Is A Former Feinstein Staffer Running Fusion GPS’s Post-Election Steele Dossier Operation?
New evidence indicates a controversial former Feinstein staffer targeted by the CIA is directing Fusion GPS's post-election dossier operation.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/is-a-former-feinstein-staffer-running-fusion-gpss-post-election-russia-dossier-operation/
Jones’ apparent involvement in brokering access to Steele raises serious questions not just about Warner’s role in the ongoing intelligence committee investigation, but also about Feinstein’s role in the judiciary committee’s ongoing investigation of Steele, Russian interference, and Fusion GPS.
Did Jones, Feinstein’s former top intel committee staffer, have any contact with Feinstein on the matter? Was she aware of any potential business relationship between Jones and individuals or organizations such as Fusion GPS being investigated by her committee? If so, did Feinstein ever disclose to the committee the possibility that she may have a significant conflict of interest given Jones’s involvement? If not, why not?
The connection between Jones and Steele, who authored his dossier memos at the direction of Fusion GPS, may also shed light on Feinstein’s bizarre decision to not only unilaterally release Simpson’s Senate testimony, but also the curious redactions in that transcript of the names of all of Fusion GPS employees, information that is not only not classified, but publicly available.
After her office released the transcript, Feinstein noted to a number of reporters that she was “pressured” to unilaterally release the transcript without even notifying Grassley, the chairman of the committee. When asked who pressured her to release the transcript, Feinstein first claimed that nobody pressured her, only to later claim that she never said anyone pressured her (her initial claims were captured on tape).
Jones’s role in pursuing “vindication of the dossier,” in Waldman’s words, on Steele’s behalf may also explain Grassley and Graham’s decision to withhold from Feinstein prior notice of their criminal referral of Steele to the FBI for making false statements about his dossier work to federal agents. If they believed Feinstein or her staff were directly working with a Fusion GPS client or contractor to vindicate their private work on behalf of Democratic clients, it would make sense to remove her and her staff from the information loop, lest their potential collusion with the target of a congressional investigation and a potential criminal investigation spoil those efforts’ integrity and impartiality.
Feinstein’s office did not respond to a request for comment on her interactions with Jones or whether she had informed her colleagues on the judiciary committee of her past relationship or ongoing interactions with a potential target of the committee’s investigation into foreign interference in U.S. political matters.
Rather than putting to bed questions about the veracity of the dossier that touched off multiple investigations by America’s top law enforcement and intelligence agencies, recently revealed information about the dossier’s origins, authors, and benefactors has only raised more questions about what exactly happened in 2016. As the investigations into the matter continue, it appears more and more likely that the DNC- and Clinton-funded operatives paid to dig up evidence of shady Russian collusion were themselves guilty of the same behavior they purported to expose.
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