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Report: John Durham to call former FBI general counsel in Hillary Clinton lawyer case
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/26/john-durham-call-james-baker-former-fbi-counsel-hi/?cx_testId=18&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=10&utm_source=piano&utm_medium=end-of-article&utm_campaign=12_item_Pos_10#cxrecs_s ^ | 26 October 2021 | Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Posted on 10/28/2021 12:33:13 AM PDT by blueplum

Former FBI General Counsel James Baker will likely be called to testify in the case against former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, who is charged with lying to advance the bureau’s Trump-Russia collusion probe....

...Andrew deFilippis, an assistant counsel for Special Counsel John Durham, said during a virtual status conference Tuesday that they are planning to call Mr. Baker as a witness during the trial which could begin next spring, The Washington Examiner reported....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; 201604; 201606; 20160614; 2022; christophersteele; chuckdolan; crowdstrike; durham; fbi; fusiongps; jamesbaker; michaelsussmann; micharlsussman; micharlsussmann; neustar; perkinscoie; rodneyjoffe; russiagate; shawnhenry; specialcounsel; steeledossier; washingtonpost; washpo
another twitch of life
1 posted on 10/28/2021 12:33:13 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

When will H->! be locked up?


2 posted on 10/28/2021 12:36:46 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: blueplum

A trial next spring.

Well, that will keep the paychecks coming...


3 posted on 10/28/2021 12:41:14 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: blueplum

Yawn.


4 posted on 10/28/2021 12:42:56 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Paladin2

In the year 2525...


5 posted on 10/28/2021 1:09:57 AM PDT by CtBigPat (The time of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: blueplum

I would suggest this...for all this Russiagate stuff to be invented....Hillary had to go pay someone (with various people in the middle). I doubt if she used campaign funds or personal funds....so the obvious hint here...the Clinton Charity Foundation probably figures to be the money-pit that they paid for ‘services’.

It won’t lead back to Hillary, but someone in the very top of the foundation...is going to spend a lot of time in court and probably end up with a prison sentence.


6 posted on 10/28/2021 1:46:59 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Paladin2
When will H->! be locked up?

I think that might be considered cruel and unusual punishment for the other inmates.

7 posted on 10/28/2021 1:47:07 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: blueplum
On October 21 I offer the following post:

Are we to expend all this time, effort, money and 81,000 pages of documents for no purpose other than to secure another slap on the wrist as was administered to Kevin Kleinsmith? I am aware that is quite fashionable now to dismiss special investigator Durham’s aging investigation as just one more Washington two-step, but perhaps all of this is, after all, an effort to roll up Sussman and start up the food chain.

At least we have a right to hope.

Predictably, the post was met with replies that condescendingly charged naïveté for even suggesting that there should be hope, as though the import of the original post did not fully discount that likelihood.

With a Democrat president in office who has so obviously politicized and criminalized his Justice Department, can one doubt that Biden will freely pardon Sussman if convicted? Among those who would not doubt, at least not seriously doubt it, is Sussman himself.

Therefore, Sussman has little reason to flip and would be better off playing for acquittal, counting on a slap of the wrist if convicted and, finally, relying on a pardon if seriously sentenced to preserve his subsequent chances for a favorable position somewhere in the leftist universe. It is not inconceivable that he could end up, like McCabe, on CNN. Why is there greater leverage on Sussman now than could have been applied to Kevin Kleinsmith who emerged with his image, if not burnished, at least not fatally tarnished?

Unless Durham has something more, what could be motivating him to continue now other than a rather obsessive sense of justice? The likely outcome is that it will not put Sussman away for long time and thus have small deterrent value and equally small power to flip Sussman, so why is Durham undertaking this action which might reflect badly on himself when it comes to the end?


8 posted on 10/28/2021 2:05:26 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: blueplum

NEXT SPRING????? OMG!


9 posted on 10/28/2021 2:08:36 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Paladin2

This reminds me of that Bugs Bunny cartoon with the turtle and the race where the turtle takes forever and ever. Why does it take democrats mere months to prosecute and lock someone up but it takes Republicans years or in the case of Hillary decades?


10 posted on 10/28/2021 2:13:30 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Ann Archy

Six months. Seems like a long time. “These things must be done delicately.”


11 posted on 10/28/2021 2:55:32 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: CtBigPat
In the year 2525...

If man is still alive
if woman can survive
they may find…..

I do believe, however, that’s how long it will take, till someone goes to the hoosegow over this. 👎

12 posted on 10/28/2021 3:18:12 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: blueplum
When this story broke about two weeks ago, the former FBI General Counsel issued a public statement...

He said he no longer has a clear recollection of his 2016 meeting with Sussman.

The FBI man took no notes and did not write an after the fact memorandum.

The FBI intelligence executive that the General Counsel phoned immediately after the Sussman conversation did take contemporaneous notes.

The intelligence executive wrote down that Sussman worked for Perkins Coie, and that Sussman represented the Clinton Foundation and the Democratic National Committee.

Those notes completely undermine Durham's claim that Sussman lied to the General Counsel and told him he did not represent anyone with a political conflict of interest.

The criminal case against Sussman will go no where in a Washington D.C. courtroom.

13 posted on 10/28/2021 3:20:11 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: blueplum

20 Oct: Substack: Indicted Clinton lawyer hired CrowdStrike, firm behind dubious Russian hacking claim
The indictment of Michael Sussmann raises new questions about Russiagate’s foundational Russian hacking allegation. That claim originates with CrowdStrike — a firm hired and overseen by Sussmann.
by Aaron Maté
https://mate.substack.com/p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-crowdstrike


14 posted on 10/28/2021 3:46:48 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: blueplum

Nothing will happen as the statute of limitations passes by…


15 posted on 10/28/2021 4:44:59 AM PDT by Hogblog
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To: blueplum

Another nothing burger. What a joke.


16 posted on 10/28/2021 8:32:01 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: nathanbedford

“So why is Durham undertaking this action which might reflect badly on himself when it comes to the end?”

His job is to run out the clock. Once he does that he will be offered a very lucrative position at a top flight law firm or lobbying group.

L


17 posted on 10/28/2021 8:35:27 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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