No way Durham can get a convection with a DC jury and I think he didn’t expect it to go to trial assuming a plea deal instead
This is rather a minor case in the bigger picture and is a narrow charge of lying to the FBI rather then a conspiracy
The judge allowing Hillary donors on the jury, The judge offering to step down over conflicts of interest, and Durham being ok with all that, should be warning signs this is going nowhere
The Just Us system will operate as one would expect.
DC juries don’t convict DemonRat operatives.
What’s the point? The jury is filled with low-IQ D.C. Democrat slaves, and TWO of them have already been confirmed by Posobeic as known Trump-haters the judge allowed to remain. This is going nowhere.
Is this charge a joke? Like stealing from a thief.
Kabuki. All for show and all to remind we serfs our masters are above the law.
Sarah N. Lynch
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An exhibit shows James Baker, GC for FBI at the time, took initial custody of the evidence turned over by Sussmann, and then it went next to
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One of the cybersecurity researchers who developed the Alfa Bank data and analysis and had been on the prosecutors witness list, Manos Antonakakis, has invoked Fifth Amendment so won’t testify, DeFilippis said
Questioning again for him is starting out technical. He talks about DNS data and what kinds of services his employer provides and what it does with DNS data etc
Steve De Jong says Rodney Joffe, who was Neustar's chief tech officer, in Aug/Sept 2016 asked him to run a query over DNS data to look for names related to political campaigns and political organizations
He said he "didn't think anything of it" at the time. Research is requested all the time, he said.
De Jong says he ran a script to conduct the searches requested by Joffe and sent it off
De Jong said he never got any insight into why Joffe wanted it. "It's not my business," he said.
De Jong said he never heard whether Joffe shared this project with the government or anyone else. "No," he said.
Wonder if Steve Dejong is any relation to state trooper Nathan Dejong?
do you have the day 3 thread?