The 2019 FBI analysis is blunt on the date. After describing an earlier Manafort chronology pass, the writers say: “The remainder of Nellie’s Fusion GPS research was passed to the FBI on December 20, 2016 when Bruce Ohr provided the same FBI special agent a thumb drive Nellie had provided to Bruce for passage to the FBI.”
They also quote Bruce’s House testimony: she gave him a memory stick of Fusion research on Russian figures “to give to the FBI,” and “the reason she provided that information to me is, my understanding was, it related to… the FBI’s Russia investigation.” Shown that testimony, Nellie said she had no reason to question his veracity. Asked whether the FBI got her Fusion research, her lawyer narrowed the question; she said, “I did not directly give the FBI my research.”
Durham later wrote that reports “prepared by Ohr and others at Fusion GPS were ultimately provided to Crossfire Hurricane investigators by Ohr’s husband, Bruce Ohr.” The Washington Times (March 8, 2019) reported Bruce’s closed testimony that Simpson also handed him a thumb drive in December 2016, and that Nellie had provided an earlier one before the election. The Federalist (August 16, 2018) treated Bruce’s push of his wife’s oppo to the Bureau as a legal problem for Bruce. Both are secondary. The date stamp in the FBI memo is the documented handoff.
Peter Strzok told Congress that “Mr. Ohr provided information to the FBI that included material that is what everybody is calling the dossier.” A Gateway Pundit July 2018 headline said Strzok admitted the dossier came from Nellie Ohr. That headline overstates the quote. Strzok named Bruce. Jordan on Hannity (RealClearPolitics video, July 13, 2018) named both Ohrs; the admission on the tape is still about Bruce.