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Fusion GPS Founder: FBI May Have Paid Expenses for Anti-Trump Dossier Author
www.breitbart.com ^ | 01/19/2018 | by Aaron Klein

Posted on 01/19/2018 9:36:41 AM PST by Red Badger

TEL AVIV — Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS, stated in testimony it “makes sense” to him that the FBI paid for a trip to Rome by the former British spy who was contracted by Simpson’s company to produce the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier.

Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, to do the work cited in the anti-Trump dossier. Last July, Steele reportedly traveled to Rome, where he met with an FBI contact to supply the agency with the anti-Trump dossier and other information he found during the course of his anti-Trump work.

Steele’s dossier reportedly served as some of the basis for the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and unsubstantiated claims of coordination with Russia.

In August 22 testimony released last week and reviewed in full by Breitbart News, Simpson stated that Steele’s outreach to the FBI was “something that Chris took on on his own.”

Simpson stated that as far as he knew Fusion GPS did not fund Steele’s trip to Rome to meet with the FBI. He said he believes that the trip expenses may have been reimbursed by the FBI.

“I don’t think we did,” Simpson stated, referring to whether Fusion GPS paid for Steele’s travel to Rome to meet with the FBI. “I have no information that we paid for it.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201707; 201708; 20170822; christophersteele; coup; dossier; fbi; fusion; fusiongps; glennsimpson; goldenshowersdossier; gps; italy; mi6; robertmueller; rome; simpson; steele; steeledossier; trumpdossier
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To: Diogenesis

that is a great presentation!

(suitabale for framing?)

thanx for posting


21 posted on 01/19/2018 10:26:46 AM PST by thinden
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To: Grampa Dave

bkmk


22 posted on 01/19/2018 10:36:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks.

Travis’s intel about the DOJ/FBI smug thugs was right on target, weeks ago.


23 posted on 01/19/2018 11:02:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: Red Badger
Question:

WHO arrests members of the FBI?

And if Trump needs SEAL Teams as reinforcements, how does that work DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN?

The timing of this shutdown is in itself very suspicious.

24 posted on 01/19/2018 5:43:22 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

FBI agents have been arrested before. I can think of at least two for espionage and there have probably been others in the past for corruption. A US federal judge issues a arrest warrant a US marshal can do the arrest (or empower CI & Internal Security FBI special agents to do so!).


25 posted on 01/19/2018 5:53:49 PM PST by Reily
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To: Red Badger

A foreign spy intentionally interfered with our election and attempted to overturn the results.

Paid for by Hillary Clinton.

Paid for additionally by the US Treasury at the direction of Clinton’s agents in the FBI/DoJ.

A country with a lick of sense in its head would have everyone involved scheduled for a military tribunal and a mass hanging.


26 posted on 01/19/2018 6:29:48 PM PST by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

Stated perfectly and worth repeating. The whole treasonous mess in a nutshell.
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A foreign spy intentionally interfered with our election and attempted to overturn the results.

Paid for by Hillary Clinton.

Paid for additionally by the US Treasury at the direction of Clinton’s agents in the FBI/DoJ.

A country with a lick of sense in its head would have everyone involved scheduled for a military tribunal and a mass hanging.


27 posted on 01/19/2018 6:44:20 PM PST by boxlunch (Pray for Donald Trump and his administration! Disband the Democrat Media Communist Complex)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Trump keeps on repeating that the Democrats want to shut down the military when we need it most. Perhaps he’s referring to arresting those 9000 sealed indictments. Somebody is going to have to do that!


28 posted on 01/19/2018 7:18:31 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

I’ve been calling!.....EVERYONE PLEASE CALL!


29 posted on 01/19/2018 8:37:13 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Red Badger

Why would the FBI want Steele to meet them in Rome when there are closer FBI offices in London, Paris, Berlin, etc. that could be visited in a half day trip or night trip, thus decreasing the possibility of him being seen by another intelligence agency?

Or the FBI liaison in London could have met him in a quite bar in London at night.

Maybe we should ask Putin if he had surveillance on Steele in England? (a little /sarc music, please)


30 posted on 01/20/2018 12:55:01 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: All

@SharylAttkisson tweeted:

<><>”...intel agencies weren’t supposed to surveil US citizens. But they did.

<><>they weren’t supposed to “store” it. But they did.

<><>they weren’t supposed to search it. But they did.

<><>they weren’t supposed to “unmask” it. But they did.

<><> they weren’t supposed to leak it. But they did.....”


31 posted on 01/20/2018 6:27:23 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: thinden; Diogenesis
that is a great presentation!

It really is, but I think we're going to need bigger computer monitors soon.

32 posted on 01/20/2018 6:34:41 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

essential govt employees not affected- law enforcement


33 posted on 01/20/2018 6:42:17 AM PST by rolling_stone
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Probably US Marshals after they get an arrest warrant naming the agent.


34 posted on 01/20/2018 1:43:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: Red Badger

Steele met Mike Gaeta from FBI in Rome, he worked with him when they targeted Russian Mob & FIFA investigations in NY (McCabe’s old squad)...Bruce Ohr was “Russian Mob” Dept for DOJ back in the day...they all have a long relationship...


35 posted on 01/20/2018 1:53:25 PM PST by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: Red Badger

How about Halifax in August of 2016...


36 posted on 01/20/2018 1:55:20 PM PST by mewzilla
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