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Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm
Fox News ^ | James Rossen

Posted on 12/07/2017 9:57:17 AM PST by EVO X

EXCLUSIVE: 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.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: brucegohr; bruceohr; california; christophersteele; devinnunes; doj; fbi; fusiongps; goldenshowersdossier; jamescomey; mi6; mueller; ocdetf; ohr; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; russia; spying; steele; steeledossier; trumpdoj; trumpdossier
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This story was mentioned on Rush"s program. More news about the phony Trump dossier.
1 posted on 12/07/2017 9:57:17 AM PST by EVO X
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To: EVO X

The rot runs deep

More pieces of the Get Trump conspiracy emerge


2 posted on 12/07/2017 9:58:42 AM PST by Regulator
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To: EVO X

Giant story. I have stated before and I see this as more evidence that Mueller may be working to expose these people. Imagine that without Mueller Stortz and this guy skates without notice.


3 posted on 12/07/2017 9:59:17 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: EVO X

Sounds like TREASON............................


4 posted on 12/07/2017 10:01:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: WeWaWes

Rush thought so, but thought the MSM would bury it..


5 posted on 12/07/2017 10:01:31 AM PST by EVO X
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To: EVO X

Why isn’t he completely off the payrolls?


6 posted on 12/07/2017 10:02:03 AM PST by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: WeWaWes

More like pressure from the IG on Weasel Mueller and the not interested Rip van Sessions..


7 posted on 12/07/2017 10:02:12 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Regulator

Charge them ALL with TREASON!..........................


8 posted on 12/07/2017 10:02:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: EVO X

Should be in breaking


9 posted on 12/07/2017 10:02:57 AM PST by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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To: WeWaWes

The swamp is draining & it very well may be Mueller who is opening the drain. Who ever it is, it seems to be working........slowly.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 10:03:25 AM PST by gubamyster
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“Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm.”

Demoted?

He should have been fired and prosecuted.


11 posted on 12/07/2017 10:03:29 AM PST by detective
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To: EVO X

Sessions big push is for the Leakers. This sure looks like one of them. Major paperwork whitewash and then “nothing”. Demoted? Fire and charge with Treason.


12 posted on 12/07/2017 10:04:18 AM PST by DrDude (Why allow Hillary to continue to breath!)
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To: EVO X

Why not fired?


13 posted on 12/07/2017 10:04:19 AM PST by donna (Who's afraid of the FBI?)
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To: EVO X

The linchpin to this case is whether that dossier was used to justify otherwise outrageously illegal surveillance. If it was, then people don’t need to be demoted, they need to go to prison. And if that surveillance was used to set a perjury trap for Flynn, he walks.


14 posted on 12/07/2017 10:05:21 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: EVO X

We don’t need to ‘demote’ the *&*##!@ swamp! We need to drain it! Fire these damned a-holes!


15 posted on 12/07/2017 10:06:28 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: WeWaWes

Mueller did jack, he and justice are only taking any action because of congress forcing their hand


16 posted on 12/07/2017 10:06:45 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!Goo)
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To: LS

Any thoughts Larry ?


17 posted on 12/07/2017 10:07:31 AM PST by onona
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To: EVO X

Ironic that the dossier that gave them the opportunity to illegally spy on Flynn and the rest should also be the reason that any “evidence” should be thrown out and those who continue this crap should be dealt with - with extreme prejudice....


18 posted on 12/07/2017 10:08:14 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm

Another Deep Swamp American Traitor who should go to prison.

19 posted on 12/07/2017 10:08:33 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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The FBI used Fusion - or Hillary's campaign - to start an bogus investigation of our elected Executive, to illegally unmask people, raid homes etc.

This is just straight-up criminal behavior.

20 posted on 12/07/2017 10:10:36 AM PST by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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