{"id":1933197,"date":"2023-05-18T07:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-doj-official-and-wife-had-bigger-roles-in-dossier-than-known-durham-report\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:43:16","slug":"ex-doj-official-and-wife-had-bigger-roles-in-dossier-than-known-durham-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-doj-official-and-wife-had-bigger-roles-in-dossier-than-known-durham-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Report reveals ex-DOJ official and spouse had significant involvement in dossier."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-doj-official-and-wife-had-bigger-roles-in-dossier-than-known-durham-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Explosive Report Reveals DOJ Official and Wife Shaped Debunked Dossier<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virtually-nothing-signals-us-in-a-recession-wh-econ-adviser-says\/\" title=\"\u2018Virtually Nothing Signals\u2019 US In A Recession, WH Econ Adviser Says\">newly released report<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippi-education-officials-get-paid-six-figure-salaries-to-run-f-rated-school-districts\/\" title=\"Mississippi Education Officials Get Paid Six-Figure Salaries To Run F-Rated School Districts\">report strongly suggests<\/a> that former Justice Department prosecutor Bruce Ohr\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<h3>The Report<\/h3>\n<p>According to the 306-page report, obtained by Durham, Nellie Ohr&#8217;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 \u201cspy\u201d and \u201cRussian insider\u201d on the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cwell-developed conspiracy of cooperation\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the prosecutor added, Bruce Ohr, an anti-Trump Democrat, pushed his wife\u2019s reports that cited Millian\u201412 in all\u2014onto 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.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>In other words, Steele was not the catalyst behind the dossier\u2019s central claims. Rather, it was Clinton\u2019s contractor Fusion GPS\u2014but more specifically, the wife of a senior DOJ official who worked for Fusion. So the FBI wasn\u2019t really investigating \u201cCrown reporting,\u201d as officials referred to Steele\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cone of the key intermediaries between Trump and the Russians.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">special counsel<\/a> also found that Simpson worked with Bruce Ohr to pressure the FBI to investigate the dossier allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI used a discredited dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign to spy on Trump&#8217;s campaign. 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