{"id":135785,"date":"2018-01-10T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135785"},"modified":"2018-01-10T00:20:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:20:51","slug":"fusion-gps-testimony-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/fusion-gps-testimony-transcript.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fusion GPS testimony transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fascinating series of 200 tweets by Seth Abramson going through much of the transcript of Glenn Simpson’s questioning by Senate aides in the Judiciary Committee. This transcript<\/a> was unilaterally released by Sen. Diane Feinstein\u00a0(I generally have little use for Feinstein, but on occasion she provides some justification for her place in the Senate), after Sen. Chuck Grassley welshed on releasing it.<\/p>\n

It essentially establishes the bona fides<\/i> of Fusion GPS and of Christopher Steele, the former MI-6 Russia expert who compiled it, as well as tying connections to other corroborating sources and what the FBI knew (and when it knew it) — as well as why Grassley and GOP Senators have been trying to keep the testimony transcript from being released.<\/p>\n


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\nSeth Abramson on Twitter<\/a><\/span>
\n\u201c(THREAD) BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) has *unilaterally* released the transcript of Fusion GPS’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

What follows is a live-read of the transcript by a former criminal defense attorney. Hope you’ll share.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating series of 200 tweets by Seth Abramson going through much of the transcript of Glenn Simpson’s questioning by Senate aides in the Judiciary Committee. This transcript was unilaterally released by Sen. Diane Feinstein\u00a0(I generally have little use for Feinstein, but on occasion she provides some justification for her place in the Senate), after … Continue reading “The Fusion GPS testimony transcript”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,10,358,1071],"tags":[1403,1078,1077],"class_list":["post-135785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-dossier","tag-russia","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Fusion-GPS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133435,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/tweetizen-trump-2017-05-09-clapper-yates-flynn-fake-media.html","url_meta":{"origin":135785,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump – 2017-05-09 "Clapper! 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