'It is time to stop chasing rabbits': Fusion GPS punches back at GOP critics in revealing op-ed

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  1. TomFitz

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    Nonsense. They have released other transcripts.

    Grassley is sitting on it because of what it contains, and the threat of what happens when people start following the threads the testimony would expose.
     
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    You need a transcript of them taking the fifth?
     
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    Vetting narratives and providing objective sources improves "critical thinking skills". Confirmation belief does nothing but expose and individual as a know nothing.
     
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    Release the transcripts, Chuck.
     
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    If I am running for office and I pay my lawyer to undertake opposition research on my opponent I have done nothing wrong.

    If my lawyer hires someone to do that research he is doing nothing wrong either since he is not running for office.

    You are chasing imaginary rabbits.
     
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    Hiring Fusion GPS to do opposition research is not breaking the law.
     
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    To work with the Russian government to undermine the election.........
     
  9. Derideo_Te

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    :roflol:

    You obviously don't have a clue what money laundering means!

    There is no "dirty money" involved in this business transaction.

    Your desperation is palpable.
     
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    :roflol:

    Fusion GPS is in the BUSINESS of doing opposition research regardless of who it is that pays their bills.

    The FEC reporting requirements have nothing whatsoever to do with Fusion GPS so they would not have anything at all to gain by "conspiring".

    You are just clutching at straws now. What comes next? Flinging feces at the wall to see what might stick?
     
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    Onus is entirely on you to PROVE that Fusion GPS knew in advance how their fees would be reported to the FEC.

    Since you have ZERO evidence to support that utterly bogus allegation you are now flinging feces at the wall desperately hoping that it might stick.

    Newsflash: It won't!
     
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    That leap over the edge with no connection to what was actually being discussed is nothing short of BIZARRE!
     
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    If Grassley is so threaten over what they will or have said then why did he offer GPS to publically testify not once but twice
    first time it was offered GPS refused and threatened to take the fifth if forced
     
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    Then Trump jr meeting with that lawyer that happened to be Russian isn't either he was doing nothing but attempting to gather opposition research
     
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    I suggest that you research the law for yourself.

    Going out and hiring an AMERICAN opposition research firm is NOT the same as accepting opposition research from a FOREIGN GOVERNMENT!

    That you apparently don't know the stark difference says volumes.
     
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    Using an American firm to hide the fact that the oppo research came from Russia is OK?
     
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    I find it truly interesting that Fusion GPS has any ability to "push back" now on the narrative that frankly, they engineered from the inception of their attempt to meddle in the election, collude with foreign nationals to engage in foreign espionage to illicit a dossier that frankly has no merit to it. Of course they must now attempt to rebrand, and with the aid of the NYTs who also actively engaged in this despicable set of actions, now must try to run away from their own monster. What, the NYTs never anticipated the public would learn of their collusion with the DNC and Clinton organizations? Laughable.

    For Fusion GPS to be credible in any way, we must suspend our knowledge of their complicity with and in their own conspiracy against the sitting president. We have to ignore their own potentially criminal activity in both distributing this garbage, and the fact they engaged in foreign espionage and focus only on the "substance" of the charges, which frankly don't involve anyone but Papadopolis and perhaps Page.

    To suggest that the FGPS folks are credible, or that the NYTs attempt to rebrand their own complicity is laughable at best. The story here is they got caught, doing exactly what they intended this to be, a political hatchet job on the behest of the DNC/Clintons. And now, hand in the cookie jar, and likely facing criminal charges for their actions, they are running away as fast as they can, claiming the substance of the dossier is still investigation worthy. Again, laughable.

    What we now should start investigating is the collusion then between the FGPS folk and the FBI, and their use of said dossier to initiate FISA surveillance at the behest of the previous president. Obama, having been complicit in his Nixonian use of the national security services against his political adversaries is a scandal of real import, and a national disgrace their lapdog media still refuse to report on. But, as with things like their complicity in protecting sexual abusers within their folks (Clinton campaign chief, Robby, come out come out, where ever you are...) the media are not to be trusted in their decision making, and it will require those of us who remain vigilant to continue to expose them.
     
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    Hiring foreign spies to spy is called espionage. It is also usually illegal. Including in this country.
     
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    Election meddling was known and Republican led congress refused to pursue.
     
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    You fail on the merit that you require a purity test to believe anything, if thats the case you should by default hate Trump. Of course you do not because your just pushing more hyper partisan hypocrisy.
     
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    An accurate succinct assessment :), tks.
     
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    In the pursuit of meaningless drivel, you have excelled. Deflecting towards a misdirecting comment seems disingenuous at best. If you don't have a substantive comment, why bother at all?
     
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    Your posts resemble this remark. Just sayin', there is help one can seek for denial & projection issues.
     
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    It did NOT come from the Russian government.

    That you don't understand this important distinction says volumes.
     
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    Why doesnt fusion gps release the information themselves?
     

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