Monday, May 14, 2018

Glenn Simpson retracts claim FBI had a mole inside Trump team

Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder who sponsored the unverified anti-Trump dossier, claimed in August and again Jan. 2 that the FBI has a source inside the Trump camp who lent credence to the document.

Mr. Simpson had "Mischaracterized" the source.

"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," he wrote.

In his testimony, Mr. Simpson told of Mr. Steele's meeting with FBI agents in Rome in September 2016.

Mr. Simpson testified, "Essentially what he told me was they had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source and that - that they - my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point - that they believed Chris's information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization."

"A source close to Fusion GPS tells me there was no walk-in source-that was a mischaracterization by Simpson of the Australian diplomat tip about Papadopoulis [sic]," tweeted NBC reporter Ken Dilanian.

Whether the source the FBI supposedly told Mr. Steele about could be Mr. Papadopoulos is doubtful.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/13/glenn-simpson-believes-fbi-has-mole-inside-trump-t/ 

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