House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committee staffers plan to interview Nellie Ohr this week, most likely Friday, because of her work with Fusion GPS and her husband's interaction with Christopher Steele.
Her husband, Bruce Ohr, is the Justice Department official with expertise on Russian organized crime whom President Trump has been targeting in his effort to discredit the special counsel's Russia investigation.
Nellie Ohr worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the research firm that hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to investigate allegations about then-candidate Donald Trump’s personal and business ties to Russia. She is married to Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official who met with Steele on several occasions to discuss Steele’s findings — information eventually compiled into the now-famous “dossier.”
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Lawmakers and staffers for the two committees questioned Bruce Ohr about Steele and the dossier during a closed-door session last month. After that meeting, Republican lawmakers called on the president to go around the Justice Department to declassify the official memos detailing Ohr’s meetings with Steele, among other documents.
On Monday, the White House announced that Trump had approved their request.
The president has suggested that Bruce Ohr should be fired and that Nellie Ohr was guilty of “collusion” meant to discredit Trump.
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Nellie Ohr is a self-described Eurasian analyst and cybersecurity expert who received her doctorate in history from Stanford University, focusing on Russia. Her LinkedIn profile indicates that she has worked as a linguist and researcher for Open Source Works, which analyzes intelligence for the CIA.
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The interview with Nellie Ohr, if it takes place this week, is expected to be run by staffers for the committees, as House members are not scheduled to return to Washington from their recess until Sept. 25.
Such interviews have been heated and divisive, as Republicans allied with Trump have focused on exposing what they say are the compromised foundations of the special counsel’s probe. Democrats accuse the GOP of orchestrating an inquisition purely to enable any potential effort by Trump to terminate the probe.
Nellie Ohr, who worked for the firm behind Trump-Russia dossier, to meet with House committees (WaPo)