The Republicans’ Fake Investigations
- 6 years ago
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations
In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories
and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.
The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.”
Today, amid a growing criminal inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, congressional Republicans are again chasing rabbits.
As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously
because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.
Mr. Steele’s sources in Russia (who were not paid) reported on an extensive —
and now confirmed — effort by the Kremlin to help elect Mr. Trump president.
They also know that these Russians were unaware of the former British intelligence
officer Christopher Steele’s work for us and were not sources for his reports.
And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition
for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case.
His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia.
In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories
and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.
The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.”
Today, amid a growing criminal inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, congressional Republicans are again chasing rabbits.
As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously
because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.
Mr. Steele’s sources in Russia (who were not paid) reported on an extensive —
and now confirmed — effort by the Kremlin to help elect Mr. Trump president.
They also know that these Russians were unaware of the former British intelligence
officer Christopher Steele’s work for us and were not sources for his reports.
And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition
for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case.
His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia.