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Michael Sussmann has been acquitted.
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| 5/31/22
| Techno Fog
Posted on 05/31/2022 9:44:30 AM PDT by JonPreston
Michael Sussmann has been acquitted.
The acquittal is no surprise. This is a DC jury, after all. In the Roger Stone case, for example, we documented how a juror lied to get on the panel. (That judge didn’t care.) Making matters worse, the Sussmann judge wrongly allowed for a woman to remain on the jury, despite the fact that her daughter and Sussmann’s are on the same high school crew team. One can’t help but think that juror had her own daughter’s interests in mind – the cohesion of the crew team – when she reached a decision.
On the facts, there was more than sufficient evidence to prove Sussmann’s guilt. Sussmann lied to then-FBI general counsel James Baker in order to get a meeting to pass the Alfa Bank hoax materials to the FBI. Sussmann lied again during the meeting – stating he was not there on behalf of a client – in order to get the FBI to open an investigation into the Trump Organization’s purported ties with Alfa Bank. Later, during testimony to Congress, Sussmann admitted he met with Baker on behalf of a client. Billing records proved he had been working on the Alfa Bank project on behalf of the Clinton Campaign.
I won’t say the verdict doesn’t matter. Of course it matters. It would have proven that a DC jury can convict one of their own. It would have resulted in accountability for lying to the FBI. Not the gravest of crimes, but it is still a crime.
In large part, the prosecution of Sussmann was hamstrung by the FBI’s investigation into the Alfa Bank allegations. That goes to materiality. How can the lies be material if the FBI’s investigation was so sloppy? (Answer: they were material because the lies helped open the investigation in the first place.)
On the issue of materiality, look to the testimony of FBI Special Agent Curtis Heide, whose repeated requests to interview the source of the Alfa Bank information were denied by headquarters. FBI Headquarters didn’t want this thing thoroughly vetted - even though they demanded the investigation be opened. As we stated during the trial:
Relatively early on in the investigation - on September 26, 2016 - Agent Heide sent a message to Pientka, requesting an interview of the source of the Alfa Bank white papers. By that time, Heide knew the white paper was bunk. He received no response from Pientka. He repeated this request on October 3, 2016. Agent Heide’s requests were rebuffed by his liaison at FBI headquarters:
That’s not the say the public hasn’t benefited from the trial. The information disclosed during the trial was important to understand the broader Clinton/Fusion GPS/Perkins Coie effort to poison the public, the press, and the FBI with their Trump/Russia lies. This included:
Data from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, including data from the Trumansition period, was exploited by Sussmann and Rodney Joffe and then passed to the CIA.
Rodney Joffe was a longtime Confidential Human Source (CHS) – and generally a resource – for the FBI. Joffe worked with the FBI on cyber threats from countries like Russia. From former FBI Agent Grasso: “I’m sure the work that [Joffe] did touched on matters having to do with Russia.”
Joffe went to great lengths to make sure the Alfa Bank information he provided to the FBI did not go through his official FBI handler.
The decision to open the investigation came from FBI Leadership. According to one FBI Agent, “People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server.”
Perkins Coie partner Marc Elias provided updates on the Fusion GPS “research” to the Clinton Campaign.
And - Hillary Clinton herself approved of the strategy to disseminate the Alfa Bank allegations to the media. Per Robby Mook:
Q: Mr. Mook, before the break you had testified that there was a conversation in which you told Ms. Clinton about the proposed plan to provide the Alfa-Bank allegations to the media; is that correct?
A: Correct.
Q: And what was her response?
A: All I remember is that she agreed with the decision.
Where does Durham go from here? That’s the real question. We already know that the investigation into Rodney Joffe remains open and that Igor Danchenko faces trial this year. Whether there is more remains to be seen.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1trustheplan; 3; aquitted; corrupticrats; demagogicparty; hitlery; humbletardlovesbiden; michaelsussmann; q; qhaterslovebiden; qtardswrongagain; sussman
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To: roving
‘trust the plan’ — LOL. I never trusted the plan after it was clearly hijacked.
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posted on
05/31/2022 9:58:31 AM PDT
by
boycott
To: JonPreston
Picking a jury out of a city that only votes 5% republican, means that the outcome of the trial was predetermined.
Not guilty, for the simple reason that, he’s one of us, a democrat who was only trying to help our candidate, Hillary in 2016.
That jury probably still believes that Trump is guilty of what Hillary and democrats accused him of with the Russian puppet allegations.
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posted on
05/31/2022 9:58:33 AM PDT
by
adorno
To: JonPreston
I said it before: DC jury = not guilty.
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posted on
05/31/2022 9:58:39 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
To: JonPreston
Meanwhile the J6 partiers are rotting in jail.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:00:15 AM PDT
by
Fido969
(45 is Superman! )
To: JonPreston
Jury nullification, lying is okay if it is for Hillary and the Democrats and especially if it is against Evil Trump.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:01:58 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
To: JonPreston
I’m sure big media is rushing to Hillary to get a quote from her about being “exonerated.”
Actually I fully expect the only thing the corrupt media is going to say is THIS IS PROOF TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN ASSET!
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:02:36 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(I'm a pure-blood!)
To: JonPreston
WOW here is my shocked face..NOT..a jury comprise of AOC and Clinton supporters..and the judge was Obama appointed..gee I can only imagine what the conclusion of the trial would be LOL
To: Harpotoo
(LOL did anyone expect anything different.)
Unfortunately no.
Because all roads ultimately lead to Hillary and Hillary is obviously a protected asset Her emails were no doubt on the NSA archive servers.
Did they ever appear? Of course not.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:04:15 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: JonPreston
Three jurors made campaign contributions to the Clinton campaign and the judge declined to strike them for that bias. He was guaranteed a not guilty verdict or at least a hung jury
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:04:58 AM PDT
by
STJPII
( )
To: AnthonySoprano
All media reporting of this case will be done through the prism of their own cooperation in the perpetration of the fraud. The MSM knew along with everyone else inside and outside of government, that their efforts to create the Trump-Russia conspiracy and collusion narrative were based on fraudulent pretext manufactured by the Clinton campaign. They all knew it. They all acted collaboratively, and they all engaged purposefully.
Michael Sussmann was accused of lying to the FBI about working for Hillary Clinton at the time he took fraudulent information to the FBI about Donald Trump. A Washington DC jury has found Sussmann NOT GUILTY.
While Sussmann was pushing fraudulent information into the open hands of FBI Legal Counsel James Baker, another Clinton campaign contractor, Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS, was pushing similarly constructed fraudulent information -including the Christopher Steele dossier- into the media and DOJ via Bruce Ohr.
The not guilty verdict simply means the FBI knew, or should have known, Michael Sussmann was delivering the fraudulent Trump-Russia collusion nonsense directly from the Hillary Clinton team. The FBI claims they didn’t know, the jury by finding Sussmann not guilty, says the FBI did know.
The BIGGER question is, what’s next?
Durham constructed this case around the premise the FBI and DOJ was duped or tricked by Hillary Clinton operatives, specifically including Michael Sussmann. It would be very weird if Durham now flipped the premise and began targeting DOJ or FBI officials around the premise they were “not duped.”
Therefore, I still think Durham stays exclusively focused on the outside actors and ignores all of the corrupt internal DOJ and FBI activity.
The prosecutorial approach by John Durham positioned all of the corruption outside the institutions of government, thereby protecting them.
The bad guys, the corrupt lawbreakers, are the people directly connected to the Clinton Campaign and all of the political and legal agents in/around the Clinton political machine.
As the Durham narrative unfolded, the brave and honorable institutions of government were victims to the horrible, terrible activity by the Clinton outsiders.
Pay no attention to the aligned politics and weaponization of the White House, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, FBI main, FBI-CoIntel, CIA, Senate Intelligence Committee, or memberships therein. The entire apparatus of the most robust, capable, excellent and diligent intelligence apparatus in the history of all mankind, along with all the oversight mechanisms that exist to support that apparatus, was duped by Hillary Clinton’s team.
Bill Barr was the bondo, John Durham is the spray paint.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:05:14 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: JonPreston
Wasn’t General Flynn initially convicted of lying to the FBI?
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:05:22 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care)
To: JonPreston
Wow, what a surprise.......NOT!!! Did Judge truly believe that jurors who donated to Hillary and one whose daughter went to school with Sussman dtr/relative would be unbiased?? Disgrace. Another example of integrity going down the drain in our Country.
To: JonPreston
Don’t worry, after 3 years, Durham is all over this.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:05:35 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: JonPreston
This is my shocked face. :-/
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:06:01 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Republicans are all honorable men.)
To: JonPreston
The fix was always in... It’s Hillary after all.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:08:06 AM PDT
by
Bullish
(CNN is what you get when gullible children run a 'news' channel.)
To: Hot Tabasco
“MRK”
Yes. On evidence 1/50th as good as was presented against Sussman.
To: Howie66
“How many Clintonistas were on the jury”
I think it was 4 Clinton donors and 1 juror’s daughter is on the same sports team at school as her daughter. So they know each other.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:09:46 AM PDT
by
stockpirate
(Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
Yawn…what a shocker I tell you…no laws for rats…c’mon man…
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:09:48 AM PDT
by
TnTnTn
To: Hot Tabasco
Please delete the “MRK” from my reply. Stock stuff.
To: JonPreston
A jury in D.C. wouldn’t convict Hitler.
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posted on
05/31/2022 10:10:01 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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