You can almost smell the fear in the Get Trump camp that Bruce Ohr might be the thread that could be pulled to unravel the conspiracy of high-ranking officials to spy on the Trump campaign and then, after the election, put into action the “insurance policy” Peter Strzok mentioned to his mistress (and co-worker) Lisa Page in an August 2016 text message, to remove a duly elected president from office.
The New York Times, which serves as a pilot fish for the rest of the media, has been working hard to minimize the damage he might do. On August 17, as Ohr’s name was being introduced to inhabitants of the MSM bubble thanks to a threat by President Trump to remove his security clearance, the Times outright lied about his position in the Department of Justice, calling him a “midlevel” official in the DOJ. This lie was picked up and repeated in many other articles and was used on cable news reports extensively, thereby falsely branding him as a minor player caught up and persecuted by Trump and anyone else paying attention.
Ohr was, prior to his demotion, the top-ranked career official (i.e., not a political appointee) in the Justice Department. While the Times has not (so far as I have been able to discover) issued an official correction for this lie, the day before yesterday, it called him a “senior career Justice Department official” and yesterday, in its report on the hearing (didn’t the Times cover this itself?), ran an Associated Press report that called him “a high-ranking official in the deputy attorney general’s office” but identified his significance in the lede as “[a] longtime government lawyer who has become a central figure in President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the Russia investigation.” Other media went along with this Ohr-as-victim party line; CNN, for instance, called him the “Justice Department official in Trump’s crosshairs.”
One side benefit of Ohr’s appearance is that we now finally have more than one picture of Ohr. Up until yesterday, the sole picture of the former number-four official in the Obama Justice Department was from the ceremony accompanying an award he had received years ago. more
IF….and I mean IF….some provable criminal acts come out from all this crap, I wonder who will be the first to attract a fatal case of Clintonitis?
Trump should offer Ohr Secret Service protection, as long as he keeps spilling beans; and his wife – if she behaves.
Yeah, “you can almost smell the fear” is wishcasting on American Thinker’s part.
Did anyone see footage of Ohr walking into his deposition? He looked like a guy heading in to the barber shop. No fear, no hesitation, sipping his cuppa joe like it was any other workday.
They aren’t worried.
from ISS’a comments: “…As an attorney he did something he never should have done: he became part of the continuity of evidence; he became a fact witness…”
corrupt and, unfortunately, status quo
“Issa also said that Ohr admitted this (back-channel communication) had never happened in his 30-year career.”
Flip to MSNBC Maddow. The real story is Trump just victimizing low-level muchkins as a DISTRACTION Because Muller has such incredibly huge evidence of Trump in bed with Putin it just can’t be leaked….
ohr and his wife are in deep deep trouble
trump has everything
their texts,phone calls,the alias social media names et all
these people know that they have been caught
meanwhile,obama and hillary,podesta,et all are running for their lifes
hillary stays in the open so she won’t get arkansided by obama
evil and treasonous all
the demons in the rat party are in overtime trying to find a way out
can’t wait to see them swing at the end of a rope for trying to take down America
“Issa noted that ‘Bruce has a poor memory’ that enabled him to avoid outright refusals to answer questions.”
AKA the Hillary defense.
Geoff C. just read something this morning that none of the Democrat members of the two committees attended Ohr’s closed door interview. If true, I think it’s because they want to reserve the right to criticize and refute anything the Republicans say to the media about what they learned.
I do not understand why Ohr would have FBI atty’s attending his questioning on his behalf. Can anyone explain that?
I was saddened to read about Ohr’s suicide next week….but not surprised.
Good one Irate Nate.