During his testimony
before the Senate Judiciary Committee last August, Glenn Simpson the founder of
Fusion GPS, made the dossier created by the Democrats appear to be credible. When he penned his Op-Ed in The New York
Times on January 2, he made the same claims.
When a transcript of
his closed-door August testimony was leaked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein last week,
news headlines immediately seized onto the disclosure as a godsend to a dossier
whose core charges of Trump-Russia collusion have been denied and not confirmed
publicly.
Then suddenly, as quick
as the headlines went up, someone close to Fusion GPS was waving off reporters.
Simpson had “mischaracterized”
the source. It was not an FBI mole inside the Trump Administration. Now we know there was no FBI source at
all─just an Australian diplomat who spoke to a sloppy drunk Trump operative,
George Papadouplos.
Judiciary Chairman Sen.
Charles Grassley was not pleased with the retraction suggesting Fusion GPS’s
work was “dirty”, “not reliable” and “Russian propaganda”.
“A source close to
Fusion GPS tells me there was no walk-in source––that was a mischaracterization
by Simpson of the Australian diplomat tip about Papadopoulos,” tweeted NBC
reporter Ken Dilanian.
Whether the source the FBI
supposedly told Christopher Steele about could be Papadopoulos is doubtful. He
has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about issues surrounding his contacts
with the professor. The criminal complaint says the FBI did not interview him
until January 2017, three months after Steele met with the agents in Rome.
The story corrections caught
the eye of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) who on
Thursday sent off a letter to Fusion attorney Joshua Levy. Grassley demanded to
know why Levy did not correct the record after spending hours reviewing the
transcript in October and November or contact the committee last Tuesday.
“If it is true that
your client’s statement to the Committee was a mischaracterization, why did you
not attempt to correct your client’s statement as soon as you and/or he
realized it was not accurate?” Grassley wrote. The Washington Times noted Levy
did not return a message seeking comment.
Rowan Scarborough who reported
the story for The Washington Times noted, “Grassley may be mad enough to look
for a perjury vote. But the damage has been done. Those who wished to advance
the collusion narrative got their ammunition while the truth was still putting
on its boots.”
Senators @ChuckGrassley and @LindseyGrahamSC have referred Christopher Steele to @TheJusticeDept for investigation after information reviewed by committee investigators revealed significant inconsistencies in statements provided to authorities pic.twitter.com/MKhJlscdKP— Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) January 5, 2018
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