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Why The Special Counsel Needs To Fight For More Spygate Documents, Stat
The Federalist ^ | June 03, 2022 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 06/05/2022 11:22:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Special Counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source, will soon heat up—maybe as early as next week, if prosecutors are wise and return to the grand jury to obtain the documents the Hillary Clinton campaign wrongfully withheld based on attorney-client privilege. Those documents will likely reveal Fusion GPS peddled Danchenko’s lies directly to reporters.

The jury’s acquittal of former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann after less than a day of deliberations represented a setback to Durham’s three-year investigation of the Russia collusion hoax. Americans nonetheless learned much from the prosecution, including that Hillary Clinton held personal responsibility for the peddling of the Alfa Bank conspiracy theory and that, post-Donald Trump, the FBI and legacy media remain corrupt.

The special counsel team also learned a valuable lesson from the court’s rulings on the admissibility of documents withheld from the grand jury based on the Clinton campaign’s assertion of attorney-client privilege: Don’t wait until trial to challenge the improperly withheld documents.

Given the breakneck speed of the Sussmann prosecution, it is to be expected that, following Tuesday’s acquittal, the special counsel team regroups for a few days. But by Monday, their focus should turn to their prosecution of Danchenko.

Background on the Danchenko Case

In November 2021, the special counsel indicted Danchenko on five counts, charging him “with lying to the FBI during the agents’ questioning of him related to his role as Christopher Steele’s ‘Primary Sub-Source’ for the notorious dossier that enabled Obama administration surveillance of the Trump campaign.”

Over 39 pages, the speaking indictment revealed how Danchenko first met Steele in 2010. He was introduced to the former MI6 spy by Steele’s longtime friend, Fiona Hill, who knew Danchenko from their work at the Brookings Institute. Since then, Steele’s London-based...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 202111; alfabank; bloggers; brookings; brookingsinstitute; christophersteele; danchenko; durham; fionahill; igordanchenko; russia; russianbank; spygate; steele; steeledossier

1 posted on 06/05/2022 11:22:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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Months ago. Get ready to wait another 1,200 days.


Isn’t Joe on video admitting to Felonies with the Ukraine Prosecutor investigating his son?


2 posted on 06/05/2022 11:39:05 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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Hillary will be convicted when she dies of old age


3 posted on 06/05/2022 12:45:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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