Posted on 01/09/2018 10:26:23 AM PST by Red Badger
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Tuesday released the full transcript from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice," Feinstein said in a statement. "The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public."
The release of the transcript, Feinstein said, was supported by committee Democrats. The move follows committee a decision by Republicans Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham to issue a criminal referral last week against Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the largely unverified "Trump dossier."
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Wasn’t gps fusion tied to the cia through nellie ohr?
P. 63: Says Fusion GPS began investigating Trump in September or October of 2015; declines to identify name of client who requested investigation.
She did release his perjury before the committee, so on the whole, its a pretty good day.
P. 74: Says Fusion GPS began researching Trump for a new client in the first half of 2016, declines to identify client.
P. 78: hired Steele in May or June 2016 to investigate Trump/Russia, one of multiple Trump opposition research topics Fusion GPS was investigating using multiple contractors.
P. 81: Says first met Steele in 2009, has worked with him periodically since then.
P. 83: Ed Baumgartner also helped research Trump/Manafort.
You are so right.
She just wants to cushion the blow. I hope the blow is hard.
Pp. 99-100: identifies media outlets Fusion GPS communicated with regarding Browder/Prevezon case.
P. 107: Simpson says he first met Rinat Akhmetshin while working as reporter at WSJ.
114: Simpson first met Natalia Veselnitskaya in 2014.
Drudge has a link to an article that says Simpson claimed “somebody has already been killed” as a result of the dossier’s release. Hmmmm...if true, who might that be?
SR....................................
119: Didn't have impression Veselnitskaya was major player in Kremlin, doesn't claim to know beyond what he read in papers.
133: Says had no foreknowledge of Veselnitskaya meeting with Trump, Jr.
Book mark for later.
Page 279 of the testimony.
MR. FOSTER: So without getting into naming
15 the sources or anything like that, what steps did
16 you take to try to verify their credibility?
17 MR. SIMPSON: I'm going to decline to answer
18 that.
19 MR. FOSTER: Why?
20 MR. LEVY: It's a voluntary interview, and in
21 addition to that he wants to be very careful to
22 protect his sources. Somebody's already been
23 killed as a result of the publication of this
24 dossier and no harm should come to anybody related
25 to this honest work.
Yes I have.....this guy spent an enormous amount of time explaining over and over again what he does.
It’s also apparent congressional leaders are the worst people to handle this entire ordeal. What a bunch of nonsensical rubbish to wade through.
152: Mentions John McCain met with Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch with suspected organized crime ties.
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