Fusion GPS co-founder will not testify to Senate Intelligence Committee

By Todd Shepherd

Published July 21, 2017 11:21pm ET

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Fusion GPS co-founder will not testify to Senate Intelligence Committee — Former British spy Christopher Steele was one of the primary authors of the document, as Fusion GPS was paid to put the dossier together as opposition research by political opponents of Trump in 2016. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) | Victoria Jones

The co-founder of the firm that authored the infamous “Russian dossier” on President Trump will not testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his attorneys said Simpson was traveling and wouldn’t be available. But they also appeared to vent some frustration at the committee when they wrote that Simpson was “profoundly disturbed” that the hearings were becoming functions of “partisan agendas” in his opinion, Reuters reported.

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