Key Figure Behind Trump Dossier Stonewalled Senate Investigators

[Zorro]

Glenn Simpson, the former journalist whose company was involved in the production of the now infamous “Trump Dossier,” invoked his First Amendment rights during testimony last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee and refused to reveal the sources for the document’s explosive claims, according to recently released court documents.

In August, former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson spent more than 10 hours testifying before the Senate panel about a document alleging extensive collusion between Donald Trump’s supporters and Kremlin operatives. But according to Peter Fritsch, a partner at Fusion GPS, the research firm founded by the two men, Simpson refused to answer Senate investigators on several key questions.

In a declaration filed as part of a defamation case being brought against the news outlet Buzzfeed for publishing the dossier, Fritsch said Simpson “invoked the First Amendment and attorney-client/attorney work product privileges” in response to questions seeking what he described as “privileged information.”

Simpson “did not reveal the identity of Fusion GPS’s clients or any of the sources for the Dossier or the December Memo,” Fritsch said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-figure-behind-trump-dossier-181842758.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. I do not see what the First Amendment has to do with this

[PSPS]

5. It's the amendment that guarantees freedom of the press. Can't force disclosure of a source.

Many journalists have spent time in jail rather than compromise sources.

[Angry Dragon]

7. that slipped my mind -- thank you

[Chasstev365]

2. 5th Amendment

[PSPS]

6. No, not the 5th amendment. He isn't being prosecuted.

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. Show me the transcript!!

[Shrike47]

4. Freedom of the press. Journalist.