SIMPSON: “After the first memo, you know, 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. Christopher Steele insisted on contacting the FBI because he believed Donald Trump was being blackmailed. Here are five of the key exchanges from Simpson’s ten hours of testimony:ġ. It was later reported that the FBI was investigating its claims, largely because many of its findings matched the agency’s own independent investigation, begun in July 2016.įeinstein published the entire transcript on her Senate website yesterday. Its existence was first made public by CNN – along with the news that both President Obama and Trump himself had been briefed on its findings. The gist seemed to be there was reason to believe members of the Trump campaign were not only aware of the Russian government’s attempts to influence the presidential election – they were happy to accept the help. “The dossier,” as it came to be known, was compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer hired by Fusion GPS to research Trump, and its contents had circulated for months among certain journalists, members of Congress, and employees of the FBI.
To back up: A year ago, BuzzFeed published an incendiary document compiled by a private firm, Fusion GPS, containing allegations about ties between various members of the Trump campaign and Russia (including, infamously, the existence of compromising video footage of then President-elect Donald Trump in a Moscow hotel suite).
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Her Republican colleagues had previously refused to release the transcripts, despite calls from Simpson and his colleague, Peter Fritsch, for full transparency. On Tuesday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein made the unilateral decision to release transcripts of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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