Posted on 05/21/2022 8:27:53 PM PDT by bitt
Sussmann trial testimony confirms earlier CIA, FBI evidence that Hillary Clinton approved dirtying up Trump with unproven Russia allegations.
In an era where the hunt for disinformation has become a political obsession, Hillary Clinton has mostly escaped having to answer what role she played in spreading the false Russia collusion narrative that gripped America for nearly three years.
On Friday, that dodge ended with a most unlikely witness: her former campaign manager Robby Mook, who was supposed to be a witness helping the defense of her former campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann on a charge of lying to the FBI.
Instead, under cross-examination by Special Counsel John Durham's team, Mook was forced to concede two extraordinary facts.
First, the Clinton campaign wasn't "totally confident" about the accuracy of computer data suggesting Donald Trump had a secret communications channel to the Kremlin via Russia's Alfa Bank.
And second, Hillary Clinton herself personally approved spreading the story to the news media, despite the concerns about its accuracy.
"I discussed it with Hillary as well," Mook testified. "I don't remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter," Mook said.
Prosecutors asked Mook if Clinton approved leaking the story to the media.
"She agreed," Mook testified.
The testimony confirms what CIA Director John Brennan told President Barack Obama secretly in July 2016 and what the CIA later told the FBI two months later: There was intelligence that Clinton had approved a plan to dirty up Trump with Russia allegations to distract from her own email server scandal.
Kevin Brock, the FBI’s former assistant director for intelligence, called Mook’s revelation a “startling piece of testimony, particularly since he was a defense witness.”
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Waiting for consequences. Earthly ones would be just.
So tell me where the info on Russia collusion come from that they were discussing?
Didn’t John McCain send his aid to Europe to get a copy of the phony Dossier? You know the thing that had the prostitutes and all that,where did that come from?
From this latest testimony it makes it seem these clowns had just then heard about this scam,when they were the perpetrators of the entire scam
Hillary Clinton has caused this country so much grief and headaches and money that she needs to be held accountable. If I were to go to the media and tell lies about a neighbor or a local politician and the police spent days and money investigating the accusations, just to find out I was lying, I would be in jail. Hillary did worse and yet this woman is still free, still allowed to spread her poison and still run for President if she wants.
I’m betting Hillary was in on creating the “PizzaGate’ scam too...
I hear this trial is not being covered in the mainstream media. Half the country doesn’t even know about it. I’m trying to find an easy factual article to send to a democrat.
Hard to imagine our governing bodies spend more of their time investigating each other, and more tax dollars paying for it than they do on worthy projects which woud make a difference to the American people. These Investigations amount to nothing - no convictions and if so it’s hardly any time. You can bet Hillary CLinton will never do time.
Oh absolutely! Today knowledge of a crime is worth as much as a glass of water in a flood. 😠 We all knew about Joe and Hunter Biden and Ukraine - but they impeached Donald Trump for it anyway. Still no indication that all those crimes will be legally pursued.
But she had a lot of help from the media and security state. Biden too.
If Hunter never sees the inside of a prison do you think he will have a happy rewarding rest of his life?
I’d love to see ALL of them in jail, but for now I’ll just enjoy that the ominous POWER that they all had has been taken away. That’s what they crave and that’s what they do not have anymore.
A kind of justice to be living under a cloud.
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