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Bruce Ohr May Have Broken More Than The Law By Pushing His Wife's Opposition Research To The FBI
A review of publicly available information causes a reasonable person to wonder whether Bruce Ohr broke the law by promoting his wife’s anti-Trump research to the FBI when he was working at the Justice Department.The law prohibits public officials from involvement in matters in which their spouse has a financial interest. The question is, Did Ohr "personally and substantially" participate in a particular matter in which his spouse had a "financial interest" while he was employed by the Justice Department as the assistant attorney general? Let’s take a closer look. Recall that the Hillary Clinton campaign (through its law firm Perkins Coie) hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS to generate dirt on Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign. Fusion GPS in turn hired former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier containing as yet unproven allegations of Russian dirt on Trump.  We learned in December that Ohr met with Fusion GPS in November 2016 ‐ a critical time frame ‐ while he was the associate deputy attorney general. Former FBI agent Peter Strzok has confirmed Ohr fed the FBI documents pertinent to the investigation into Trump’s Russia ties, and The Hill reported the FBI used Ohr to continue collecting information from Steele, even after it terminated him as a source for leaking word of the investigation to the media. John Solomon filled in the contours of Ohr’s role in the investigation, writing in The Hill of recently disclosed emails: They also confirm that Ohr later became a critical conduit of continuing information from Steele after the FBI ended the Brit’s role as an informant. ... "Critical conduit?" How about 'cut-out?' In espionage parlance, a 'cut-out' is a mutually trusted intermediary, method or channel of communication that facilitates the exchange of information between agents. The FBI specifically instructed Steele that he could no longer ’operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI,’ those memos show. Translation: We can no longer conduct personal meets (PM's). Another venue will be developed. You will be notified. Yet, Steele asked Ohr in the Jan. 31 text exchange if he could continue to help feed information to the FBI: ’Just want to check you are OK, still in the situ and able to help locally as discussed, along with your Bureau colleagues.’ ’I’m still here and able to help as discussed,’ Ohr texted back. ’I’ll let you know if that changes.’ Translation: We still have funding for your project. Continues Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-08-17 |
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