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    Commentary: About that Fusion GPS testimony …

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2018 3 minutes

    Glenn Simpson's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, released last week, is a tale of two research projects. One is about the financier turned criminal-justice crusader William F. Browder. The other is about the American president, Donald Trump. Together, they shed light on some of the darkest corners of l'Affaire Russe. But what Simpson's testimony most starkly reveals are the hazards that journalists and politicians alike encounter when they stop working for the public - and start working for clients with tendentious personal agendas.

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