Durham Report reveals ex-DOJ official and spouse had significant involvement in dossier.

Explosive Report Reveals DOJ Official and Wife Shaped Debunked Dossier

Introduction

The newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham has revealed that a top Justice Department official and his wife had an early hand in shaping the political rumor sheet. The report strongly suggests that former Justice Department prosecutor Bruce Ohr’s wife Nellie Ohr first plowed the ground for the debunked dossier with a series of research reports she wrote for Fusion GPS, the D.C.-based opposition research firm the Clinton campaign commissioned to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia.

The Report

According to the 306-page report, obtained by Durham, Nellie Ohr’s reports zeroed in on Sergei Millian and his connections to Russia and Trump, falsely portraying him as a key intermediary between the Kremlin and the Republican candidate. She wrote her first Millian report in April 2016, the month before Fusion GPS hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to put his imprimatur as a supposed former “spy” and “Russian insider” on the dossier.

Durham suggests Nellie Ohr planted the seeds of sourcing for the most explosive allegations leveled by the dossier against Trump, including the oft-cited notion that he and his campaign were engaged in a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin. The dossier attributed this, falsely, to Millian. Durham found that the Belarusian-American realtor was never a source for the dossier and was simply invented as one, along with the allegations attributed to him.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor added, Bruce Ohr, an anti-Trump Democrat, pushed his wife’s reports that cited Millian—12 in all—onto the Crossfire Hurricane team at FBI headquarters that was investigating Trump and his campaign for possible espionage. Agents used her reports as a source of corroboration for the Steele reports they received in the summer and fall of 2016, even though it was circular reporting.

Conclusion

In other words, Steele was not the catalyst behind the dossier’s central claims. Rather, it was Clinton’s contractor Fusion GPS—but more specifically, the wife of a senior DOJ official who worked for Fusion. So the FBI wasn’t really investigating “Crown reporting,” as officials referred to Steele’s dossier, implying it was British intelligence. More accurately, it was investigating information from inside its own department that was laundered through Steele and his dossier.

This explosive report has shattered the claims made by Fusion GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, who maintained that it was Steele who identified Millian as “one of the key intermediaries between Trump and the Russians.” The special counsel also found that Simpson worked with Bruce Ohr to pressure the FBI to investigate the dossier allegations.