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(130,901 posts)'A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections. 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. We know because were their favorite quarry.
In the year since the publication of the so-called Steele dossier the collection of intelligence reports we commissioned about Donald Trumps ties to Russia the president has repeatedly attacked us on Twitter. 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. Conservative news outlets and even our former employer, The Wall Street Journal, have spun a succession of mendacious conspiracy theories about our motives and backers.
We are happy to correct the record. In fact, we already have.
Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far rights 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.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html?
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(90,336 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)Fusion GPS is connecting dots and taking names.
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(90,336 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,796 posts)Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence ODonnell, back to a normal schedule. Glad the holidays are over. My New Year resolution: I am finished and over, over wrapping presents 🎁. It has become a nightmare. This Christmas everyone will receive already-wrapped gifts.