Posted on 05/24/2022 3:31:31 PM PDT by Libloather
The defense for a Democratic attorney accused of lying to the FBI hammered away Tuesday at the prosecution, arguing that the FBI probe the lawyer triggered with his Trump-Russia allegations was so shoddy and haphazard that any falsehood uttered by the attorney would not have affected the Russia investigation.
Lawyers for former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann maintain he did not lie to the FBI when he allegedly claimed he wasn’t acting on behalf of any client while giving the FBI data and reports suggesting that a secret server connected to Donald Trump was in communication with another computer controlled by a Russian bank.
At the jury trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, prosecutors have argued that Sussmann’s obfuscation of the fact that the allegations came from experts working for or supporting Hillary Clinton’s campaign affected the way the FBI investigated the matter.
However, Sussmann’s defense suggested that miscommunication, hesitation and internal bureaucracy led to FBI agents failing to try to find information they easily could have discovered about the source of the allegations.
To get a conviction in the case, prosecutors have to show beyond a reasonable doubt not only that Sussmann lied but that any false statement could have been expected to impact the FBI’s investigation. Sussmann’s defense suggested there were so many loose ends and internal roadblocks that prosecutors can’t make that case.
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Kinda sounds like a certain election audit.
Really. That’s the defense? The investigation was so messed up that his lies didn’t matter?
“It was okay to embezzle that $100K, your Honor. Their accounting system was so messed up that they’d never have noticed.” Try that one in Superior Court.
However, Sussmann’s defense suggested that miscommunication, hesitation and internal bureaucracy led to FBI agents failing to try to find information they easily could have discovered about the source of the allegations.
Looks like Sussmann’s lawyers have nothing except dragging the FBI down with him.
Excellent.
Baker is the one that needs to be locked up.
That is the nature of small lies, that ever larger lies in great profusion inevitably spring forth as the guilty try to prevent the original deception’s discovery.
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