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01/10/2018 7 Revelations From Fusion GPS Founder’s Senate Testimony

Chuck Ross
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/10/7-revelations-from-fusion-gps-founders-senate-testimony/

One of the biggest takeaways from Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony is that he has no independent proof that the allegations made in the infamous Trump dossier are accurate.

An extensive review of Simpson’s 312-page Aug. 22 interview transcript shows that his strongest evidence for believing the dossier’s accuracy is that he trusts Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the 35-page document.

“Chris, as I say, has a sterling reputation as a person who doesn’t exaggerate, doesn’t make things up, doesn’t sell baloney,” Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal, told Senate investigators in the interview.

But when pressed for independent evidence to support the dossier’s allegations, Simpson demurred. He also refused to discuss dossier sources or to say whether he had vetted any of them.


But that’s not the only conclusion to be drawn from Simpson’s testimony, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday by California Sen. Dianne

Feinstein against the wishes of her Republican colleagues.
Here are other major revelations from Simpson’s testimony.


FBI may have disclosed Russia investigation sources to Steele
Simpson suggested in his interview that Steele learned from the FBI in Sept. 2016 that the bureau had received information from inside the Trump campaign that corroborated some of the dossier’s allegations.

The revelation raises questions about why the FBI would have shared seemingly sensitive information about its sources with Steele, a former MI6 officer who now operates a private intelligence firm.

In his testimony, Simpson says Steele told him during a Sept. 2016 meeting with FBI agents that the FBI “had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source” and that they thought Steele “might be credible” because they had other intelligence from “a human source from inside the Trump organization.”

Simpson was cagey when asked whether Steele had received that information directly from the FBI, but he did not deny it.

“And did Mr. Steele tell you that the FBI had relayed this information to him?” Simpson was asked.

“He didn’t specifically say that,” said Simpson, adding that Steele “would say very generic things like I saw them, they asked me a lot of questions, sounds like they have another source or they have another source.”

Simpson’s remarks generated gleeful speculation from some media outlets that a mole within Trump’s orbit was a confidential source for the FBI.

But sources close to Fusion told reporters on Tuesday that Simpson conflated information he had been told by Steele.

NBC News reported that the Trump campaign source Simpson was referring to was George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser who recently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Russian contacts.
dailycaller.com/2017/12/05/russian-lawyer-who-met-don-jr-submits-senate-testimony-theres-just-one-problem/

The New York Times reported late last month that Papadopoulos was put on the FBI’s radar after he told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in May 2016 that he had received information that Russian operatives had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos, an energy consultant, shared that information during a booze-filled conversation with Downer at a London bar.
A month earlier, Papadopoulos had met in April 2016 with a London-based professor named Joseph Mifsud who claimed to have learned that Russian operatives had stolen “thousands” of Clinton-related emails.

The timing of that encounter is significant because it was before it was publicly known that Russians had hacked Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account.

It remains unclear whether Papadopoulos told anyone in the Trump campaign about Mifsud’s claims. The White House has downplayed Papadopoulos’ work on the campaign.

Downer, the Australian diplomat, told his colleagues about his conversation with Papadopoulos two months after it occurred. He initially brushed off the young campaign adviser’s claims but passed them along after reports surfaced of Russian cyberattacks.

The Australian government then contacted the FBI, which reportedly opened its counterintelligence investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Kremlin.

But why Steele and then Simpson were made privy to the FBI’s knowledge of Papadopoulos and Downer remains unclear.


Simpson omits the Ohrs

Bruce and Nellie Ohr have become two of the more intriguing figures in the dossier saga.

Bruce Ohr was a deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department when he met with Steele before the 2016 e******n.

He also met with Simpson just after Trump’s e******n win.

Nellie Ohr, a former CIA employee with expertise in Russia, worked for Fusion GPS on its Trump research.

Neither Ohr appears by name in the Simpson transcript.

Simpson insisted to investigators that he did not talk with anyone from the FBI during the Trump project. But he for some reason did not acknowledge his contact with a high-ranking DOJ official.

Simpson acknowledged in a Nov. 14 interview with the House Intelligence Committee that he had met with Bruce Ohr. Ohr was demoted from his DOJ position weeks later. Fox News reported that DOJ officials were not aware of his contacts with Steele and Simpson.

Simpson was also asked whether his firm employed anyone who speaks Russian.

And though Nellie Ohr seemingly speaks Russian, Simpson told Senate investigators that he did not employ anyone with that particular sk**l.

“Do any Fusion employees or associates speak Russian?” Simpson was asked.

“No,” he said.

And asked if he had any support from Russia-speaking employees, Simpson said “not in my company, at least not that I can recall.”


Fusion lawyer claimed that a dossier source has been murdered
Josh Levy, who accompanied Simpson in the testimony, claimed that a dossier source has been murdered.

Levy made the statement during a line of questioning to Simpson about sources for the dossier. The lawyer interjected to say that it would be unsafe to discuss dossier sources because at least one source had been k**led.

“It’s a voluntary interview, and in addition to that he wants to be very careful to protect his sources. Somebody’s already been k**led as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work,” said Levy.

It is unclear who Levy was referring to, though there has been speculation that a former KGB official who was found dead in the back of his car in Russia was a source for the dossier.

But that Kremlin insider, Oleg Erovkinin, was found dead on Dec. 26, 2016, two weeks before the dossier was published by BuzzFeed.

Russian lawyer’s inconsistent statements about Simpson encounters
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya has become a central figure in the Russia investigation because of her involvement in the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

And one of the stranger wrinkles in that saga is Veselnitskaya’s interactions with Simpson just hours before that controversial conclave.

Simpson’s interview transcript confirms past reporting that he was with Veselnitskaya the day of that meeting as well as the day before and day after.

But in her own testimony to the Judiciary committee, Veselnitskaya denied encountering Simpson on those days.

“Did you have contact with Glenn Simpson on June 8, 9, or 10, 2016?” reads one of the 94 questions posed to Veselnitskaya by the Senate panel.
“No, there had been no contacts with him on [sic] specified dates,” she responded.

(RELATED: Russian Lawyer At Trump Tower Meeting Submits Inconsistent Testimony)
dailycaller.com/2017/12/05/russian-lawyer-who-met-don-jr-submits-senate-testimony-theres-just-one-problem/

Undercutting that testimony, Simpson said that Veselnitskaya attended dinners where he was also present on June 8 and June 10. They were also together in a Manhattan court room on the morning of the Trump Tower meeting.

Simpson’s work with Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist who also visited Trump Tower, has stoked speculation that the Russians provided information that ended up in the dossier.

But Simpson denied in his testimony that either Russian contact told him about the Trump Tower meeting. He also said he doubted that either provided information to Steele.

FBI was upset that Steele’s findings were ending up in media reports

Simpson suggested that the FBI expressed frustration with Steele during meetings in Sept. 2016 that some of the information that he had shared with the bureau was appearing in the media.
Steele first shared his findings with an FBI acquaintance in July 2016. He met with agents again in Sept. 2016.

“Did Mr. Steele ever indicate to you whether the FBI had asked him not to speak with the media?” one investigator asked Simpson.

“I remember Chris saying at some point that they were upset with media coverage of some of the issues that he had discussed with him,” replied Simpson, adding that “he never said they told him he couldn’t talk to them.”

The only reporting that appeared to be based on Steele’s findings up to that point was from Yahoo! News. The website published a Sept. 23, 2016 article based on Steele’s allegations about Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Page is suing Yahoo!’s parent company over the article.


Longstanding relationship with John McCain associate
Simpson told investigators that he has known an associate of Arizona Sen. John McCain’s “for a long time.”

David Kramer, a former State Department official, was with McCain in Nov. 2016 when the Republican lawmaker was first told of the dossier by an associate of Steele’s.

Kramer, McCain and Steele soon developed plans for Kramer to contact Simpson to access the dossier.

Kramer is the only person known to have handled the dossier who has not denied being BuzzFeed’s source.

He was recently interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee and by lawyers who represent a Russian businessman suing BuzzFeed for publishing the dossier.

(RELATED: BuzzFeed’s Dossier Gets Closer To Being Identified)
dailycaller.com/2017/12/21/buzzfeeds-trump-dossier-source-gets-closer-to-being-identified/

In his testimony, Simpson said that he has known Kramer since his days at The Wall Street Journal.

“So Chris asked me do you know David Kramer, and I said yes, I’ve known David Kramer for a long time,” said Simpson.

“David Kramer is part of a small group of people that I’m sort of loosely affiliated with.

We’ve all worked on Russia and are very concerned about kleptocracy and human rights and the police state that Russia has become, in particular the efforts of the Russians to corrupt and mess with our political system,” Simpson added.

Simpson was “opposed to Donald Trump” before Russia investigation

Simpson insisted that his research of Trump was apolitical, but at the end of his interview he acknowledged being deeply opposed to the Republican.

“I think it’s safe to say that, you know, at some point probably early in 2016 I had reached a conclusion about Donald Trump as a businessman and his character and I was opposed to Donald Trump,” he said.

He defended his opposition, saying that it did not cloud his investigation of Trump’s business activities or those of his campaign.

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Witch hunt

CounterRevolutionary

Let's take a look at a couple of statements in this Simpson testimony:

"Papadopoulos, an energy consultant, shared that information during a booze-filled conversation with Downer at a London bar.
A month earlier, Papadopoulos had met in April 2016 with a London-based professor named Joseph Mifsud who claimed to have learned that Russian operatives had stolen “thousands” of Clinton-related emails."

Putin did not have to hack the DNC to retrieve "'thousands' of Clinton-related emails." They were available on Hillary's blackberry according to Comey's congressional testimony and through WikiLeaks. This has been the talk of the town long before November 8th, 2016.

"We’ve [David Kremmer's small group and Simpson] all worked on Russia and are very concerned about kleptocracy and human rights and the police state that Russia has become, in particular the efforts of the Russians to corrupt and mess with our political system,” Simpson added."

This so-called "kleptocracy" is not of Putin's making, but belongs to the exiled Russian Mafia in the Ukraine and London that the Podesta Group put into power, old-school c*******ts fugitives chased out of Russia by Putin's police.

What we are looking at is the Democrat Party favoring the return to power of the c*******t Russian Mafia's head honcho, Michael Khodorkovsky by toppling both Trump and Putin with this Russian collusion story and phony dossier. Khordorkovsky, once ran against Putin for president, was the former owner of YUKOS Oil in league with Enron and Arthur Andersen, and a fugitive now wanted for murder of a Siberian mayor.

Why was former MI6 agent, Chris Steele, terminated from his job, and is he and FusionGPS part of this international pedo-sex s***e-trade ring?
MI6 has been full of c*******t moles since the days of Roger Hollis, Kim Philby, Donald MacClean, and Burgess.

CounterRevolutionary

Yes, a witch hunt for the Serbian witch, Marina Abromovic, comrade to Prince Bernhard and Queen Beatrice of Holland's Bilderberg Group that put Bill & Hillary into the White House back in 1992. Marina engages in "spirit cooking" according to the Podesta WikiLeaks. There is a man named Abromovich in Russia, a wealthy oligarch. See the history of the Russian Mafia here:

http://www.crji.org/?idT=88&idC=88&idRec=5037
Russian Businesses With Organized Crime Links Expanding Into Romania
Paul Cristian Radu / 2002-08-30 ro

Scroll down to "Russian Organized Crime" and read up on Roman Abramovich, partner with fugitive Michael Khordorkovsky and ties to the Bank of New York and HSBC where Comey and Loretta Lynch used to work. Is Marina Abramovic the daughter of Roman Abramovich?

http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/07/13/fbi-director-comey-board-member-of-clinton-foundation-connected-bank-hsbc/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/russian-mafia-laundered-10bn-at-bank-of-new-york-p-1113796.html
"INVESTIGATORS ARE studying accounts at the Bank of New York, amid suspicions of large-scale money-laundering by Russian mobsters through the bank. The bank said yesterday it was co-operating with an international police inquiry....

"HSBC operates more than 5,000 offices in 79 countries and territories and has assets of $497 billion.
Shares of Republic closed Wednesday at $69.37, off a 52-week high of $71.25 but up from a low of $36.19.
The news of the Japan investigation comes in the wake of another global banking scandal involving Republic. In mid-August, allegations arose that a Russian crime syndicate had laundered some $10 billion through accounts at the Bank of New York and Republic. [Republic of NY merged with HSBC]
In the Russian case, Republic alerted authorities in 1998 about unusually large wire t***sfers coming through its coffers from Russia. From that point, British and U.S. law enforcement officials monitored the ebb and flow of cash through both banks."

CounterRevolutionary

The 1991 rape or Russia's resources by its former c*******t oligarchs, Michael Khodorkovsky, Borris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky and other Ministry cohorts high up in the Kremlin and rushed to hide their hoards of cash in American banks, is well documented in Hillsdale College IMPRIMIS article: "How to Think About Vladimir Putin" by Christopher Caldwell, March 2017, Volume , Number 3
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-think-about-vladimir-putin/

More recently, here in the USA, Russian Mafioso fugitive, oil oligarch Michael Khodorkovsky, makes a pitch for democracy and the right to organize a new Bolshevik Revolution against Putin's free markets from afar. Khodorkovsky's c*******t campaign under the guise of "democracy" is being launched on Twitter from the sanctuary state of California. Sanctuary City San Francisco has now proven to be a shelter for not just Mexican i*****l a***ns but the Russian Mafia. And you wonder why California Senator Diane Feinstein released the complete text of Fusion GPS chair Simpson's 1/7/2018 testimony made before the Senate Intelligence Committee?

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Russia-back-in-business-Investors-get-over-2547182.php
"Russia back in business / Investors get over concerns about tycoon's arrest
David Armstrong, Chronicle Staff Writer Published 4:00 am, Friday, December 5, 2003

The recent arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chief executive of Yukos, Russia's biggest oil company, initially ignited serious concerns about the future of Western investment in that country.

Experts were worried that his detention would scare off or at least give second thoughts to companies like ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, along with smaller international firms in other industries..."

https://www.khodorkovsky.com/letter-to-twitter/
" 'Twitter, Say No To Kremlin Censorship
December 14, 2017
(an open letter to the managers of Twitter to Twitter CEO's

" 'Board of Directors
Twitter, Inc.
1355 Market Street
Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA

" 'RE: Twitter, Say No To Kremlin Censorship
Dear Members of the Board,

" 'On December 13, Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has issued an official request demanding that Twitter ban Open Russia’s account (www.twitter.com/openrussia_org).

"This is a f**grant attempt at censorship on behalf of the Russian government backed up by intimidation. Earlier this week, Roskomnadzor has already blocked access to our internet resources in Russia citing the law on “undesirable organizations.” However, even by arbitrary standards of the Kremlin’s legal system, Open Russia is not in violation of any law.

"The law on “undesirable organizations” applies only to foreign organizations that allegedly “disrupt order” in Russia. However, Open Russia is a Russian organization and by definition is not subject to this law. Thus, this decision is illegal, and its only goal is to silence the dissent in the country.

"Open Russia is a civic movement whose mission is to promote democratic principles, European values, human rights and the rule of law in Russia. We regularly speak out against the regime’s crimes, corruption and power abuses, which is why our work has been constantly vilified by the Russian authorities.

"Our work is vital to Russian citizens who come up against the tyranny of the state in their everyday lives. Our websites are among the few independent media outlets remaining in Russia that provide people with objective information and alternative opinions, while Kremlin controls all the mainstream media to propagate its views.

"Our platforms of legal assistance aid people in defending their rights against corrupt local officials and business monopolies who exert influence to manipulate courts. This year, Open Russia’s work has successfully defended hundreds of young activists who were unlawfully detained for exercising their constitutional right to participate in anti-corruption protests.

"Our cooperation with the European Court of Human Rights ensures that help is provided to those (often underage) people whose human rights were systematically violated by the law enforcement...'

"Indeed, U.S. and European political commentators wondered whether Russia was sliding back into a Soviet-style dictatorship under President Vladimir Putin.

"But many experts now say those fears have eased. Putin reassured risk- averse foreign investors that their money is safe in Russia and said at a news conference on Nov. 18 that privatization and the rule of law are here to stay.

"After a lot of hand-wringing, Bay Area executives appear to be confident that Russia still holds a dynamic future for them."

The Russian Mafia, plotting a c**p d'état of the new Russian Federation from California, is headed by Russian fugitive, Michael Khodorkovsky, wanted for murder of a Siberian mayor. Surely Khodorkovsky has every motive to smear Trump and Putin and knock off witnesses to c*******t intrigue in the forged Russian Dossier. Or worse, Russian Mafioso execution of all witnesses to c*******t crimes against humanity, such as the mysterious plane crash of Polish President Kaczynski at Smolensk (a trip commemorating the Katyn Forest Massacre and c*******t collaboration with the N**is) whose travel itinerary may have been exposed in Hillary Clinton's emails, indeed, a violation of the Espionage Act.

http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2017/08/interesting-hillary-clinton-emails-from.html
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Interesting Hillary Clinton emails from 2016
From christian@juersmilitaria.com

"Commentary
"On April 10 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, k*****g all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, the former President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre, which took place not far from Smolensk.

"The pilots were attempting to land at Smolensk North Airport – a former military airbase – in thick fog, with visibility reduced to about 500 metres (1,600 ft). The aircraft descended through thick ground fog, far below the normal approach path until it struck trees, rolled inverted and crashed into the ground, coming to rest in a wooded area a short distance from the runway.

"Both the Russian and Polish official investigations found no technical faults with the aircraft, and concluded that the crew failed to conduct the approach in a safe manner in the given weather conditions.

"On the other hand, fogged-in fields use a ground-situated system that automatically advises incoming pilots of the correct altitude.

"Should someone, concealed by a dense ground fog, get into these automatic systems, (they are in containers on the ground, not in control centers) they could very quickly and easily change the setting so that an incoming pilot would believe he was hundreds of feet above a fogged-in runway when in actuality he was only ten feet above the ground. Que bono? Not the Russians who had invited the Poles to a ceremony there for the purpose of rapprochement.

"It was not, however, in the interests of a certain American foreign intelligence agency for Poland to establish firm relations with Russia. Poland was part of the Russian encirclement program and could not be allowed to break away.

"In 2014, the CIA developed methods to infect a vehicle's control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations. (Vault 7 releases)

"And on September 6, 2016, less than a month after the last conversation concerning Mr. Soros’ concerns about Russian President Putin, there was a car accident in Moscow when a Mercedes suddenly accelerated while driving on Kutuzovsky Avenue, swerved and crossed into the oncoming traffic lane. It crashed into a BMW vehicle, instantly k*****g the driver.

"The BMW in question was assigned to the Russian upper house of Parliament, the Federation Council, had no passengers when the crash occurred.
This was the vehicle, and the driver, used by Vladimir Putin while he was resident in Moscow.
Putin was not in the car at the time.

"There have been other such accidents in which a moving vehicle suddenly accelerates and swerves into a targeted on-coming vehicle. In one other case (there are a number more) Gopinath Munde, India's newly-appointed Rural Development Minister, died in a car crash in the capital, Delhi on June 3, 2014

"The speeding car travelling at 80-90 km/hour suddenly swerved across the dividing line and hit the Minister's sedan on the left side in Aurobindo Chowk Munde, 64, along with his personal secretary Surendra Nair, was on his way to the IGI airport.

"It is clearly evident that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is fully capable of using a vehicle as a method of destroying unwanted individuals with perfect impunity.

"Journalist Michael Hastings died on June 18, 2013, in a fiery high-speed automobile crash in his Mercedes C250 C**pé following the publication of “Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans” on BuzzFeed.

"Witnesses said Hasting’s vehicle suddenly increased speed and veered across the road, slamming into a tree and k*****g the occupant instantly.

"Hastings had been a vocal critic of the Obama administration.

"The reference to IMX obviously refers to a man-made v***s. ‘Dietrick’ refers to Ft.Dietrick, the United States Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. This institution is known for its work on v***ses and other aspects of Bacteriological Warfare (BW)

"A number of official American agencies view the PRC as a potential dangerous trade and military rival and it would not be surprising that there have been considerations of launching some kind of a v***s that would cripple the PRC. The Germans considered using bubonic plague in the final stages of the Second World War but when it was realized that this could infect Germans as well, the project was dropped.

"The chief architect, a General [Walter] Schreiber, later worked for the US government’s v***s lab in San Antonio, also developing a possible form of the plague. This project, too, was shelved for the same reason the German leadership used."

It might not be the CIA's capability to take out airplanes lost in the fog, but the Russian Mafia's capability operating in Belorussia.