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MisdemeanorRebel
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2018 Jan 9, 11:39pm
http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/feinstein-releases-glenn-simpson-transcript/index.html
The ass covering is in over-drive. Pelosi's leaked document blots out the names of FusionGPS employees, and includes the organization that desires "Transparency" repeatedly asking the Committee for discretion and secrecy.
#Dossier #FakeNews #JanuarySurprises
MisdemeanorRebel
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2018 Jan 9, 11:39pm
Washington (CNN)Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the author of the opposition research dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia was acting on his own volition when he went to the FBI because he was concerned that a presidential candidate was being blackmailed, according to the 312-page transcript of his testimony.
Simpson told the committee in closed-door testimony in August -- which was released publicly on Tuesday -- that he did not know how the FBI would react when ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, went to the bureau in July 2016.
"Chris said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and said he wanted to -- he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government about this information," Simpson said. "He thought from his perspective there was an issue -- a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed."
Bank turns over disputed Fusion GPS records to Congress
To date, no evidence has emerged that Trump was blackmailed.
Simpson also testified that Steele told him the FBI had similar intelligence from "an internal Trump campaign source" and that the FBI "believed Chris' information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization."
A source close to Fusion GPS clarified that Simpson's mention of an internal Trump campaign source actually refers to the Australian ambassador who contacted the FBI to pass on information that he received from then-Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.
The New York Times reported last month that Papadopoulos told the Australian ambassador in May 2016 about the Russians' dirt on Hillary Clinton over drinks in London.
http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/feinstein-releases-glenn-simpson-transcript/index.html
The ass covering is in over-drive. Pelosi's leaked document blots out the names of FusionGPS employees, and includes the organization that desires "Transparency" repeatedly asking the Committee for discretion and secrecy.
#Dossier #FakeNews #JanuarySurprises
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More bombshells are to come.
The Fusion GPS saga isn’t over. The Clinton-DNC funding is but a first glimpse into the shady election doings concealed within that oppo-research firm’s walls.
The answers are in Fusion’s bank records. Fusion has doggedly refused to divulge the names of its clients for months now, despite extraordinary pressure.
Because there’s something Fusion cares about keeping secret even more than the Clinton-DNC news—and that something is in those bank records. The release of the client names was a last-ditch effort to appease the House Intelligence Committee, which issued subpoenas to Fusion’s bank and was close to obtaining records until Fusion filed suit last week.
FBI bombshells are also yet to come.
The bureau has stonewalled congressional subpoenas for documents related to the dossier, but that became harder with the DNC-Clinton news.
We may learn the FBI knew the dossier was a bought-and-paid-for product of Candidate Clinton, but used it anyway.
There’s plenty yet to come with regard to the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Every senior Democrat is disclaiming knowledge of the dossier deal, leaving Perkins Coie holding the bag. But while it is not unusual for law firms to hire opposition-research outfits for political clients, it is highly unusual for a law firm to pay bills without a client’s approval.
Somewhere, Perkins Coie has documents showing who signed off on those bills, and they aren’t protected by attorney-client privilege.
And there are still bombshells with regard to unmasking of Americans in surveilled communications.
If the Steele dossier reports (which appear to date back to June 2016) were making their way into the hands of senior DNC and Clinton political operatives, you can bet they were making their way to the Obama White House. This may explain why Obama political appointees began monitoring the Trump campaign and abusing unmasking.
No, this probe of the Democratic Party’s Russian dalliance has a long, long way to go. And, let us hope, with revelations too big for even the media to ignore.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-coming-russia-bombshells-1509059214