Former FBI Director James Comey and other senior officials in the Obama administration likely committed federal crimes in their use of “lawfare” against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump, said Sidney Powell, Flynn’s attorney.
Newly declassified documents raise serious questions about James Comey potentially withholding damning information regarding the credibility of Russia collusion charges repeatedly relied upon to obtain four successive warrants to spy on a member of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier, worked with the Obama administration’s National Security Council to cultivate Russian oligarchs as sources of intelligence about Russian President Vladimir Putin, a book by the co-founders of Fusion GPS relates.
Horowitz said Ohr, under scrutiny due to his unusual role in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, still works at the DOJ.
The Democrats’ 2018 memo made several factual assertions about the FBI and FISA, many of which were partly or fully refuted in the IG report.
Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, was part of an Obama administration email chain celebrating the eventual signing of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine.
Chalupa went on a bizarre Twitter rant after Devin Nunes name-checked her during a recent committee hearing.
Glenn Simpson bizarrely told United States law enforcement that Never Trumper Rick Wilson was a former Trump campaign official as part of the firm’s effort to push allegations of Russian collusion, according to a new report.
If you can get the Department of Justice to attack the person who beat you in a presidential race, you are fairly clever. Or maybe not – as nefarious characters in the DOJ were more than willing to help Hillary Clinton.
Newly released FBI records reveal the FBI used senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr as a conduit to “pee dossier” author British ex-spy Christopher Steele in 2016 and 2017.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Kathleen Kavalec and former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, discussing the targeting of Donald Trump with Steele dossier material.
NEW YORK — Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey conceded that when it came to details inside the infamous anti-Trump dossier his FBI “didn’t know whether they were true or false.”
A newly-uncovered document suggests that the Obama DOJ, including the FBI, was “well aware” that foreign agent Christopher Steele was trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election with disinformation — and yet still used his materials to spy on American citizens and the Trump campaign.
The Ukrainian Embassy confirmed recently that a DNC contractor had asked for dirt on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
While he was a high-ranking career Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr maintained a joint email account with his wife, Nellie, who was a contractor for the controversial Fusion GPS firm that produced the infamous, largely-discredited anti-Trump dossier, according to recently released testimony.
Appearing Saturday evening on the Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told Jeanine Pirro that fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and demoted Justice Department official Bruce Ohr should be in prison for perjury and conflicts of interest.
TEL AVIV — In recently released testimony, Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official, recounted that he informed the FBI that the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele was based on “hearsay” and not tangible evidence.
Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official, admitted in recently released testimony that he informed the FBI that the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele was tied to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Attorney James Baker had what D.C. considers a long and distinguished career at the Justice Department – his last position was general counsel of the FBI – until he got himself involved in the anti-Trump machinations of disgraced former Director James Comey and his co-conspirators.
James Baker, former General Counsel for the FBI, is under federal investigation for unauthorized media disclosures, according to a congressional letter sent to a U.S. attorney’s office.
President Donald Trump said Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his investigators had conflicts of interest, demanding on Twitter that they are included in the final report. “Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top
Trump threatened to declassify documents that would expose the DOJ, FBI, and Clinton campaign if Democrats probe into his administration.
President Donald Trump believes his efforts to purge the FBI of biased top officials is part of his presidential legacy, he said in an interview published on Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders cited “reasons of transparency” for the president’s decision, as well as requests from Congressional investigative committees, to declassify Russia investigation documents.
President Trump will reportedly declassify documents that are expected to reveal how the government justified its investigation into his campaign.
On Thursday, a dozen Republican congressmen led by New York Representative Lee Zeldin asked President Donald Trump to declassify key documents in the Russian election interference probe.
Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele apparently worked on an FBI plot to get dirt on President Trump in exchange for visas, according to a report.
The closed-door testimony of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr before House investigators Tuesday revealed new details about the FBI information-gathering steps both prior to and during its surveillance of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
Jonathon Moffa, an FBI agent, admitted to Congress his agency leaks stories to the news media, then uses the resulting stories to back up assertions in warrant applications, according to a series of reports Tuesday.
In a Tuesday evening appearance on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s ties to Trump dossier author Christopher Steele were absent from the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications he analyzed.
“Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited Dossier, ever be fired from the Jeff Sessions ‘Justice’ Department?” Trump wrote on Twitter. “A total joke!”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said Friday he intends to present an amendment to “block” President Trump from “arbitrarily revoking security clearances.”
Friday on the White House lawn while speaking to reporters President Donald Trump said he would revoke the security clearance of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who is linked to Steele dossier. When asked if he will take away Ohr’s
President Donald Trump said Friday he never respected former CIA director John Brennan, which was partially why he withdrew his security clearance.
Justice Department Official Bruce Ohr is expected to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on August 28 about his relationship with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
Recently, Republican lawmakers indicated that Bruce Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general, is becoming more central to their investigation of the soft coup against President Trump.
“Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “It is all starting to be revealed – not pretty.”
FBI agent Peter Strzok revealed Thursday during his testimony before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees that he had communicated with Bruce Ohr and that Ohr gave “documents and material” to the FBI, which Republican lawmakers believe is linked to the FBI acquiring the infamous “pee dossier” by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Monday requesting documents pertaining to former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr ties to Christopher Steele, the ex-British agent behind the anti-Trump dossier.
The memo from House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), released finally on Friday after a massive buildup and protracted battle with Democrats and feds who fought its release, demonstrated widespread abuse by senior Department of Justice (DOJ) and law enforcement officials of federal spying capabilities.
