{"id":31784,"date":"2017-10-18T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31784"},"modified":"2017-10-18T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T21:05:23","slug":"they-really-dont-have-a-great-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31784","title":{"rendered":"They Really Don’t Have A Great History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fusion GPS is the company responsible for the dossier that provided the basis for the electronic surveillance<\/a> of the Trump campaign<\/a> team and the Trump transition team. Congress is currently trying to get to the bottom of exactly who ordered the dossier and how it came to the attention of the media. They are not having an easy time.<\/p>\n

Scott Johnson<\/a> posted an article at Power Line Blog<\/a> today that refers back to a Fox New<\/a> Story from yesterday.<\/p>\n

Power Line Blog reports:<\/p>\n

The so-called strategic intelligence<\/a> firm Fusion GPS is behind the infamous Trump Dossier. The dossier is one of the keys to the anti-Trump hysteria in which we have been engulfed since the election. Who paid for the Trump Dossier? The House Intelligence Committee<\/a> has issued subpoenas<\/a> to figure out what happened and at whose behest. Fusion GPS, however, won\u2019t say. The company\u2019s lawyer has submitted a 17-page list of reasons why the company won\u2019t comply. Something is happening here. It is a most peculiar matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Fox News\/AP report<\/a> asserts that the attorney\u2019s letter signals the company\u2019s refusal to comply with the committee subpoenas. The letter states that if any of the Fusion GPS employees who have been subpoenaed (Glenn Simpson and two others) are compelled to appear before the committee, they will exercise their \u201cprivileges\u201d not to testify. Byron York<\/a> has more on the letter here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fox News article reports some of the past activities of Fusion GPS:<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that Fusion GPS\u2019s business is to do basically whatever the paymasters tell them to do,\u201d Alek Boyd, the Venezuelan journalist, told Fox News in his first American TV interview. \u201cThey are particularly good at spreading misinformation, disinformation and smears.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boyd says he was targeted after his 2012 reporting on Derwick Associates, a power company with close ties to the Venezuelan government. The company allegedly skimmed nearly a billion dollars from rigged contracts with the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my understanding that [Fusion GPS] were hired basically to smear Derwick opponents and to dispel any possible doubts that regular media may have had at the time,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Boyd\u2019s allegations mirror sworn congressional testimony from Bill Browder, an American businessman who told senators this summer that Fusion GPS used smear tactics to discredit him and his late attorney Sergei Magnitsky who, he says, was tortured and murdered eight years ago in a Russian jail. The so-called Magnitsky Act issued tough economic sanctions against Russia which are still in place today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Magnitsky case, Browder filed a complaint with the Justice Department in July 2016 because he says Fusion worked on behalf of a foreign government and its interests. The Justice Department would not comment on the complaint status.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a congressional declaration, human rights activist Thor Halvorssen also said Fusion GPS had \u201csmear experts\u201d and used \u201cscorched earth methods.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

One wonders exactly who hired Fusion GPS and exactly what Senator John McCain’s involvement in the story is. So far, evidence seems to point to Senator McCain as one of the people who originally received the completed dossier.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it is obvious that Fusion GPS does not want to tell the American people or their representatives anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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