News Alert: Five takeaways from the Fusion GPS testimony

View in your browser     Five takeaways from the Fusion GPS testimony Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday unilaterally released over 300 pages documenting an interview the panel conducted in August with the founder of the opposition research firm that commissioned the controversial dossier on President Trump.  In that interview, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson said the dossier’s author, a former MI6 spy named Christopher Steele, told him that the FBI already had “other intelligence” backing up claims in the dossier when he met with an agent in September. The document has been a partisan flashpoint in the congressional investigations into Russian interference in the U.S. election, with some Republicans suggesting that the bureau may have used unverified information to launch a baseless investigation into Trump. Here are five takeaways from Simpson’s ten-hour testimony.  Read the full story here           Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for News Alerts     Forward News Alerts     You Might Like       Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2016 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.