Report: Special counsel Mueller’s team hid evidence in ‘Russia collusion’ investigation cases

A declassified report from federal investigators shows they concluded Nellie Ohr, who with her husband Bruce Ohr was integral to the fake “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory created by Democrats to attack then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race, lied to Congress but never was prosecuted.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, pointed out, “By lying to Congress, Nellie Ohr showed contempt for congressional oversight and the American people. What’s more, the FBI and DOJ’s failure to hold Ohr accountable for appearing to commit multiple felonies and its obstructive conduct against agents that sought additional information reveals the agencies’ deeply disturbing political bias. Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax.

“Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon.”

But the weaponization was even worse, according to a new report in the Federalist that reveals the subsequent special counsel investigation by ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller, based on the false claims about Russia collusion, actually was a “cover-up.”

The report explains that the FBI’s electronic case management database, called Sentinal, lets agents “hide the existence” of relevant investigative reports from others.

“And during the Russia collusion hoax, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team used that functionality to keep potentially relevant documents hidden from other FBI agents investigating whether a Fusion GPS contractor lied to Congress,” the report charged.

“The significance of these two facts cannot be overstated: Now in question is whether the federal government complies with the constitutional mandate in criminal cases to provide defendants all material exculpatory and impeachment evidence as well as its discovery obligations in civil litigation; whether Special Counsel Durham’s office, the inspector general, and agents investigating the members of the Crossfire Hurricane team had access to all relevant information; whether the DOJ and FBI provided congressional oversight committees with requested (or subpoenaed) documents; and whether FOIA responses included all relevant documents to the press and public,” it said.

The report described as “explosive” the confirmation in the now-available documentation that key investigative information about the conspiracy theory to promote the Russia collusion claims were deliberately concealed from even other federal investigators.

The Russia collusion conspiracy was launched by Democrats, including the campaign of failed Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who used “legal” fees to hire a lawyer who hired Fusian GPS who bought the salacious and false claims in the “Steele dossier” from a former British agent.

Jay Town, a former career prosecutor and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama during Trump’s first term, told The Federalist he didn’t know about the existence of that classification.

“This is a staggering revelation for nearly all of us,” he confirmed.

The report explained there’s little information about why such a concealment mechanism exists or why it is used.

“That the FBI’s case management system allows documents, including witness statements and other evidence, to be rendered invisible to other agents searching Sentinel for relevant documents is horrifying because the federal government is legally obligated in a variety of circumstances to produce such information — but it cannot produce something that it does not know exists,” the report noted.

The report noted the government has a legal obligation in both criminal and civil cases to provide evidence to the other side.

“Without knowing when, why, or how often the FBI designates files as ‘Prohibited Access’ within Sentinel, or whether, and if so how, the Bureau ensures it provides ‘Prohibited Access’ Brady/Giglio evidence, it is impossible to access the scope of the issue. And that is a huge problem,” the report said.

Even further, the report said, the problems go further: “One must also wonder if higher ups in FBI headquarters used the ‘Prohibited Access’ category for other highly politicized investigations, such as the probes into alleged corruption by the Clinton Foundation and the Biden family. If so, did the U.S. attorneys charged by Attorney General Bill Barr with overseeing those investigations — John Huber in Utah and Scott Brady in Pennsylvania, respectively — and the FBI agents working with them know Sentinel would not allow them to search for some relevant documents?”

Even congressional oversight committees likely “did not receive everything they asked for” because of the evidence-concealment procedures, the report said.

Working on a piece about latest disclosures by Sen Grassley—I’m reminded what those of us who covered SC Bob Mueller’s witch hunt knew at the time: the “investigation” wasn’t just to bolster fake Trump-Russia collusion but to acquire all incriminating records and bury them: pic.twitter.com/nOYvk1Rz1m

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) June 1, 2025