===December 2015===
Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes:<br><font color="brown">'''December 2015 through April 2016''': The first phase leading into ‘Spygate’ is the period of time where opposition research of the republican candidate field was taking place. It is in this period where Fusion-GPS hired CIA Open Source researcher Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ-NSD official Bruce Ohr, to do research.<br>In the background of this time period the FBI and NSA database was being exploited by unknown FBI contractors; it is highly suspected that Nellie Ohr and/or Fusion-GPS was one of those contracted agencies with access to the massive electronic and metadata files.</font>
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*Patrick Byrne begins reporting on Maria Butina more frequently to the FBI.
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*'''7 December.''' Strzok texted Lisa Page that Jonathan Moffa was waiting for his job interview.