Glenn Simpson, the founder of Democratic opposition research firm Fusion GPS, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Dianne Feinstein released that testimony on Tuesday.
Glenn Simpson Testimony Senate Judiciary In by Kyle Becker on Scribd
The testimony covers the Trump dossier memo, the Buzzfeed reportage leak, and a number of spectacular claims from Simpson himself. The Fusion GPS founder asserts, via ex-spy Christopher Steele, that the FBI had an agent within the Trump campaign that was feeding the agency information.
As the Washington Post reported:
The ex-British spy who authored a dossier of allegations against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was told the FBI had someone inside Trump’s network providing agents with information, according to a newly-released transcript of a congressional interview.
Glenn R. Simpson, founder of research firm Fusion GPS, spoke to investigators with the Senate Judiciary Committee for 10 hours in August. As the partisan fight over Russian interference in the 2016 election has intensified, Simpson has urged that his testimony be released, and a copy of the transcript was made public Tuesday.
It was released by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. That decision marks the most serious break yet in the once cooperative relationship she has had with the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
The reaction on social media was explosive:
BOMBSHELL: Dianne Feinstein releases Glenn Simpson’s transcript before Senate Judiciary over GOP objections. https://t.co/ppBwvTiZOC
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 9, 2018
Fusion GPS lawyer confirms on the record (to NYT) what we already knew: that Glenn Simpson was w/ Natalia Veselnitskaya on morning of Trump Tower meeting. But Natalia denied that in testimony submitted to Senate. https://t.co/0B9tSF8xDJ pic.twitter.com/wFADrFDLHT
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) January 9, 2018
FUSION GPS statement on Feinstein’s release of the Glenn Simpson interview transcript: “Fusion GPS commends Sen. Feinstein for her courage. The transcript of Glenn Simpson’s lengthy responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s questioning speaks for itself.”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 9, 2018
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has just releases the 300-page transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s interview with Glenn Simpson, head of Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier: https://t.co/G3xvESz3iC pic.twitter.com/BFxpmbHYzU
— Emma Loop (@LoopEmma) January 9, 2018
Christopher Steele severed ties with FBI after NYT’s infamous Oct. 31, 2016 story claiming “no clear link to Russia,” according to Glenn Simpson testimony: https://t.co/aE8PJNJgHl pic.twitter.com/FnsaXSJGt5
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) January 9, 2018
Senate Judiciary Committee transcript of Glenn Simpson’s testimony released by Feinstein. Fusion GPS will claim “transparency” as Simpson refused to answer key questions while key info is redacted. Here are some examples from the transcript https://t.co/ms9Q1VEHoU pic.twitter.com/reSF2QXz6M
— Nick Short ???????? (@PoliticalShort) January 9, 2018
So, Glenn Simpson is saying, that in a company that has TWELVE people, he doesn’t remember whether he has ever had a client who has tied compensation to them landing a government investigation…Because 7 years is a LONG time???
SOMETHING STINKS LIKE ____ pic.twitter.com/V9b03IWAkn
— Tracybeanz (@tracybeanz) January 9, 2018
Great spot by Tom: One of Glenn Simpson’s attorneys says one of the sources for the Trump dossier has already been killed. https://t.co/QDVE3C8fPz
— Kyle Feldscher (@Kyle_Feldscher) January 9, 2018
And… from Feinstein’s release of Simpson testimony, this is why the Steele Dossier furore is so negative. As I’ve hinted here (https://t.co/eNQW2PFreS) there is an active concern of compromising SIS assets. (cc @jimsciutto) pic.twitter.com/d7Y1XIGFPx
— Tom Rogan (@TomRtweets) January 9, 2018
According to the testimony, a source was killed over the Trump dossier:
This raises the question of why Sen. Dianne Feinstein published this excerpt, rather than redacting it.
Fusion GPS was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump. The discredited “Trump dossier,” which made a number of salacious and unverified claims about Donald Trump, was shopped around the mainstream media before being published by Buzzfeed News.
The Trump dossier became the basis of months of Russian collusion speculation, which has become an obsession of the mainstream media and has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
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