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BREAKING: Durham releases potential ‘smoking gun’ in case against Clinton lawyer

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BREAKING: Durham releases potential ‘smoking gun’ in case against Clinton lawyer

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John Durham released a potential smoking gun in the case against Michael Sussmann on Monday night, as he published documents showing the Democratic cybersecurity lawyer messaged the FBI general counsel that he was not working on behalf of any client, when in fact he was working for the Clinton campaign.


Sussmann was indicted last September for allegedly concealing his clients — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and “Tech Executive-1,” known to be former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe — from FBI general counsel James Baker when he pushed since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
The article goes on to state the following:
The September 2021 indictment alleged Sussmann lied when he said he was not providing the allegations to the FBI on behalf of any client when he was in fact doing so on behalf of Joffe and the Clinton campaign. Last year, Sussmann’s lawyers attempted to argue there was no evidence that Sussmann lied to Baker.
Durham provided the “receipts” in a bombshell filing Monday night, revealing that Sussmann had sent a text message to Baker on Sept. 18, 2016 — the night before their meeting at the bureau.


The text reads:
“Jim – it’s Michael Sussmann. I have something time-sensitive (and sensitive) I need to discuss. Do you have availibilty [sic] for a short meeting tomorrow? I’m coming on my own – not on behalf of a client or company – want to help the Bureau. Thanks.”
According to Durham, Baker will take the stand as a witness in the upcoming trial.
Sussman has pleaded not guilty and has denied doing anything wrong. His lawyers have asked that the false statement allegations against him be dismissed, claiming that even if he did lie by withholding the fact he was working for Hillary Clinton, it was “immaterial.”


Durham wasn’t buying that excuse, saying last month, “The defendant’s false statement to the FBI General Counsel was plainly material because it misled the General Counsel about, among other things, the critical fact that the defendant was disseminating highly explosive allegations about a then-Presidential candidate on behalf of two specific clients, one of which was the opposing Presidential campaign.”
“The defendant’s efforts to mislead the FBI in this manner during the height of a Presidential election season plainly could have influenced the FBI’s decision-making in any number of ways,” Durham said.
CLICK HERE to read more of this report by the Washington Examiner. Below are the documents Durham just released Monday night.

Durham – Motion in Limine -… by Washington Examiner

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Durham evidence creates timeline of relentless Democrat effort to sell Russia collusion hoax

Special prosecutor lays out how Clinton campaign, lawyers, researchers and activists flooded government with allegations, hoping some might stick.
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Durham evidence creates timeline of relentless Democrat effort to sell Russia collusion hoax​

Special prosecutor lays out how Clinton campaign, lawyers, researchers and activists flooded government with allegations, hoping some might stick.

By John Solomon
Updated: April 5, 2022 - 11:26pm
As the trial for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann draws closer, Special Counsel John Durham is painting a picture of a relentless effort by Democrat operatives to sell the Russia collusion narrative across the U.S. government from the FBI to the State Department.

Essentially, Hillary Clinton operatives flooded the zone in the summer and fall of 2016, hoping multiple Trump collusion allegations circulating inside the government agencies might prompt an investigation and media interest.
For the first time this week, Durham called it a “joint venture” and a conspiracy to shop unproven Trump dirt.
In the case of Sussmann, Durham alleges that effort involved deceit by lying to the FBI that he did not have a client when he presented (since-discredited) evidence to the FBI that Donald Trump had a secret computer back channel at the Alfa Bank in Moscow to talk with the Kremlin.
In fact, Sussmann was working on behalf of the Clinton campaign and a tech executive named Rodney Jaffe who was aligned with the campaign when he approached the FBI in September 2016 and made the anti-Trump allegations, Durham's team alleges.
A few months later, prosecutors say, Sussmann was still representing the tech executive when he approached the CIA in February 2017 to get the spy agency involved and again claimed he wasn't representing a client's interest.
On Monday, Durham showed the strength of his evidence of Sussmann's alleged lie: He offered the handwritten notes of two senior FBI officials who recorded that the Clinton lawyer had said he was not acting on behalf of a client when he reported the Trump dirt.
"Said not doing this for any client," then-Assistant FBI Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap wrote in his notes, recording what Sussmann had told him. A deputy general counsel wrote a similar notation.
Durham also produced a text message Sussmann sent then-FBI General Counsel James Baker making the claim in his own words.
"Jim – it's Michael Sussmann. I have something time-sensitive (and sensitive) I need to discuss," he texted Baker on Sept. 18, 2016, according to the new court filing. "Do you have availability for a short meeting tomorrow? I'm coming on my own — not on behalf of a client or company — want to help the Bureau. Thanks."
In his latest court filings, Durham repeatedly called Sussmann's comments a "lie" that had consequences, concealing from the FBI that the origins of the Trump dirt came from his rival's campaign, Hillary Clinton.
"The aforementioned communications demonstrate the materiality of the defendant's lie insofar as they reveal the political origins and purposes for this work," the prosecutor wrote. "And those political origins are especially probative here because they provided a motive for the defendant to conceal his clients' involvement in these matters."

Former Rep. Devin Nunes, who led the House Intelligence Committee when it unraveled the false Russia collusion narrative, said Durham has now put on the public record what many Americans have suspected for a long time.
"We've got millions of Americans who understand the facts here, they understand that Donald Trump and the whole Republican Party was framed, and quite frankly, the people who voted for Donald Trump and voted for the Republicans were framed," he said.
Nunes said the false Russia collusion narrative weaved by Team Clinton ended up having consequences all the way to the current Russia invasion of Ukraine.
"Because of all of this crap that happened during the Trump administration, the United States of America couldn't have a real foreign policy and deal with characters like Putin in kind of a normal way," he said.
Sussmann's lawyers clearly plan to challenge the evidence, questioning markings on the notes and the possibility some of the evidence is protected by attorney-client privilege. But they also have shown their hand for the trial should they lose those arguments: They will try to argue the lie wasn't material and didn't affect the FBI's decision-making.
The defense also signaled in their most recent court filings that they are going to fight to keep mention of Christopher Steele's dossier — the other Clinton effort to falsely tie Trump to Russia collusion — out of the trial and away from jurors. They argued the Steele dossier would be inflammatory and prejudicial, even though it too was funded by the Clinton campaign and handled by Sussmann's law firm.
"Any modicum of relevance would be so substantially outweighed by risk of confusion, delay, waste, and unfair prejudice as to require this evidence be precluded," wrote Sussmann's attorneys.
And that is where Durham's new declaration of a conspiracy will be focused, arguing the Steele dossier and Sussmann's approaches were a "joint venture" designed to flood government agencies with information — later proven false or flawed — to make it look like Trump was conspiring with Russia.
Durham also dropped new hints this week that Sussmann and the researchers working with him had reason to suspect the Alpha Bank allegations might not be true or at least suspect. Emails talked about them being a "red herring" or suggested that all that could be drawn from the data was "an inference."

One researcher offered this candid warning about the computer data: "We don't see the money flow, and we don't see the content of some message saying 'send me the money here' etc.," Durham wrote.
Over the last several months, Durham's court filings — as well as now public government documents — lay out a timetable of key events in what he believes adds up to a conspiracy. Here it is:
July 5, 2016: The same day that the FBI clears Hillary Clinton of criminality in the mishandling of classified emails on her hard drive, Steele walks into an FBI agent he knows in London and delivers his first version of the dossier alleging collusion between Trump and the Kremlin. The field office doesn't act on it immediatetely.
Month of July 2016: A group of computer executives aligned with Clnton and working with Sussmann's law firm begin looking for evidence in Internet domain name service logs to tie Trump to Russia, eventually coming up with the Alfa Bank theory. "Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish 'an inference' and 'narrative' tying then-candidate Trump to Russia," Durham wrote in Monday's court filing. "In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain 'VIPs,' referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton Campaign."
July 26, 2016: CIA Director John Brennan tells President Barack Obama about intelligence that Hillary Clinton has personally approved a plan "from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services" in the election. That briefing is captured in Brennan's handwritten notes.
July 30-31, 2016: Frustrated by inaction by the FBI in London, Steele travels to Washington to meet his friend, senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, to relay his research on Trump. Ohr takes the information directly to FBI headquarters and the bureau's senior leadership, where Steele is eventually brought on as a confidential informant.
July 31, 2016: FBI formally opens the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into alleged Russia-Trump collusion.
Sept. 7, 2016: CIA sends FBI Director James Comey and others the same warning it gave Obama, namely that Clinton has approved a plan to tie Trump to Russia to distract from her email scandal.

Sept. 15, 2016: Another lawyer at Sussmann's firm briefs the Clinton campaign on the Russia collusion research and efforts to plant a story in the media leaking some of the findings.
Sept. 19, 2016: Sussmann brings the Alpha Bank angle of Russia collusion to the FBI through Baker. The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Team, on the same day, gets six of Steele's memos from the dossier and asks for permission to seek a FISA warrant.
Sept. 21, 2016: FBI lawyers urged Crossfire Hurricane to refocus the FISA on Carter Page predominantly and not fellow Trump adviser George Papadopolous, according to the inspector general.
Sept. 23, 2016: First information leaked from Clinton campaign's Russia research appears in Yahoo News, including information gleaned from Steele.
Oct. 13, 2016: Steele breaks FBI protocol and goes to the State Department, meeting with senior official Kathleen Kavalec, where the former MI6 agent working for the Clinton campaign briefs officials on his dossier and the Alpha Bank allegations and admits he's also talking to major news media.
Oct. 21, 2016: FBI secures first FISA warrant targeting former Trump adviser Carter Page in Russia probe.
Oct. 31, 2016: The first news story leaks about the Alpha Bank allegations, and Hillary Clinton calls attention to it as well as putting out a statement by her adviser Jake Sullivan, now President Biden's national security adviser. "Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank," Clinton tweeted. Sullivan boasted the allegations in the article "could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow[,] that "[t]his secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump's ties to Russia[,]" and that "[w]e can only assume that federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia."
Nov. 8, 2017: Donald Trump wins the election.
Feb 9, 2017: Sussmann takes Alfa Bank allegations and new information to the CIA, again denying he is acting on behalf of a client.
 
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WHAT??? Yet another "bombshell", "gamechanger", "smoking gun" posted by our resident pro Trump lunatic shown to be complete BS? Yep, it's Tuesday.
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This was clear case of jury nullification. So be it. Disappointed but Durham is not finished I am hoping.

I would not take a victory lap just yet. The judge and jury were obviously biased.
 
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This was clear case of jury nullification. So be it. Disappointed but Durham is not finished I am hoping.

I would not take a victory lap just yet. The judge and jury were obviously biased.
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LMAO... Anyone that doesn't agree with Trump is "obviously" biased according to you. Even the jury selection is corrupted now. Is there ANYONE at this point that's not deep state?
 
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Truth.

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Michael Sussmann has been acquitted

DC Jury and DC Verdicts
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Michael Sussmann has been acquitted​

DC Jury and DC Verdicts​


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Michael Sussmann has been acquitted.
The acquittal is no surprise. This is a DC jury, after all. In the Roger Stone case, for example, we documented how a juror lied to get on the panel. (That judge didn’t care.) Making matters worse, the Sussmann judge wrongly allowed for a woman to remain on the jury, despite the fact that her daughter and Sussmann’s are on the same high school crew team. One can’t help but think that juror had her own daughter’s interests in mind – the cohesion of the crew team, sparing her of teenage drama, etc. – when she reached a decision.
After the verdict was announced, the jury’s forewoman held court before the media and expressed her displeasure that the Special Counsel prosecute a false statement case: “There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI.”
This juror was never impartial - despite her assurance to the judge.
On the facts, the evidence was more than sufficient to prove Sussmann’s guilt. Sussmann lied to then-FBI general counsel James Baker via text message in order to get a meeting to pass the Alfa Bank hoax materials to the FBI.
DOJ released exhibits showing Sussmann's texts to FBI Baker
Sussmann lied again during the meeting – stating he was not there on behalf of a client – in order to get the FBI to open an investigation into the Trump Organization’s purported ties with Alfa Bank.

Later, during testimony to Congress, Sussmann admitted he met with Baker on behalf of a client.


Billing records proved he had been working on the Alfa Bank project on behalf of the Clinton Campaign. Evidence also demonstrated that Sussmann billed the Clinton Campaign for the thumb drives passed to Baker during the meeting. How was the Clinton Campaign billed? Sussmann referenced the “confidential project” - the Alfa Bank project.

I won’t say the verdict doesn’t matter. Of course it matters. It would have proven that a DC jury can convict one of their own. It would have resulted in accountability for lying to the FBI. Not the gravest of crimes, but it is still a crime.
In large part, the prosecution of Sussmann was hamstrung by the FBI’s investigation into the Alfa Bank allegations. That goes to materiality. How can the lies be material if the FBI’s investigation was so sloppy?
That was always an unconvincing defense, as Sussmann’s lies helped trigger the FBI’s investigation into the Trump/Alfa hoax. How does Sussmann convince the skeptical New York Times to take another look at the Alfa Bank story? By showing them that the FBI is investigating the matter. How can Sussmann convince the FBI to start the Alfa Bank investigation as soon as possible? By orchestrating leaks of the information to the press.

Continuing on the issue of materiality, look to the testimony of FBI Special Agent Curtis Heide, whose repeated requests to interview the source of the Alfa Bank information were denied by headquarters. FBI Headquarters didn’t want this thing thoroughly vetted - even though they demanded the investigation be opened. As we stated during the trial:
Relatively early on in the investigation - on September 26, 2016 - Agent Heide sent a message to Pientka, requesting an interview of the source of the Alfa Bank white papers. By that time, Heide knew the white paper was bunk. He received no response from Pientka. He repeated this request on October 3, 2016. Agent Heide’s requests were rebuffed by his liaison at FBI headquarters
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That’s not the say the public hasn’t benefited from the trial. The information disclosed during the trial was important to understand the broader Clinton/Fusion GPS/Perkins Coie effort to poison the public, the press, and the FBI with their Trump/Russia lies. This included:
  1. Data from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, including data from the Trumansition period, was exploited by Sussmann and Rodney Joffe and then passed to the CIA.
  2. Rodney Joffe was a longtime Confidential Human Source (CHS) – and generally a resource – for the FBI. Joffe worked with the FBI on cyber threats from countries like Russia. From former FBI Agent Grasso: “I’m sure the work that [Joffe] did touched on matters having to do with Russia.”
  3. Joffe went to great lengths to make sure the Alfa Bank information he provided to the FBI did not go through his official FBI handler.
  4. The decision to open the investigation came from FBI Leadership. According to one FBI Agent, “People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server.”
  5. Perkins Coie partner Marc Elias provided updates on the Fusion GPS “research” to the Clinton Campaign.
  6. After reviewing the evidence, the FBI leaned “towards this being a false server not attributed to the trump organization.”

  7. An unbelievable confirmation of the shoddy FBI investigation into the Russian “hacking” of our election. As of October 13, 2016, the FBI did not have the Crowdstrike images relating to the purported DNC/DCCC hack. Message from FBI agent via their internal messaging system: “really, I just want images of what crowdstrike has.”
  8. And - Hillary Clinton herself approved of the strategy to disseminate the Alfa Bank allegations to the media. Per Robby Mook:
    Q: Mr. Mook, before the break you had testified that there was a conversation in which you told Ms. Clinton about the proposed plan to provide the Alfa-Bank allegations to the media; is that correct?
    A: Correct.
    Q: And what was her response?
    A: All I remember is that she agreed with the decision.
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Then there are the trial exhibits, which The Epoch Times has posted here. As Aaron Maté observed, Sussmann edited an FBI press release on the DNC hacking because the FBI’s proposed statement “undermines” the DNC hacking narrative:
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Sussmann trial exhibits have been released. (documentcloud.org/projects/sussm…) Includes some Crowdstrike-FBI-DNC exchanges on the alleged DNC hack. Here Sussmann edits an FBI press release because the original wording "undermines" the DNC's hacking narrative:s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2204…
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Where does Durham go from here? That’s the real question. We already know that the investigation into Rodney Joffe remains open and that Igor Danchenko faces trial this year. Whether there is more remains to be seen.
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So the partial jurist is rationalizing the partisan decision.

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Jury forewoman explains Sussmann verdict: 'There are bigger things that affect the nation'

Donald Trump called the legal system "CORRUPT" after the verdict
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Jury forewoman explains Sussmann verdict: 'There are bigger things that affect the nation'​

Donald Trump called the legal system "CORRUPT" after the verdict

By Madeleine Hubbard
Updated: May 31, 2022 - 8:57pm

Former Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann was acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI because the jury thought it was a waste of time, jurors indicated after giving the not guilty verdict.
"I don't think it should have been prosecuted," she said, The Washington Times reported. "There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI."
Special Counsel John Durham charged Sussmann with lying to the FBI about his work with the Clinton campaign and a former tech firm executive when he provided the agency with information on the since-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
She explained, "It was the government’s job to prove it, and they succeeded in some ways and not in others... We broke it down, and it did not pan out in the government’s favor."
She stressed that the verdict was not a partisan decision.
"Politics were not a factor. ... We felt really comfortable being able to share what we thought. We had concise notes, and we were able to address the questions together," the forewoman said, according to The Washington Post.
The government "could have spent our time more wisely," she added.
Another juror told the Post that "everyone pretty much saw it the same way" in the jury room.
George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley commented on Twitter in response to the forewoman's remarks.
"If true, that is the type of statement that would have drawn a likely challenge from prosecutors" while selecting an impartial jury, he explained.
"Telling a lie to the FBI was the entire basis for the prosecution. It was the jury's job to determine the fact of such a lie and its materiality," Turley wrote, adding, "Of course, this statement can be a simple criticism of the underlying charge without admitting to bias in weighing the elements. Yet, it would have prompted a challenge in the courtroom if expressed during jury selection."
Former President Donald Trump criticized the justice system after the verdict.
"Our Legal System is CORRUPT, our Judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our Borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are 'through the roof,' our Military 'Leadership' is Woke, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussmann is not guilty. How’s everything else doing? Enjoy your day!!!" Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social.
Others joined in on criticizing the jury's decision.
"Sussmann verdict is what you expect when the judge stacks the jury with DNC activists," Conservative commentator Mike Cernovich wrote on Twitter. "Today is one of the most disgraceful days for the federal judiciary in modern history."
CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp said, "It didn't matter that Durham had receipts showing Sussmann was working for Hillary. It didn't matter that his lie to the FBI about representing her was in writing. It didn't matter he broke federal law to sabotage Trump. DC's justice system will always cover for liberal elites."
Never-Trump attorney George Conway, husband of former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, voiced his approval of the verdict.
"I never delved heavily into the Sussman case, but have been wondering for a while: Is this case as stupid as it looks? Apparently it was, and a jury thought so as well," he wrote on Twitter.
"The attorney general should shut Durham down now and turn DOJ's attention to that more powerful case that Mueller couldn't bring while Trump was in office, to the extent that case isn't time-barred," Conway said, shifting focus to the Mueller report on alleged Russian interference in the 2020 election.
Los Angeles Times legal columnist Harry Litman said the verdict was "more or less total humiliation for Durham" and that the jury "presumably recognized the picayune pettiness of the case."
 
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