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1 Jan: Australian Financial Review: Inside Fusion GPS the shadowy firm behind the Trump dossier
by Jack Gillum and Shawn Boburg, Washington Post
Fusion GPS bills itself as a corporate research firm, but in many ways it operates with the secrecy of a spy agency. No sign marks its headquarters above a coffee shop in north-west Washington. Its website consists of two sentences and an email address. Its client list is closely held...
Senior executives summoned to testify before Congress in October invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and the firm is resisting a congressional subpoena for bank records that would reveal who has paid for its services...
The firm has played an unseen role in stories that dominated headlines in recent years...
“I call it journalism for rent,” Simpson, 53, said in August 2016 at the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium in the District, where he described Fusion’s work on a panel titled, “Investigations With an Agenda”...
He was candid about the money involved. Explaining why he left journalism, he joked: “We don’t use the word ‘sold out’. We use the word ‘cashed in’.”
http://www.afr.com/news/world/north-america/inside-fusion-gps-the-shadowy-firm-behind-the-trump-dossier-20171212-h03261
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