Nellie and Bruce Ohr
Senator Chuck Grassley on Monday requested FBI Director Kash Patel to declassify the FBI’s evaluation of Nellie Ohr’s legal referral after she lied to Congress.
Recall that Nellie Ohr performed a key position within the genesis of the FBI’s 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into President Trump.
Nellie Ohr, spouse of fired DOJ official Bruce Ohr was criminally referred to the Justice Division in 2019 by Home Republicans after a whole lot of recent emails surfaced, contradicting her earlier statements to Congress.
A sequence of “Hello Honey” emails from Nellie Ohr to her prime DOJ husband Bruce Ohr surfaced and steered Hillary-funded oppo analysis was being funneled into the DOJ throughout the 2016 election by way of a backchannel between the fortunately married Ohr couple.
Nellie Ohr beforehand advised Congress that throughout the 2016 election, she labored for Fusion GPS to assist them join Trump and Manafort to Russian organized crime.
Nevertheless, Nellie Ohr emails found by way of a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit confirmed proof on the contrary.
Grassley requested Kash Patel to “declassify the FBI’s evaluation of a congressional legal referral issued for Nellie Ohr following her false statements to Congress in 2018.”
Grassley’s full letter to Kash Patel:
Connected to this cowl letter is a doc that’s principally unclassified. The doc is an FBI evaluation of a congressional legal referral concerning Nellie Ohr’s false statements to Congress, which obstructed congressional investigations.
As you might be conscious, Nellie Ohr performed a key position within the genesis of Crossfire Hurricane whereas working for Fusion GPS and coordinating along with her husband, Bruce Ohr, who was a Justice Division official at the moment. The doc gives background with respect to Crossfire Hurricane’s origins in addition to the legal case in opposition to Nellie Ohr.
I request {that a} full declassification be achieved instantly for the next causes: (1) the doc is essentially unclassified and the parts which are categorized are at a really low degree of classification; (2) the data that’s categorized is just like the data topic to declassification Govt Orders for Crossfire Hurricane information issued by President Trump in 2020 and 2025 and, at this level, might already be declassified; (3) different Crossfire Hurricane doc declassifications separate from these Govt Orders occurred within the first Trump time period; (4) the overriding public curiosity.
Declassification of the doc in full could be in step with previous practices and to the advantage of public transparency and accountability. There isn’t a official foundation to maintain the doc from the general public.
