A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Washington-based firm Fusion GPS cannot block the House Intelligence Committee from subpoenaing the firm’s financial records, according to court documents.
Court records obtained by BuzzFeed News show that U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon denied Fusion GPS’s request for an injunction on the grounds that such a disclosure to Congress would violate the firm’s First Amendment rights.
“Because I find all of Fusion’s objections to the subpoena to be unavailing” the motion was denied, wrote Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.
The House Intelligence Committee has been battling with Fusion GPS’s founders for months over testifying before Congress and turning over documents related to the funding of research during the 2016 campaign into then-candidate Donald Trump‘s background.
That research would eventually become part of a dossier of unverified claims linking Trump to Russia. Republicans have questioned what role the dossier may have played in the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
Fusion GPS has bucked subpoenas from the committee before. In October, executives at the firm announced they would not comply with the panel’s subpoena to testify, citing Constitutional privilege. read more
Good news! Since Fusion did not want those records to be seen they are probably damning.
There is a better than average chance of a rash of suicides by 2 shots to the back of the head, in 2 different calibers.
This should be good. How funny is it gonna be if they paid money to Russian “sources” to get the “information”?
I want to know who they paid in the media to spread their lies. Then need to be included in a RICO indictment.
Even funnier if there are no Russians involved at all. The whole thing made up by the FBI.