Quite interesting, Glenn Simpson worked for a Russian oligarch to defeat the Magnitsky Act. In his testimony Simpson literally destroys Bill Browder!!! See also my earlier diaries ….
Source inside Trump campaign reported concerns to FBI, new transcript reveals | The Guardian |
A source within the Trump campaign reported concerns to the FBI, according to the man behind a controversial dossier on Donald Trump, a new transcript reveals.
Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday unilaterally released the transcript of a congressional interview with Glenn Simpson, whose research firm, Fusion GPS, was behind the dossier on alleged contacts between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.
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Simpson cautioned that he was paraphrasing Steele’s account, and added: “we did not have the detailed conversations where he would debrief me on his discussions with the FBI.”…
According to Simpson, Steele “severed his relationship with the FBI” after the New York Times published a story in late October that said agents had not found “any conclusive or direct link between Mr Trump and the Russian government”.Steele was concerned “that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people and that we didn’t really understand what was going on”, Simpson said. “So he stopped dealing with them.”
Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, said she released the transcript because “the American people deserve the opportunity to see what he said and judge for themselves”.
This is the transcribed interview of Glenn Simpson. Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein requested this interview as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Fusion GPS‘s activities related to the dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, the Prevezon case, and the Magnitsky Act.
Additional key words: William Browder – Panama Papers – Mossack Fonseca – Edward Baumgartner – Edward Austin in London
More and updates below the fold …
Steele went to the FBI bc he was concerned Trump was being blackmailed, according to Simpson transcript https://t.co/QBWlkD0wYN pic.twitter.com/FpOSrhwROn
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) January 9, 2018
From my earlier diaries …
○ Globalisation: Katsyv links Moscow – London – NY – Tel Aviv
○ Did MI6/CIA Collude with Chris Steele to Entrap Trump?
○ Exclusive: Why Akhmetshin and Fusion GPS Should Be Investigated
○ Khodorkovsky, Browder and the Magnitsky Act
