Fusion GPS founder says memos from Steele dossier were sent directly to Obama: Report

Fusion GPS founder says memos from Steele dossier were sent directly to Obama: Report

October 17, 2019

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s new book reportedly claims that his firm was hired in the fall of 2015 by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to investigate Donald Trump — and that memos about the Christopher Steele dossier which resulted from that investigation were sent directly to then-President Barack Obama.

The money used to hire Fusion GPS was laundered through the law firm Perkins Coie, Simpson said in his soon-to-be-released book, Crime in Progress, according to investigative journalist Paul Sperry.

It is already well-documented that Obama’s Justice Department used information from the now-discredited dossier to get four warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page — but how involved was Obama really in the attempt to take Trump down using phony information?

Obama was there

In the book, Simpson chronicles how the Trump investigation proceeded, including involvement by Obama and his administration.
According to Simpson, after the memos went to Obama, the then-president met in January 2017 with then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to discuss the dossier.

Reports later confirmed this meeting and the subject matter. Being the outgoing president, Obama would have had considerable say in what happened at the meeting. He also would have been privy to the knowledge that material from the dossier had already been used to get wiretapping warrants.
In fact, it’s more than likely that he was in charge of instructing the FBI to get the warrants.

What else does he know?

Information from The Federalist and Newsweek has also surfaced alleging that in addition to almost $11 million paid to Perkins Coie by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, $972,000 was paid to the firm by Obama for America. The line item only said legal services, but what legal services would have been paid for by Obama?
Funny how it has been more than two years, and no one has bothered to ask this question. The fact is, Obama has been working overtime to distance himself from the investigation into the origins of the Trump–Russia probe.

It’s clear, however, that he is in it up to his elbows, if not higher. Despite his responsibility to stay out of the election, Obama couldn’t resist putting his finger on the scale, even after Trump was already elected.
I wonder what he knows about Biden and Ukraine?