2017 to answer questions about the dossier on President Trump that the research company compiled with the assistance. Nunes stepped aside from the committee's Russia investigation in early April following his decision to brief Trump and the press on classified intelligence without telling his fellow committee members. The Fusion GPS founder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Aug. A representative for Nunes did not immediately respond to a request for comment. LUCAS: Well, it comes from a 10-hour interview that the Senate Judiciary Committee did with Glenn Simpson behind closed doors in August. He added that the "disparate treatment and abuse of power" by Nunes was "unethical, according to the DC Bar rules."Ī representative for Fusion GPS confirmed that the cofounders met behind closed doors with the House Intel Committee staff on Wednesday and asserted their privileges not to testify. The committee has not imposed this requirement on any other witness, including the president’s men." But that is what Chairman Nunes did today with our clients at Fusion GPS, breaking with the practice of his committee in this investigation. Lee Smith of Tablet magazine has traced the origins of the Russia dossier the Democrat-funded opposition research project that may have laid the foundations for the ongoing Russia investigation to several Wall Street Journal articles that appeared in print a decade ago. Blumenthal told MSNBC in reference to the transcript of Simpsons 10-hour testimony. "No American should be required to appear before Congress simply to invoke his constitutional privileges. I certainly will vote to make them public. “No American should have to experience today’s indignity," Levy wrote. Democrats called the referral a partisan distraction.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Trump was deposed under oath for four and a half hours this week in connection with a lawsuit filed by a group of. The senators said they had reason to believe Steele had lied to federal authorities about his contacts with the media and urged the Justice Department to investigate. Rachel Maddow describes some of the history of the collection of intelligence known as the 'Trump dossier,' and the apparent likelihood that the Senate Judiciary testimony of the company. The decision came after the jury heard testimony for two weeks that largely focused. Grassley, along with another Republican on the panel, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, issued a criminal referral last week for the dossier's principal author, a former British spy named Christopher Steele. Senate Asks DOJ to Probe Trump Dossier Firm.
or are successfully corralled into hours of testimony before Congress that reveals, in many instances. He invited Simpson to instead testify publicly. How Trump Betrayed America Seth Abramson. who hired Steele to produce the Trump dossier, testified for ten hours in front of the Senate. Trump testifies for over 4 hours in deposition about 2015 alleged assault at Trump Tower By Kara Scannell and Chandelis Duster, CNN Updated 6:36 PM EDT, Mon OctoLink Copied Ad. Grassley last week rejected the firm's request to release the transcript, citing concerns that its release could taint the committee's ongoing investigations related to Russia's election meddling and the FBI's response. A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year Amy Siskind. In the op-ed, Simpson and Fritsch said the transcripts would show that they told lawmakers that they believed the dossier had been taken seriously by the FBI because it matched reports that the bureau was receiving from other sources.įeinstein moved without the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, almost certainly escalating partisan tensions on the committee. Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the firm's co-founders, had called for the transcript's release last week in an op-ed in The New York Times in which they accused Republicans of concealing their testimony in an effort to smear the dossier and distract from questions about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, speaks with ranking member Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California. Luis Orozco Glenn Simpson, the co-.founder of political and corporate intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which was behind the discredited dossier about President Trump and his links with Russia, decided not to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, after he was scheduled to do so.
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