The former Feinstein staffers participation in ongoing efforts to retroactively validate the dossier was first publicly hinted at in January in several inquiry letters from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to various Democratic party leaders who were likely responsible for funding Fusion GPSs 2016 dossier work, including John Podesta, Donna Brazile, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Understanding the extent of the DNCs knowledge of, and interactions with, Mr. Steele and others involved in Fusion GPSs work is essential to this inquiry, the two senators wrote. In light of this, by February 8, 2018, please answer the following questions and provide the following requested documents. The twelfth item the lawmakers requested, which appears to be the first time Joness name was publicly mentioned in connection with the dossier, was all communications between the letters recipients and a host of characters involved with the dossier and its financing, creation, and dissemination: