Another significant filing by John Durham’s special counsel team to the court was made last night. {READ HERE} Within the filing the staff accidentally did not seal the attachments which are emails between Fusion GPS and many major media outlets. Whoops.
♦ First, the background. In a previous liable lawsuit by Alfa Bank against Fusion GPS, the Russian bank was able to get the internal emails between Fusion GPS and major media outlets as part of the lawsuit discovery phase. Despite the lawsuit failing to advance, those prior emails now become evidence for John Durham to use in the case against Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann.
Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie lawyer, is accused of lying to the FBI about who he was working for when Sussmann was trying to push the Trump-Russia collusion story to trigger an investigation. Former FBI legal counsel James Baker has said Sussmann told the FBI he was operating independently as a concerned citizen. However, Sussmann is defending himself by saying: (a) he never said he was not working for Clinton at the time he brought the FBI the material, a demonstrable falsehood; and (b) he was motivated by altruism, unrelated to efforts to help Clinton, another demonstrable falsehood.
As the case has proceeded all of the parties are now claiming legal and work product ‘privileges’ to stop Durham from using their communication and networked conspiracy against Michael Sussmann, and by extension them, in court. Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie, Marc Elias, Michael Sussmann, Hillary for America (Clinton campaign), Robby Mook (Campaign Manager), along with Tech-Executive-1 Rodney Joffe, are all claiming some form of privilege.
Last night, in a responsive filing connected to all of the privilege claims, John Durham deconstructed the nature of their defense. Techno-Fog has a good outline {SEE HERE} of the court documents. However, attached to the filing were exhibits supposed to be filed under seal that the Durham staff “accidentally” did not seal right away.
The exhibit consists of the emails between Fusion GPS and media as the opposition research team attempted to push the Trump-Russia collusion story into the media bloodstream -through their ideologically aligned allies- in 2016.
The emails show how extensive Fusion GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch pushed the Trump Russia story. The emails show the coordinated effort of Fusion GPS with multiple journalists, producers and media outlets. You can read the emails HERE.
I’m not going to publish the emails because the contacts, addresses, phone numbers etc. are not redacted; but you can clearly see the scale of who was involved.
The emails show journalists from Politico, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC all feeding from the same trough of manipulated information being fed from Fusion GPS. The journalists, producers and Fusion GPS all working in close coordination to push the false Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy.
The accidentally public emails highlight a soup-to-nuts ‘who’s-who‘ of political disinformation. {SEE HERE}
Additionally, the Durham filing itself {SEE HERE} gives us another granular look at how the prosecution is walking the tightrope of carefully balanced prosecution of leftist activists, lawfare people and political organizations outside government.
Within the filing the privilege claims are easily dispatched by prosecutor Andrew J. DeFilippis, Assistant Special Counsel to John Durham. One key paragraph is a little funny in that the prosecution uses the defense position against them. The prosecution states the “purported privilege holders who have intervened do so in a case in which the defendant has denied representing any client when he brought the Russian Bank-1 allegations to the FBI.”
The privilege controversy itself seemingly entraps Michael Sussmann. How can Sussmann claim attorney-client privilege when his defense is to say he wasn’t working on behalf of any client when he brought the information to the FBI? Whoopsie daisy.
All of that said, there’s another interesting aspect to this specific filing if you stand back away from the granular legal details and look at the arc of the prosecution within it. It appears to me that Michael Sussmann is not the REAL target of this prosecution, Marc Elias is.
♦ It looks like John Durham is using the prosecution of Sussmann, and all the details within the case, to box in a very easy prosecution of Michael Sussmann’s boss, the infamous Democrat lawyer, Marc Elias. Read the filing and you see how Perkins Coie and Marc Elias are clearly and purposefully outlined as having the major role in the activity of Sussmann. All prosecutorial roads against Sussmann are leading to Elias.
That risk would certainly explain why Marc Elias left Perkins Coie immediately after the Alfa Bank lawsuit against Fusion GPS revealed the connective tissue, and then John Durham start focusing on Perkins Coie and Michael Sussmann.
Given the ideological and political nature of the DOJ under AG Merrick Garland and Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, it makes sense that John Durham would not and importantly, could not, go directly at Marc Elias.
Marc Elias is the biggest Lawfare fish in the world of Democrats. He is the primary legal mind and legal entity around the entire Democrat apparatus from elections to electoral maps. Elias is the leftists modern legal Moses.
If John Durham was viewed to be targeting Elias directly, his special counsel investigation would be shut down tomorrow, regardless of political backlash. Marc Elias is to outside government as Barack Obama is to inside government.
The DOJ would immediately stop Durham if he was obviously targeting Elias. Inside the firestorm that follows, the political media would rally the wagons around protecting Garland, Monaco and Biden ….and after a few days of republicans in the legislative branch gnashing their teeth on Hannity, Ingraham et al, the explosive decision would blow over. DC would make or create some massive shiny thing to cover the controversy.
Bottom Line: Marc Elias is protected by both wings of the professionally political UniParty.
That said, if in the prosecution of Michael Sussmann, it became obvious that Marc Elias was guilty of organizing a criminal conspiracy to defraud the Unites States government on behalf of the Clinton campaign, well, that would be incidental, and that’s how Durham could get to Elias.
Marc Elias is likely to be the biggest catchable fish in the carefully navigated prosecution of those outside government.
Keep watching.
Elias was in the position to order the shut down of counting on election night and the subsequent steal.
Elias is the biggest criminal, besides Bribem, Piglosi, and Obozo, in the swamp.
How does such a leak effect any legal action?
as far as i know it doesnt. its a mistake ;)))
Whoops….
ie daisy
It’s no daisy.
It won’t result in more than a scolding from the court to be more careful. That said, Durham references possession of far more emails than those “accidentally” not shielded, but the ones we were able to review total around only 70 pages. Moreover, not a single one of the “accidentally” revealed emails appears to merit the claimed status of privileged. It’s almost as though the ones that were disclosed provided exactly the required irrefutable information to demonstrate widespread media dishonesty without accidentally revealing any legitimately protected information.
On a related note, an email on pg 32 of the exhibit between Berkowitz and Mosk seems to show that Fusion had access to private Twitter DMs. How would Fusion have legal access to Michael Cohen’s DMs? Curiouser and curiouser.
Maybe not an immediate legal action, maybe sacrificing the investigation to warn Elias? If he’s that big a deal for the UniParty, Durham has got to be shut down.
I think Trump is suing people because he knows no one can be trusted. Not even Durham because he can be shut down for getting too close to the factual truth.
The answer to every question regarding the 2020 installation of Biden is Marc Elias, every one. If you are speaking with someone who has never heard of him you are speaking to someone who lacks the information fundamentally necessary to understand the breadth of corruption and fraud that exists in our political and election systems. He is the brains in the head of the snake.
Too right, my friend.
And at the first serious effort to audit the Maricopa County election results, Elias was rapidly spooled up and with an army of US Attorneys descended upon Arizona to establish their legal strategy. Didn’t he send forth his crows to Nevada as well to assess other counties where voters were starting to beat the drum of election rejection?
just a thought
Yes, sorta, but–Hillary is the snake.
Elias is the greedy criminal thug head of the snake.
Head of the snake?
Tail of the snake?
Same damn snake in the same damn swamp.
I am actually praying that we (Conservatives NOT Republicans) finally get a big win. That little p***k Eilas would be a great start.
Yes! Be still my beating heart! Getting him would make my YEAR—or four!
Fusion GPS clearly in the center of Hillary Campaign/DNC/Perkins Coie/GPS/Ohr/Steele conspiracy.
6 years later and still not a charge against GPS or founders?
GPS knew info they were pedaling was not accurate and yet they did and got paid millions for it.
So harmed election and falsely smeared a candidate and POTUS.
Any other country and GPS would be shut down and founders jailed by now. So question is who do t GPS have info on?
Deep state uniparty. Dirty Mitch the Snitch and McCarthy are in on it, as well as the rest of the RINOs, and undercover RINOs, in the Deep state. Chief amongst them Lizard people Cheney, Schiff for brains, Kissassinger, Murkycowski, Romney, Lindsey, all the trolls who thrive in the swamp. they maintain the status quo. We will never see justice. Because it’s JUSTUS to the DS swamp uniparty.
Deep State, globalist cabal, the Fourth State, and the Fourth Estate. All equate to the Fourth Reich.
Note the commonalities? The Khazar Mafia.
I have noted that, in any media mention of Elias, they NEVER refer to his role as both Hillary Clinton and DNC principal attorney during the 2016 election.
You may remember that Hillary swooped in and took control of a financially troubled DNC. As such, Elias oversaw both organizations including approving all payments and campaign attacks/dirty tricks.
The Clintonistas always have their dirty hands on the slush funds and money piles.
Yawn!!! Wake me up when someone above the rank of clerk gets perp walked to jail. Absolutely nothing will ever happen to the traitors at the top of this coup.
How about the Steele family? Where is their income from to purchase million dollar homes in DC… and on top of that Why is it they pay almost no property tax compared to homes of the same market value in the same area?
My home was purchased for 20% or less than those and I pay more then 6 x the rate. They have much much better locations in DC…. again where did the money come from to purchase the homes?
Im sick of politicians both left and right raping and stealing financially from the people. But to be fare it is our own fault “We the People” With all the technology we have at our disposal we should be vetting these people more accurately and get out from in front of our TVs and video games. I never met a conservative or for that fact liberal who knew Hillary’s, Bill’s, Bush’s or Pelosi’s family members and especially those they hide.
Just FYI, any home worth owning in DC is multi million$$$.
Hope you are correct!!!
There is a nefarious reason why the DNC denied access to their server by the FBI after they claimed it was hacked. Will we ever know the extent of the pernicious and diabolical machinations to undermine our Nation that go inside that perfidious Party?
There’s also the question that is never asked, how do you deny the FBI access?
Answer: because Clinton.
I know I was stunned to learn the DNC had access to the RNC with a keystroke. So that would be the ultimate evidence there is only one party, correct? Did anyone ever get a satisfactory answer as to why the DNC had open access to the entire Republican political legal structure down to registered voters, heck, all potential voters dead or alive plus the ghosts who’ve been voting for the last 50 years?
It was during this time I heard Mark Elias’ name for the first time. Mean guy, attacks with a vicious rage that seems fueled by contempt and hate. I’d never seen any political attack as bizarre as what Elias did. I kept thinking, what is wrong with these ppl? It’s just an election, not the end of the world! It changes every four years, sometimes eight! But nothing about that election season was normal, in the traditional sense. Of course, now we know what we suspected is in fact true but the desperate obfuscation by the UniParty , especially the democrats, is literally life and death for them.
Wow. The Deep State is no joke. But we all knew this already. As we all know nothing will come of this. Because it never does. There is no justice. Only JUST US.
I keep reading this, “nothing will come of this-there is no justice”, etc… I read the Bible, and most of the time I ask the Lord, what do I read now? What will help me? How do I learn? Something got me to reading I Kings lately. I haven’t in several years. King after King, story after story-horrible stories, actually! They usually die horribly. “They did wrong in the eyes of the Lord”. You should read it. Your kids should read it! What are these stories for? God does indeed punish the unrighteous-and the nation that allows it. Do we do something about it? Yes. Turn to God.
Too bad there is no politician holding office like Andrew Jackson and dueling was still legal !
True men of Honor & Integrity would have these DC panti-waists pissing their pants !
The Good Old Days !
When the smell of tar and feathers would be in the air !
Get their 4sses! I mean nail them to the wall. Too bad we don’t have men and women in Congress with the gonads of Marjorie Green or DeSantis! We need fighters.
Keep in mind Marc Elias now “officially” in control of all of the BLM funds…and likely always has been… as well as coordinator of the donations, distributions, and the demonstrations/riots as well.
On top of the earlier searches for, funding, campaigns and coordination of the Prosecutors who failed to charge BLM rioters.
Elias getting to experience the dating rituals in federal prison is justice enough.
Partisan players. It would be interesting to map the Fusion GPS Russia disinfo network with other reporting. Where were stories shared by this network? What is the scope of disinfo these people are pushing?
It is not simply finished at,Trump Russia.
Mark Elias – Jew – It’s right before our eyes. Open them.
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The emails are gone. Darn it !!