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Trump Dossier Firm Says It Won’t Comply With House Subpoenas
[DAILYCALLER] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Trump dossier, says it will not comply with subpoenas for documents and testimony issued earlier this month by the House Intelligence Committee.Fine, send them all to Marian, IL for six months to ponder their decision. In a Monday letter to the committee, Fusion’s attorneys argue that the subpoena, which seeks testimony from three of the firm’s partners, violates its First Amendment privileges and would force it to break attorney-client privilege and its contractual obligations. So the company's identical with its lawyers, and any conspiracy is covered by the first amendment? It sounds like a stretch. The lawyer, Josh Levy, also argued that forcing Fusion GPS to comply with the subpoenas would "chill any American running for office" from conducting political opposition research. Aha! The old "chilling effect" argument! Fusion GPS began investigating Trump in September 2015 at the financial discretion of an unidentified Republican donor who opposed the real estate billionaire. After Trump won the GOP nomination, an unidentified Democratic ally of  Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked HillaryClinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... ’s hired Fusion. Fusion then hired former British spy "We cannot in good conscience do anything but advise our clients to stand on their constitutional privileges, the attorney work product doctrine and contractual obligations," Levy, the Fusion lawyer, wrote to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee’s Republican chairman. Business Insider first reported details of the letter. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-17 |
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