HILLARY CLINTON-LINKED LAWYER INDICTED IN RUSSIAGATE PROBE

BY TYLER DURDEN

A grand jury has indicted Michael Sussmann, the lawyer accused of making false statements during the 2016 presidential campaign to slander then-candidate Donald Trump in the final months of the election.

Sussmann, the indictment charges, “lied about the capacity in which he was providing … allegations to the FBI” of potential cyber links between a Russian bank and a company owned by former president Donald Trump.

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Durham is pursuing a prosecutorial theory that Sussmann was secretly representing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, which was a client of Sussmann’s firm, these people said. –Washington Post

Notably, this is far from over as Special Counsel Durham’s office pointed out in the statement that the investigation is “ongoing.”

Highlights from the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross (and others):

The FBI opened an investigation of Alfa Bank based on the info that Michael Sussmann gave to James Baker, even though Sussmann knew the info was bogus. As Durham notes, the FBI wasted its time and resources chasing that false lead pic.twitter.com/r5zcURtwKO— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2021

Sussmann billed the Clinton campaign for the time he spent meeting with reporters to plant the phony Alfa Bank story pic.twitter.com/npUvss9vVT— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2021

This is huge. A tech exec who Sussmann represented discussed faking a link between the Trump Org and Alfa Bank. The exec and other researchers also doubted that there were nefarious contacts involving Trump Org, but Sussmann would later claim to FBI and media that there were pic.twitter.com/XP3mJubOog— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2021

Oof size large. A law firm for a presidential campaign had access to *federal contract data* and gave it to the presidential candidate during the election cycle for political purposes. I don’t think that’s allowed. pic.twitter.com/WXbH6o8PF5— Nerd Immunity (@wakeywakey16) September 16, 2021

From the Sussmann indictment:

“…you do realize that we will have to expose every trick we have in our bag to even make a very weak association?”

“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.” pic.twitter.com/xaTIC903Pc— Shem Horne (@Shem_Infinite) September 16, 2021

Download and read the full indictment below:

https://www.howardnema.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Durham-Indictment.pdf

Special counsel John Durham is reportedly seeking a grand jury indictment against to indict an attorney reportedly representing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for peddling a fake story in 2016 that the Trump campaign was using a secret server to communicate with a Russian bank – a lie promoted by Hillary Clinton herself right before the 2016 US election.

According to the Washington Post, Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer and partner at Perkins Coie, pushed the theory that computer scientists had discovered secret server connections between Trump and Alfa Bank – an allegation which was then amplified through left-wing media chambers (such as Slate) as part of their ongoing full-court press against Trump.

The NYT reports that Durham – the special counsel appointed by former President Trump to scrutinize the FBI’s Russia investigation – will charge Sussmann with lying to the FBI.

The case against Mr. Sussmann centers on the question of who his client was when he conveyed certain suspicions about Mr. Trump and Russia to the F.B.I. in September 2016. Among other things, investigators have examined whether Mr. Sussmann was secretly working for the Clinton campaign — which he denies.

The accusation against Mr. Sussmann focuses on a meeting he had on Sept. 19, 2016, with James A. Baker, who was the F.B.I.’s top lawyer at the time, according to the people familiar with the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity.

Because of a five-year statute of limitations for such cases, Mr. Durham has a deadline of this weekend to bring a charge over activity from that date.

At the meeting, Mr. Sussmann relayed data and analysis from cybersecurity researchers who thought that odd internet data might be evidence of a covert communications channel between computer servers associated with the Trump Organization and with Alfa Bank, a Kremlin-linked Russian financial institution. -NYT

Breaking down news of the indictment is journalist and attorney Glenn Greenwald.

The scam that Trump was using a secret server to communicate with a Russian bank was promoted by Hillary herself, and touted by media outlets led by @Slate. Like so much that comprised Russiagate, it was a total fraud concocted by the DNC & media allies: https://t.co/mwKa2REj5f— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 16, 2021

Remember that an FBI lawyer pled guilty to lying to the FISA court in order to obtain warrants to spy on former Trump campaign official Carter Page.

The real criminals weren’t people colluding with Russia but those who perpetrated the Russiagate fraud:https://t.co/X0QgL5zdDj— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 16, 2021

Savage has done good and important reporting in the past but there’s probably no corporate journalist except Bob Woodward more linked to and intertwined with Democratic security state operatives, and that’s what happens when reporters become their tools:https://t.co/UCYaVwLnv1— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 16, 2021

And as attorney Nicholas Devyatkin notes, “Elias has completely reinvented himself as some voting rights advocate. See how MSNBC covers him without disclosing his very recent role as general counsel to the Clinton Campaign and his role in commissioning the Steele Dossier.”

Also, Elias has completely reinvented himself as some voting rights advocate. See how MSNBC covers him without disclosing his very recent role as general counsel to the Clinton Campaign and his role in commissioning the Steele Dossier. https://t.co/WGKUsxDBvL— Nicholas Devyatkin (@NickDevyatkin) September 16, 2021

As the Daily Caller noted in April 2020, Sussmann “set off a chain of events that led to Steele publishing a Sept. 14, 2016 memo accusing the founders of the bank, Alfa Bank, of having “illicit” ties to Vladimir Putin,” before meeting with former UK spy Christopher Steele of bullshit ‘dossier’ infamy.

A week after Steele wrote that memo, he had another meeting with Sussmann’s colleague, Marc Elias, according to the transcript.

Steele disclosed the previously unreported meetings with Sussmann and Elias during testimony in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by the Alfa Bank founders, the transcript shows.

Steele’s testimony about Sussmann and Elias provides insight into how deeply involved the two lawyers were in the Trump investigation, and suggests they helped shape Steele’s investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election. -DCNF

“I’m very clear is that the first person that ever mentioned the Trump server issue, Alfa server issue, was Mr. Sussman [sic],” Steele told Allfa Bank lawyer Hugh Tomlinson according to a March 2020 transcript. Steele then said that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson instructed him to write a report about Alfa bank based on Sussmann’s fabrication.

“I was given the instruction sometime after that meeting by Mr. Simpson,” said Steele, adding that Simpson’s instruction “was absolutely, definitely linked to the server issue.”

As the Caller further noted at the time, “Sussmann shopped the allegations about the Alfa Bank computer servers around to others besides Steele, including to journalists and the FBI’s top lawyer.”

source: Hillary Clinton-Linked Lawyer Indicted In Russiagate Probe | ZeroHedge