Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),
the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, unilaterally released the
312-page transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s August interview
with Committee investigators.
The release provoked
controversy on Capitol Hill, with a spokesman for Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) slamming Feinstein’s move as “confounding.” Spokesman Taylor
Foy said she made the decision without consulting the Chairman and warned the
move jeopardized other highly sought witness testimony.
Feinstein suggested a
“bad cold” may have impaired her mental faculties and caused her to release the
testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee without telling Committee Chair
Chuck Grassley.
“The one regret I have
is that I should have spoken with Senator Grassley before,” she told
NBC News. “And I don’t make an excuse, but I’ve had a bad cold and maybe that
slowed down my mental facilities [sic] a little bit.”
Dr. Bandy Lee, the Yale
University professor and forensic psychiatrist who believes President Trump is “dangerous”
and requires a mental-capacity exam could not be reached for comment.
Feinstein to @MariannaNBCNews RE: releasing the Glenn Simpson transcript: "The one regret I have is that I should have spoke with Senator Grassley before. And I don't make an excuse but I've had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities a little bit."— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) January 10, 2018
The old blame the NyQuil card https://t.co/ULn8Me0Vp5— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) January 11, 2018
UPDATE: David Harsanyi, a
nationally syndicated columnist and Senior Editor at The Federalist noted in an Op-Ed in The
New York Post that President
Trump’s personal attorney has filed a pair of lawsuits; one against Fusion GPS in federal court and
the other in New York against Buzzfeed.
He is suggesting calls to the Justice Department to open a criminal
investigation into Glenn Simpson’s false testimony and communicating with
reporters about the contents of the so-called “dirty dossier” may be behind
Sen. Feinstein’s release of the transcripts.
The transcripts, according to Harsanyi, omitted a number of important
contextual exhibits. If the Democrats,
the Party in power during the 2016 presidential election, used a dossier filled
with raw, unsubstantiated information to spy on Trump’s people it will be a “massive
scandal”.
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