Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) asked for correspondence between Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier, and a former associate deputy attorney general, according to a Monday Politico report.
Grassley reportedly sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking for all written and electronic communication between Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr, a fringe figure in the Russia probe targeted by conservatives on the Hill.
Grassley reportedly wants the records to ensure that Ohr did not continue to feed the FBI information from Steele after the intelligence agency grew concerned about Steele’s communication with news outlets and distanced itself. Per Politico, Grassley also asked for a transcribed interview with Ohr.
As part of his efforts scrutinizing the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election, Grassley has long raised concerns about Ohr, whose wife worked for the firm that funded Steele’s dossier.
Sorry, Chuck, I’m semi-obsessively following this story (at least as far as regular citizens go), and I’ve never heard of Bruce Ohr in my life.
You’re going to need to tilt at a windmill somebody has actually heard of. This fish won’t hunt.
Disgusting dirty old traitor…
You guys are more than able to check out the investigation when it’s over. If the investigation seems slanted and doesn’t produce anything, by all means look at the origins.
…after the investigation is over, not in the middle of it. That’s not how oversight works.
Ah yes, digging digging digging, never stop digging, all to run interference and play defense for the biggest literal traitor this country has ever known. Please proceed. Your graves are not deep enough yet.
Nunes and Grassley should just come out and say it: “We want to run the investigation, and if we can’t run it we want to shut it down … for whatever reasons we can conjure. The purpose, of course, being to protect Trump and the Republicans who were involved and those who are now knowingly and willingly complicit. Fuck the country and the institutions of democracy.”