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In the following months, FBI contractor access (FusionGPS) accelerated with hundreds of illegal FISA searches of upstream and downstream information on American citizens performed. [[NSA Dir. Mike Rogers]] discovered the FBI and its contractors misuse of the [[NSA]] electronic monitoring systems, and ordered a compliance audit. The audit reported back to Dir. Rogers on the violations of American citizens' [[Fourth Amendment]] rights, and Dir. Rogers cut off the FBI contractors' access.-->  

In the following months, FBI contractor access (FusionGPS) accelerated with hundreds of illegal FISA searches of upstream and downstream information on American citizens performed. [[NSA Dir. Mike Rogers]] discovered the FBI and its contractors misuse of the [[NSA]] electronic monitoring systems, and ordered a compliance audit. The audit reported back to Dir. Rogers on the violations of American citizens' [[Fourth Amendment]] rights, and Dir. Rogers cut off the FBI contractors' access.-->  

After being hired by the Clinton campaign in April 2016 and shut out from access by the FISA Compliance Audit, FusionGPS and the DOJ needed a work around for continued access to FISA information. Nellie could use Bruce’s high level DOJ-NSD access to continue gathering FISA-702 data. Nellie and Bruce Ohr and Simpson collaborated on other projects in the past.<ref>[https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref>

After being hired by the Clinton campaign in April 2016 and shut out from access by the FISA Compliance Audit, FusionGPS and the DOJ needed a work around for continued access to FISA information. Nellie could use Bruce's high level DOJ-NSD access to continue gathering FISA-702 data. Nellie and Bruce Ohr and Simpson collaborated on other projects in the past.<ref>[https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref>

Nellie worked with former [[MI6]] officer [[Christopher Steele]] to write the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. By May 2016, Nellie Ohr’s husband Bruce was working with FBI counterintelligence deputy [[Peter Strzok]], and Nellie applied for a HAM radio license which would allow Nellie to communicate with Christopher Steele outside normal NSA electronic communication intercepts.<ref>http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/LicArchive/license.jsp?archive=Y&licKey=12382876</ref> Steele filed his first opposition research report, the infamous 'pee-pee memo', entitled ''Company Intelligence Report'', on June 20, 2016. Days later Peter Strzok of the Obama FBI Counterintelligence  Division met with Steele personally and received a preliminary draft of Steele's memo.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-the-steele-curtain-1510274070</ref> Receiving the information from outside the government was intended to give the FBI and DOJ deniability of illegal domestic spying.

Nellie worked with former [[MI6]] officer [[Christopher Steele]] to write the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. By May 2016, Nellie Ohr's husband Bruce was working with FBI counterintelligence deputy [[Peter Strzok]], and Nellie applied for a HAM radio license which would allow Nellie to communicate with Christopher Steele outside normal NSA electronic communication intercepts.<ref>http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/LicArchive/license.jsp?archive=Y&licKey=12382876</ref> Steele filed his first opposition research report, the infamous 'pee-pee memo', entitled ''Company Intelligence Report'', on June 20, 2016. Days later Peter Strzok of the Obama FBI Counterintelligence  Division met with Steele personally and received a preliminary draft of Steele's memo.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-the-steele-curtain-1510274070</ref> Receiving the information from outside the government was intended to give the FBI and DOJ deniability of illegal domestic spying.

Nellie Ohr sent emails regarding [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] to Robert Otto – State Department – Bureau of Intelligence and Research specializing in Russia.<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1026658792623230976.html</ref>

Nellie Ohr sent emails regarding [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] to Robert Otto – State Department – Bureau of Intelligence and Research specializing in Russia.<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1026658792623230976.html</ref>

Nellie Ohr graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1983 with a degree in history and Russian literature, studied in the [[Soviet Union]] in 1989, and obtained a Ph.D. front [[Stanford University]]  in Russian history in 1990.  

Nellie Ohr graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1983 with a degree in history and Russian literature, studied in the [[Soviet Union]] in 1989, and obtained a Ph.D. front [[Stanford University]]  in Russian history in 1990.  

Nellie Ohr was Professor of Russian Studies at Vasser College during 90’s. [[Edward Baumgartner]] (hired by Fusion to work w ithe [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] & Christopher Steele) studied at Vasser (Russian Studies) this time. Nellie Ohr was a conduit between Steele/Fusion and Bruce Ohr/DOJ.  

Nellie Ohr was Professor of Russian Studies at Vasser College during 90's. [[Edward Baumgartner]] (hired by Fusion to work w ithe [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]] & Christopher Steele) studied at Vasser (Russian Studies) this time. Nellie Ohr was a conduit between Steele/Fusion and Bruce Ohr/DOJ.  

Nellie Ohr’s Ph.D. thesis is titled ''“Collective farms and Russian peasant society, 1933-1937: the stabilization of the kolkhoz order”''.

Nellie Ohr's Ph.D. thesis is titled ''“Collective farms and Russian peasant society, 1933-1937: the stabilization of the kolkhoz order”''.

According the ''The American Spectator'': {{quotebox|“Kolkhoz” order means “collective farm” order, so Ohr’s subtitle refers to the “stabilization” of the collective farm order. The phrasing alone is suggestive of some silverish lining after the [[holodomor|six million or more people were killed]] by [[Stalin]]’s state-created famine, mass deportations, and general war of “de-kulakization.”<br>In the introduction to her 418-page paper, Ohr sets forth her main arguments, citing many of “revisionism’s” leading figures — J. Arch Getty, Roberta Manning, Gabor Rittersporn, Sheila Fitzpatrick.<br>Speaking “revisionist” lingo, Nellie Ohr turns the millions killed by Stalin into “excesses,” which, in Ohr’s words, “sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country.” (Poor Stalin.) She depicts purges as representing “to some degree a center-periphery conflict in which the ‘state-building’ central government tried to bring headstrong local satraps under control.”<br>Here, in full context, are the “revisionist” trends she says her thesis will “corroborate”:<br><br>''Recently, Western historians [i.e., "revisionists”] have been using materials from the Smolensk archive to back up their arguments that power flowed not only from the top down but also from the bottom up to some degree; that excesses [i.e. state sponsored mass murder] sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country; that policies such as dekulakization and the purges of the later 1930s had some social constituency among aggrieved groups of poorer peasants; and that the purges represented to some degree a center-periphery conflict in which the ‘state-building’ central government tried to bring headstrong local satraps under control.''<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34345397_Collective_farms_and_Russian_peasant_society_1933-1937_the_stabilization_of_the_Kolkhoz_order]</ref>

According the ''The American Spectator'': {{quotebox|“Kolkhoz” order means “collective farm” order, so Ohr’s subtitle refers to the “stabilization” of the collective farm order. The phrasing alone is suggestive of some silverish lining after the [[holodomor|six million or more people were killed]] by [[Stalin]]’s state-created famine, mass deportations, and general war of “de-kulakization.”<br>In the introduction to her 418-page paper, Ohr sets forth her main arguments, citing many of “revisionism’s” leading figures — J. Arch Getty, Roberta Manning, Gabor Rittersporn, Sheila Fitzpatrick.<br>Speaking “revisionist” lingo, Nellie Ohr turns the millions killed by Stalin into “excesses,” which, in Ohr’s words, “sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country.” (Poor Stalin.) She depicts purges as representing “to some degree a center-periphery conflict in which the ‘state-building’ central government tried to bring headstrong local satraps under control.”<br>Here, in full context, are the “revisionist” trends she says her thesis will “corroborate”:<br><br>''Recently, Western historians [i.e., "revisionists”] have been using materials from the Smolensk archive to back up their arguments that power flowed not only from the top down but also from the bottom up to some degree; that excesses [i.e. state sponsored mass murder] sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country; that policies such as dekulakization and the purges of the later 1930s had some social constituency among aggrieved groups of poorer peasants; and that the purges represented to some degree a center-periphery conflict in which the ‘state-building’ central government tried to bring headstrong local satraps under control.''<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34345397_Collective_farms_and_Russian_peasant_society_1933-1937_the_stabilization_of_the_Kolkhoz_order]</ref>