Durham indictment could lead to charges against Clinton campaign?
Special counsel John Durham logged a second indictment in his investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators on Thursday.
A grand jury returned a 26-page indictment charging Michael Sussmann , a lawyer for Perkins Coie who has worked on behalf of Democratic clients numerous times, with intentionally lying to the FBI’s top lawyer in September 2016 about who he was working for when he passed along controversial allegations of secret communications between Russia’s Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.
“Sussmann lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the FBI,” the indictment says. “Specifically, Sussmann stated falsely that he was not doing his work on the aforementioned allegations ‘for any client,’ which led the FBI General Counsel to understand that Sussmann was acting as a good citizen merely passing along information, not as a paid advocate or political operative. In fact … this statement was intentionally false and misleading because, in assembling and conveying these allegations, Sussmann acted on behalf of specific clients, namely, a U.S. technology industry executive at a U.S. internet company, and the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.”
Baker testified in 2018 that Sussman, a former DOJ colleague of his, shared the Alfa Bank claims with him during a September 2016 meeting. Notes from DOJ official Bruce Ohr’s December 2016 meeting with Glenn Simpson show the Fusion GPS co-founder said the New York Times was wrong to doubt the story that Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization were communicating through secret servers.
Durham said Sussmann provided Baker with two thumb drives and hard copies of white papers, including one he helped author, although his name wasn’t on it, along with “eight files containing the Russian Bank Data.”
Immediately after the meeting, Durham said Baker spoke with Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division.
Priestap “took contemporaneous notes” about the Sussmann meeting, including that Sussmann had been “approached by Prominent Cyber People” and had “said not doing this for any client,” according to the indictment. Durham said Sussmann “billed” the FBI meeting to the Clinton campaign with the description of “work and communications regarding confidential project.”
Durham argued Sussmann’s alleged lie was “material” because it “misled” the FBI “concerning the political nature of his work and deprived the FBI of information that might have permitted it more fully to assess and uncover the origins of the relevant data and technical analysis, including the identities and motivations of Sussmann’s clients.”
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It has long been rumored that the Clinton campaign was behind the Russian collusion hoax and this indictment suggests that Sussmann was working for the campaign when he was spreading the false narrative about Alfa Bank. The case could also implicate Fusion GPS and its employees who were also apparently hired to push the Russian collusion narrative.
See, also this quote on Facebook:
Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC14mThis tweet from Hillary was election interference, an attempt to subvert democracyHillary Clinton @HillaryClintonComputer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.@BrentScherReplying to @ChuckRossDCAnd the statement is from now-Biden NSA Jake Sullivan!
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