only to hear it say i don't remember or i don't recall or I Invoke My Fifth Amendment Rights?
Posted on 07/13/2017 7:16:41 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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 chair 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."
Spokespeople for Grassley and ranking Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) didn't respond to Politico's request for comment on whether they would begin the subpoena process.
I once heard a judge explain that a subpoena is not a request, it is a DEMAND! (quite loudly).
Paper the SOB and send federal marshalls out to fetch him and his shyster is he doesn’t comply.
Who PAID Fusion GPS?
The DNC, Hillary, Ukraine, Saudis? Who?
Someone paid for this Dossier. McCain is now in the middle of this because he sent an underling to Europe to get it and McCain handed it over to Comey. So Comey is using foreign (fake) intel to mess with our election. Hillary and her DNC cronies are doing the same.
Trump Jr.’s the only one that came away empty handed! Of course, he’s also the only one getting the blame.
Subpoena the living tar out of him, and then do every other kind of poena you can think of, to him and all the rest of the dirty little devils.
only to hear it say i don't remember or i don't recall or I Invoke My Fifth Amendment Rights?
Exactly. These feckless rino wimps never resolve anything. Endless hearings, endless drivel, and nothing comes to fruition. These bastards are worthless. They are in power but you would not know it by their actions. they need an iron backbone—like the RATS they cower to. I fear it is hopeless....
People die if they testify against DNC - HILLAry. Offer protection or private testimony
bttt
Why the hell don’t these people get subpoenas in the first place?
Or arrest Hillary and then have him testify: problem solved :-)
I already started three threads in a row so I won’t make one for this, but speaking Hillary and people dying:
Another Arkancide?
PING!!!
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Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson won’t testify
Thanks, hoosiermama & Tiger Claws
Once she is dead or behind bars THEN all the stories will pour out. Pray for one or the other.
Exactly.
Make him take the 5th 200 times.
Yes. Of course, he'll then plead his 5th Amendment rights.
At that point, it's up to Sessions to get this in front of a grand jury. Anything short of that is nothing but a full on dog n pony.
Some one will make a thread of it.
He’ll take the fifth
The committee Democrats will not allow a subpoena.
Make him take the Fifth.
It's a process.
First you politely invite him to come down for a chat.
When he refuses, you issue a subpoena as well as one for production of documents.
If he fails to show up, gives bad testimony (which he will) or takes the fifth , you have enough justification to issue a criminal referral to the FBI
This process should play such that the criminal referral hits the FBI shortly after the Trump's =FBI nominee, Director Wray, is confirmed and on the job.
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