Judge orders Steele dossier firm Fusion GPS to turn over 22 emails to John Durham

nypost ^ | 5/12/2022 | Ben Feuerherd and Bruce Golding

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Special counsel John Durham scored a victory Thursday when a federal judge ordered the research firm behind the infamous “Steele dossier” to turn over nearly two dozen emails tied to its work with Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.

Fusion GPS improperly withheld the 22 emails from Durham by claiming they were protected by attorney-client privilege and “work-product” privilege, Washington, DC, federal Judge Christopher Cooper ruled.

The move came at the request of Clinton’s 2016 campaign, according to the 11-page decision.

But the emails, which largely consist of internal communications between Fusion employees, aren’t protected from disclosure because they “appear not to have been written in anticipation of litigation but rather as part of ordinary media-relations work,” Cooper said.

“It is clear that Fusion employees also interacted with the press as part of an affirmative media relations effort by the Clinton Campaign,” he wrote.

“That effort included pitching certain stories, providing information on background, and answering reporters’ questions.”

Cooper ordered Fusion GPS — which hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele to compile reports that purportedly tied Trump to Russia, most of which have been discredited — to turn over the emails to Durham’s team on Monday, when jury selection for Sussmann’s trial is set to start.

Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI on Sept. 19, 2016, when he claimed to not be “acting on behalf of any client” while turning over reports and data he said showed a secret back channel between a Trump Organization server and Russia’s Alfa Bank.

The information was later debunked by the FBI, which found “that the email server at issue…had been administered by a mass marketing email company that sent advertisements for Trump hotels and hundreds of other clients,” according to Sussmann’s indictment.

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[Zathras]

Anyone want to bet the answer will be: “We had a server crash and all those records are gone”

[datura]

“ Cooper ordered Fusion GPS — which hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele to compile reports that purportedly tied Trump to Russia, most of which have been discredited — to turn over the emails to Durham’s team on Monday, when jury selection for Sussmann’s trial is set to start.

ALL has been discredited - it was ALL made up from whole cloth.

[AnthonySoprano]

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Note Mueller, Weismann and the Prosecutors pursuing Trump did not ask Judges to have the defendants turn over Documents, they executed Raids and seized Documents. They raided Trump’s lawyer’s offices and told a Judge they could not wait 24 hours to possess the Documents.

Durham, from the same DoJ, years later files motions for Documents.

[AnthonySoprano]

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Old Durham put a Never Trumper in charge, and has executed Zero raids.

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[R_Kangel]

"Judge orders Steele dossier firm Fusion GPS to turn over 22 emails to John Durham"

....... So ...... After all of these years .... These incriminating emails actually still exist??? Heck ... If I was trying to hide something .... i would make them go away ....

[TBP]

They’ll slow walk it.

[magua]

Let the slow walk keep walking. As long as we come up with a conviction in 2025 when Trump is president. And they can’t get a pardon.

[rodguy911]

Drip,drip,drip, we will soon reach a point where the evidence of just how crimial the dems are is overwhelming. At that point I question how much more we will need. Time to just make sure all our candidates will win.

We are already near a point where the brainwashed dirty dems have settled in and will ignore all the damning evdience we come up with. But,the undecided will get an earful and we will win big with them so it all counts. I'm still amazed at how stupid democrats are and how easily brainwashed they have become.

[ridesthemiles]

DRIP DRIP DRIP