Judge is part of the case (his wife).
Posted on 05/17/2022 7:39:19 PM PDT by bitt
An FBI agent told jurors Tuesday that Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann‘s purported evidence tying former President Trump to Russia’s Alfa Bank strained credibility because there was no effort to hide what Mr. Sussmann claimed was secret back-channel communications.
Special Agent Scott Hellman was a prosecution witness in the case of Mr. Sussmann, who is on trial for lying to the FBI.
Prosecutors say he concealed his ties to the Clinton campaign when he presented an FBI lawyer with now-debunked evidence claiming covert internet communication between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank.
Mr. Hellman, who oversees a team of cyber investigators, looked into the allegations, which the FBI later concluded were meritless. Investigators determined that the so-called covert communications were merely marketing emails.
In his testimony, Mr. Hellman told the court that evidence compiled by Mr. Sussmann and tech executive Rodney Joffe, didn’t add up. He said the domain name used by the Trump Organization had Mr. Trump’s name on it, suggesting there was no effort to hide the communications.
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That statement by The FBI agent doesn’t make sense because the FBI kept spying and entrapping as if Trump were a foreign enemy.
(thanks, numberonepal)
• Sussmann’s lawyer is asking Martin if he knew Rodney Joffe, who oversaw the DNS data research on Trump/Alfabank, was an FBI informant. Martin says he only learned this after the fact
• Martin did acknowledge though that Joffe is well-known as a DNS expert in the cyber world
• Brittain Shaw now doing re-direct
• She wants to know if the FBI would want to know about the source of DNS data when applying for a search warrant. Martin agrees this is important to know.
• Shaw asks Martin if he was aware Rodney Joffe was “closed for cause” as an FBI source. Martin says no. He is now stepping down and is excused. His testimony is over
• The United States calls FBI special agent Scott Hellman
• He oversees a team of cyber crime investigators at the FBI.
• Hellman says he was aware of the allegations that there were online connections between the Trump Org & Alfabank.
• Hellman was responsible in part for determining/overseeing the “chain of custody” over the data Sussmann provided, which included thumb drives
• 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 @petestrzok before making its way into the custody of several other @FBI officials
• Hellman says he was upset that in his chain of custody review, he could not determine the source of the thumb drives and other materials. “I was frustrated I was not able to identity of who had provided these thumb drives… to Mr. Baker.”
• He says he was tasked with analyzing the data and its accompanying narratives to see how it compared with his own independent assessment
• Exhibits on the screen are showing snapshots of some of the allegations about purported Trump Org-Alfabank connections that were shared with the FBI by Sussmann. He provided technical data on thumb drives and accompanying narratives explaining the data
• Hellman says he concluded the allegations of a secret communication channel between the Trump Org & Alfabank did not hold water. “Whoever had written that paper had jumped to some conclusions that were not supported by the technical data,” he said.
• “There was not enough data there to make the conclusion there was a) any communication or b) secret communications between the Trump Organization and Russia,” Hellman said.
• Hellman says it would be “abnormal” that a presidential candidate would try to hide his communications with a Russian bank by labeling his domain with the name “Trump.” He also said if there were secret communications, Russia is a sophisticated player that could hide it
• Hellman said the information provided made broad and sweeping conclusions about whether any such communications existed between the Trump Org & Alfabank.
• “I did not feel that they were objective in the conclusions that they came to,” Hellman said, calling it “far-reaching” and saying it did not really make any sense.
• https://twitter.com/SarahNLynch/status/1526604204411854849?s=20&t=T0IVmP1X5dOyzjfvRnhqVw
by numberonepal
So call Baker in and put his ass under oath.
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By June of 2017 EVERYONE in DC knew it was all made up BS.
Nonetheless the GOP continued to assist the Democrats to keep it going.
Interesting comment at WT by “BoldTruthTell”:
“...The biggest bombshell the prosecution dropped today ... was that Joffe had been fired for cause as an FBI confidential source before Sussmann approached the FBI. If Sussmann had revealed he was there on behalf of Joffe, the FBI would not have opened the investigation because they already knew Joffe was a lying convicted felon.”
I hope the prosecution has an opportunity to question Sussman on when he learned that Joffe had been fired by the FBI. Did Sussman knowingly recruit a rogue to concoct the “evidence” he took to the FBI? Of course he did.
Or perhaps he was doing the "Protect And Serve" thingee - protecting his pension and serving himself...
Part of Hannity's 99.9% good guy but let a sitting president go through hell for 2-3 years over it by not going public??? All he would have had to do was go to Grassley, the whistleblower protection guy.
“Special Agent Scott Hellman was a prosecution witness in the case of Mr. Sussmann”
I could not be a juror in this trial since I would automatically discount any testimony from a Staci agent as lies.
“Hellman says he concluded the allegations of a secret communication channel between the Trump Org & Alfabank did not hold water.”
Here is actual court video of the above.
If they made no sense why did the FBI go to the FaiSA court so many times
If they made no sense why did the FBI go to the FaiSA court so many times
The FBI wanted a pretext to spy on Trump, to cover their @sses.
Even though the story was easily disproven, Sussmann was the patsy who gave them their pretext.
Day 1 of the Stool Pigeon Who Saved Hillary Clinton, James Comey, McCabe and Clapper.
Way to go! You throw the book at that one low level scapegoat. Justice has been served!
You said:
Interesting comment at WT by “BoldTruthTell”:
“...The biggest bombshell the prosecution dropped today ... was that Joffe had been fired for cause as an FBI confidential source before Sussmann approached the FBI. If Sussmann had revealed he was there on behalf of Joffe, the FBI would not have opened the investigation because they already knew Joffe was a lying convicted felon.”
I hope the prosecution has an opportunity to question Sussman on when he learned that Joffe had been fired by the FBI. Did Sussman knowingly recruit a rogue to concoct the “evidence” he took to the FBI? Of course he did.“
End quote
The Judge (with ties to the case) winked at Durham and told him to leave it alone.
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Yep. And some Clinton lawyer is all they are going after. The FBI and DOJ have violated the civil rights of so many Trump people.
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