Remember Fusion GPS? The former MI6 operative, Christopher Steele, was hired by the corporate espionage firm to dig up dirt on Trump, but came up with a fabricated smear instead.
Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner confirmed that they met with a ‘Russian lawyer’ Natalia Veselnitskaya, in June 2016 during the election campaign. The lure was that she had dirt on Hillary, and as it turns out, the DNC set it up through Fusion GPS. By the way, Veselnitskaya is also working for the Dems.
Congress would like to ask GPS a few questions.
From The Hill
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson won’t testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week despite a request for voluntary testimony from the committee.
Simpson co-founded the political intelligence firm Fusion GPS in 2009. During the 2016 campaign, the firm hired former British spy Christopher Steele, who produced a now-infamous dossier alleging Russian intelligence’s influence over President Trump.
The Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday that Simpson would testify next week. The chairman of the committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley R-Iowa), sent a letter asking for information about the dossier to Fusion GPS in March, and in June threatened to subpoena Simpson if he did not comply with the request for voluntary testimony.
Grassley rejected claims from Simpson’s lawyer in June that responding to the committee’s request would violate Simpson’s First Amendment rights.
“Your attorney has failed to sufficiently explain your claims that responding to the Committee’s requests would infringe upon or violate your and/or Fusion’s First Amendment rights, attorney-client and attorney work product privileges, and confidentiality agreements,” Grassley wrote in a letter released in June.
“Based on the minimal and vague explanations your attorney has provided, the Committee cannot adequately assess your claims. Thus, we must presume that they are unfounded.”
Grassley’s main questions for Simpson involve who hired Fusion GPS to produce opposition research against Trump, and whether the firm shared the document with the FBI.
“When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics,” Grassley wrote in March.
In June, Grassley warned Simpson that if he didn’t “comply voluntarily” with the committee’s request, senators “will begin consideration of compulsory process under its rules.”
If Grassley is serious, he’ll subpoena Simpson and have his ass dragged before Congress. There’s a lot more dirt to dig out of Fusion GPS, and all of it involves the Dem conspiracy to sabotage the 2016 campaign.
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