Fusion GPS Testimony Released

[Agent Zero]

Feinstein did the right thing and the transcript kills right wing talking points.

Read the testimony here.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...cript-released

[Agent Zero]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...break-away-fbi

Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who assembled the dossier based on research by the former spy, Christopher Steele, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Times article made Steele feel “concern about what was going on at the FBI.”Simpson’s testimony took place in August. An interview transcript was made public Tuesday.


“There was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people and we didn’t really understand what was going on,” Simpson testified, calling the Oct. 31 article “a real Halloween special.”
The Times story reported at a critical moment in the 2016 election campign that the FBI had found no “conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government” during a months-long inquiry. The story has come under fire in light of subsequent reporting, much of it by the Times’ own reporters, detailing contacts between the two.
Simpson testified that the article contradicted Steele and Fusion’s own research into Trump’s connections with Russia.

[Agent Zero]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...empt-to-co-opt

Simpson also testified he had “reason to believe” someone had offered Page business deals designed to influence him.Simpson’s assessment is in line with that of former US intelligence professionals who spoke on the record to Talking Points Memo in November. They described Page as a soft target. “Most spies are Fredos,” ex-CIA officer David Chasteen said, referring to Michael Corleone’s hapless brother in The Godfather.
“There was a fair amount of open source [public information] on his consulting firm, his complaint that he’d lost money on Russian investments and he owned stock in [state-owned Russian oil giant] Gazprom and he was really mad about the sanctions [on Russia by the U.S.] and he went over there in this hastily-arranged trip to speak to this school and that was all pretty unusual,” Simpson told Senate investigators in August, “but there’s a lot of skepticism in the press about whether he could be linked between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign because he seemed like a zero, a lightweight.”

[Captdon]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckrak...break-away-fbi

You got his testimony backwards.

[Agent Zero]

You got his testimony backwards.

“I” did?

[Captdon]

“I” did?

Do I need to define "I" to you. God, federal employees are dummies.

[MisterVeritis]

Do I need to define "I" to you. God, federal employees are dummies.

We don't send the Federal government our best people.

[Bob the Slob]

Seems to me old Grassley committed obstruction of justice by doing this. He's as crooked as Trumper.

Fusion GPS and Grassley had been engaged in a public battle over whether to release it, with Grassley instead calling upon Fusion GPS to participate in an open hearing.Additionally, Grassley last week sent a letter to the Justice Department recommending that Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy Fusion GPS hired to write the dossier, be investigated for criminal charges.
A Grassley spokesperson, in a statement, called Feinstein’s release of the transcript “confounding” and said her action “undermines the integrity of the committee’s oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses.”
We’re currently scouring the 300-page transcript and will be updating with additional details as we go.
In the Republican Judiciary staff’s first round of questioning, they focused in on Fusion GPS’ work for in the Prevezon case, a financial crimes case the Justice Department brought against the Russian firm Prevezon Holdings. Fusion GPS worked for the law firm hired by Prevezon.

There's no undermining of questioning people on this. They have evidence. They just bring them in and let them lie under oath.

[Agent Zero]

Seems to me old Grassley committed obstruction of justice by doing this. He's as crooked as Trumper.

There's no undermining of questioning people on this. They have evidence. They just bring them in and let them lie under oath.

Last month Grassley promised his constituents the transcript would be released, then didn't.

[Adelaide]

Do I need to define "I" to you. God, federal employees are dummies.

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