UPDATED: House intelligence panel votes to release transcript from Fusion GPS co-founder interview

[demmiblue]

Last edited Thu Jan 18, 2018, 12:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: CNN

(CNN)The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday voted to release the transcript of its interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, with Democrats and Republicans joining together in a move likely to shed new light on the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia.

The committee voted in a closed-door meeting to release the transcript, which Simpson himself and the panel's top Democrat had pushed for over the past month. The vote was unanimous, committee member Rep. Denny Heck told CNN.

With the vote, the House panel will be second committee to make the details of Simpson's interview public. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, last week released the transcript of Simpson's August Senate Judiciary Committee interview without the consent of Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

Simpson's interviews have emerged as a significant element of the Russia investigation thanks to the political fight over the dossier on Trump and Russia compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/house-intelligence-fusion-gps-transcript/index.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Original info (I added the CNN link because it had more info):

Source: The Daily Beast

The House Intelligence Committee will release the transcript of its interview with Glenn Simpson, the head of controversial research firm Fusion GPS, The Daily Beast has learned. The transcript could be released as soon as today. Adam Schiff, the committee’s top Democrat, has called for the release of the transcript. Fusion GPS’s co-founder has also called for its release. Fusion GPS is at the center of the Trump/Russia probe. The company has drawn unrelenting criticism from Republicans for its role in putting together a dossier that includes salacious allegations about President Donald Trump and the Kremlin. Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid the firm to research Trump, through campaign lawyer Marc Elias.

—Betsy Woodruff

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-intel-will-release-fusion-gps-interview-transcripts

to The Daily Beast

[leftynyc]

1. Was the vote public?

I'm curious which republicans voted for the release (some must have or it wouldn't be released).

[demmiblue]

2. From what I have read on Twitter, it was a unanimous vote.

Since this is breaking, I guess we will have to wait and see.

[leftynyc]

3. Thanks

I hope nunes is choking on this.

[woodsprite]

4. It's probably just a bunch of black redacted lines

with a "the", "of", or "a" every so often.

[kysrsoze]

5. Ive got to think they figure they can no longer keep a lid on it all

Maybe they’ve seen so much from the FBI, they know Drumpf et al are toast. I can’t figure otherwise, why else slimeball Nunes would even consider it.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Once the Senate version went out

they really had no choice. The dam burst.

[lagomorph777]

7. Will there really be anything new in the House version?

I assume the Reputins on the panel simply want to promote their own grandstanding idiocy.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Probably not but it will be interesting to see what questions were asked

and if there are any that didn't get covered by the Senate.

Their "grandstanding" in the media pre-release would probably be nullified by whatever facts were gathered during the hearing, which is why they didn't want to release it. Now they really have no choice.

[blue-wave]

9. Awww Shucks!

Now I will need more of this! And lots of it it! As Flounder said: