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.
You got it.
I read some time ago that FBI considered paying some of it, but ultimately a DNC donor ultimately paid for it.
Comey considered paying them $50,000 I heard today for their info.
Not talking about buying the info. Who paid them to create it?
I think it might have been Russia that provided it to the Democrats. (1) Putin knew Trump was a wild card and wanted him weakened; continued U.S. in-fighting and scandals keeps Trump tied up and notice the last leak was a couple days after they met in person; (2) Democrats - and even Juan McCain - were willing to spread the lies regardless how outlandish because they were desperate to defeat Trump pre-election and even more desperate after they lost. (3) The MSM was then the last colluding party in spreading out the b.s. to the American people.
I've read it was a Hillary campaign contributor...Soros?
If they were serious the first action would be subpoena.
Instead we get “invitations”, “please”, “pretty please”, “pretty please with a cherry on top”, “you better or else”, “or else”, “I really mean it this time”, “ok you’re really asking for it”....
Endless huffing and puffing is all part of the kabuki.
Possibly Soros.
But I’m thinking Russia. Then the Dems and NeverTrumper McCain went for the bait of the fake dossier.
So the boomerang is Trump Jr. got nothing ‘of value’ from his meeting with the Honey Pot. Hillary and the DNC got a fake dossier they spread all over the MSM.
Someone raised a good point about Mexico. Carlos Slim, a foreign national, worked against Trump with ‘fake news’ from his paper The New York Times. I’m sure Mexico was involved in efforts to defeat Trump. That’s a good theory to build a news story around.
If I’m right and Fusion = Russia the RINOs are likely running scared as Putin has dirt on all of them.
The two most outspoken Trump critics - McCain and Graham - are the ones standing on the biggest piles of dirt.
RINOs also hate Trump. Remember all those that came out an denounced Trump over P*ssyGate shortly before the election?
They wanted Hillary to win and the Uniparty to stay fully in charge.
Who was the underling?
Squeeze him like a pimple.
From your link (about Peter Smith)....
...In the note recovered by police, Smith apologized to authorities and said that “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER” was involved in his death. He wrote that he was taking his own life because of a “RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017” and timing related “TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.”
LOL...when was the last time you heard about a suicide note that said ‘no foul play, whatsoever’...in it???
Thanks! Great graphic.
Pretty much says Russian Oligarchs = Putin. They do what he tells them to do.
This is Russian chess - the best chess players in the world.
Weaken Trump, the unknown entity. They wanted Hillary because they already paid for and bought Hillary. So they wanted to weaken Trump.
Also been widespread efforts to create division within the Trump administration.
Sessions can’t get this in front of a grand jury.
He’s recused himself from the russian investigation.
That’s a good point about Mexico. There’s definitely stuff on the DNC servers that they don’t want anyone to see. Could be who paid for the dossier, or other illegal activities.
only to hear it say i don’t remember or i don’t recall or I Invoke My Fifth Amendment Rights?
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To Gitmo and the waterboard...
If you say you’re killing yourself before you’re life insurance runs out it won’t be paid.
She isn't in prison and there is no sign of her going to prison. The ring of corruption is massive. When she does die very little will change
Life ins doesn’t pay for suicide. That would be financial suicide for the company!
I really hope this is true, TC
but to read between the lines & come up with the reason bob (mueller) & his staff of legal henchmen hired from DNC holding pattern jobs & come up with this task force that will be revered as the only lawyers in the country to take down the xlintonista regime is quite a stretch
Stay tuned tomorrow to see
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