Three former Department of Justice (DOJ) officials on Friday expressed incredulity over reports that a top official continued to have contact with a former British spy after the FBI had cut ties with him during the Russia investigation.
The ex-spy, Christopher Steele, authored the infamous dossier of salacious but mostly unverified information regarding President Donald Trump. Justice officials used that dossier — paid for by 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — to help obtain an eavesdropping warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to monitor possible ties between Russia and Trump campaign advisers.
The Hill reported this week on communications between Steele (pictured above right) and Bruce Ohr, who at the time was associate deputy attorney general at DOJ. Those communications took place in January 2017 — after the FBI had determined it no longer would use Steele as a source.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm hired by Clinton and the DNC through a cutout, the law firm Perkins Coie. Fusion GPS paid Steele to produce the dossier.
“It sounds like they decommissioned this informant and fully intended to keep using him,” former federal prosecutor James Trusty said on “The Ingraham Angle.” Trusty told Fox News host Ingraham that it is deeply troubling.
“It’s a huge red flag, Laura. I mean, I was with the Justice Department 17 years, seven in D.C.,” he said. “And I can’t, for the life of me, figure out any good explanation for why Bruce, who I knew, was sitting down with a decommissioned informant.”
Ingraham asked if it is conceivable that Ohr (pictured above left) did not know what his wife was working on for Fusion GPS. – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Judicial Watch is suing the Department of Justice for access to communications related to the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
The conservative watchdog group is seeking various records related to former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr, dossier author Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.
In a statement, Judicial Watch said it sued because the Justice Department failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in May.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explained on “Hannity” that Fusion GPS — which employed Nellie Ohr — was retained by a lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to compile opposition research on then-candidate Donald Trump.
He noted that Fusion GPS at the same time was working on behalf of Russian actors targeting critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Magnitsky Act – READ MORE
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