Firm behind Trump dossier won't comply with House Intel subpoena

Source: The Hill | October 16, 2017 | Olivia Beavers

The research firm that produced the controversial dossier containing unverified allegations about President Trump and Russia will reportedly not comply with the House Intelligence Committee’s subpoena to testify.

Fusion GPS plans to decline the request of the committee’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), to testify before the panel by invoking constitutional privileges, according to a letter obtained by Business Insider on Monday.

“We cannot in good conscience do anything but advise our clients to stand on their constitutional privileges, the attorney work product doctrine and contractual obligations,” Fusion GPS’s counsel Josh Levy wrote in the letter.

The attorney said the subpoenas would violate “the First Amendment rights” of the firm’s three founders, while also saying it would thwart future candidates who are running for public office “from conducting confidential opposition research in an election.”

“Should you compel any of our three clients to appear at the scheduled deposition, they will invoke their constitutional privileges not to testify,” Levy said in the letter, according to the report. “Since that will be the case, we ask that the Committee excuse them from appearing.”

Nunes reportedly issued the subpoenas on Oct. 4, asking for materials and testimony on the opposition research from Fusion GPS sometime later this month or early in November.

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