Posted on 04/19/2022 5:21:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Special Counsel John Durham continues to drop bombshells in filings in the prosecution of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. Just last week, Durham defeated an effort by Sussmann to dismiss the charges. He 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. Finally, Durham offers further details on the involvement of Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias and former British spy Christopher Steele in the alleged false claims.
Recently, Durham revealed extremely damaging evidence against Sussmann. However, this is the first full description of the Clinton associates refusing to cooperate under the Fifth Amendment. Durham noted that he gave immunity to an individual identified only as “Research 2.” He then noted that this was made necessary by the refusal to cooperate by key Clinton associates:
“The only witness currently immunized by the government, Researcher-2, was conferred with that status on July 28, 2021 – over a month prior to the defendant’s Indictment in this matter. And the Government immunized Researcher-2 because, among other reasons, 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. The Government therefore pursued Researcher-2’s immunity in order to uncover otherwise-unavailable facts underlying the opposition research project that Tech Executive-1 and others carried out in advance of the defendant’s meeting with the FBI.” [Emphasis added] For his part, Sussmann and the Clinton associates have sought to use attorney-client privilege to keep evidence from Durham.
Durham also detailed how the false Russian collusion claims related to Alfa Bank involved Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias and Christopher Steele. Indeed, the new requested immunized testimony would come from a Tech executive who allegedly can share information on meetings with Elias and Steele. The Alfa Bank hoax and Sussmann’s efforts paralleled the work of his partner Elias at the law firm Perkins Coie in pushing the Steele Dossier in a separate debunked collusion claim. The Federal Election Commission recently fined the Clinton Campaign and the DNC for hiding the funding of the dossier as a legal cost by Elias at Perkins Coie. “Durham notes that both the CIA and FBI were sent on an effective wild goose chase by the Clinton campaign. He notes that the government found the allegations to be manufactured and not even technically possible. He refers to the CIA in the following passage:
Agency-2 concluded in early 2017 that the Russian Bank-1 data and Russian Phone Provider-1 data was not “technically plausible,” did not “withstand technical scrutiny,” “contained gaps,” “conflicted with [itself],” and was “user created and not machine/tool generated.”
This dovetails with the statements of the Clinton associates themselves who were worried about the lack of support for the Russian collusion claims. “Researcher 1” features prominently in those exchanges.
According to Durham, the Alfa Bank allegation fell apart even before Sussmann delivered it to the FBI. The indictment details how an unnamed “tech executive” allegedly used his authority at multiple internet companies to help develop the ridiculous claim. (The executive reportedly later claimed that he was promised a top cyber security job in the Clinton administration).
Notably, there were many who expressed misgivings not only within the companies working on the secret project but also among unnamed “university researchers” who repeatedly said the argument was bogus.
The researchers were told they should not be looking for proof but just enough to “give the base of a very useful narrative.” The researchers argued, according to the indictment, that anyone familiar with analyzing internet traffic “would poke several holes” in that narrative, noting that what they saw likely “was not a secret communications channel with Russian Bank-1, but ‘a red herring,’” according to the indictment.
“Researcher-1” repeated these doubts, the indictment says, and asked, “How do we plan to defend against the criticism that this is not spoofed traffic we are observing? There is no answer to that. Let’s assume again that they are not smart enough to refute our ‘best case scenario.’ You do realize that we will have to expose every trick we have in our bag to even make a very weak association.”
“Researcher-1” allegedly further warned, “We cannot technically make any claims that would fly public scrutiny. The only thing that drives us at this point is that we just do not like [Trump]. This will not fly in eyes of public scrutiny. Folks, I am afraid we have tunnel vision. Time to regroup?”
It appears that the “time to regroup” has passed with the issuance of immunity deals to compel testimony.
Here is the filing:
US-v-Sussmann-04162022-US-Filing
https://jonathanturley.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/US-v-Sussmann-04162022-US-Filing.pdf
Amazing what a stay in the iron bar hotel will do for some peoples cooperation.
This is a serious question: what difference does it make how much evidence Durham has? If this goes to prosecution, won’t it be through the DC courts? What DC judge/jury is going to convict a Democrat?
Gee I thought that was not an option for the jan 6 cmte. nancy DEMANDS your appearance AND every phone record she states.
in a year or two, some low-level desk jockey no one has ever heard of will be indicted for some lame process crime...
no one is going to jail
“According to Durham, the Alfa Bank allegation fell apart even before Sussmann delivered it to the FBI. “
And yet, the FBI worked to deceive investigators to protect Hillary.
Even the CIA said the were fos. That’s how bad these people are.
Cooperation brings a much shorter life span...maybe even the suspicion of cooperation.
Was Stupid and Disgusting Then.
Still is NOW!
How can so many Fed Gov bureaucraps and agancies get away with such illegal actions. Nobody goes to jail. The few that do are released with no fanfare and often reinstated in their prior capacity.
Utterly Disgusting.
No one ever does. This theater is only necessary to make it appear that there is 'equal justice under the law'....
When non-violent protesters can be incarcerated for over a year, without bail, as the perpetrators of actual spying by the CIAFBIDNIDOJDNC, who orchestrating a true insurrection, walk free it is proof that this country is lost. When an election for President can be stolen through fraud (and it absolutely was), if the Constitution is to be saved, another revolution is coming......
After what the Feds have done to witnesses...I am pretty sure I wouldn’t cooperate either.
Don’t get me wrong, these Clinton folks turn my stomach. But ANYONE giving testimony to the Feds is out of their minds.
Ask Mike Flynn how that works out.
Well, they saw Lois Lerner skate because she decided to take the 5th. So why not.
THE ONLY THING GOVERNMENT EVER PROTECTS IS ITSELF............
Time to send the swat teams like they did to oliver stone
Perhaps I am wrong, but didn’t Durham run this investigation out of the Kansas City office?
That would keep it out of a DC court.
Blah, blah blah. I thought if you worked for the government you couldn’t plead the fifth. At any rate, they are all guilty of something because they won’t cooperate according to democrats.
Roger Stone. The left knows that without public pressure there will be no prosecution. And without media coverage there will be no public pressure. Its a nice closed process only they can run.
For the damages inflicted on Candidate Trump, President-Elect Trump, and sitting President Trump, these people are leftists’ heroes - but will never be martyrs based on our corrupt legal system. Where’s the blindfolded lady holding the scales of justice? She may as well have been found in a video on Hunter’s laptop being sodomized.
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