Congressional Transcripts of Glenn Simpson Fusion GPS Interview & More Evidence Perkins Coie Sucks

EXECUTIVE SESSION PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, D.C. INTERVIEW OF: GLENN SIMPSON

Tuesday, November14,2017
Washington, D.C.

The interview in the above matter was held in Room HVC-304, the Capitol, commencing at 2:13 p.m. Present: Representatives Conaway, King, Rooney, Ros-Lehtinen, Gowdy, Schiff, Himes, Speier, Quigley, Swalwell, Castro, and Heck .

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GOWDY: So in this instance, we can all celebrate the fact that they were correct. You were hired by the Washington Free Beacon? 

MR. SIMPSON: That was the client, yes.

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MR. GOWDY: Well, let's try to approach it this way: When you were hired by Perkins Coie, did you consider them to be the client? 

MR. SIMPSON: Yes.

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MR. GOWDY: That wasn't my precise question. With respect to this fact pattern, with respect to your firm being retained, were you aware that Perkins Coie was working on behalf of the DNC? 

MR. SIMPSON: Yes. I mean, I know that they are - the DNC is a client of Perkins Coie. I don't - I didn't see it -- nobody gave me a document or inforr:ned me specifically of that.

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MR. GOWDY: How did you come to know Christopher Steele?

MR. SIMPSON: I met Chris in -- I left the Wall Street Journal in 2009. And. in my last few years at the Wall Street Journal, I had been living in Belgium, in Brussels, and had developed a line of reporting around the former Soviet Union and crime and corruption in the former Soviet Union. And I had written a series of articles about Vladimir Putin and a lot of corruption and organized crime activities sort of making its way westward from Russia, and eventually started doing a lot of work on Ukraine, corruption in Ukraine and gas trade in Ukraine, and connections to the Russian mafia. That's when I first came across Paul Manafort. 

MR. GOWDY: Now, help me understand this. Would that payment for Steele have been expensed to the law firm, or would Fusion have paid that out of its own money that it received from the law firm?

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MR. SIMPSON: I believe, at least if things were running the way I hope they ran, it was expensed to the law firm. 

MR. GOWDY: So Perkins Coie paid Chris Steele? 

MR. SIMPSON: I think it was --I mean, I think we billed them for it.  

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When Telling A Lie Gets Someone Killed: Transcript Of Glenn Simpson Fusion GPS Senate Judiciary Interview

Telling a lie into the public record, after being paid, which results in the removal of an elected official is called bribery.

Going on national television telling a lie is libel.

Generating a fraudulent public record, to be used in a court, to improperly secure a FISA warrant, is called a false claim.

Uttering false claims through the use of public resources that results is someone being killed is called murder.

'Somebody's already been killed' because of Trump dossier, Fusion GPS rep revealed

An attorney for the co-founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS revealed during a closed-door interview this summer with congressional investigators that “somebody's already been killed” as a result of the publication of the anti-Trump dossier. The statement was contained in a 312-page transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's August interview with committee investigators, released unilaterally Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

 The release itself provoked controversy, with an aide to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, calling it “confounding” for Feinstein to drop the transcript in the “middle of an ongoing investigation.”

 Among the many revelations in the document, though, is the claim from Simpson's attorney that someone died because the dossier -- which was commissioned by Fusion GPS -- was publicly released.

 “He wants to be very careful to protect his sources,” attorney Josh Levy said during the Aug. 22 Senate Judiciary Committee interview of his client.

“Somebody's already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work.”

Levy didn't elaborate on who was killed.

The website BuzzFeed first published the dossier online last January, airing its unverified allegations about President Trump's connections with Russia.

 The dossier was written by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele. Fusion GPS, which hired Steele, got funding from the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.

The findings eventually made their way to the FBI -- and the bureau's dealings with Steele are a key focus for congressional investigators. During his interview, Simpson described his conversations with Steele about their decision to turn the dossier details over to the bureau.

 “He thought from his perspective there was an issue -- a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed,” Simpson said.

 Simpson recalled telling Steele he had to think about whether they should contact the FBI, saying he wasn’t sure who to give it to.

“In any event, he said, ‘Don't worry about that, I know the perfect person, I have a contact there, they'll listen to me, they know who I am, I'll take care of it,’” Simpson recalled.

 Steele also told Simpson the FBI had “an internal Trump campaign source,” he said.

 “They believed Chris's information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson said of the FBI.

 Simpson, a journalist before forming Fusion GPS, also admitted in the interview being opposed during the election to Trump becoming president.

 “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,” Simpson said.

 Trump has long derided the dossier as inaccurate, and several GOP-led committees are investigating whether it formed the basis for the FBI's initial investigation into Russian election interference. 

Feinstein said in a statement she released the transcript to combat misinformation about the inteview. 

“The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice,” Feinstein said in a statement.

“The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”

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 Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Grassley, said Feinstein’s release “undermines the integrity of the committee’s oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses.”

 “It’s totally confounding that Senator Feinstein would unilaterally release a transcript of a witness interview in the middle of an ongoing investigation – a witness that Feinstein herself subpoenaed last year for lack of cooperation,” Foy said.

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