Letter to Chairmen Goodlatte and Gowdy September 27, 2018 Page 1 of 6 September 27, 2018 via Electronic Mail Bob Goodlatte Chairman Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives Trey Gowdy Chairman Committee on Oversight and Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives c/o Arthur Baker
[email protected] Re: Glenn Simpson Dear Chairman Goodlatte and Chairman Gowdy: We are in receipt of your letter, dated September 24, 2018, inviting our client Glenn Simpson to participate in a transcribed interview. After due consideration, Mr. Simpson, who has already cooperated with three congressional committees regarding the same subject matter,1 will not agree to the interview. 1 See, e.g., Voluntary Transcribed Interview of Glenn R. Simpson, Senate Judiciary Committee, Aug. 22, 2017, available at https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/read-the-full-transcript-of- glenn-simpsons-senate-testimony/2700/; Voluntary Transcribed Interview of Glenn R. Simpson, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Nov. 14, 2017, available at https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180118/106796/HMTG-115-IG00-20180118-SD002.pdf. Letter to Chairmen Goodlatte and Gowdy September 27, 2018 Page 2 of 6 The so-called “task force,” formed by members of the two committees you chair, has demonstrated a propensity to flout rules of confidentiality in order to manipulate the record and prejudice witnesses. The “task force” is comprised of some of the President’s staunchest protectors, who have misspent American taxpayers’ dollars to undermine the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, even after the U.S.