By Peter Van Buren
There is a word for secretly collecting information about enemies or competitors to use against them. According to the latest court filing by Special Counsel John Durham, the Hillary Clinton campaign surreptitiously and likely illegally reached into protected White House and Trump communications data to try and show some link between Trump and Russia. The Clinton campaign during the election hid from FBI, CIA and the media that it was the source of the information gathered. Durham doesn't use the word "spy", but that in no way changes what happened.
The recent filing relates to Durham's September indictment of Michael Sussmann, an attorney who represented the Clinton campaign while at the Perkins Coie law firm. Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI at a September 2016 meeting when he presented documents claiming to show internet communications between Trump and Russia-based Alfa Bank. The indictment says Sussmann falsely told the FBI he was presenting this information as a good citizen, purposely hiding his ties to Clinton. The allegations about the bank were false.
The
new filing is at its heart legal housekeeping, asking that a waiver be
considered to allow Sussmann to retain his current law firm. A potential
conflict of interest exists because Sussmann's representative works
for a law firm which also represents others Durham may be going after,
and may have been involved in the larger events under investigation,
perhaps as witnesses. While that is interesting in itself, what is
newsworthy are broader details of what really happened around Russiagate
that potentially point to crimes on a Watergate scale...............But
this is not a fake scandal. Durham has potentially uncovered the most
destructive political assassination attempt since Kennedy......To Read More....
No comments:
Post a Comment