Posted on 04/18/2022 8:04:34 AM PDT by blam
Five associates of Hillary Clinton and her campaign are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate with Special Counsel John H. Durham, according a filing in federal court revealed later Friday in Washington, DC.
The revelation emerged in a motion filed by Durham to oppose the efforts of defendant Michael Sussmann and the Clinton campaign to withhold some documents from evidence by asserting attorney-client privilege.
Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI in 2016 when he informed the FBI about a fraudulent link between then-candidate Donald Trump and the Russian government via Alfa Bank. Sussmann allegedly presented himself as a concerned citizen, and hid the fact that he was working for the Clinton campaign.
In the filing, Durham noted that while one witness, identified as “Researcher-2,” was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony, “at least five other witnesses who conducted work relating to the Russian Bank-1 allegations invoked (or indicated their intent to invoke) their right against self-incrimination.”
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley noted in a commentary on the filing:
[Durham] is now moving to give immunity to a key witness while revealing that the claims made by the Clinton campaign were viewed by the CIA as “not technically plausible” and “user created.” He also revealed that at least five of the former Clinton campaign contractors/researchers have invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to cooperate in fear that they might incriminate themselves in criminal conduct.
Turley also noted that Durham’s filing “also detailed how the false Russian collusion claims related to Alfa Bank involved Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias and Christopher Steele.”
Steele is the former British spy who worked for opposition research firm Fusion GPS to produce the fraudulent Russia “dossier” that triggered government surveillance of the Trump campaign and the broader “Russia collusion”
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Grant them immunity and fry the big fish.
If nothing else, Bill and Hillary are smart scumbag lawyers.
It is my understanding that granting broad immunity to a lower level target claiming the Fifth can be used to make them testify anyway. If such could be used to get Elias, we really need to see that done. He is the Prince of Darkness on legal abuse of elections for the Leftists.
Mass Arkancide in 3...2...1...
The truth is often simple. We KNOW that the Clinton machine wanted to fabricate a story about Trump to take the heat off of her for the criminal use of a private email server and use their media minions to harm his candidacy.
However, I doubt any of them could have imagined what this metastasized into and at some point they transitioned to efforts to hide their own involvement. Let’s face it, the Mueller gang had to learn all of this pretty quickly yet they chose to drag out their investigation to protect the conspirators AND harm Trump and the GOP.
The Clinton’s (especially HRC) are poison.
It's done all the time in serious cases.
I'm just afraid that the statute of limitations will win the race in this one.
Seasoned prosecutors simply go around accused persons who clam up. It’s their job.
“also detailed how the false Russian collusion claims related to Alfa Bank involved Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias and Christopher Steele.”
Elias, how that SOB is still out roaming about is a blot on the entire legal system. That POS should have been jailed pending a firing squad for sometime. The Hitlery Clinton version of Avenotti.
Do those who take the 5th usually/always walk away...free?
They want to live.
Yep, kickin’ the can down the road
Researcher 2 is probably somebody inside the CIA who told Durham about the existence of the evidence.
[Durham] is now moving to give immunity to a key witness while revealing that the claims made by the Clinton campaign were viewed by the CIA as “not technically plausible” and “user created.” ...
I'm sure they wouldn't pull that on us again.
They should never have been put in a position where they can evade with the 5th, before first offering each one a deal, in which if they offer evidence against the others, they would get the minimum, but if they held out, maximum.
The most important part of this deal is to have bullet proof evidence against at least some of them.
...efforts of defendant Michael Sussmann and the Clinton campaign to withhold some documents from evidence by asserting attorney-client privilege.
How'd that work for Republicans and their lawyers?
or Weissman
Guilty
“…we should be careful not to impute guilt from someone invoking the 5th.”
I disagree. There is no doubt as to their guilt, regardless of how they plead.
There were a couple hundred million eye witnesses to these crimes - just like with the stolen 2020 election. We all saw it.
All gaslighting aside, we all saw these things happen right in front of our eyes - it was obvious to anyone but morons and fools.
Any honest person paying attention over the last five years knows full well that the Russia Collusion allegations against President Trump were deliberately falsified - which is treason - and we know full well who the perpetrators were.
We already know the truth about what crimes were committed and who the criminals are - regardless of what lies they tell under oath, or how they plead.
This is not a matter of finding the truth - we have known the truth all along - it is just a matter of whether our justice system is too corrupt to allow the truth to win out.
I skimmed the link to Durham’s motion. This is technical legal war. It gets really good about page 19. Reading this and seeing how this is playing out explains a lot about how long this is dragging out.
Give it a gander:
https://jonathanturley.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/US-v-Sussmann-04162022-US-Filing.pdf
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