Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier, worked with the Obama administration’s National Security Council to cultivate Russian oligarchs as sources of intelligence about Russian President Vladimir Putin, a book by the co-founders of Fusion GPS relates.
Steele worked on the intel project with Bruce Ohr, the high-ranking career Justice Department official who reportedly served as a back channel between Steele and the FBI, according to the book.
Steele was also described as friends with Ohr’s wife, Nellie, who worked for Fusion GPS where she was conducting research looking for connections between Russia and members of Donald Trump’s campaign.
Fusion GPS was paid for its anti-Trump work by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The book by Fusion GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, gives an inside accounting of what they say transpired during the course of their anti-Trump work. Their actions tainted Trump’s presidency and eventually lead to a Special Counsel investigation of Trump that found no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
In their book, Simpson and Fritsch write Steele helped the Obama administration cultivate sources on Putin.