had no direct involvement with the hiring of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who gathered anti-Trump dirt in Russia, which was put into Trump dossier. Steele, however, was retained by Fusion GPS when the opposition research project was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee from April up until right before the 2016 election.

The Free Beacon also published a statement Friday, from editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti and chairman Michael Goldfarb, admitting that they "retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers."

Continetti and Goldfarb added they did not pay for or have any knowledge of the Trump dossier, but also did not apologize for their organization's reporting "methods."

The House Intelligence Committee is running one ofOn 11 May 2017, two days into a firestorm ignited by President Trump’s dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, who was investigating possible links between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian efforts to disrupt the 2016 election, supporters of the administration took to social media to deflect attention elsewhere.

Cued, perhaps, by the innumerable talking heads on cable television pointing out that only once before in American history had an FBI director been fired in the middle of his term by the president — namely, when Bill Clinton axed William Sessions on 19 July 1993 — one of the go-to concepts was an implied link between Sessions’s firing and the death of longtime Clinton crony and Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster the following day (20 July 1993).

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