IN SURPRISE MOVE, HOUSE REPUBLICAN RELEASES BRUCE OHR TRANSCRIPT – IOTW Report

IN SURPRISE MOVE, HOUSE REPUBLICAN RELEASES BRUCE OHR TRANSCRIPT

DC: Georgia Rep. Doug Collins unilaterally released a 268-page transcript Friday of a deposition that Justice Department official Bruce Ohr gave to Congress in August.

Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, took the unusual step by reading a statement on the House floor and providing a link to the Ohr transcript in the public record. The representative said his patience with the Justice Department “has grown thin.”

Ohr served in 2016 and 2017 as a back channel between the FBI and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the anti-Trump dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele.

Bruce Ohr was interviewed on Aug. 28, 2018 by a task force of members from the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees.

Collins said Friday that he plans to release additional transcripts from interviews conducted by the task force. Lawmakers have also interviewed Nellie Ohr and FBI and Justice Department officials such as former FBI general counsel James Baker and former FBI attorney Lisa Page.

“Out of an abundance of caution, we gave DOJ an opportunity to review them for information that would endanger national security, but after many months and little progress, our patience has grown thin,” Collins said.

“The proposed redactions have nothing to do with national security and are anathema to our goal of government transparency,” he continued, adding that “I am, therefore, today making one of these transcripts public.”

“I intend to make other transcripts public soon,” he said. “I’m willing to consider any reasonable redactions DOJ makes in a timely manner, but won’t allow these transcripts to remain shrouded in secrecy.”  more

11 Comments on IN SURPRISE MOVE, HOUSE REPUBLICAN RELEASES BRUCE OHR TRANSCRIPT

  1. This is good news! Time for more pissed off congressmen and law enforcement personnel to come forward on their own. No doubt there are good people with real information that are as fed up as we are.

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  2. If it hurt Trump, Schiff would have released it already.

    If anything did, they would.

    The fact that they haven’t shows why Fat Jerry is issuing 81 subpoenas on Day 1 that have zero to do with Russia.

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  3. So one person out of hundreds actually has a set thats capable of standing up against the rats of the deep state. Where the f are the rest of those that should be taking a righteous stand for justice?? Oh, yea their afraid of the deep state attacking them with smoke and mirror charges.

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