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
We Gxd Damn, some one needs to get the fuck on the offensive. What the hell?
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.
It’s far past time we’ve reached Defcon 5 and gone scorched earth! 🙁 🙁 🙁
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.
Susan Collins will probably be on all the Sunday shows expressing her dismay.
About time Congress stopped letting the DOJ hide.
…If President Trump would like to declassify anything, this would be a wonderful time to do so…
Accidently growing some long lost gonads.
Anybody else over there have some?
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.
I see cracks in the dam… finally!
Doug Collins (R-GA)-next republican presidential candidate (after Trump’s tenure).
What would really be a surprise is of AG Barr got off his ass.