Related....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/02/fusion-gps-steele-dossier-trump-russia-320236
(So you don’t have to click on Polutico....but, so you’ll know what these leftists are up to....)
Fusion GPS to Congress: Release our testimony
The founders of Fusion GPS took to the pages of the New York Times to push back against Republicans who have attacked the firm over a dossier related to the Trump Russia investigation — and to urge that their testimony be released.
“We are happy to correct the record. In fact, we already have,” wrote Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch in an op-ed published Tuesday under the headline “The Republicans’ Fake Investigations.”
During the 2016 campaign, Fusion GPS, a research firm, compiled what came to be known as the Steele dossier, a collection of intelligence reports assessing Donald Trump’s connections to Russia.
The report was written by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele. It has come under fire from some Trump backers, not only because of the inclusion of some as-yet-unproved salacious material but also because they see it as some sort of dubious trigger to the whole Trump Russia investigation.
In their op-ed, Simpson and Fritsch urged Congress to release their testimony: “Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm’s testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It’s time to share what our company told investigators.”
As far as it being the origin of the Russia probe, Simpson and Fritsch wrote that the dossier’s importance has been overstated.
“We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling,” wrote Simpson and Fritsch. “As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.”
The duo wrote that their testimony gave Congress all the ammo it needed to debunk conspiracy theories.
“Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.”
The op-ed also detailed the origins of the Steele dossier, a report that Simpson and Fritsch said they stood behind.
“We’re extremely proud of our work to highlight Mr. Trump’s Russia ties. To have done so is our right under the First Amendment,” they wrote.
And I believe it was and my belief carries the same weight.
First, the timeline from Byron York at the Washington Examiner actually shows that the dossier was provided to the FBI first, and was not secondary to this information, if this information ever even was actually provided at that time and not made up by the New York Times later.
Second, the FISA warrant to wiretap Trump was based on Carter Page's trip to Moscow, not based on Papadopolus. There's no evidence that wiretaps were ever based on anything related to Papodapolus, even in the New York Times.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34411472
Open source info from Oct 2015 that said her emails were hacked
IIRC, the Washington Free Beacon has been posted here on FR as the source for other "news" items. Never heard of that site off of FR.
Are they STILL pretending the Russian prostitutes pee story is true, just not proven yet????
That whole thing is just one long soundbite for the leftist media, sounds kind of tough but there’s really nothing concrete to it other than throwing the Clinton campaign under the bus, that and their own CYA.
The Dossier being a "trigger" is not the relevant claim IMO. The Dossier being proffered as evidence for a FISA warrant is relevant.