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Why key architect of the anti-Trump dossier is now accused of lying to Congress
The Washington Times ^ | May 31, 2018 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 05/31/2018 3:32:14 PM PDT by detective

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is suggesting Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson uttered an “outright lie” when he testified to panel staffers.

Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, made the charge in a letter to a Democratic senator who wanted Donald Trump Jr. recalled as a witness.

Fusion is one of the key players in the FBI’s nearly two-year Russia investigation. It was Mr. Simpson, a private investigator, who tapped Democratic Party money to hire ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who produced the discredited anti-Trump dossier.

In August 2017, Mr. Simpson testified in private to committee staff. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, ranking Democrat, later unilaterally released the transcript.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: 201708; danieljones; diannefeinstein; feinstein; fusiongps; glennsimpson; grassley; ihadacold; pennquartergroup; pqg; privatedick; simpson; steeledossier
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Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS was paid by the Clinton campaign to help create the phony dossier about Trump.

Simpson appears to have lied to Congress during his testimony.

1 posted on 05/31/2018 3:32:14 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

So, is Grassley going to make a criminal referral to Sessions?


2 posted on 05/31/2018 3:37:02 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: detective

Someone, somewhere is writing a screenplay for something far better than “All the Presidents Men”.


3 posted on 05/31/2018 3:37:18 PM PDT by Conservet (Look back to go forward.)
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To: detective

Is he a small enough fry to take the fall?


4 posted on 05/31/2018 3:39:06 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: detective

That’s the testimony Feinstein released without approval or knowledge of the rest of the Committee? So she was complicit in facilitating the release of false info to the press and public.


5 posted on 05/31/2018 3:39:30 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: tennmountainman

“So, is Grassley going to make a criminal referral to Sessions?“

You’re kidding, right?

L


6 posted on 05/31/2018 3:43:43 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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He didn’t intend to lie so it is ok.


7 posted on 05/31/2018 3:46:17 PM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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To: tennmountainman

‘So, is Grassley going to make a criminal referral to Sessions?’

What good would that do? Deputy AG Sessions would simply hand it to AG Rosenstein. RR would make some snotty remark about not being pressured to do anything he doesn’t want to do, and into the circular file it would go.

Not that swamp monster Grassley cares. He just likes to talk and threaten Trump.


8 posted on 05/31/2018 3:54:32 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

I was being sarcastic. I don’t expect anything from these weak
kneed sisters.


9 posted on 05/31/2018 4:02:25 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: tennmountainman

Sessions?? Isn’t that what youngins call a group of people sitting around smokin weed??


10 posted on 05/31/2018 4:05:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

5D chess.


11 posted on 05/31/2018 4:06:44 PM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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Glenn Simpson has a problem.

Everyone, except the main stream media, can see the problem.

12 posted on 05/31/2018 4:08:39 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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Mr. Simpson was asked directly if he continued to conduct anti-Trump opposition research after the Nov. 8 election. He answered, “I had no client after the election.”

That answer seems at odds with an FBI interview report, or 302, obtained by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The 302 recounted an interview agents’ conducted with Daniel Jones, a former senior Feinstein staffer who founded his own investigative firm, Penn Quarter Group. Mr. Jones told the agents he had received $50 million from seven to 10 wealthy donors and that he had hired Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele to continue investigating President Trump.

If Mr. Jones’ interview is accurate, it would mean that Fusion did in fact have a post-election client––Penn Quarter Group. . .

Mr. Simpson was not under oath. But Mr. Grassley’s staff explained to him that lying to Congress violates federal law. . .

This is the second hiccup in Mr. Simpson’s testimony.

When Mrs. Feinstein released the transcript in January, it showed that Mr. Simpson testified that Mr. Steele was told by the FBI it had a source inside the Trump campaign. . .

13 posted on 05/31/2018 4:09:13 PM PDT by Fedora
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"Is he a small enough fry to take the fall?"

He'd better hope so. The Clinton fallback position is a guided tour of the local park.


14 posted on 05/31/2018 4:10:31 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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Nothing ever happens. They will regurgitate the same crap in a couple of weeks.


15 posted on 05/31/2018 4:12:27 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: tennmountainman

On this we agree. It’s just a shame to see dishonorable Sessions hanging onto a job he can’t do and crucially undermining Trump while he’s at it.


16 posted on 05/31/2018 4:22:16 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: PLMerite

Their standards have gone down since Vince Foster.

They just left Seth Rich in the street.


17 posted on 05/31/2018 4:24:37 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Luke21

Yes, Trey Gowdy will vouch for Simpson always having told the truth, that like George Washington he could not tell a lie, even in the 99.9998 percent of his life when Gowdy wasn’t present with him.


18 posted on 05/31/2018 4:27:41 PM PDT by laconic
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So what? I’d lie to ‘em also. Grassley and Congress deserves to get lied to. Nobody has ever served a day or had the slightest consequence for lying to Congress.

Like Calvera said in Magnificent Seven. “God made them sheep, so why shouldn’t they be sheared.”


19 posted on 05/31/2018 4:32:39 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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“Daniel Jones, a former senior Feinstein staffer who founded his own investigative firm, Penn Quarter Group. Mr. Jones told the agents he had received $50 million from seven to 10 wealthy donors and that he had hired Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele to continue investigating President Trump”

Looks like DiFi and her staff are treasonous bastards. No surprise.


20 posted on 05/31/2018 4:33:04 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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