Posted on 06/04/2022 8:07:53 AM PDT by bitt
Michael Sussmann’s cozy relationship with the FBI was revealed during his two-week trial and in a new letter by congressional Republicans, shedding new light on the Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer’s close ties to the bureau as he pushed since-debunked Trump-Russia claims.
Sussmann, a former Perkins Coie lawyer who represented the Democratic National Committee when it was hacked in 2016, was acquitted by a jury this week after being charged with lying to the FBI about whom he was representing when, in September 2016, he pushed false allegations of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa-Bank.
Reps. Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray this week with details they had learned about the relationship between Perkins, Sussmann, and the bureau.
“We have learned that since March 2012, the FBI approved and facilitated a Secure Work Environment at Perkins Coie’s Washington, D.C., office, which continues to be operational. In a letter dated May 25, 2022, the law firm confirmed and acknowledged the arrangement,” Jordan and Gaetz told Wray.
“We have been informed that former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann had access to this Secure Work Environment, and during the course of his recent trial, it was disclosed he had special badge access to FBI headquarters.”
Sussmann had worked at the Justice Department for more than a decade, including at the DOJ’s criminal division (where he specialized in computer crimes), and testimony from FBI General Counsel James Baker indicated that Sussmann had a badge that allowed him access to the FBI.
Sussmann said he resigned from Perkins last September after the indictment. Elias also left Perkins and created the Elias Law Group last year.
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This has not been our government for a long time.
Yeah, pretty much, these greasy dotgov no-loads are subverting the country and screwing US on our dime...
A lot has been said about Trump’s bad picks. I think the worst has to be that rat mole Wray. A wasted opportunity that had a lot to do with his losing the Presidency and inflicting misery on the entire country. Had he put in a real American it is possible the massive cheating machine would have been exposed and shut down. He could have gotten around that prick Mitch with a series of interim appointments.
He’s got Clintoon, the Feral “judges” and the FIB covering his ass. Now that’s what I call being above the law. Sussmann should be in prison right now. And his dumbass juror friend that got him off should be tossed in with him. IMHO.
Of course…the fbi, doj, and all the 3 letter agencies are operational arms of the rats…
Why is that NOT definitive evidence that Sussmann lied?
Yup.
Trump’s a good guy - he went along with the Establishment recommendations. Just trying to be the good leader of the gang. So what did they do? Stuck him behind Barr and Wray.
A tag team sent there to put him in a box.
Wray’s reward should be the wholesale gutting of his agency.
Barr should be indicted for negligence and malfeasance.
“In today’s America, a network of executive, judicial, bureaucratic, and social kinship channels bypasses the sovereignty of citizens. Our imperial regime, already in force, works on a simple principle: the president and the cronies who populate these channels may do whatever they like so long as the bureaucracy obeys and one third plus one of the Senate protects him from impeachment.”
If you are on the right side of that network, you can make up the rules as you go along, ignore or violate any number of laws, obfuscate or commit perjury about what you are doing (in the unlikely case they put you under oath), and be certain of your peer support.
These cronies shared social and intellectual identity stems from the uniform education they have received in the universities. Because disdain for ordinary Americans is this ruling class’s chief feature, its members can be equally certain that all will join in celebrating each, and in demonizing their respective opponents.”
— Angelo M. Codevilla
The media memory hole seems to forget that it was the law firm Perkins Coe who was involved in sealing Obama’s past and ‘dealings’
With the alleged birth certificate.
When did they get free access to FBI personal files, and how long have they been suing it as a political weapon?
The jury person told you...
I recall reading that Sussmann actually billed the Hillary Campaign for the time he spent talking with the FBI lawyer about Trump and the Alpha Bank.
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AND he billed the HRC campaign for the cheap flash drives that he used to give the FBI the information.
!!!
All of them should be defunded, but even if republicans take the house this year, they don’t have the stones to do it. The whole DOJ should be defunded.
Re: Flash drives
Incredible.
I was reluctant to write my comment about billing the HRC Campaign because I only read that once, and I never saw it again, and I thought I might have misunderstood.
Wrey will jump right on it...
No 6am SWAT raids, no leg irons, no CNN trucks to film it, etc. etc. for Sussman?
His indictment probably came with two dozen roses.
Thank you for saying in a calm way, the way you feel about that corrupt, devious rat, Chris Wray.
I’ve been thinking that for years and it’s nice to learn someone else feels the same way. HE is responsible for so very much of all this chaos in the last six years.
I hope and pray that HE above all others, gets what’s coming to him.
Regards
Same with Sessions and Barr, how could we have been worse off with a temp?
They are just getting even with the South. {:~)
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