Firm behind Trump-Russia dossier fights Republican demand to open its books

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Firm behind Trump-Russia dossier fights Republican demand to open its books

By BENJAMIN SIEGEL, ALI DUKAKIS and MATTHEW MOSK
Oct 20, 2017, 4:00 PM ET

A powerful House Republican is trying to force into public view the identity of the person who first hired the investigative firm that compiled the infamous dossier of alleged links between Russians and the Donald Trump campaign.

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes quietly approved a subpoena earlier this month that would compel the unidentified bank handling finances for a private investigative firm called Fusion GPS to open up the company’s books.

The firm went to federal court Friday to try to block the effort.

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The company believes Republicans in Congress are trying to use bank records to breach Fusion GPS’s confidentiality agreements with its clients and identify who paid for the Russia research, a lawyer for the company told ABC News.

Lawyers for Fusion GPS went to U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday to ask a judge to enjoin the bank from sharing records with Congress.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/firm-trump-russia-dossier-fights-republican-demand-open/story?id=50616492

[Wounded Bear]

1. This is Nunes trying to scotch the investigation...

Basically throwing a grenade into the bunker to roil things up. Classic Trumpian tactics.

He's also violating his recusal. He should be censured by the House at least.

[SonofDonald]

2. He has to get it discredited

He's up to his neck in the treason involved, why else did he go to dumpf in the middle of the night to tell what he found?.

Pigfucker nunes is the name I keep hearing.

[dewsgirl]

3. Wasn't it Jeb Bush, that first ordered the research?

[blueinredohio]

4. Jeb Bush got this thing going

[Irish_Dem]

5. The dossier material must be true, and must be damning.

Why else fight it so hard?

[Blindingly apparent]

6. Am I wrong to hope that no Democrat has anything to do with this?

[Corgigal]

7. Powerful?

Come on ABC news. He's a fool, play the running man to the White House to get a cookie.

More interesting, what does this same firm have on Nunes?