Fusion GPS's Nellie Ohr fabricated most of the Steele Dossier. Christopher Steele's job was to use his fake sources to flesh out her fake stories.
Ohr created a second dossier on Trump/Russia, designed to look like it was coming from another source so it could corroborate the first dossier. Fusion GPS gave it to Clinton operative Cody Shearer, who gave it to the State Department, who gave it to the FBI.
FBI immediately saw through the charade, but of course they did not prosecute the Clintonistas for their fraud.
Declassified FBI memo sheds new light on Clinton's fingerprints, cash on Trump-Russia probe
The FBI determined that Fusion GPS -- hired by Clinton's campaign -- likely served as a coordinating hub for creating several bogus Trump-Russia dossiers, and noted an unusually cozy relationship between Fusion GPS and the Department of Justice.
The memo details how a second Trump-Russia dossier — which became the focus of congressional scrutiny in 2018 — was authored by long-time Clinton associate Cody Shearer and ended up in FBI hands. The memo was passed to the FBI through Christopher Steele, who received it from a State Department official. The FBI investigator who drafted the declassified memo noted that this second dossier—which the bureau calls the “FSB Memo”—bore signs of close coordination between Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele.
This second memo was reported in the media as a potential source of corroborating evidence to vouch for the later-discredited Steele Dossier. The Guardian, for example, attempted to bolster the Steele Dossier's bona fides by asserting in 2018 that the Shearer memo “independently sets out some of the allegations made by ex-spy Christopher Steele.”
“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,” journalists Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins wrote.
However, the declassified FBI memo shows the bureau viewed that second memo as “obviously fictitious,” citing its wild claims and divergence from the usual characteristics of reports from confidential human sources.
“Unlike authentic intel/CHS reports, the FSB Report is full of smoking guns and derogatory information sufficient to predicate any investigative interest,” the agent wrote in the Nellie Ohr memo.
Additionally, the FBI assessed that the second dossier, though purportedly independently produced, appeared to be coordinated by Fusion GPS. Though the FSB memo was not provided to the FBI by Bruce Ohr, the FBI investigators noted several concrete ties to Fusion GPS.
The FBI assessed that the version of the FSB memo that ended up in the Crossfire Hurricane file came from State Department official Jonathan Winer, with whom Steele met as early as September 2016. There were more links between the second, equally bogus report and Clinton's Fusion GPS. The FBI investigators also found a deleted copy of the FSB memo on a thumb drive owned by Glenn Simpson—the co-founder of Fusion GPS.
“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 reads.
“This appears to further establish that this was a coordinated Fusion GPS effort,” it continues.
The investigator also notes the details in that second memo closely matched Nellie Ohr’s research areas while she was employed by Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump. The declassified memo shows the FBI believed it was likely that Ohr’s research served as a basis for many of the Trump-Russia documents that ended up in the FBI’s possession and formed the basis for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
“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.
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