A key lawmaker has ratcheted up the pressure to obtain video of a depostion Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Trump dossier, gave in a U.K. legal proceeding that could shed light on a Senate probe of events that led to appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Trump.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to review the deposition Steele, a former British spy, gave as part of ongoing civil litigation against online publisher Buzzfeed and Steele's U.K.-based company Orbis Business Intelligence LTD.
Steele has yet to tell Congress details about who he was working for and when. For a time, the former spy was a paid FBI "confidential human source" while he was working for Glenn Simpson and the American-based opposition research firm Fusion GPS during the hotly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election.
After a long legal battle, on June 18 in London, as Fox News first reported, the former spy finally sat down for a four-hour deposition in a secret location. Fusion GPS hired Steele with money received from law firm Perkins Coie, which the Democratic National Committee had retained. Currently, Steele's deposition is designated confidential and sealed under the Amended Protective Order in Gubarev's lawsuit. Now, Grassley has written that he wants to see it.