Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has largely tried to stay low. She knows she has skeletons in her closet to protect.
That’s why Hillary Clinton is utterly terrified about what the FBI is uncovering right now.
Clinton Ally Accused Of Federal Crimes Of Lying To Congress
A newly declassified FBI memo, released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, casts a harsh light on the murky origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, revealing a web of connections tied to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. The memo, detailing the FBI’s probe into Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr, suggests she provided “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her role in crafting and spreading the now-debunked Steele Dossier. This revelation raises fresh questions about the extent of Clinton’s influence over the investigation that dogged Donald Trump’s presidency.
Nellie Ohr, married to former Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm hired by Clinton’s campaign to unearth dirt on Trump. The firm’s efforts culminated in the infamous Steele Dossier, authored by disgraced ex-British spy Christopher Steele, which fueled the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” probe into alleged Trump-Russia ties. The declassified memo, made public on Wednesday, indicates Ohr likely misled Congress in 2018 when she claimed ignorance of the Justice Department’s investigation, despite evidence she shared materials with her husband and met with Steele.
Emails and documents reveal she funneled her work to Bruce Ohr, who served as a conduit to the FBI. A joint meeting with Steele and her husband further ties her to the dossier’s dissemination. This suggests a coordinated effort, with Fusion GPS acting as a hub for pushing unverified allegations into the FBI’s hands, all under the auspices of Clinton’s campaign.
Fusion GPS’s role as a Clinton-funded operation is no secret. In 2017, Politico reported that Marc Elias, a lawyer representing both the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s campaign, bankrolled the research that produced the Steele Dossier. The declassified memo adds weight to this, showing Fusion GPS as the nerve center of a multipronged effort to feed Russia collusion claims to the FBI, leveraging connections within the Justice Department and beyond.
The memo also uncovers a second dossier, authored by longtime Clinton associate Cody Shearer, which found its way to the FBI through Steele and a State Department official, Jon Winer. Dubbed the “FSB Memo” by the FBI, this document was touted by some media outlets as corroborating Steele’s claims. In 2018, The Guardian’s Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins wrote, “It raises the possibility that parts of the Steele dossier, which has been derided by Trump’s supporters, may have been corroborated by Shearer’s research, or could still be.” Yet, the FBI dismissed this second memo as “obviously fictitious,” citing its outlandish claims.
The Shearer memo’s ties to Fusion GPS run deep. The FBI recovered a deleted copy of it from a thumb drive owned by Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS’s co-founder, indicating the document was handled by the firm before reaching the FBI. “By recovering the deleted FSB Report file from Glenn Simpson’s thumb drive, the FBI established that a thumb drive Glenn Simpson utilized was used to handle this report the day prior to its being passed to the FBI by Steele,” the memo states. This points to a deliberate effort to launder Clinton-linked materials through multiple channels.
The FBI’s assessment is d*mning: the Shearer memo wasn’t an independent effort but a product of Fusion GPS’s machinations. “This appears to further establish that Christopher Steele was not running rogue, passing random Cody Shearer writings to the FBI but that this was a coordinated Fusion GPS effort,” the memo notes. The overlap between Nellie Ohr’s research and the content of both dossiers suggests her work was a cornerstone of the allegations that sparked Crossfire Hurricane.
Ohr’s congressional testimony in 2018 now appears riddled with falsehoods. She denied knowledge of the Justice Department’s probe, yet her emails and interactions with her husband and Steele tell a different story. Grassley, in his Wednesday statement, accused Ohr of violating federal law, citing 18 U.S.C. §1001 (false statements) and 18 U.S.C. §1505 (obstruction of justice). “Ohr lied to Congress during sworn testimony and, as a result, obstructed ongoing congressional investigations,” he said.
The legal implications for Ohr remain uncertain. The five-year statute of limitations for her alleged crimes likely expired in 2023, but the “Discovery Rule” could extend this period if authorities only recently uncovered her actions. With potential penalties including five years in prison and $10,000 fines, the question lingers whether Attorney General Pam Bondi or FBI Director Kash Patel will pursue charges. A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment, stating, “Justice Department policy is generally to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”
The FBI memo highlights how Nellie Ohr’s research for Fusion GPS dovetailed with the materials that fueled Crossfire Hurricane. “It also demonstrates another example of subject matter researched by Nellie Ohr in furtherance of her Fusion GPS position being found in a Fusion GPS document provided to the FBI with the intent of predicating investigative activity,” the memo reads. This suggests a calculated effort to weaponize unverified research against Trump.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation found no evidence of collusion, and Inspector General Michael Horowitz criticized the dossier’s “central and essential” role in the FBI’s surveillance of Trump aide Carter Page. The Steele Dossier, once heralded as a bombshell, has since been discredited as a collection of unverified rumors.
John Durham’s 2023 report further dismantled the investigation’s foundation, concluding that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” at the probe’s outset. The report excoriated the FBI for ignoring the Steele Dossier’s lack of corroboration, a failure that now appears compounded by Fusion GPS’s role in pushing a second, equally dubious memo.
The involvement of Clinton operatives like Shearer and Elias, combined with Fusion GPS’s central role, points to a concerted effort to manufacture a narrative. The FBI’s reliance on these documents, despite their questionable origins, raises questions about the agency’s objectivity during the 2016 election cycle. The declassified memo exposes a pipeline from Clinton’s campaign to the FBI, with Nellie Ohr and Fusion GPS as key conduits.
Bruce Ohr’s role as an unofficial backchannel between Steele and the FBI further complicates the picture. His wife’s work, passed through him to the bureau, suggests a cozy relationship between Clinton’s operatives and federal officials. This dynamic, coupled with the State Department’s involvement via Jon Winer, hints at a troubling network of influence peddling.
The media’s role in amplifying these dubious dossiers also comes under scrutiny. Outlets like The Guardian, which suggested the Shearer memo bolstered Steele’s claims, contributed to a narrative that lacked substance. The FBI’s own assessment—that the Shearer memo was “full of smoking guns and derogatory information” unlike credible intelligence—goes to show the apparent the gap between media hype and reality.
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