Posted on 04/18/2022 8:04:34 AM PDT by blam
Five associates of Hillary Clinton and her campaign are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate with Special Counsel John H. Durham, according a filing in federal court revealed later Friday in Washington, DC.
The revelation emerged in a motion filed by Durham to oppose the efforts of defendant Michael Sussmann and the Clinton campaign to withhold some documents from evidence by asserting attorney-client privilege.
Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI in 2016 when he informed the FBI about a fraudulent link between then-candidate Donald Trump and the Russian government via Alfa Bank. Sussmann allegedly presented himself as a concerned citizen, and hid the fact that he was working for the Clinton campaign.
In the filing, Durham noted that while one witness, identified as “Researcher-2,” was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony, “at least five other witnesses who conducted work relating to the Russian Bank-1 allegations invoked (or indicated their intent to invoke) their right against self-incrimination.”
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley noted in a commentary on the filing:
[Durham] is now moving to give immunity to a key witness while revealing that the claims made by the Clinton campaign were viewed by the CIA as “not technically plausible” and “user created.” He also revealed that at least five of the former Clinton campaign contractors/researchers have invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to cooperate in fear that they might incriminate themselves in criminal conduct.
Turley also noted that Durham’s filing “also detailed how the false Russian collusion claims related to Alfa Bank involved Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias and Christopher Steele.”
Steele is the former British spy who worked for opposition research firm Fusion GPS to produce the fraudulent Russia “dossier” that triggered government surveillance of the Trump campaign and the broader “Russia collusion”
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“Five associates of Hillary Clinton and her campaign are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate...”
If they cooperate, they’ll join the Clinton Organized Crime Family’s “Dead List”.
He’ll have enough evidence to prosecute the 5 if the government really wants justice.
They did not commit suicide next week................
“He’ll have enough evidence to prosecute the 5 if the government really wants justice.”
The Garland DOJ will do whatever it takes to block this investigation. And everyone knows it.
I’m not sure how much I’d read into this.
On one hand, Durham would clearly like to talk to these five. That suggests they have some knowledge of events under investigation.
On the other hand, we should be careful not to impute guilt from someone invoking the 5th. The five could have made the rational decision that there’s nothing for them to gain by talking to prosecutors even if they’ve done nothing wrong. Invoking the 5th puts the brakes on prosecutors’ efforts.
I’ll settle for a jail sentence, but would love to see Elias HANG, or try on some nice exit wounds on the back of his torso.
A real, 100% genuine, tru-blue POS.
So glad they’re finally on him.
One thing I admire about the commie RATs, they know what the Fifth Amendment is and how to use it. Unlike the conservatives who sit their wringing their hands and agree to plead guilty to everything they are accused of whether they are guilty or not.
They are no doubt drinking a fifth as well.
Slow and steady may yet win the race. Maybe. I hope. This time.
Apparently, these people do not have Arkancidal tendencies.
It’s time for Monty Hall’s “Let’s Make A Deal.”
So we’ll be seeing 30-40 FBI agents kicking down their doors like they did to anyone associated with the Trump campaign and the phony collusion charges...that Durham is now exposing?
No?
They get polite, deferential treatment?
Gosh. Who knew.
Let’s see what’s behind the door where Carol Merrill is standing.
And hildabeast is likely imbibing a fifth. 🍸🍸🍸🍸
Yeah, funny that, huh?
They’re gangsters. They know the ropes. And they don’t have any moral qualms about wiggling out of things.
‘’claims made by the Clinton campaign were viewed by the CIA as “not technically plausible” and “user created.”
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Soon enough the exact same thing applies to the “ DNC hack”, which was never forensically examined by the FBI
Most of us recall within hours of Wikileaks releasing the first of emails during the DNC convention every Clinton hack blaming Putin to help Trump
Eagerly awaiting the name “Sid Blumenthal” to flow from the Durham effort.
I guess they all got tired of saying, ‘I don’t recall’.
The Five didn’t kill themselves!!!!!
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