Dianne Feinstein Vs A Very Stable Genius

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, unilaterally released the 312-page transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s August interview with Committee investigators.

The release provoked controversy on Capitol Hill, with a spokesman for Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) slamming Feinstein’s move as “confounding.” Spokesman Taylor Foy said she made the decision without consulting the Chairman and warned the move jeopardized other highly sought witness testimony. 

Feinstein suggested a “bad cold” may have impaired her mental faculties and caused her to release the testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee without telling Committee Chair Chuck Grassley.

“The one regret I have is that I should have spoken with Senator Grassley before,” she told NBC News. “And I don’t make an excuse, but I’ve had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities [sic] a little bit.”

Dr. Bandy Lee, the Yale University professor and forensic psychiatrist who believes President Trump is “dangerous” and requires a mental-capacity exam could not be reached for comment.

Feinstein to @MariannaNBCNews RE: releasing the Glenn Simpson transcript: "The one regret I have is that I should have spoke with Senator Grassley before. And I don't make an excuse but I've had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities a little bit."

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) January 10, 2018

The old blame the NyQuil card https://t.co/ULn8Me0Vp5

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) January 11, 2018

UPDATE:  David Harsanyi, a nationally syndicated columnist and Senior Editor at The Federalist noted in an Op-Ed in The New York Post that President Trump’s personal attorney has filed a pair of lawsuits;  one against Fusion GPS in federal court and the other in New York against Buzzfeed. 

He is suggesting calls to the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into Glenn Simpson’s false testimony and communicating with reporters about the contents of the so-called “dirty dossier” may be behind Sen. Feinstein’s release of the transcripts. 

The transcripts, according to Harsanyi, omitted a number of important contextual exhibits.  If the Democrats, the Party in power during the 2016 presidential election, used a dossier filled with raw, unsubstantiated information to spy on Trump’s people it will be a “massive scandal”.