Bruce Ohr bypassed DOJ superiors to feed FBI info from Trump dossier author: Report

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Bruce Ohr bypassed DOJ superiors to feed FBI info from Trump dossier author: Report
by Daniel Chaitin
 | August 23, 2018 11:18 PM
 | Updated Aug 23, 2018, 11:36 PM



Justice Department official Bruce Ohr completely bypassed his superiors at the agency when he connected with FBI officials to share information he received from British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier, according to a report Thursday.

While President Trump and Republican lawmakers have been eager to use Ohr's link to the unverified dossier to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, sources who spoke to ABC News emphasized that Ohr was a rogue actor whose efforts held little sway.

“Nobody knew. He didn’t tell anybody,” said one former DOJ official who worked with Ohr, who had been associate deputy attorney general. “It was completely outside the scope of what he was asked to do. It wasn’t even close to his job.”

Ohr is scheduled to give testimony to the Oversight and Judiciary Committees behind closed doors on Tuesday. In previewing what GOP investigators are poised to ask, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News on Sunday that he and his colleagues would ask Ohr about whether there was a bias campaign against Trump that led even further up the power chain in the Obama administration, particularly by ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

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[Free Vulcan]

Stop it with this stuff. Jeff Sessions is sleeping, don't wake him up unless it's about civil forfeiture or something.

[kidd]

"Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News on Sunday that he and his colleagues would ask Ohr about whether there was a bias campaign against Trump that led even further up the power chain in the Obama administration"

Sigh. Of course the answer will be "no".
Ratcliffe had better be prepared with more focused questions that can be backed up with facts, rather than letting Ohr answer a question with lots of wiggle room and giving him the opportunity to give an opinion.