by The Hill, show the two FBI agents discussed how they might make it appear they innocently discovered the article, such as through Google News alerts.

“I can get it like I do every other article that hits any Google News alerts, seriously,” Strzok wrote, adding he didn’t want his team hearing about the article “from someone else.”



Yes, the investigation into collusion between Trump and Russia was based on a false narrative, it was contrived and you are living in a dream world. I guess its easier for Libs to exist in a fantasy world than it is to muster up the courage to question their own beliefs

And who are they closing in on ? Bruce Ohr was the assistant deputy AG under Obama and met with Christopher Steele both before and after the election. Bruce Ohr's WIFE was hired by Fusion GPS to conduct anti-Trump opposition research.

In your fantasy world, he doesn't exist, in the world he's directly tied to the dossier and Christopher Steele and has been demoted for the second time
 
Fishking said:
The wheels are really starting to come off and it's not with who everyone thought it was going to be.
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I read today the House Intel finally got all the documents they have been wanting in regard to the Trump Dossier from the FBI and DOJ. Next week there will be a number of witnesses from FBI agents to those at the DOJ called. By the end of this week though my bet is we are going to see this whole Russian Collusion thing completely unravel.
 
vesper said:
I read today the House Intel finally got all the documents they have been wanting in regard to the Trump Dossier from the FBI and DOJ. Next week there will be a number of witnesses from FBI agents to those at the DOJ called. By the end of this week though my bet is we are going to see this whole Russian Collusion thing completely unravel.
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I want to see what was the basis for the FISA warrant. If the dossier was part of it, as has been hinted at, then this will really turn into a giant ****storm that won't be able to be ignored.
 
Fenton said:
:lamo This news just broke...

FBI agents' text messages spur congressional probe into possible news leaks | TheHill


" Republican-led House and Senate committees are investigating whether leaders of the Russia counterintelligence investigation had contacts with the news media that resulted in improper leaks, prompted in part by text messages amongst senior FBI officials mentioning specific reporters, news organizations and articles.

In one exchange, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page engaged in a series of texts shortly before Election Day 2016 suggesting they knew in advance about an article in The Wall Street Journal and would need to feign stumbling onto the story so it could be shared with colleagues.

“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct. 24, 2016.


“Wsj? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted back, using the initials of the famed financial newspaper. “Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”

The text messages, which were reviewed by The Hill, show the two FBI agents discussed how they might make it appear they innocently discovered the article, such as through Google News alerts.

“I can get it like I do every other article that hits any Google News alerts, seriously,” Strzok wrote, adding he didn’t want his team hearing about the article “from someone else.”



Yes, the investigation into collusion between Trump and Russia was based on a false narrative, it was contrived and you are living in a dream world. I guess its easier for Libs to exist in a fantasy world than it is to muster up the courage to question their own beliefs

And who are they closing in on ? Bruce Ohr was the assistant deputy AG under Obama and met with Christopher Steele both before and after the election. Bruce Ohr's WIFE was hired by Fusion GPS to conduct anti-Trump opposition research.

In your fantasy world, he doesn't exist, in the world he's directly tied to the dossier and Christopher Steele and has been demoted for the second time
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lol ... even if they leaked, it doesn't exonerate anyone. Plus: GUILTY PLEAS! You're trying so hard. lol
 
Fenton said:
Yes, they're coming off all right. People that bury their head in a book known to be filled with BS and or who watch MSNBC every night really have no idea how serious this has become.
Left wing media outlets have tried to get ahead of this, like the NYTs running that article on Popadopolis being the trigger to the investigation, or Fusion GPSs hilarious Op-Ed where they called the Republican investigations " fake ", but they're just making things worse....for themselves
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How well. i'm am so overly heart broken about that.

:lamo
 
Fenton said:
DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title

DOJ official who concealed meetings with Trump dossier figures loses another job title | Fox News

"A Justice Department official demoted late last year for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” has been stripped of yet another title, Fox News has learned.

Bruce Ohr is no longer head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Separately, sources familiar with the discussions tell Fox News that the Justice Department is expected to comply with demands from the House Intelligence Committee to provide Ohr for an interview. He is scheduled to visit the committee on Jan. 17, sources said.

Fox News first reported in December that Ohr had been demoted from the position of associate deputy attorney general, after it was revealed he had conducted undisclosed meetings with dossier author Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that produced the salacious document. "

Well I saw this coming. Bruce Ohr of-course met with Steele prior to the election and his wife was hired by Fusion GPS.
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High time these hyper-partisans be excised from what should be completely apolitical positions and completely apolitical agency.
 
Fishking said:
I want to see what was the basis for the FISA warrant. If the dossier was part of it, as has been hinted at, then this will really turn into a giant ****storm that won't be able to be ignored.
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If so, then it better not be ignored and swept under the rug like in the last administration.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
lol ... even if they leaked, it doesn't exonerate anyone. Plus: GUILTY PLEAS! You're trying so hard. lol
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Wow, trying to discuss this growing scandal with a Liberal is like trying to teach my Border Collie Latin

You obviously haven't been keeping up with this story, so I have to start from the beginning.

Ill just say that Peter Sztrok and Lisa Page texted often to each other, and these weren't the first text released.

If you had been keeping up with this story, then you would understand the signifigance of these text. Its not just that they were leaking
 
Fishking said:
I want to see what was the basis for the FISA warrant. If the dossier was part of it, as has been hinted at, then this will really turn into a giant ****storm that won't be able to be ignored.
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Might be the reason why Mueller wants to meet with Trump.
Liberals keep calling it "interview", I call it "How can I best save my *** and the *** of a few dems who pull my strings."
 
Fenton said:
Wow, trying to discuss this growing scandal with a Liberal is like trying to teach my Border Collie Latin

You obviously haven't been keeping up with this story, so I have to start from the beginning.

Ill just say that Peter Sztrok and Lisa Page texted often to each other, and these weren't the first text released.

If you had been keeping up with this story, then you would understand the signifigance of these text. Its not just that they were leaking
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I get it all too well. You immediately jump to the worst possible interpretation of every vague text and consider it a given that the individual investigators were corrupt. Then you try to use that to paint the entire endeavor as corrupt. Then you try to dismiss the entire proceding and exonerate Trump by default.

The actual roles of the people involved. The actual intent of the messages. The actual veracity of the evidence. None of that is relevant to you (nor to Republicans in Congress, apparently). All you really care about is the appearance of impropriety to discredit any and all investigations against Trump. It's kind of the playbook. It's exactly what happened with Benghazi. It's exactly what happened with "Climategate."

Meanwhile, guilty pleas!
 
GhostlyJoe said:
I get it all too well. You immediately jump to the worst possible interpretation of every vague text and consider it a given that the individual investigators were corrupt. Then you try to use that to paint the entire endeavor as corrupt. Then you try to dismiss the entire proceding and exonerate Trump by default.

The actual roles of the people involved. The actual intent of the messages. The actual veracity of the evidence. None of that is relevant to you (nor to Republicans in Congress, apparently). All you really care about is the appearance of impropriety to discredit any and all investigations against Trump. It's kind of the playbook. It's exactly what happened with Benghazi. It's exactly what happened with "Climategate."

Meanwhile, guilty pleas!
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Oh please. All I or anyone else has to do is post updates on this growing scandal, no " interpretation " is neccesary.

The actions of these individuals and the consequences of their actions speak for themselves.
Bruce Ohr was the assistant deputy AG under Obama, a Senior DOJ official.

If you think his multiple demotions are the result of my or the Republicans " intrepretations " of his actions then your'e smoking something

Peter Sztrok was a Senior FBI official. He was demoted from his position as assistant head of counter intelligence for the FBI to human rescources.

It wasnt my interpretation that led to that demotion.
If this growing scandal distracts from the manufactured narrative of russian collusion, tough ****. The Left doesnt get to dictate whats news worthy
 
Fenton said:
Oh please. All I or anyone else has to do is post updates on this growing scandal, no " interpretation " is neccesary.

The actions of these individuals and the consequences of their actions speak for themselves.
Bruce Ohr was the assistant deputy AG under Obama, a Senior DOJ official.

If you think his multiple demotions are the result of my or the Republicans " intrepretations " of his actions then your'e smoking something

Peter Sztrok was a Senior FBI official. He was demoted from his position as assistant head of counter intelligence for the FBI to human rescources.

It wasnt my interpretation that led to that demotion.
If this growing scandal distracts from the manufactured narrative of russian collusion, tough ****. The Left doesnt get to dictate whats news worthy
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Liberals have not been informed yet of the facts, hence their assumption that these are our "interpretations".
Heck, if I relied on the same *** by CNN or MSNBC or NYT that liberals get to see, I wouldn't even know what facts were if they hit me.

Libs have to wait until their news media allows them to learn the facts. :lamo
 
GhostlyJoe said:
I get it all too well. You immediately jump to the worst possible interpretation of every vague text and consider it a given that the individual investigators were corrupt. Then you try to use that to paint the entire endeavor as corrupt. Then you try to dismiss the entire proceding and exonerate Trump by default.

The actual roles of the people involved. The actual intent of the messages. The actual veracity of the evidence. None of that is relevant to you (nor to Republicans in Congress, apparently). All you really care about is the appearance of impropriety to discredit any and all investigations against Trump. It's kind of the playbook. It's exactly what happened with Benghazi. It's exactly what happened with "Climategate."

Meanwhile, guilty pleas!
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Time for you to reevaluate your little "guilty pleas" mantra. Collusion, espionage, obstruction of justice? You've got nothing. Just a process crime, other crimes that are normally not prosecuted, and pleas for the sole reason to make the hardball tactics stop, guilty or not. If you looked at things critically, you would see that Mueller has come up with next to nothing.

You have Trump almost taunting him saying he does everything the right way, and there are no crimes. Mueller has nothing to respond with. Open your eyes and see what is happening.
 
GhostlyJoe said:
It's almost adorable how hard you folks are trying to discredit the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the media -- all to protect the grifter-in-chief. In the land of make-believe, everyone is corrupt but Trump. lol
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They discredited themselves under the corrupt POS Obongo.
 
Who is Bruce Ohr and why does anybody care what happens to him? What's his significance in any relevant events since the election?
 
Gaea said:
Who is Bruce Ohr and why does anybody care what happens to him? What's his significance in any relevant events since the election?
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Bruce Ohr was Deputy Assistant AG under Obama, # 4 in charge at Obama's DOJ

He was initially demoted after it was revealed he met with Christopher Steeele before and after the election. Also, Bruce Ohr's wife, who is a expert on Russian affairs also hired by Fusion GPS to conduct anti-Trump opposition research.

Christopher Steele was the author of the dossier.

The charge is the dossier, which was really just Hillary campaign and DNC funded opposition research, was used by the Obama administration to obtain FISA warrants that led to the unmasking and covert surveillance of the Trump campaign, prior to a election for Political purposes.

Bruce Ohr ties the most senior levels of the Obama adminstration to the dossier, or rather the Obama administration to the Hillary campaign and the DNC

Its hard to believe that so many people have no idea who Bruce Ohr is, and have no idea of the growing scandal that surrounds him and other Senior Obama officials

If this is proven, if Obama used Democrat funded opposition research as the basis for a investigation that led to the surveillance of the Trump campaign, this will make Watergate look like a parking ticket. It will set the new high water mark for Govt corruption and abuse of power.

Given Obama's record of corruption and abuse of power, its tottally plausible that thats exactly ehat happened
 
Fenton said:
Bruce Ohr was Deputy Assistant AG under Obama, # 4 in charge at Obama's DOJ

He was initially demoted after it was revealed he met with Christopher Steeele before and after the election. Also, Bruce Ohr's wife, who is a expert on Russian affairs also hired by Fusion GPS to conduct anti-Trump opposition research.

Christopher Steele was the author of the dossier.

The charge is the dossier, which was really just Hillary campaign and DNC funded opposition research, was used by the Obama administration to obtain FISA warrants that led to the unmasking and covert surveillance of the Trump campaign, prior to a election for Political purposes.

Bruce Ohr ties the most senior levels of the Obama adminstration to the dossier, or rather the Obama administration to the Hillary campaign and the DNC

Its hard to believe that so many people have no idea who Bruce Ohr is, and have no idea of the growing scandal that surrounds him and other Senior Obama officials

If this is proven, if Obama used Democrat funded opposition research as the basis for a investigation that led to the surveillance of the Trump campaign, this will make Watergate look like a parking ticket. It will set the new high water mark for Govt corruption and abuse of power.

Given Obama's record of corruption and abuse of power, its tottally plausible that thats exactly ehat happened
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Good info, thank you. As to the bolded above, it is not at all surprising that folks know little of what (most of) the MSM tries to downplay since most media bias is by simple omission. News reporting is a basic mind over matter affair - if they don't mind then it doesn't matter or, as the NYT says, "all the news that is fit to print".
 
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ttwtt78640 said:
Good info, thank you. As to the bolded above, it is not at all surprising that folks know little of what (most of) the MSM tries to downplay since most media bias is by simple omission. News reporting is a basic mind over matter affair - if they don't mind then it doesn't matter or, as the NYT says, "all the news that is fit to print".
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Eventually this growing story will be impossible to ignore, even for the most partisan Left wing media outlets.

I read the House Intel Commitee has recieved all the subpoenaed documents from the DOJ after months of being stone walled by the DOJ

Among these documents were the FISA applications that Rep Jim Jordan refered to when Wray was giving his testimony.

These documents will show who if the FBI relied on allegations in the dossier to obtain the warrants
It will show who at Obama's DOJ signed off on them, and which FISA judge granted them.

Im pretty sure we know who the FISA judge was. Most likeley Judge Rudolph Contreras, who was the Judge who initially presided over Flynns case, who recused himself with no explanation.

Turns out he sits on the FISA court, was a Obama appointee, and was on the court back when these warrants were obtained
 
GhostlyJoe said:
Exactly my point. The scandal is a contrivance -- and an obvious one. Let me counter your list with my own: Flynn, Manafort, Papadapolous, Gates. Indictments. Guilty pleas. Let me repeat that: GUILTY PLEAS!

The desperate attempt to smear the names in your list betrays your real concerns: They're closing in on Trump.
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Where do you get your news?

Manafort, Gates plead not guilty to charges in Mueller probe | TheHill
President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Monday afternoon pleaded not guilty to all charges from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting an investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Papadopoulos pleaded guilty because he flipped and is now a witness for the prosecution. Gates and Manafort pleaded not guilty. Please be accurate about who has pleaded what.
 
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