Posted on 09/20/2021 7:58:58 AM PDT by bitt
The DOJ's new charging document, approved by Biden's Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russiagate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key.
A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign was indicted on Wednesday with one felony count of lying to the FBI about a fraudulent Russiagate story he helped propagate. Michael Sussman was charged with the crime by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed by Trump Attorney General William Barr to investigate possible crimes committed as part of the Russiagate investigation and whose work is now overseen and approved by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Sussman's indictment, approved by Garland, is the second allegation of criminal impropriety regarding Russiagate's origins. In January, Durham secured a guilty plea from an FBI agent, Kevin Clinesmith, for lying to the FISA court and submitting an altered email in order to spy on former Trump campaign official Carter Page.
The law firm where Sussman is a partner, Perkins Coie, is a major player in Democratic Party politics. One of its partners at the time of the alleged crime, Marc Elias, has become a liberal social media star after having served as General Counsel to the Clinton 2016 campaign. Elias abruptly announced that he was leaving the firm three weeks ago, and thus far no charges have been filed against him.
The lie that Sussman allegedly told the FBI occurred in the context of his mid-2016 attempt to spread a completely fictitious story: that there was a "secret server” discovered by unnamed internet experts that allowed the Trump organization to communicate with Russia-based Alfa Bank. In the context of the 2016 election, in which the Clinton campaign had elevated Trump's alleged ties to the Kremlin to center stage, this secret communication channel was peddled by Sussman — both to the FBI and to Clinton-friendly journalists — as smoking-gun proof of nefarious activities between Trump and the Russians. Less than two months prior to the 2016 election, Sussman secured a meeting at the FBI's headquarters with the Bureau's top lawyer, James Baker, and provided him data which he claimed proved this communication channel.
It was in the course of trying to lure the FBI into investigating this scam conspiracy theory when Sussman allegedly lied to Baker, by concealing the fact — outright denying — that he was peddling the story in his role as lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign as well as a lawyer for a "tech executive” hoping to be appointed as the top cybersecurity official in the soon-to-be-inaugurated Clinton administration. Sussman's claims that he was just acting as a concerned private citizen were negated by numerous documents obtained by Durham's investigation, including billing records where he charged the Clinton campaign for his work in trying to disseminate this story, including his meeting with Baker at FBI's headquarters.
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Everyone knows this except CNN and MSNBC viewers.
Scapegoat.
The one who belongs in jail is Clinton.
And when will Hillary be made to bend over and pay?
Everyone knows this except CNN and MSNBC viewers.
They knew it just were part of the steal
Gross
Yes - scapegoat, but nothing will happen.
Check the JusttheNews article today about the Judge who is assigned.....
Married to Lisa Page’s attorney and Garland officiated the wedding.
Justice won’t happen in DC for Trump. Period.
Dude! I’m going to be trying to eat lunch in an hour, and you’re killing my appetite.
They are all just one big happy family.
Hillary Clinton is a soulless sack of water walking around.
Not sure if I buy this.
When the Clintons are seen as wounded - a large army of the people they've abused will stomp them into the ground...
An idiot lawyer thinks he should have a job that is a requires sophisticated technical knowledge. The fact that people don't laugh their asses off at all the unqualified people who think they should have this job, like this idiot, is why we have this problem.
“Everyone knows this except CNN and MSNBC viewers”
All 250 of them.
Interesting that Durham is being allowed to proceed apparently unimpeded by Biden & Garland. Makes me wonder to what degree internal Dem feuding may be in play here between the Clinton and Obama camps.
And ABC, NBC, SeeBS, WA Post, NY Slimes, LA, SF Homonews, Seattle Red Times, Red China Red News, North Korean Propaganda Machine, etc.
Greenwald is an excellent journalist, in a very real sense.
I hope this leads to bigger fish.
I’m afraid it will only be the deep state way; to offer up a sacrifice by throwing someone under the bus.
In doing so, they will continue to keep the demonic-rats, the Clinton cabal’s and their own crimes hidden.
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