re: The Dossier Unlocked the Storm - MI6-->Prof-->Paps-->Millian-->Steele-->Dossier-->FISA

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The department's Bruce Ohr, a career official, served as associate deputy attorney general at the time of the campaign. That placed him just below the deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, who ran the day-to-day operations of the department.

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Unbeknownst to investigators until recently, Ohr knew Christopher Steele and had repeated contacts with Steele when Steele was working on the dossier. Ohr also met once after the election with Glenn Simpson, head of Fusion GPS, the opposition research company that was paid by the Clinton campaign to compile the dossier.

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The news also stunned some of those who had been investigating the matter. Yes, they knew that knowledge of the dossier extended to some officials in the FBI. That was bad enough; how could the FBI endorse and consider underwriting one campaign's dirt-digging operation in the middle of a hotly-contested election? But now investigators know that nearly the highest levels of the Obama Justice Department were also aware of the dossier.

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