Thread by @Olivia_Beavers

BREAKING: A lawyer for Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, told the House Judic Chair on Thursday that his client will “invoke his constitutional rights not to testify,” defying a GOP subpoena seeking to compel him to give closed-door deposition.

My story:
thehill.com/policy/nationa…

The lawyers accused the panels' Republicans of seeking to “ruin the reputations of some of the government’s most dedicated and experienced civil servants,” in an attempt to “weaken the independence of this Justice Department" -- naming Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele

“The obvious...goal of this Committee is to discredit and otherwise damage witnesses to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, all as part of an effort to protect a President who has sought to placate and curry favor with a hostile foreign power..." they wrote

Simpsons lawyers say House GOP are leading a probe that “is not designed to discover the truth.”

“This Committee has repeatedly interviewed witnesses in secret, only to selectively leak from the interviews to disparage those witnesses and promulgate a patently false narrative."

Clearly angers Republicans. “It is very telling when Glenn Simpson has talked to multiple reporters and multiple individuals at the Department of Justice over the last two years. When the day of reckoning is on the horizon, he chooses to lose his voice,” @RepMarkMeadows told me.

I mentioned in another thread: he’s already met with three congressional committees