'Oh Nellie'

During the 2016 election, when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were the two major party nominees, the Clinton campaign hired a commercial research firm to conduct opposition research on Trump. The firm, Fusion GPS, based in Washington, D.C., was responsible for creating the political opposition report known as the Steele Dossier. Nellie Ohr, a Russian-speaking analyst with degrees in history and Russian literature from Harvard, worked for Fusion GPS while the firm was under contract with the Clinton campaign. Nellie Ohr was also the wife of Bruce Ohr, the associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. How did information from Hillary Clinton's opposition research end up in the FBI's counterintelligence division, and how did it influence their investigation into Trump? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #273. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.according2sam.com