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
The harshest penalty he might get is probation.
Probably tided to saving 4th branch.
Joe Biden has pardons already made, since they know who the players are.
Most are friends of Biden.
Doubtlessly true!
Per corrupt DOJ guidelines, that is the maximum sentence allowed to be imposed on any Democrat.
It could include a strongly worded letter of reprimand.
Geez, the horror.
And disbarred by New York for less than a year.
Disbarment is usually permanent. I’d guess a year’s suspension. Reinstatement is not necessarily automatic, but I’m sure he’ll be “rehabilitated,” and have lots of references from the “right” people urging his reinstatement.
He will not be disbarred. Only Pres. Trump supporters who tell facts and truth get disbarred.
and a beach house
Insignificant.
I would like to think that Sussman will be held accountable and serve time but in this day and age I can’t help but think he will simply be slapped on the rest and then get a lucrative “political insider” gig at either CNN or MSNBC.
Or a book deal.
with 30,000 copies purchased by a left wing foundation or a union.
…or Chyna.
Great money washing scenarios they have set up!
Sussman was just following (Clinton?) orders. That’s who I’d like to see serve time…
This seems like a microscopic crumb that broke off from a tiny crumb from a Ritz cracker.
….or a Sara Lee cake?!……This means an extra couple of million in bonus money for Sussmann.
Yeah, pretty small considering the whole Spygate Affair. But, this will put John Solomon and Sean Hannity on “Cloud Nine,” so I guess it is somewhat exciting. Durham really does exist. Wow – I’ll be on the lookout for flying pigs tomorrow . . .
True Komrade.
They will milk this for a few days hot news and blab and blab and blab breathlessly for hours about it.
At least this is even more confirmation that Spygate was a coordinated effort. (Dare I say “conspiracy”?)
But, thanks to Sundance, we already knew that.
So late.
More like too little, too late.
More like nothing, ever.
If I am understanding the indictment correctly, Sussman has admitted that he did this for payment from the Clinton campaign.
Yes, you read it correctly.
And the FIB says he didn’t – to protect their senior leadership from the jail time they deserve.
if I were on the jury, I would vote to acquit Sussman because I think it is significantly more like the FIB/DOJ is lying here, not Sussman.
Tall Texan, it will never go to trial. Anyway, “what difference does it make” XIden is still the president.
You are right Issy, no trial and no jury.
Is this an Obama supported play pulling a thread that leads to Clinton to hinder/eliminate any competing crime families within the DNC?
His billing records say that he did it for the Clinton campaign. He lied and said that was not who was paying him.
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That’ll get you to some bill-paying volunteer bookkeeper in the Clinton Campaign who just paid the bills and had no clue what they were for.
A stern talking to and multimillion dollar book deal coming his way.
A scrap fed to the surfs to make it appear the DOJ has purpose.
Over 800 days of work for a crumb.
DC at its best
Sundance and the ENTIRE Conservative Treehouse team I and everyone who claims a branch on the tree THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
The work you are pumping out including this piece, tracking the biden/desantis monoclonal antibodies story, hell, you broke it, and now the Fourth State I stand in applause and awe of your most excellent work.
Again, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
Yes, thank you so much Sundance.
If it was not for all that I read here I would think that this was Big Stuff and our side was on a roll.
Sundance has helped me to understand the hard stuff and get a much better idea as to what is really going on.
At least I try to understand, some of what Sundance puts up is beyond me but I try.
DC in its entirety is an incestuous criminal cabal/until we
witness it’s destruction in totality we will not have JUSTICE.
I am glad you included the word “incestuous” Marygrace.
DC is sick with it and infected so deep and wide with it we need to amputate or to burn it out.
Why didn’t corrupt AG Garland crush this indictment ? Is Durham being used to minimize the severity of what actually happened to Candidate/President-Elect/President Trump ?
I’ll leave this here.
Perspective of a Catholic Prosecutor | Honorable John Durham
This talk was given at Yale Law School on November 13th, 2018 by the Honorable John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.
Special prosecutors may be able to indict on their own. He is special prosecutor, not a special counsel.
This presentation is very much worth listening to.
I think John Durham is very much worthy of the benefit of the doubt. This is not to say the cynics will not ultimately be proven prescient, but this man giving the thoughtful presentation above, this man seems a good and fit trustee of the national ideal and the national interest.
I find I am much heartened by what I have learned with this.
I am more encouraged than not about the Sussmann indictment. I think this indictment heralds a change in tempo and scale. There is simply too much we do not know and cannot know at this time.
So I’m keeping my powder dry. I’ve been wavering about the significance of Durham’s impact for some time, but after hearing this I’m a long way from losing faith in John Durham. I think he’s just about to open the floodgates. I think the Road to Hell and Justice he’s paving has nearly every brick in place; nearly every brick studiously and meticulously put in its proper place.
Listen to this man in his own words and see if you don’t get the same feeling.
Ohh he lied to the FBI!!! He needs to hire Clinesmith’s attorney.
No. He should hire Sydney Powell, Flynn’s attorney……however, it would also be a good idea to have Emmet Sullivan as the trial judge.
That judge must be so rich now. I think he retired. Anyone knows if he bought a mansion in Martha’s vineyard?
I saw on the internet that it’s 3 days until the statute of limitations is over for Hillary and her role in this….(don’t know if it’s true)
PS-I bet the Times had more sources than this guy… little worm
This….. is…… it…… ??
Yep.
Lol. we are just too smart for our britches.
We are not falling for their crap.
No. I expect there will be superceding indictment on Sussmann
He lied to the FBI, wait until you hear what happens when you falsify documents in the CIA to incriminate innocent people…
Ask Kevin Clinesmith.
Tip of the iceberg.
The Mariana Trench has nothing on the DC Swamp.
To be followed by indictments of….hit them hard Mr. Durham.
Looks like the Clinesmith maneuver is in play.
Another candidate for “Tech Executive-1” could be Rajeev Chopra.
Chopra founded MIS Department, Inc. an IT company. He took his company to Obozo and became the darling of the Obozo administration in 2009.
In 2011 Chopra became the head of the Obozo second campaign’s internet management and he worked closely with Microsoft.
In 2011 Debbie Wasserman Schultz was named the head of the DNC.
And in 2011 MIS Department, Inc. was given the contract to handle the computer systems and security for the DNC.
On April 28, 2016, it was MIS Department employee, Tamene Yohannes, who called FBI Adrian Hawkes to tell him that there was “unusual activity” on the DNC Computers and two days later, Sussman brought in Shawn Henry to help with the Russia hacked the DNC narrative.
Although a lawyer working for Hillary helped create the reasons for Mueller Special Counsel it is insane to think lawyers who once worked for her on that Special Counsel team would be helping her.
Sussman is a strategic sacrifice to protect others, justify the FIB failures, and obfuscate DNC/Others/Clinton/ObeyMe etc.
This is chaff to lend credible deniability.
Never trust the swamp, FanBeltInspectors, corrupt Senators/CongressCritters, Lobbyists, or Lawyers. But I repeat myself.
Yeah yeah yeah. Five years later. So what. This is more like a move to placate the restless MAGA herd than any real progress towards justice.
This is a move to further demoralize the MAGA crew, nothing more.
Open your eyes. The swamp has neither a need nor a desire to placate the serfs. Look at California.
“I don’t need your votes.”
Truth.
I know we are justifiably suspicious. But there are only two possible explanations here. One is internecine warfare (one faction eating another). But the timing seems off, adding bad news on top of Afghanistan and Milley and the economy.
The other explanation is that something good is happening. I know, I know, one thousand times bitten, twice or two thousand times s
Sussman lied to James Baker on September 19, 2016. Consequently, the statute of limitations for that crime was this Sunday.
Durham filed a lawsuit. That will extend (toll) the Statute of Limitations for that specific crime of lying to the FBI.
It also lays groundwork for all other individuals to claim they were mislead by Sussman. They weren’t. But, we must accept that lie because Democrats cannot take the fall for the Big Lie.
Today, I stopped believing in the Republic. The USA cannot continue when laws are applied to only some of the citizens.
Clearly, Sussman was indicted to provide cover to the remaining culprits of the Big Lie.
I see this as nothing more than a big, dishonest coverup by Durham for the FIB and DOJ leadership. Their forever excuse will now be – “But Sussman made us do it.”
And this will be the end of it. Clinesmith ans Sussman, well – whoop-de-dooooo!!!!
The “leadership” of these “justice” institutions have the maturity of a second grader with a pathological need to lie to the people who pay their salaries and ridiculous pensions.
Well, for everyone else involved, the Statute of Limitations will run out on September 19th.
Is that correct?
This will lead to Fiona Hill very quickly. She was hired by Flynn initially but worked with McMaster. She also testified against Trump during the first impeachment knowing she had assisted in introducing Christopher Steele to the Russian source of the Dossier who she worked with at Brookings. Knowingly participating in the Russiagate Hoax then trying to help remove President Trump who she worked for.
OMG I cannot STAND her. I hope she goes down.
I mentioned Strobe Talbott in a comment on this post earlier. He was Fiona’s “boss” at Brookings. She was also a “Russia expert.” Weird thing to me is that she resembles Strobe’s dead wife Brooke Shearer AND his late mother Jo Talbott. Same dark hair and penetrating gaze.
Way back when 18 months ago I thought he was up near the top of this conspiracy. But turns out he is just an elitist dickhead focusing his life on money
Jake Sullivan, current Biden administration National Security Advisor, was an early Russia, Russia propagator for Cankles Clinton.
HOW MUCH are we paying Durham?
By the hour or by the decade?
O my wake me when something really happens for the good of the USA. I pray daily for our country
Maybe the forewoman of the Grand Jury is the lady from Roger Stone’s trial?
The shyster should be billed for every hour spent investigating a ghost he created and then those who instructed him should be investigated too.
Welcome to Clinesmith part 2. They had to give up somebody or else people would wonder just what Durham was doing. Now, they can justify Durham and all his “work”. Nothing major will happen to Sussmann. He’ll weather the small storm and get brought back into the fold.
EVEN AS A KID….I KNEW MR. POTATO HEAD WAS A CRIMINAL…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Too many different costumes / disguises ? ?
It’s difficult to understand why Durham has zeroed in on Sussmann out of ALL the other lawbreakers and liars that have been involved in massive corruption and the Coup, up to their necks.
Perhaps this is the first domino of several? I’m not being allusive here. Just trying to see if there’s more to this than seems apparent.
Things are rarely as they appear to be.
Did Durham need to pull this trigger to beat the statute of limitations on this crime? I think I heard that.
Find a source that provides evidence of that and you win.
I found this:
”Because he lied to the FBI five years ago — I guess September 19, 2016 — Durham had until this weekend to beat the five year statute of limitations.”
From Ace of Spades HQ (ref. https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=395636)
3 years for this?
Campaign attorney lied to the FBI?
PapaD served 11 days(?) in jail for lying to the FBI, but his case was entrapment by the FBI. And it took a few months for him to be sentenced and jailed. Speedy process for fake news to run with it. Oh and he was arrested before he did anything. At the airport.
3 years!!!
This guy was not even arrested? Just some Clinesmith treatment.
SOL was about to run on the lies to James Baker in September of 2016. That SOL is 5 years and began to run that day. Sooooo, it’s possible there are other indictments which could follow this one or even some that already exist that Durham has been sitting on while continuing the investigation. I’m not saying that’s what’s actually happening, but it’s possible.
Jaywalking ticket like Wolfe, overdue book fine like Clinesmith or an Acquitin’ Jury like Greg Craig.
Don’t bother, criminals.
Don’t forget the Podesta brother.
I think I read somewhere that even spam email could cause communications between servers. Or just plain pings. Never have I seen any data exchange details between Trump servers and Alfa. Sounds like it was triggered by third party, probably Crowdstrike. I think Hillary was suppose to speak at a CyberSecurity event in DC a few years back sponsored by Crowdstrike.
To bad this really is not being exposed for what it is. 6 Months probation and it all goes away.
And people who attended the January 6 rally who decided to walk into the Capitol building gave had all their rights violated, suspended, and are rotting in jail
Moslem terrorists were treated better
IMO The years long investigation isn’t about finding crimes, he already knew about the crimes from the start.
Covering for Gina Haspel, John Brennan, and the rest of the intel community is probably very time consuming.
Looks like someone is going to get a slap on the hand.
That Pulitzer Prize ain’t gonna award itself, ya know!
Durham lives!
you may will be surprise….
Unexplained smoke from behind the White House.
soooo …who is cremated ???
Hahahahaaa. Thought it was a paper burning party ?
Tiffthis: Election of a new dope 🙂
That made me laugh… But you should capitalize ‘Dope’… Show some respect…
Um, on second thought….
Maybe we have a new pope
Sure could use one!
Smoke is the wrong color.
Given that the FBI (aka, FIB) lies about just about everything to just about everyone, who can’t someone lie to the FBi (aka, FIB) ??
He’s probably getting high-fives from his colleagues.
I hear names, read & see data of alleged & actual crimes committed by Communist Dems & RHINOS, but if there’s ever any punishment, I never hear of it.
All the exposure in the world is tripe if none are brought to trial & at least one found guilty.
Maybe it’s because the judicial system is holding the plug in the swamp to keep it from draining.
There’s Jake Sullivan’s name again.
Advisor to the resident.
Unreal.
Low hanging fruit, this is the best Durham can do, then it was/is a total waste of time. That said, if he starts naming names, then it might lead to something; however with this regime probably not.
But, he only did all the wrong things for all the right reasons. The voice of treason.
It’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Admitted by Hillary staffer on campaign policy.
I’m not interested. It’s too little too late.
BRING IT ON ????????????
The question our side should be asking is: Why are they unleashing this news now?
What is the end goal? 2022 election?
We all know this guy will walk and we will not see justice because the same people involved in the Russia hoax are ruling this country without any boundaries. They can do whatever they want.
So we all know this is just circus. Even IF, Durham is for real, the DOJ is run by the people who executed this hoax. Sussman will get their judge and he will walk.
Durham’s Statute of Limitations parameter is up on September 30, 2021.
It’s now or never.