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Posted on 04/20/2022 12:47:47 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and its former top officials are intervening in Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation, seeking to block the release of memos about its Russia research on Donald Trump on grounds that it is covered by attorney-client privilege. The requests were filed late Tuesday by the campaign, its former chairman John Podesta, its former campaign manager Robby Mook and its former law firm Perkins Coie, coming about a month before the start of former campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s trial on a charge of lying to the FBI.
“Hillary for America respectfully moves this honorable court to intervene as an interested non party to assert privilege claims over documents and information that the government seeks to compel,” the campaign wrote in its motion.
The motion is designed to block evidence of the campaign's work with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and the firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump alleging Russia collusion, some of which was later shared with the FBI and CIS by Sussmann.
Durham alleges some of the Trump dirt the campaign shared with the government was false and that Sussmann lied to conceal the fact he approached the FBI on behalf of the campaign and a tech executive linked to the campaign. Sussmann has pleaded innocent.
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Attorney-Client PRIVILEGE is exactly that, a privilege, not a right.
If it involves illegalities it is now revoked................
What the heck? The liberals tell us we are supposed to have transparency, so that there will not be even the appearance of impropriety.
the Clintons have other rules and standards? I’m shocked, just shocked.
I don’t think they’ll get away with this.
Zactly!
Attorney client privilege does not apply if the attorney and client are conspiring to break the law and subsequently break the law.
Stonewalling trying to run out the clock.
The former Nixon girl is about to find out that what Dicky couldn’t get away with, she ain’t gonna either. Nixon tried executive privilege - she is trying attorney-client privilege. I fail to see how that even applies!
nope, doesn’t apply here. Sorry Hillary, go have another shot of tequila
That's some real false advertising there that is!
"Hillary For Hillary" is more like it.
This the creation of billable hours
Does she mean like the Attorney-Client privilege that Trump was denied? Why isn’t durham searching the lawyers office they way they searched Trump’s lawyers office?
Likely it will give them enough time to properly get rid of documentary evidence and any trails and prep the principles to say, “I don’t remember/recall,” “he/she was in charge of that,” and when all else fails “I invoke the 5th.”
Durham is quite a bulldog, eh?
didn't 5 of Hillary's minions just do that?
So, according to them Sussman was not their attorney but they should get attorney/client privilege?
In camera review.
How can lawyer / client privilege apply when the lawyer is clearly complicit in and involved with carrying out a crime of espionage and treason against a sitting POTUS? IMHO: it is more than likely that Bruno from the Chicago mob will be sent to convince this judge to grant the Hag’s criminal underling’s lawyer’s request to block exculpatory evidence.
Can’t we just arrest them all and go from there?
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