The House Intelligence Committee acknowledged that it had received a statement from the Washington Free Beacon about its funding of an anti-Trump opposition research project with Fusion GPS — the same effort that ultimately paved the way for the so-called “Trump dossier”

“The Washington Free Beacon has issued a statement asserting that it had no involvement with Christopher Stele or the dossier he compiled from Russian sources,” a House intelligence panel spokesman said in a statement Friday night. “The Beacon has agreed to cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee to help the Committee verify this information.”