Clinton Campaign, DNC admit to colluding with Russia on dirty dossier

Washington Examiner:
Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund the research that resulted in the so-called "Trump dossier" that contained scandalous material tying President Trump to Russia, according to a report Tuesday.

Fusion GPS, a Washington opposition research firm, was hired by the Clinton campaign and DNC lawyer Mark Elias to oversee the research, the Washington Post reported citing unnamed sources. Fusion GPS then hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who wrote the dossier.

Elias and Perkins Coie, his law firm, hired Fusion GPS in April 2016 to do research for the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Fusion GPS had already been conducting research on Trump during the Republican primaries, funded by an unknown Republican client.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC financed Fusion GPS's research up until just days before the Nov. 8 election.

The report comes after President Trump urged the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to "immediately" release any information they might have on who paid for the dossier.

"Officials behind the now discredited 'Dossier' plead the Fifth. Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it," Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.
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The next question is whether they colluded with the FBI in using the dossier to get FISA Court approval for spying on Trump campaign officials.  Is this why they have been trying to hide their part in the collusion with the Russians on the dossier?  Were they trying to hide this information while they pushed the bogus Russian collusion conspiracy about the Trump campaign?  They used Fusion GPS and Steele as intermediaries in getting the information from the Russians that wound up in the dossier.

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