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FusionGPS then hired [[Nellie Ohr]], wife of Assoc. Dep. Attn. Gen. [[Bruce Ohr]]. Nellie Ohr specialized in Russian counterintelligence. Nellie Ohr collaborated with ex-[[MI6]] officer [[Christopher Steele]] to write Hillary Clinton's opposition research ''[[Steele dossier]]''. By May 2016, Nellie's husband Bruce was working with Strzok.  

FusionGPS then hired [[Nellie Ohr]], wife of Assoc. Dep. Attn. Gen. [[Bruce Ohr]]. Nellie Ohr specialized in Russian counterintelligence. Nellie Ohr collaborated with ex-[[MI6]] officer [[Christopher Steele]] to write Hillary Clinton's opposition research ''[[Steele dossier]]''. By May 2016, Nellie's husband Bruce was working with Strzok.  

[[CIA]] Director [[John Brennan]] formed a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force. Strzok acted as FBI liaison with Brennan.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/03/mueller-aide-fired-for-anti-trump-texts-now-facing-review-for-role-in-clinton-email-probe.html </ref> Brennan himself selected the CIA and FBI analysts who worked on the joint ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA), and they included Peter Strzok. "Strzok was the intermediary between Brennan and Comey, and he was one of the authors of the ICA.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html] </ref>

[[CIA]] Director [[John Brennan]] formed a Joint Counter-Intelligence Task Force. Strzok acted as FBI liaison with Brennan.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/03/mueller-aide-fired-for-anti-trump-texts-now-facing-review-for-role-in-clinton-email-probe.html </ref> Brennan himself selected the CIA and FBI analysts who worked on the joint ''Intelligence Community Assessment'' (ICA), and they included Peter Strzok. "Strzok was the intermediary between Brennan and Comey, and he was one of the authors of the ICA.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html] </ref>

Lisa Page and Strzok discussed circumventing federal records laws to hide their nefarious activity. <ref>April 2, 2016 Lisa Page text to Strzok: "So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now."<br>August 30, 2016: Page - Have a meeting with [James Turgal of the FBI's [[IT]] branch] about getting iphone in a day or so<br>Strzok - Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues?<br>Page - No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them.  Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from [Office of Management and Budget], but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule.  His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . .  I’m told – thought I have seen – that there is an IG report that says everyone is failing.  But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.<br>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/371853-new-fbi-messages-reveal-agents-searching-for-way-to-evade-record</ref> The FBI began an investigation into Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's associations. This investigation led to the wiretapping of at least three Trump associates, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>

Lisa Page and Strzok discussed circumventing federal records laws to hide their nefarious activity. <ref>April 2, 2016 Lisa Page text to Strzok: "So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now."<br>August 30, 2016: Page - Have a meeting with [James Turgal of the FBI's [[IT]] branch] about getting iphone in a day or so<br>Strzok - Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues?<br>Page - No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them.  Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from [Office of Management and Budget], but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule.  His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . .  I’m told – thought I have seen – that there is an IG report that says everyone is failing.  But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.<br>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/371853-new-fbi-messages-reveal-agents-searching-for-way-to-evade-record</ref> The FBI began an investigation into Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's associations. This investigation led to the wiretapping of at least three Trump associates, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Roger Stone.<ref>''NYT'', 1/19/17</ref>

In June Strzok had direct contact with Christopher Steele and received a preliminary draft of the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-the-steele-curtain-1510274070</ref> According to Clinton campaign manager [[Robby Mook]], the preliminary draft was also given to the DNC and Clinton campaign at that time. Strzok, Bruce Ohr and Lisa Page applied for a [[FISA]] warrant to surveil the Trump campaign. The initial warrant application was denied.<ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap-may-have-been-sought</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/5CSZKmssG2o</ref>

In June Strzok had direct contact with Christopher Steele and received a preliminary draft of the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-the-steele-curtain-1510274070</ref> According to Clinton campaign manager [[Robby Mook]], the preliminary draft was also given to the DNC and Clinton campaign at that time. Strzok, Bruce Ohr and Lisa Page applied for a [[FISA]] warrant to surveil the Trump campaign. The initial warrant application was denied.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap-may-have-been-sought</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/5CSZKmssG2o</ref>

On July 25, 2016 Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged messages about Strzok's personal friendship with FISA court Judge Rudy Contreras. A year and a half later in December 2017 Contreras accepted a guilty plea from former Trump [[National Security Advisor]] [[Michael Flynn]] for allegedly lying to Strzok in the early days of the Trump administration. Strzok originally reported Flynn did not lie, however FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe altered the interview report to say Flynn did lie.  

On July 25, 2016 Strzok and Lisa Page exchanged messages about Strzok's personal friendship with FISA court Judge Rudy Contreras. A year and a half later in December 2017 Contreras accepted a guilty plea from former Trump [[National Security Advisor]] [[Michael Flynn]] for allegedly lying to Strzok in the early days of the Trump administration. Strzok originally reported Flynn did not lie, however FBI Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe altered the interview report to say Flynn did lie.  

Sometime around Thanksgiving 2016 Glenn Simpson of FusionGPS and Dep. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr met while President-elect Trump was selecting his cabinet, and discussed what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump's victory. Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr worked for both FusionGPS and CIA.<ref>Nellie Ohr represented the CIA's "Open Source Works" group in a 2010 "expert working group report on international organized crime" along with Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson. Open Source Works, the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. The directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. CIA says the existence of any such records is a classified fact.</ref>

Sometime around Thanksgiving 2016 Glenn Simpson of FusionGPS and Dep. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr met while President-elect Trump was selecting his cabinet, and discussed what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump's victory. Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr worked for both FusionGPS and CIA.<ref>Nellie Ohr represented the CIA's "Open Source Works" group in a 2010 "expert working group report on international organized crime" along with Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson. Open Source Works, the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. The directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. CIA says the existence of any such records is a classified fact.</ref>

On December 5, 2016 Strzok gave a false and misleading briefing to the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Hillary Clinton's ''Steele dossier''. House Intelligence Committee investigators later were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was obstructing the House probe into the origins of Hillary Clinton's ''Steele dossier''.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/12/texts-between-ex-mueller-team-members-emerge-calling-trump-loathsome-human-idiot.html</ref>

On December 5, 2016 Strzok gave a false and misleading briefing to the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Hillary Clinton's ''Steele dossier''. House Intelligence Committee investigators later were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was obstructing the House probe into the origins of Hillary Clinton's ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/12/texts-between-ex-mueller-team-members-emerge-calling-trump-loathsome-human-idiot.html</ref>

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