U.S. Special Counsel John Durham has released an indictment [pdf here] of Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann for lying to federal investigators in 2016 about the people and motives behind his FBI contact. He failed to tell them his intent was to spread a false Alfa Bank conspiracy theory on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
Working for the Perkins Coie law firm, while under contract with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, partner Michael Sussmann contacted FBI Legal Counsel James Baker to pitch evidence that a Russian bank was in digital communications with servers in Trump Tower. The Alfa Bank allegation was one of the key components for the ridiculous Trump-Russia narrative put together by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Sussmann wanted the FBI to investigate Donald Trump, so that Hillary Clinton could push a political fabrication about Donald Trump working with Russians to steal the presidential election.
According to the indictment, Sussmann failed to tell the FBI that he was giving them this information on behalf of the Clinton campaign. The FBI investigated the claims and found nothing; however, it was the appearance of the investigation that Clinton needed in order to leak/push the Trump-Russia story to the media and stir up the controversy. There had to be something to the “Trump-Russia” story, because the FBI was investigating it. That fabricated smear served its intended purpose, and the media ran with it.
With the indictment now public, The New York Times also now admits Michael Sussmann was their source for stories they wrote about Alfa bank:
New York Times – […] In early September, the indictment said, Mr. Sussmann met with a New York Times reporter who would later draft a story about Alfa Bank, and also began work on a so-called white paper that would summarize and explain the researchers’ data and analysis, billing the time to the Clinton campaign.
On Sept. 12, the indictment said, Mr. Sussmann called Mr. Elias, the Clinton campaign lawyer, and spoke about his “efforts to communicate” with the Times reporter about the Alfa Bank allegations. Both billed the call to the campaign. And three days later, Mr. Elias exchanged emails with top campaign officials about the matter. (read more)
[…] Mr. Sussmann also continued to push the Alfa Bank story to reporters. A month before the election, as Times editors were weighing whether to publish an article the reporter had drafted, Mr. Sussmann told him he should show the editors an opinion essay saying the paper’s investigative reporters had not published as many stories regarding Mr. Trump as other media outlets, the indictment said. (read more)
Perkins Coie is “law firm-1”. Mark Elias is “campaign lawyer 1”. The “US Investigative Firm” is Fusion GPS. “Tech Executive-1” is likely Shawn Henry of Crowdstrike, although there are other possibilities.
In March 2016, Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie to discuss potential engagement in the development of opposition research on Donald Trump, fully aware that Perkins Coie represented both the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
In April 2016, Perkins Coie retained Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Towards the end of the month, on April 29, Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann contacted Shawn Henry of CrowdStrike Services to hire the organization for the Democratic National Committee after a series of phishing e-mails started to affect their employees.
Before June 14, 2016, Sussmann, CrowdStrike Services and the Democratic National Committee carefully crafted a damage control story with regards to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, which Dmitri Alperovitch and Shawn Henry released to Ellen Nakashima at The Washington Post.
On June 14, 2016, Nakashima, with contributions from Tom Hamburger, published the article “Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump” in The Washington Post.
After the article’s publishing, a number of bipartisan computer scientists — which included “John McCain Republicans” — started to search for Russian infiltrators. The members of the group were scattered across America and were numerous (there were at least nine members). To search for the infiltrators, they used the Domain Name System (DNS).
In late July 2016, a member of the bipartisan computer scientist organisation, known by the alias “Tea Leaves”, discovered potential malware moving from the Alfa Bank server to the Trump Organization server. The information “Tea Leaves” discovered was then circulated among his colleagues.
“Tea Leaves himself told The Intercept that he had to keep his identity and methods a secret because, ‘I run a cybersecurity company and I do not want DDOS and never have we been DDOS, nor do I want other attention.’” — The Intercept
“I also spoke with academics who vouched for Tea Leaves’ integrity and his unusual access to information. ‘This is someone I know well and is very well-known in the networking community,’ said Camp. ‘When they say something about DNS, you believe them. This person has technical authority and access to data.’” — Franklin Foer, Slate
October 31, 2016, Franklin Foer published the article, “Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?”, in Slate. This article was then retweeted by Hillary Clinton in a tweet which read: “It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia.”
It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia. https://t.co/D8oSmyVAR4 pic.twitter.com/07dRyEmPjX
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 31, 2016
This was soon followed by a statement from Jake Sullivan, tweeted through Hillary Clinton’s account: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”
At the same time, days before Election Day 2016, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee ceased funding Fusion GPS’s research. Fusion GPS then passed Steele’s reports to Marc Elias at Perkins Coie.
The rest, as they say, is history….
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
Durham’s indictment of Sussmann lays out the foundation of a conspiracy. We will see.
12:04 AM · Sep 17, 2021
So it seems the official narrative will be that no one in the DOJ ever had reason to believe any of the false information it received had political origins. The DOJ believed all sources were just concerned citizens. That’s convenient. The lesson is that democrats need to do a better job laundering their information before the DOJ can launch an official investigation.
Bellwether: will Trump issue a statement dancing on Sussman’s grave? Or will he keep quiet so as not to bring any undue attention, knowing that this was an unfortunate leak that they had to sacrifice due to the statute-of-limitations timing?
Throw the book at him, don’t be soft for others to do the same, treat him like they treated others with out cause[Flynn].
he’ll get 2 hours of suspended community service
It’s true that the dems are doing what they accuse others of. Hillary, secret server…..
This is huge, watch the canary sing. President Trump is the only person who can turn this mess around. Thanks for posting. Jim Campbell
Who cares. Nothing ever happens to anyone of these pieces of garbage.
Don’t believe the hype!
“take attention away from the audit results”
What attention?
Gateway Pundit has a hopeful analysis of the Sussman indictment, examining the allegations involving Tech Executive #1, Law Firm #1, the Clinton Campaign, TE#1’s role in multiple “Internet Companies 1, 2 & 3,” and various agents and representatives of the Clinton Campaign, and concluding that Durham’s investigation is not a one and done effort. This indictment’s allegations reveal likely crimes by TE-1, including using access to “non-public data” obtained in connection with a federal contract to gather data on a list of Trump people, which TGP speculates reverberates from the “four contractors” given illegal access to run queries in the NSA database from the FIDA Court’s opinion calling a halt to that practice. More promised tomorrow: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/indictment-shows-john-durham-going-people-michael-sussmann/
The premise is that these other crimes alleged among these many people would not be detailed so thoroughly, unless they are part and parcel of, and need to be consistent with, other contemplated indictments. Further that, to make such allegations strongly suggests that all those people were at least questioned as part of this investigation.
So it is a hopeful analysis for those who crave justice. Hope springs eternal, cynicism usually displaces it eventually.
Stepping back, I believe the biggest Deep State crime of all pivots on Peter Strzok’s dual role as head of Counter-Terrorism at both the FBI and the CIA. How having a CIA agent run both HRC’s MYE and DJT’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation can possibly square with the prohibition on the CIA running domestic operations, especially presidential campaign protection (HRC) and disruption (DJT) operations, is beyond comprehension. It is NOT square. It is CROOKED.
Barr once again was brought in to clean up and sweep under the rug evidence of Deep State crimes. But as Sundance has so well educated us, the Deep State has its own divisions, and one of them falls between DOJ and CIA. “Lying to the FBI” shows the FBI/DOJ seeking to cleanse ITS record, but these allegations highlighted by TGP implicate the multi-faceted role of TE-1, likely a top executive at Crowdstrike, likely one of the four contractors given illegal access at NSA, the announced independent contractor for the DNC whose report blaming Russia for the DNC hack was accepted by the FBI (and 16 other intelligence agencies) as where the buck stopped in terms of that infamous “hacking” that was really a download by a murdered techie Bernie Sanders supporter.
Years ago Sy Hersh blurted out in a phone rant that he had a high level source within the FBI who said the whole thing was a Brennan operation, a disinformation campaign. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/veteran-reporter-sy-hersch-and-ed-butowsky/
So Strzok built his house on the San Andreas fault line of the division between the CIA and DOJ/FBI branches of the Deep State swamp. The FBI removed him from the Mueller investigation. Then Brennan gave him a CIA medal.
May this indictment be the first tremor in an earthquake of CYA blame casting among leading swamp critters.
May former DOJ lawyer Sussman be squeezed like a garlic clove in a hot box interrogation room to save himself some years.
May these Deep State agencies become like a battleship with all guns blazing, all pointing at each other.
Will be interesting to see if Shawn Henry is Tech Executive-1. Not the only Crowdstrike insider to sell a lot of stock in 2021 but: “During the last ninety days, Shawn Henry has sold $14,534,109.00 in CrowdStrike stock. Most recently, Shawn Henry sold 4,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $257.10, for a transaction totalling $1,156,950.00.” Source: https://www.insidertrades.com/crowdstrike-holdings-inc-stock/shawn-henry/. No sales listed for Henry from Quarter 3 2018 through Quarter 4 2020. Needed legal fees in 2021 or just Door Dash money due to COVID?
Anyone who thinks that this carpet of corruption can be resolved by a Court Case when we all know The Judiciary is infiltrated, subverted and conniving with the Cabal is just taking another shot of “hopium” and kicking the can down the never-ending road.
The only way this general evil Worldview will be extirpated is via a Military Takeover and a good military cholorox of the said carpet with all the traitors subjected to Military Justice.
When fat ass Milley is removed perhaps finally we will see some ACTION!
Tech executive was named in another article as Rodney Joffe. I worked for Rodney in the 90s and while I was surprised to see his name I was not shocked at his involvement.
The Clinton’s are liars, everyone connected to the Clinton’s are liars.
“TGP hopeful analysis” reference in another comment in this thread. Margo Cleveland @TheFederalist also supports Adam Housely’s assertion re foundation of a conspiracy. Based on Cleveland’s take, appears this indictment is a foundation for the rest. I’m skeptical DOJ will do anything meaningful.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/17/democrat-lawyer-michael-sussmann-indicted-for-lying-to-fbi-about-his-role-in-russian-collusion-hoax/
Obvious tech person is crowdstrike.
Hillary Clinton Campaign Lawyer Pleads Not Guilty After Lying to Feds – Faces up to Five Years in Prison
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/hillary-clinton-campaign-lawyer-pleads-not-guilty-lying-feds-faces-five-years-prison/?ff_source=Gab&ff_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
Durham has a flair for staging this. The “lying to the FBI” charge was at the heart of the George Pappa D and General Flynn charges, with the added fact set here, against Sussman, of absolutely intentional and purposeful deceit as opposed to the barely false and at best accidental misstatement allegations against Pappa D and Flynn. Plus we get a healthy serving of very obvious pointers to others involved in a conspiracy. Long popcorn and go go go Mr. Durham.
It cannot stop here. There has to be exposure or we are through. A grease stain in history!
The 27 pages are very specific and detailed. Reads like an indictment of much more than Sussmann. At minimum, a pathway for Trump to sue the sh** out of them for everything they’ve got. All of them. Sussmann’s behavior is no misunderstanding of his billing practices. He knew exactly what he was doing and precisely who he was working for. Durham may be looking at the entire law firm of Perkins Coie as a criminal enterprise – and that sounds about right. No country needs lawyers like these, or their clients. They’re all crooks. Hillary said during the campaign, “If that son of a bitch wins we’ll all hang by nooses.” Hope so.
So will there be any FBI pre dawn guns drawn raids/arrests with CNN cameras rolling???? Guess not….