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Sussmann’s cozy relationship with the FBI revealed
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 6/3/2022 | jerry dunleavy

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: fbi; michaelsussmann; sussmann

1 posted on 06/04/2022 8:07:53 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/04/2022 8:08:06 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

This has not been our government for a long time.


3 posted on 06/04/2022 8:09:08 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: bitt

Yeah, pretty much, these greasy dotgov no-loads are subverting the country and screwing US on our dime...


4 posted on 06/04/2022 8:13:03 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: HighSierra5

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.


5 posted on 06/04/2022 8:25:41 AM PDT by es345st
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To: bitt

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.


6 posted on 06/04/2022 8:30:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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Of course…the fbi, doj, and all the 3 letter agencies are operational arms of the rats…


7 posted on 06/04/2022 8:35:43 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: bitt
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.

Why is that NOT definitive evidence that Sussmann lied?

8 posted on 06/04/2022 8:41:49 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: es345st

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.


9 posted on 06/04/2022 9:06:50 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: bitt

“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


10 posted on 06/04/2022 9:21:30 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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To: bitt

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?


11 posted on 06/04/2022 9:29:24 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: zeestephen
Why is that NOT definitive evidence that Sussmann lied?

The jury person told you...

Jury forewoman in Michael Sussmann trial raises eyebrows with revealing comments: 'I don’t think it should have been prosecuted'

"I don’t think it should have been prosecuted," she said, the Washington Times reported. "There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI." Not "we" didn't think...it's "I" don’t think.
12 posted on 06/04/2022 9:36:17 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: zeestephen

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.

!!!


13 posted on 06/04/2022 10:15:34 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: TnTnTn

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.


14 posted on 06/04/2022 10:38:24 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: bitt

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.


15 posted on 06/04/2022 10:52:32 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: bitt

Wrey will jump right on it...


16 posted on 06/04/2022 3:53:13 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: bitt

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.


17 posted on 06/04/2022 4:08:00 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: es345st

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


18 posted on 06/04/2022 4:30:25 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: es345st
He could have gotten around that prick Mitch with a series of interim appointments.

Same with Sessions and Barr, how could we have been worse off with a temp?

19 posted on 06/07/2022 1:56:20 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
And his dumbass juror friend that got him off should be tossed in with him. IMHO.

They are just getting even with the South. {:~)

20 posted on 06/07/2022 1:57:38 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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