Irony alert--Fusion GPS complains about leaks

Washington Times:

Fusion GPS, the master of anonymous leaks to Washington’s media establishment, now is complaining about news leaks against it.

In a running court battle with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a Fusion lawyer and a company partner complained to U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon that issues discussed in private have reached the press.

Mr. Nunes, California Republican, is investigating the opposition research firm’s role in trying to prove Trump-Russia collusion. He has signed subpoenas for Fusion’s bank records and wants more. One press leak was the identity of TD Bank.

“Now, I don’t have proof,” attorney Steven M. Salky of Zuckerman Spaeder told Judge Leon at a recent hearing. “I’m never going to be able to have proof, your honor, as to how Fox News got that information or how the WashingtonExaminer got the information from the bank, but I’m pretty confident that it wasn’t from Fusion or the bank.”

Glenn Simpson, a Fusion founder and former Wall Street Journal reporter, filed a declaration Tuesday.

Mr. Simpson, whose skill is persuading reporters to anonymously use his opposition research such as supposed dirt on President Trump, presented a timeline to suggest that only House Intelligence Committee Republicans could be doing the leaking.

He said he provided the bank name only to the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which interviewed him last summer.

He acknowledged hiring Nellie H. Ohr, wife of Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, to work on the Trump dossier. He said her name, which leaked to Fox News, was contained in subpoenaed bank records.

Her job at Fusion was to “help our company with its research and analysis of Mr. Trump,” Mr. Simpson said.

He said he met with Mr. Ohr, at his request, after the election “to discuss our findings regarding Russia.” He said he provided that information Nov. 14 to the House committee.

“I am not aware of any other sources from which the committee or media could have learned of this information,” Mr. Simpson said.

Mr. Ohr had no formal role in the ongoing Trump-Russian probe, which since May has been conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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I suspect there are several people who could have been leakers.  Since Mr. Ohr was removed from his executive office that probably triggered several people in the FBI asking why.  It is also possible that he may have told others why he was removed which could include his wife's role in teh dirty dossier.  This would all have been relevant information to the special counsel as well as the House committee.

However, it is hard to see how Fusion has been harmed by the leak.  If it was relevant information, which it appears to be, it was going to come out anyway.