Fusion
GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson told the Senate Judiciary Committee that
the author of the opposition research dossier on then-candidate Donald
Trump and Russia was acting on his own volition when he went to the FBI
because he was concerned that a presidential candidate was being
blackmailed, according to the 312-page transcript of his testimony.
Simpson
told the committee in closed-door testimony in August -- which was
released publicly on Tuesday -- that he did not know how the FBI would
react when ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, the author
of the dossier, went to the bureau in July 2016.
"Chris
said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national
security threat and said he wanted to -- he said he thought we were
obligated to tell someone in government, in our government about this
information," Simpson said. "He thought from his perspective there was
an issue -- a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was
being blackmailed."
To date, no evidence has emerged that Trump was blackmailed.
Simpson
also testified that Steele told him the FBI had similar intelligence
from "an internal Trump campaign source" and that the FBI "believed
Chris' 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."
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