Hillary Clinton’s campaign
bought a fake FusionGPS
opposition-research document,
(written by Christopher Steele,
who was paid over $100,000
by Fusion GPS)
now called the "Trump Dossier",
by Fusion GPS)
now called the "Trump Dossier",
which was sold to Hillary Clinton,
perhaps along with other
opposition research on Trump,
perhaps along with other
opposition research on Trump,
for about one million dollars,
and which Fusion fed to the Obama FBI,
which then used It
to get a FISA warrant
to spy on the Trump campaign !
Two GOP Senators recently
asked the Dept. of Justice
to launch a criminal probe
of Christopher Steele,
the ex-MI6 British spy
who was the author
of the Trump dossier,
which served as
the primary reason for the
Russian collusion probe.
Senator Dianne Feinstein
recently ran around
her Republican colleagues on
the Senate Judiciary Committee
the Senate Judiciary Committee
and unilaterally released
the full 312-page transcript
of the committee's
closed-door interview
with Glenn Simpson,
co-founder of Fusion GPS.
This followed a day after
a Fusion GPS' demand
a Fusion GPS' demand
in a New York Times
op-ed, that the full transcript
op-ed, that the full transcript
be released.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
had interviewed Simpson
back on August 22, 2017
as part of its investigation
into Russia's election interference.
Chuck Grassley,
the chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee,
said the transcript
needed to remain confidential
while the panel was interviewing
other witnesses.
"Her action undermines
the integrity of the committee’s
oversight work and
jeopardizes its ability
to secure candid
voluntary testimony
relating to the independent
recollections of future witnesses."
Fusion GPS was obviously
much more interested
in aligning future DOJ
witness testimony
with its own claims,
than it was with an
honest investigation !
Simpson, a former journalist
who co-founded Fusion GPS,
denied strongly in the interview
that the dossier was phony.
Simpson said he asked Steele
at one point in summer 2016
if he’d ever heard back
from the FBI following
an initial July meeting with them:
“because it was obvious
there was a crime in progress.”
Simpson said the crime
he was referring to
was “espionage
-- they (Russians)
-- they (Russians)
were hacking into
the computers
the computers
of Democrats
and think tanks.”
and think tanks.”
Fusion was initially hired
by conservative website,
Washington Free Beacon,
during Republican primaries
to dig up dirt on Trump.
Later in the 2016
presidential campaign,
Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton
and the Democratic National Committee
paid Fusion GPS through a law firm
for research that resulted in the dossier.
In the August interview,
Simpson and his lawyer,
were asked repeatedly
who commissioned research
into the presidential candidate,
but refused to name them.
Simpson also refused to answer
questions about people
who provided information
to Steele.
When Simpson was asked
to detail the steps
Steele took to verify
his sources’ credibility,
his lawyer stopped
the questioning.
the questioning.
The 35-page Dossier
got fake information
from Russian contacts
and falsely concluded
that Russia
had been “cultivating,
supporting and assisting”
Trump for at least five years
and fed his campaign
“valuable intelligence”
about Hillary Clinton.
According to the transcript,
Steele said he
approached the FBI
because he believed
there were security issues
involving national security:
Steele also said
he went to the FBI,
worried that Trump
was being blackmailed
After Senator Dianne Feinstein
leaked the transcripts
of Fusion GPS co-founder
Glenn Simpson's
Congressional testimony
she tainted every
future witness,
because they
can read the
Simpson / Fusion
transcript
to make sure
their testimony
agrees with it.
The 312-page transcript says:
1)
"somebody's already been killed"
as a result of Buzzfeed
publishing the dossier,
according to Fusion co-founder
Glenn Simpson's attorney
2)
The FBI had a "human source"
within the Trump campaign:
thought by many to be
former Trump advisor
George Papadopoulos,
who reportedly told
Australian diplomat
Alexander Downer
at a London bar
in May, 2016 that
"Russia had political dirt
on Hillary Clinton."
3)
Christopher Steele
reported back to Fusion GPS
that the FBI found
his information credible
because it had corroborated
information from a Trump source.
Glenn Simpson also told
Congressional investigators
that the FBI already had
a relationship with Steele
due to his role
as a British MI6 agent,
which may have
boosted his credibility
with the agency
4)
Steele stopped dealing
with the FBI
after becoming concerned
that the agency
"was being manipulated"
by "Trump people."
5)
The first dossier memo
containing the "pee pee"
claims was unprovable
and not unusable.
6)
Simpson denied
employing any other
Russian-speaking individuals,
while having hired Nellie Ohr
- the wife of demoted DOJ official
Bruce Ohr, who is fluent in Russian.
7)
Fusion gave information
to Bloomberg, New York Times,
Wall St. Journal, "probably" Reuters,
and Legal 360.
8)
Senator John McCain
allegedly became involved
with Fusion after the election.
10)
After being denied
a copy of the transcript,
Fusion GPS attorney Mr. Levy
requested it be kept confidential.
Months later Simpson asked
that the transcript be released
in a NYT op-ed.
Why the sudden effort
by Democrats and the media
to give build up the
alleged noble purpose
of he Steele dossier?
January 3, 2018,
was the deadline
House Intelligence Chairman
Devin Nunes
gave the FBI
to turn over documents
it had been holding
for months.
Speaker Paul Ryan
backed Mr. Nunes’s threat
to cite officials
for contempt of Congress.
The day before the Nunes deadline,
Fusion co-founders Glenn Simpson
and Peter Fritsch
broke their public silence
to explain in a New York Times
op-ed that what really matters
was their noble intention
- to highlight
Donald Trump’s
misdeeds.
The duo took credit
for alerting the
“national security community”
to a Russian “attack.”
Dianne Feinstein,
ranking Democrat on the
Senate Judiciary Committee,
decided it was suddenly
a matter of urgency
that the nation see
Mr. Simpson’s testimony,
which he gave
back in August 2017.
That move provided
the cable news channels
with more than 300 pages
of self-serving anti-Trump
material.
Mr. Simpson
praises the integrity
of dossier author
Christopher Steele
(a “Boy Scout”),
professes his love of country,
and his distaste for Russians.
The media and Democrats
are trashing Senator's
Chuck Grassley
and Lindsey Graham
for their criminal referral
of Mr. Steele to the
Justice Department.
Grassley and Graham
must have found something
after the FBI reluctantly made
key documents available to them.
The FBI must have known
they had a problem,
so were concealing it
from Congressional
investigators.
If Mr. Steele was
a "professional",
then why was spreading
national-security “intelligence”
through the media?
If Mr. Simpson was
so worried for his country,
then why did he spend months
dodging congressional requests
for testimony, and refuse
to name his client?
If Mr. Steele was
confident enough
in his dossier
to give it to the FBI,
then why has he ducked
every congressional request
to explain his work ?
... even before
Mr. Grassley’s claim
to have credible evidence
that Mr. Steele
lied to the government.
