Posted on 01/12/2018 10:11:03 AM PST by Kaslin
Note to Fusion GPS: If you're going to mouth off to the media and ignore the public record, you'd better be prepared to have your confidential documents subpoenaed.
That's the takeaway from last week's ruling by Judge Richard J. Leon, district court judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, denying Fusion GPS's request for a preliminary injunction against TD Bank. The injunction would have stopped the bank from complying with a subpoena for bank documents served by the House Intelligence Committee relating to the oppo research firm's financial transactions with media and political clients from the period coinciding with its retention of Christopher Steele to compile the Russian dossier. The judge rejected the firm's arguments, in no small part because grandstanding by its principals and by prominent Democrats directly contradicted the firm's claims to be a victim of First Amendment and due process violations.
In the wake of the ruling, Fusion's lawyer vowed to keep fighting, but the transfer since then of the 70 documents at issue mooted any possible appeal. While the dispute is now resolved, in an age of "notional accuracy" in reporting, Judge Leon's decision bears emphasis. For a refreshing change of pace, it stands as a mini-case study in the fecklessness of flash. It is a little jewel of a decision in a grand tiara of legal maneuverings that sparkles with the value of nerdy lawyering over media-driven cant.
Which chronically retold lies or misunderstandings caused Fusion's fall last week from the constitutional-defensive moral high ground it took in protesting the handing over of its bank records with clients who, according to the House Intel Committee, had Russian companies as their clients? They are simple.
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Hell....No one had the SMARTS to ask the atty. just WHO it was that was killed because of the dossier....NO ONE FOLLOWED UP!! DUMBASSES or they already KNOW??
Just be patient. In the end Fusion GPS will be a memory and it’s principals will be in prison.
What journalists and Networks did GPS pay to commit fraud on
Americans using the fake dossier.
We demand to know.
bkmk
I doubt it. I’ve had too many hopes SHATTERED for this to happen.
Hell....No one had the SMARTS to ask the atty. just WHO it was that was killed because of the dossier....NO ONE FOLLOWED UP!! DUMBASSES or they already KNOW??
Either the question was asked and suppressed from the transcript or we have Congress critters with IQs lower than cows.
Dossier as released by Feinstein https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf
FWIW, on page 17 there we see this exchange:
23 Q. Domestically does Bean, LLC have an
24 account at [redacted]?
25 A. Yes.
As the dossier there is typed up in Courier font, every letter is the same width. I’m pretty sure that that redaction is seven letters. “TD Bank” ?
I’ll take the latter.
The people who hired and paid Fusion ALSO need prison time.
if there was one stop and gasp moment in the testimony that was it.
What does this have to do with the dossier?
“Just be patient. In the end Fusion GPS will be a memory and it’s principals will be in prison.”
Yeah, but these corrupt a$$holes are just a scintilla of those on my list whom I want to see in jail for so long they won’t remember what they did to deserve it.
“The people who hired and paid Fusion ALSO need prison time.”
They better get a move on for McCain or he will “miss out” on dying in prison.
No Shi’ite!!
I think it is because they have a script to follow, points to make and sound bites to deliver. They aren’t really paying any attention to new revelations or to where the conversation and questioning should lead.
As said many time before, it’s all just a show. There is no intent to resolve anything.
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