The House has reached a settlement with Fusion GPS, and now they, and by extension we will get access to their bank records.
The Committee issued a brief press release on Saturday.
The parties have reached an agreement related to the House Intelligence Committee’s subpoena for Fusion GPS’s bank records that will secure the Committee’s access to the records necessary for its investigation.
This is the way, the only way, to get to the bottom of who paid for the so-called Steele Dossier (also known as the Trump Dossier). After much speculation there will be hard evidence and dollar amounts showing who (cough hillary cough) may have put up the money (cough DNC cough) to pay for the still unverified and salacious dossier at the center of the Trump-Russia scandal.
Over the last week, it was revealed that Fusion GPS was retained last year by Marc E. Elias, an attorney representing the DNC and the Clinton campaign. The firm then hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to write the dossier.
On Friday evening, it was revealed that the opposition research project was initially backed by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website.
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Washington Free Beacon original funder of Fusion GPSHouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had issued a subpoena on Oct. 4 for Fusion GPS’ TD Bank records. In seeking a “temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction” to block the release of those records, Fusion argued the release would them “their rights to free speech and expressive association as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.”
Earlier this month, two officials from the political research firm invoked their Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions Wednesday before the same House panel on Capitol Hill.
We keep saying “stay tuned”, and you should. And this update is exactly why. There will be more. So … well, yeah, stay tuned.