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.
Sadly, I agree.
Fusion claimed Cohen traveled to Prague to attend a clandestine meeting with Russian agents.
Cohen produced his passport showing he had never been to Prague. Cohen sued (or threatened to sue, I don't recall which) Steele/Fusion
It's a non-stop smear campaign
• McCain dossier
• DNC/Crowdstrike
• Michael Cohen
• DTjr setup
I have a feeling that the Russian connection to influencing the election is to be found here but it is not President Trump who is implicated but Hillary and other operatives in the democratic party.....The Democrats our digging them selves a hole that will only be filled with the shit they have talked about since November.
Around the time of last summer’s meeting with Trump Jr., Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya was peddling a new political spin on a well-worn international scandal She was focusing on hedge fund manager William Browder and on Ziff Brothers Investments LLC, which had invested with Browder
Russian prosecutors said they were opening new lines of inquiry against these investors. What Veselnitskaya saw in these steps were alleged tax improprieties that would be a black mark on the Democratic Party, because Browder and at least one member of the wealthy Ziff family had contributed to the Clinton Global Initiative
Browder’s firm, Hermitage Capital, is listed as a contributor of $10,000 to $25,000 because he paid to attend a CGI conference about a decade ago. Ziff Brothers’ Daniel Ziff is recorded as contributing $50,000 to $100,000 to CGI.
The Clinton Global Initiative didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Kushner’s father in fact was a contributor. Charles Kushner has given the Clinton group $250,000 to $500,000, based on the records on the website. According to Veselnitskaya’s description of the Trump Tower meeting on NBC, Jared Kushner left after only a few minutes. The Kushners did not respond to requests for comment.
Interesting that the Kushers have contributed so much to the Clinton Foundation.
Has the Corrupt Mueller empaneled a Grand Jury yet?
I don’t believe that e-mail......Mueller is CORRUPT to the core and he hired ONLY Democrat Lawyers, so there is NO FREAKING WAY this will do a 180 and look into Hillary and the DNC......NO FREAKING WAY!! DISINFORMATION ALERT!!
OMG!! That is LAUGHABLE!!! It’s like Vince Foster’s “suicide” note that just happened to turn up days later!!
WOWIE!!! You might have hit on something there!!
The Kushner’s are HUGE DEMOCRATS!! Jared’s lawyer is Jamie GORELICK!!!! SHE could be the LEAKER!
100%!!!
Not once you turn out to the be the agent of folks who put your paid for work product in the public domain to slander someone, no it's not privileged."
wary inkterestink, Ray76.
no wonder mccain’s daughter was squirming yesterday on the 5 during the segment on Natalie’s connections.
her dad’s in on the set up!
No, not by chance.
Not beside, but behind the ambassador....next to the ambassador's young son. Not sure if the young man on her right is the ambassador's other son.
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