Anewly declassified FBI memo detailing the findings of its probe into Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr about the veracity of her testimony to Congress delivers new details about the Hillary Clinton campaign’s fingerprints on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The New York Post reported that Ohr, the wife of a former Justice Department official, gave “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her involvement in drafting and disseminating the since-debunked dossiers.
The memo was released on Wednesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and shows the bureau assessed that Nellie Ohr likely lied to Congress in her testimony about the genesis of the infamous Steele Dossier, her interactions with Justice Department officials, and knowledge of the Trump-Russia probe, known inside the government as “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Ohr denied knowledge of DOJ probe under oath
Nellie Ohr was a researcher and analyst doing work for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to conduct anti-Trump opposition research. That firm eventually hired disgraced British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who produced the infamous Steele Dossier and other fictional material that provided the ostensible basis for Biden’s Justice Department to probe Trump.
Ohr originally told congressional investigators in October 2018, that she had no knowledge of the Justice Department’s investigations into the Trump-Russia connection, but several key facts uncovered by the FBI’s probe could spell trouble. The memo shows that she shared investigative materials from her Fusion GPS work with her husband, Bruce Ohr, who worked at the Justice Department; and that she acknowledged the investigation in her own emails.
The memo also pointed out the textual similarity between her Fusion GPS research and the official investigation, and disclosed a joint meeting with her DOJ-official husband and Christopher Steele.
Aside from Nellie Ohr’s work for Fusion GPS, which has long been the subject of congressional investigations and media attention, the declassified memo also shows more extensive Clinton campaign fingerprints on the origins of the collision investigation, with Fusion GPS being the coordinating hub of a multipronged effort to spread Russia collusion allegations to the FBI. Politico reported in 2017 that according to unnamed sources, The Democratic National Committee and Marc Elias, a lawyer for Hillary Clinton who represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign and hired Fusion GPS, helped bankroll research that led to the now-infamous dossier.
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