Fusion GPS Ordered By Judge To Answer Questions About Role in Dossier Creation

Details about the infamous Russian dossier, written by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — and ultimately used to obtain a FISA court warrant to spy on Trump associate Carter Page — may finally come to light thanks to a defamation lawsuit filed by a Russian tech executive against Buzzfeed, who originally published the document.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro issued a decision Tuesday that said Fusion GPS  “must answer a broad array of questions about the opposition research firm’s role in creating, investigating and disseminating the infamous Steele dossier,” according to a report from The Daily Caller.

Ungaro ruled that attorneys for the executive, Aleksej Gubarev, can ask Fusion GPS representatives in a deposition about the firm’s dossier clients, its efforts to verify the dossier, its decision to hire dossier author Christopher Steele and its interactions with government officials and media outlets, including BuzzFeed.
Fusion GPS, which was founded by three former Wall Street Journal reporters, has resisted efforts to provide information about its work on the dossier. The firm has claimed that revealing details about its dossier work would violate its confidentiality clauses with its clients as well as its First Amendment rights to political free speech.

Ungaro rejected Fusion’s argument by saying its client relationships “are not protected from disclosure by the First Amendment even though the opposition research it conducts on behalf of clients may be political in nature.”

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