Fusion GPS leader's testimony looks like an attempt to deceive Congress?

Power Line:

Few people had heard of Bruce Ohr until recently, but he was an important bureaucrat in the Department of Justice–until a month or so ago, he was both associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was demoted in December 2016, apparently because he “withheld his contacts with the Fusion GPS men [Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele] from colleagues at the DOJ.”

So Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, as it relates to Ohr, is of great interest. Simpson testified in November 2016, a month before it came out that his wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion’s Simpson; not only that, she worked on the Donald Trump “investigation.” The conflict of interest here is almost unbelievable; but remember, in November 2016, no one knew about it.

This is what Glenn Simpson had to say about his dealings with Bruce Ohr, when Ohr was a senior member of the Department of Justice:

Q You’ve never heard from anyone in the U.S. Government in relation to those matters i.e., the fake Trump dossier], either the FBI or the Department of Justice?

A After the election. I mean, during the election, no.

Q What did you hear after and from whom and when?

A I was asked to provide some information to the Justice Department.

Q By whom and when?

A It was by a prosecutor named Bruce Ohr, who was following up. You know, l can’t remember when. It was sometime after Thanksgiving, I think.

Q Thanksgiving of 2016?

A Yes.

Consider the monumental dishonesty of Simpson’s answer. He “was asked to provide some information to the Justice Department” by “a prosecutor named Bruce Ohr.” Simpson neglects to mention that Ohr’s wife, one of only a handful of employees of Fusion GPS, had been paid to work on the Trump “investigation” at Simpson’s direction. According to Simpson, Ohr was just a “prosecutor” who was “following up.”

Q Did Mr. Ohr reach out to you, or how did that shake out?

A I think Chris–it was someone that Chris Steele knows. I think —

Q I’m sorry. Chris Steele knows who?

A Bruce Ohr.

This testimony is absurd. Simpson has testified that Fusion GPS has approximately 10 employees, one of whom was Nellie Ohr. His testimony that Bruce Ohr was “someone that Chris Steele knows” was at best deliberately deceptive, at worst outright perjury.

Simpson’s testimony, and his deception, continue....

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There is much more.

This certainly looks like an attempt to deceive.   It looks like an attempt to hide just how the FBI was brought into the plot against President Trump and his campaign.  The testimony also reveals how the DNC sought to undermine the Trump administration after the election.  That is pretty unprecedented and is also unethical.

More and more it looks like Simson's getting Sen. Feinstein to release his testimony is going to backfire on Fusion and the Democrats.