Bruce Ohr Covered Up Anti-Trump Crusade To Distribute Steele Dossier Ohr had effectively become an 'off-the-books' investigator Mon, 01/06/2020 - 10:20 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bruce-ohr-covered-crusade-distribute-steele-dossier https://archive.is/bwWsN Still-employed DOJ official Bruce Ohr says he was simply doing his "duty as a citizen" when he distributed the infamous Steele dossier through "numerous meetings, phone calls and emails" while acting "as a link between the FBI and Hillary Clinton forces" to take down Donald Trump, according to the Washington Times. All this, while he was the #4 official at the Department of Justice - associate deputy attorney general, and in charge of the agency's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, titles Ohr was stripped of by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein after his crusade to take Trump down was uncovered by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz in November, 2017. And while Ohr was swapping anti-Trump research with his wife Nellie - a Fusion GPS employee with CIA ties - he hid his efforts between the summer of 2016 and Trump's election from his bosses. Recall that both Bruce and Nellie Ohr had ongoing communications with Christopher Steele, the dossier's author, even having breakfast with him on July 30, 2016 at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington D.C. - one day before the FBI launched operation Crossfire Hurricane, and one week after Steele had given installments of his Clinton-funded anti-Trump research to the FBI. Following the Ohrs' breakfast with Steele, Bruce immediately phoned the FBI and met with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page, a high-ranking FBI lawyer who was banging the head of counterintelligence - Peter Strzok - as they swapped anti-Trump text messages, while investigating Trump (yet no bias). Ohr later met with Strzok as well. Clearly the lines between Ohr's personal crusade and his position as a top DOJ official had blurred, resulting in his demotions. "The idea that he actually had some role in this Russia investigation was shocking to me," Rosenstein told the inspector general. "We had been fending off these congressional inquiries. And they were asking for all sorts of stuff, 302s [FBI reports] and things, and … I had no idea that somebody on my staff had actually been involved in … an operational way in the investigation." Nellie Ohr, meanwhile, also appears to have gone on a mysterious personal crusade - becoming a late-life Ham radio enthusiast, which some suspect is how she covertly communicated with others about the Trump-Russia investigation. According to the Times, Christopher Steele's FBI handler warned Ohr that "Steele could not be trusted."