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[PoliticalChic]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

 

[tinydancer]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

 

[tinydancer]

One of the most blatant lies in the dossier was about Michael Cohen. Saying that he met a Russian agent in Prague. It was the wrong Michael Cohen. He was at his son's baseball game. Great writer from I think it was the the Atlantic found that out by actually asking Mr. Cohen where he was.

No one else asked him before they ran the story.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

What is not mentioned is the origin of the dossier.

It was Russia....proving that the Kremlin wanted to sink Trump and boost Bill's wife into the presidency.



The dossier is central to the question of which candidate the Russians wished to see as President.


This was the vaunted dossier, designed to take down the Trump candidacy:

"The report gives a fly-on-the-wall account of just about every conceivable event associated with Donald Trump’s Russian connections. It claims to know more than is knowable as it recounts sordid tales of prostitutes, “golden showers,” bribes, squabbles in Putin’s inner circle, and who controls the dossiers of kompromat (compromising information).

As someone who has worked for more than a decade with the microfilm collection of Soviet documents in the Hoover Institution Archives, I can say that the dossier itself was compiled by a Russian, whose command of English is far from perfect and who follows the KGB (now FSB) practice of writing intelligence reports, in particular the practice of capitalizing all names for easy reference. The report includes Putin’s inner circle – Peskov, Ivanov, Sechin, Lavrov. The anonymous author claims to have “trusted compatriots” who knew the roles that each Kremlin insider, including Putin himself, played in the Trump election saga and were prepared to tell him."
The Trump Dossier Is Fake -- And Here Are The Reasons Why




The above analysis was written by an expert:
Paul Roderick Gregory I am a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford, and energy fellow and Cullen Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. I am also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin. My specialties are Russia and Comparative Economics, and I am adding China to my portfolio. I have written more than 20 books on economics, Russia and comparative economics. I blog at paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com.




Said dossier, 'written by a Russian,' turned over to a Socialist Christopher Steele, formerly of M.I.6., sent to an organization working for Hillary, ORBIS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, LTD.,aimed at destroying Trump.

The clear conclusion is that the candidate Putin wanted for President was none other than the career criminal, and easily bribed, 'Crooked Hillary.'

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

I saw the questions Grassley asked as part of that request.

Let's see what he gets!

 

[tinydancer]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

I saw the questions Grassley asked as part of that request.

Let's see what he gets!

Boy oh boy, me too! I'm reading up on Fusion and they play dirty.

"Fusion GPS was also reportedly hired in 2012 to dig up information on a major Mitt Romney donor, Frank VanderSloot, such as his divorce records. The revelation led to criticism from the Wall Street Journal that Democrats were engaging in 'Nixonian' tactics by trying to smear Republican supporters."

Read more: Meet the espionage firm which ordered Trump 'dirty dossier' | Daily Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

I saw the questions Grassley asked as part of that request.

Let's see what he gets!

Boy oh boy, me too! I'm reading up on Fusion and they play dirty.

"Fusion GPS was also reportedly hired in 2012 to dig up information on a major Mitt Romney donor, Frank VanderSloot, such as his divorce records. The revelation led to criticism from the Wall Street Journal that Democrats were engaging in 'Nixonian' tactics by trying to smear Republican supporters."

Read more: Meet the espionage firm which ordered Trump 'dirty dossier' | Daily Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

I have a close pal who knows the head of CrowdStrike, Dmitri Alperovitch, claimed to be anti-Putin, but I'm gonna show him all the Leftwing funding that Crowdstrike gets.

I have no doubt that lots of different sorts are anti-Trump.

 

[tinydancer]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

I saw the questions Grassley asked as part of that request.

Let's see what he gets!

Boy oh boy, me too! I'm reading up on Fusion and they play dirty.

"Fusion GPS was also reportedly hired in 2012 to dig up information on a major Mitt Romney donor, Frank VanderSloot, such as his divorce records. The revelation led to criticism from the Wall Street Journal that Democrats were engaging in 'Nixonian' tactics by trying to smear Republican supporters."

Read more: Meet the espionage firm which ordered Trump 'dirty dossier' | Daily Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

I have a close pal who knows the head of CrowdStrike, Dmitri Alperovitch, claimed to be anti-Putin, but I'm gonna show him all the Leftwing funding that Crowdstrike gets.

I have no doubt that lots of different sorts are anti-Trump.

The Atlantic Council members list present and past blows my mind.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. "Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump

The D.C. firm that commissioned the Russia intelligence dossier smearing President Donald Trump is refusing to answer questions and provide records to the Senate panel investigating its connections to the Democratic Party, according to the New York Post's Paul Sperry. The so-called "dodgy dossier" helped spark the Russia scandal that has been bedeviling Trump since the election. Astonishingly, the FBI became involved with the dossier last summer, even though it knew the salacious report lacked credibility -- and now it is also stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Fusion GPS calls itself a “research and strategic intelligence firm” but is well known in Washington to be an opposition-research group for Democrats. According to Sperry, the firm's founders are "more political activists than journalists" and have "a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda."
Report: FBI Collaborated with Dem Oppo Research Firm to Smear Trump


2. Comey bought it like it was on sale.

" the F.B.I., C.I.A. and National Security Agency gave a classified report on the Russian hacking, leaking and efforts to influence the presidential election to Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders, they attached a two-page summary of the unverified allegations in the memos." What We Know and Don’t Know About the Trump-Russia Dossier



3. Even when the story blew up:

"FBI Director James Comey has been caught going around to secret Congressional briefings in “recent weeks” touting the lurid fake “Trump dossier.” He has been claiming that it is a major foundation of the FBI’s investigation of purported Russian collusion with Trump to interfere in the election—months after the FBI had already assessed the “dossier” as non-credible."
The Final Truth about the “Trump Dossier”

Here's the letter Grassley has fired off to this firm. AND he's asking real hard hitting questions. Glad he's upset at the FBI.

Dear Mr. Simpson:

I am writing to inquire about Fusion GPS’s opposition research efforts regarding President Trump, particularly the dossier compiled for your company by Mr. Christopher Steele. According to press accounts: a Republican opposed to Mr. Trump hired your company to compile opposition research on him; your company then hired Mr. Steele to investigate Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia after evidence emerged last June regarding Russian hacking of Democratic targets; and once it became clear that Mr. Trump would be the Republican nominee, Democrats supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign began to pay for the research.

The New York Times also reported that “Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele shared the memos first with their clients, and later with the FBI and multiple journalists at the New York Times and elsewhere.”

Last month, the Washington Post reported that a few weeks before the election, the FBI had reached an agreement with Mr. Steele to pay him to continue his work, noting that “[t]he revelation that the FBI agreed to pay Steele at the same time he was being paid by Clinton supporters to dig into Trump’s background could further strain relations between the law enforcement agency and the White House.”

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics. The Committee requires additional information to evaluate this situation. Please answer the following questions and provide the requested documents by April 7, 2017:

More at link.

Grassley Probes Opposition Research Firm behind Unsubstantiated Trump Dossier | Chuck Grassley

I saw the questions Grassley asked as part of that request.

Let's see what he gets!

Boy oh boy, me too! I'm reading up on Fusion and they play dirty.

"Fusion GPS was also reportedly hired in 2012 to dig up information on a major Mitt Romney donor, Frank VanderSloot, such as his divorce records. The revelation led to criticism from the Wall Street Journal that Democrats were engaging in 'Nixonian' tactics by trying to smear Republican supporters."

Read more: Meet the espionage firm which ordered Trump 'dirty dossier' | Daily Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

I have a close pal who knows the head of CrowdStrike, Dmitri Alperovitch, claimed to be anti-Putin, but I'm gonna show him all the Leftwing funding that Crowdstrike gets.

I have no doubt that lots of different sorts are anti-Trump.

The Atlantic Council members list present and past blows my mind.

Brent Scowcroft

 

[JBond]

Now that even Trump has admitted that the Russians interfered with the election, and since we already know that the motive of their interference was to help Trump,

threads like this are even more retarded than they'd already be without this knowledge.

What did you do differently as a result of the DNC "hack"? All the libs keep beating this idiotic drum, but so far not a single one has said the "hack", or revelation that the DNC rigged their primaries, made them change their vote. So how exactly did the alleged interference affect the outcome of the election?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Now that even Trump has admitted that the Russians interfered with the election, and since we already know that the motive of their interference was to help Trump,

threads like this are even more retarded than they'd already be without this knowledge.

What did you do differently as a result of the DNC "hack"? All the libs keep beating this idiotic drum, but so far not a single one has said the "hack", or revelation that the DNC rigged their primaries, made them change their vote. So how exactly did the alleged interference affect the outcome of the election?

Good point.....

I've seen that Liberal meme over and over....

...but when I ask for a few examples of "private information leaked damaging to Hillary" that the public didn't know about the career criminal and congenital liar before an such 'leaks,'
....all I get is silence.