Glenn Richard Simpson (born 1964) is an American former journalist who worked forThe Wall Street Journal until 2009, and then co-founded the Washington-based research businessFusion GPS.^[2] He was also a senior fellow at theInternational Assessment and Strategy Center.^[3]

He is the co-author ofDirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics written with political scientistLarry Sabato and published in 1996.^[4] ANew York Times book review called the book's approach "fiercely bipartisan".^[5]

Simpson graduated fromConestoga High School in 1982, then went toGeorge Washington University, where his neck was broken in a car crash.^[6]

Before Simpson worked forThe Wall Street Journal, he was a reporter forRoll Call, where he broke stories onGOPAC, a political action committee headed by House SpeakerNewt Gingrich.^[5]

Simpson left journalism in part to earn more money. Explaining why he left journalism, he quipped: "We don't use the word 'sold out.' We use the word 'cashed in.'"^[7]

From September 2015 to May 2016, Simpson was retained by a conservative newspaper, theWashington Free Beacon, to collectinformation on many of the Republican presidential candidates, includingDonald Trump.^[8][9][2]

In April 2016, theDemocratic National Committee and theHillary Clinton campaign's law firm,Perkins Coie, retained Simpson's companyFusion GPS.^[9] From April 2016 into early May, theWashington Free Beacon and the Clinton Campaign/DNC were independently both clients of Fusion GPS. In June 2016, Fusion GPS hiredChristopher Steele, a formerMI6 agent, to obtain information on Trump. Steele used his "old contacts and farmed out other research to native Russian speakers who made phone calls on his behalf".^[10] After November 2016, funding from the Democratic Party ceased, and Simpson reportedly spent his own money to fund further work on the dossier.^[11]

In 2017 during Congressional inquiries intoRussian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Simpson testified before theHouse Intelligence Committee thatRoger Stone,Steve Bannon, andTed Malloch, a "significant figure" in the Brexit campaign, had ties to each other.^[12]

On August 22, 2017, Simpson was questioned for 10 hours by theSenate Judiciary Committee in a closed-door meeting. The Committee did not release a transcript of the hearing. Simpson reportedly did not reveal the identities of his clients.^[13] The transcript was unilaterally released by SenatorDianne Feinstein on January 9, 2018.^[14][15]

• Glenn Simpson andLarry Sabato,Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics, 1996.
• Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch,Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump, 2019.

• Glenn Simpson (August 22, 2017)."Glenn Simpson's testimony re Trump-Russia dossier"(PDF).Official U.S. Senate website of SenatorDianne Feinstein (redacted transcript). Interviewed byU.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.Archived(PDF) from the original on October 10, 2018. RetrievedJanuary 12, 2018.
• Appearances onC-SPAN