This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A newly declassified report on Nellie Ohr, who with her husband Bruce Ohr was integral to the fake "Russia collusion" conspiracy theory created by Democrats to attack then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race, reveals that she lied to Congress.
But never was prosecuted.
"By lying to Congress, Nellie Ohr showed contempt for congressional oversight and the American people. What's more, the FBI and DOJ's failure to hold Ohr accountable for appearing to commit multiple felonies and its obstructive conduct against agents that sought additional information reveals the agencies' deeply disturbing political bias. Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
"Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon. The DOJ's inaction on Nellie Ohr's criminal referral – despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI's own analysis – undermines public trust in the rule of law. I applaud Director Patel, Attorney General Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Blanche for cooperating with my request to declassify this information, which is in the public's interest, and chart a new course for transparency and accountability at the FBI and DOJ."
The Democrat power structure at that time fabricated claims about Trump, through Fusian GPS, for whom Nellie Ohr worked, and by weaponizing the FBI and DOJ, for whom Bruce Ohr worked, to assemble the "Steele dossier" of false allegations about him.
The conspiracy ended up before a special counsel who spent years of time and millions of taxpayer dollars to find out there was no evidence to support the allegations that aligned with Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton's losing agenda.
The U.S. Senate on the Judiciary explained the FBI and DOJ declined to prosecute Ohr, a contractor for Fusion GPS, even though an internal FBI analysis confirmed "Ohr's false congressional testimony."
The 2019 analysis was declassified at Grassley's request.
The investigation at the time, now revealed, "provides detailed evidence Ohr lied to Congress during sworn testimony and, as a result, obstructed ongoing congressional investigations, violating federal statutes 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 18 U.S.C § 1505. The document also exposes how the FBI prevented agents from reviewing all relevant information necessary to perform a full analysis of the extent of Ohr's false testimony and her role in the fake Russia collusion investigation," the committee reported.
The report said Nellie Ohr "was employed by the political opposition research firm Fusion GPS between 2015 to 2016 to perform open-source research attempting to connect then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russian organized crime."
"This research was paid for by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC). Both organizations ultimately settled with the Federal Election Commission after allegations of campaign finance violations for intentionally misreporting the true purpose of the payments," the report said.
"At the time of Nellie Ohr's Fusion GPS employment, her husband, Bruce Ohr, was an Associate Deputy Attorney General at DOJ. Both Nellie and Bruce Ohr testified to the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2018 as part of the committees' oversight of the FBI's bogus 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump's disproven collusion with Russia," the report said.
Nellie Ohr was referred to the DOJ for criminal investigation by then-Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., of the House Oversight Committee, who accused her of knowingly providing false testimony to Congress.
Among the findings:
For instance, the committee report confirmed. "Nellie Ohr gave a thumb drive containing her Fusion GPS work to her husband, Bruce Ohr, which he then provided to the FBI as part of its ongoing investigation. Nellie Ohr's email traffic shows she emailed her Russian investigative research directly to Bruce Ohr. Nellie's research closely mirrored the DOJ and FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. Bruce Ohr only shared information with the FBI relating to the Trump-Russia investigation after receiving it from his wife, Nellie Ohr. Nellie Ohr and Bruce Ohr met personally with British intelligence officer and Fusion GPS contractor, Christopher Steele, in 2016. Fusion GPS pitched Nellie Ohr's research to the Department of State (DOS) for additional investigation, per DOS emails. Nellie Ohr deleted emails with Russia-focused DOJ prosecutors, indicating an effort to conceal her exchanges with DOJ officials involved in the Trump-Russia investigation."
The report also notes Nellie Ohr have testified falsely to Congress that she was not involved in drafting Steel dossier claims as she made an "analytical error" in her own work that was identical to a mistake in the dossier, and a report deleted from a thumb drive owned by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and provided to the FBI via Bruce Ohr contained the same subject matter researched by Nellie Ohr.
Further in direct contradiction to her own testimony, she disseminated Fusion GPS research to DOJ prosecutors beyond those named in her testimony, including Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich, Joseph Wheatley.
And she took six ham radio classes and an exam during her time at Fusion, even though she claimed her training was before her employment there.
A report in the Daily Mail charged that her "false claims" about Trump led to him "being investigated for colluding with Russia…"
It was the FBI's Office Federal Public Corruption squad in Washington that was tasked with reviewing the referral.
