The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended Friday that the Justice Department investigate for possible criminal charges the author of the now-famous dossier alleging the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin during the 2016 election. It was not immediately clear how conversations with reporters might be materially relevant to the investigation the FBI was conducting. Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm run by ex-journalists, but how is it connected to the Trump dossier, Donald Trump Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting and the 2016 election? U.S. intelligence agencies later released a public assessment asserting that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to aid Trump. Trump has vigorously denied the allegations in the dossier and has called the FBI probe a witch hunt.

Source: Washington Post January 05, 2018 18:40 UTC