With mostly wins and a few losses in the pre-trial evidentiary hearings for Special Counsel John Durham, the case against Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann is scheduled for trial next week. Now the witness lists are coming forth.
WASHINGTON – […] Robby Mook, who managed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Clinton campaign attorney Marc Elias and FBI counterintelligence leader Bill Priestap and former top FBI lawyer James Baker are among those called as government witnesses, said prosecutor Andrew DeFilipiis. (link)
Additionally, Laura Seago, a top tech official at research firm Fusion GPS (she has immunity in exchange for testimony); Deborah Fine, a Clinton campaign lawyer; and a CIA official identified as Kevin B are also on the prosecution list.
[…] Defense attorneys unveiled their own high-powered witness list. It includes Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, former acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau. (read more)
Depending on preset Perkins Coie leverage and risk exposure, other officials from deep inside the DOJ/FBI small group operation may also be forced to stand as defense witnesses by Sussmann’s team. The lawfare combat teams look interesting.
The prosecution calling Marc Elias as a witness looks like a great opportunity for: (1) evidence against him for later use; and/or (2) a perjury trap.
The defense planning to call Inspector General Michael Horowitz puts the office of the IG into a suspicious position. Horowitz is a baddie.
Mary McCord is a conniving manipulator for the worst elements of the deep state, so it makes sense she would give testimony to defend Sussmann. McCord was a central figure in how the DOJ National Security Division sought to frame the appearance of the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, and it was Mary McCord who later coordinated the National Security Council leaks between Alexander Vindman and anonymous CIA whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.
Before becoming the Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson was Mary McCord’s chief legal advisor at the DOJ-NSD for the fraudulent submission of the Carter Page FISA application.
In his ICIG position, Atkinson changed the rules for McCord to allow an anonymous whistleblower complaint… at the time Mary McCord was working as legal research operative for the impeachment team in the House.
The Sussmann defense group has enough dirt on Mary McCord and Michael Horowitz to pressure both of them into favorable testimony. We will likely see other corrupt DOJ and FBI officials also pushed to defend Clinton’s legal crew.
On the prosecution side, Laura Seago (with immunity) has details of the motives inside Fusion GPS by owner/operators Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. Her testimony should be interesting and will likely overlap into other prosecutions if there are any.
Bill Priestap was Peter Strzok’s boss and James Baker was FBI legal counsel. If there was anyone who seemed less willing (slightly) to frame Trump you could make an argument that Priestap and Baker were the least corrupt on the scale of internal corruption. From the perspective of criminal conduct they would be the two FBI insiders less willing to take a fall.
Keep in mind the media has a strong vested interest in the Sussmann prosecution. If Sussmann is found guilty it makes the media culpability look even worse. The media was pushing the same false information to the public that Michael Sussmann was pushing into the FBI.
As previously stated, don’t look for Durham to go inside government with his investigation; he appears focused exclusively on the outside players from the Clinton team.
PREDICTION: Michael Sussmann Will Change His Plea To “Guilty” Before His Trial Starts On May 16It Will Happen After Claims of Attorney/Client Privilege Are Denied By The Judge
https://briancates.substack.com/p/prediction-michael-sussmann-will?r=kpexw&utm_medium=ios&s=r
Cates never right in anything. Should go back to his paper route
No joke remember way back when he was like oh they are going to roll up the whole enchilada and arrest everyone bla blah trust sessions blah blah rosenstein is a white hat blah blah. That guy has Bern wrong across the board. Good times.
“The Sussmann defense group has enough dirt on Mary McCord and Michael Horowitz to pressure both of them into favorable testimony.”
Or they are going to expose the inability of DOJ/NSD to be audited and threaten to expose the political spying using FBI terminals in an attempt to get a light sentence.
wait, I thought coercing favorable testimony was… blackmail?
Pressuring is not necessarily coercing but it could cause the DOJ to drop the case entirely or work into a nothing sentence agreed to before trial.
As well as obstruction of justice
Thanks for sharing the article, but I think Sussman is brazen enough to take his chances with a jury trial.
Sussmann should likely lose on his Motion to Exclude the SC’s expert witness and on his team’s Motion To Compel.
Those two denials are important because the judge will order all the former Hillary For America, the DNC and Fusion GPS people to hand over the documents to Durham that his grand jury subpoenaed.
“Once Durham has all the documents in his hands in completely unredacted form…”
“You will see Michael Sussmann change his plea of ‘not guilty’ to ‘guilty’.”
“He will accept a plea deal for a reduced sentence rather than take his chances with a jury trial where he knows the Special Counsel has him cold.”
“It would be the only rational thing to do.”
This theory is technically rational in trial law scenarios but Sussmann and the people he hangs with (Elias) and worked for (Hillary) are not rational thinking people. Instead, they are egomaniacs, narcissistic and the lacking morals or an ethical compass.
The author speculates that Sussmann will change his plea to guilty to deny the additional and damaging discovery of 1,500 unredacted documents that will hurt Clinton’s machine.
My theory is Sussmann is damned if he does or doesn’t change his plea. He loses everything no matter what.
Why would he think it’s his responsibility and fate to take the fall for Hillary, Podesta, Elias and Fusion GPS? I bet he won’t and will seek revenge.
My sense is Sussmann knows he is going to lose at trial and as low man on the DNC totem pole who happened to get caught, he takes them all down with him in dramatic fashion.
wishful thinking, I hope you are correct.
One can hope. BUT don’t overlook the power of the Clinton machine to take care of him, for ill (Arkancide) or good (some sinicure with a foundation, K St, University, book deal, speaking fees, etc.).
Michael Sussmann didn’t kill himself…
He’d be arkincided way before he had time to take down the hillary,DNC,FBI,CIA,DNI ,OBAMA cabal.
This close to trial means plea deals are not as forthcoming as they would be if he cooperated earlier.
Unless Durham is willing to participate in the cover up.
Or, perhaps, if he has some REALLY juicy dirt on someone important.
(I doubt he does, or would be willing to spill it.)
Wow – the man surely wants to continue living. He will not turn on Killary.
Any truth to the rumor Sussmann appeared in court wearing a T-shirt that said, “I did not drive myself to Fort Marcy Park”?
Red Shirts (in the Original Star Trek Universe)– were never a good thing.
Remember Ensign Ricky– who beamed down with Spock, Kirk, and McCoy? Things didn’t end well for him.
When you first seek to deceive !
“As previously stated, don’t look for Durham to go inside government with his investigation; he appears focused exclusively on the outside players from the Clinton team.”
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I disagree with Sundance’s statement (above). I think there will be additional future prosecutions involving others.
An issue the court has faced was the fact that there are more e-mails the Special Counsel might want to access.
While the Sussmann case involves a dispute over 38 e-mails, Fusion has asserted privilege over some “1,500 documents” at the direction of “the privilege-holder’s counsel” (either Hillary for America or Rodney Joffe, or both).
If the court grants access, that could open up access to the other e-mails.
Last week, the court asked whether Durham’s team would come back for the other 1,500 e-mails.
They responded in the negative – with a curious “not for this trial” – and stated the court’s decision would be “important for other investigations.”
I read Tracy Beanze who proposed the following line of thought:
Isn’t interesting that Durham is not asking for McCabe’s note that indicates Sussman was representing a client?
Ergo Comey,Baker, the FBI, high ups in the DOJ also knew?
Sussman wants that memo released as it is evidence that he
did not lie about his representation, and the cabal was fully involved.
Is Durham protecting the agencies?
kind of suspicious that most of our nations traitors like most listed in this article are of the israeli persuasion, the same tribe pushing the anti-white racism and murder of whites across america by black racists. i see another white couple was executed by a black man in Denver, ho hum goes our Rothschild media cabal.
Anti-Semitism is not a good place from which to begin to understand our current situation.
Jews are disproportionately are left-leaning and actively vote/behave that way in the US, and other countries (including being foundational to his total and global Marxism/Communism). Look behind every major “progressive” movement in the last 100 years in this country and you will find a similar group of actors with disproportionately (but not exclusively) jewish persuasion and ancestors.
Screeching “anti-semitism” when noting these patterns is akin to leftbots screeching “racism” every time someone notices that there’s higher criminality amongst blacks and Hispanics.
I don’t think it’s where anybody BEGAN. It just seems like a place you’re told you’ve arrived at because you perceived an undeniable and uncomfortable reality. There’s disproportionate representation. Sorry you’re made so uncomfortable by the truth. Sorta like homicides of black people are largely perpetrated by black people. Nobody is necessarily cheering or gloating or condemning just because they recognize a pattern and declare what they’ve witnessed.
If you truly are concerned about battling antisemitism, consider not crying that word that rhymes with Yahtzee every time a goy names the tribe. Alternatively, you could encourage members of the tribe to better police their own activities, so that others will not be motivated to do so for them.
Obama appointed judges will deny every witness and motion and the trial will become a farce.
It will be bloody 20 years before anyone faces any kind of accountability and by than NOTHING will happen. #MAGA
Good call…
As Dan Bongino has said many times, “They all know each other, and they all have something to hide.”
The previous conviction by Durham team of an FBI lawyer tampering with evidence and submitting same to misguide the Court fell rather short in many’s eyes. Somehow, FBI attorney is held to a lesser standard? Should be reverse, no?
Anyway, Durham needs a big win here. Either a big conviction or revelations leading to larger convictions. If it doesn’t happen or Sussman doesn’t pay a big price for lying to Head Legal at FBI, people will start talking about shutting Durham down.
Time to go full throttle not incrementally moving forward. Durham will run out of time.
Let’s not forget about the doctrinal presumption of good faith on the part of public servants.
Our judiciary is infested with a cult of the ABA, with their own club rules, titles, and privileges.
Exile all lawyers from this nation to begin fixing it.
“The Sussmann defense group has enough dirt on Mary McCord and Michael Horowitz to pressure both of them into favorable testimony.”
Those people will have to face cross examination. If I were a crook, I wouldn’t want to be in that position whatsoever.
A federal judge has blocked John Durham from introducing evidence he contends will show former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann acted as part of a “joint venture” to taint former President Trump by linking him to Russia.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/9/judge-limits-evidence-clinton-campaign-sussmann-tr/
Prosecutors with Mr. Durham’s office had argued that Mr. Sussman, a Perkins Coie lawyer who represented the 2016 Clinton campaign, worked in concert with pro-Clinton operatives, tech researchers, and others “toward a common goal” of promoting negative stories about Mr. Trump.
Prosecutors said they had emails and other evidence that would have linked Mr. Sussmann to the venture.
Mr. Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI for allegedly concealing his connections to the Clinton campaign when he handed over data in September 2016, purporting to show covert communication between Mr. Trump‘s campaign and a Russian bank. Those allegations have since been debunked.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who former President Obama appointed, said efforts to link Mr. Sussmann to a vast anti-Trump scheme would “essentially amount to a second trial” for conspiracy. Unfortunately, this crime has not been alleged.
“While the special counsel has proffered some evidence of a collective effort to disseminate the purported link between Trump and Alfa Bank to the press and others, the contours of this venture and its participants are not entirely obvious.” Judge Cooper wrote in a 24-page opinion issued over the weekend.
The Judge sides against the Clinton campaign and agrees to review concealed records in the Sussmann case.
Judge Cooper said that Mr. Sussmann is charged with the specific crime of lying to the FBI. However, introducing a conspiracy claim would require an “extensive presentation of evidence about that conspiracy” that “is likely to confuse the jury and distract from the issues at hand.”
Mr. Durham had sought to introduce emails and other documents between Mr. Sussmann, the Clinton campaign, Marc Elias at Perkins Coie, tech executive Rodney Joffe and other tech researchers. He said the documents reveal a coordinated plot to spread negative stories tying Mr. Trump to Alfa Bank, allegations that became part of an investigation that hung over Mr. Trump‘s entire term in office.
The Clinton campaign fought to keep those records out of Mr. Durham’s hands, arguing that they are protected under attorney-client privilege.
Judge Cooper did grant Mr. Durham‘s request to question witnesses about the effort by technology researchers to study internet traffic between Mr. Trump and the Russian bank. However, he said he would not allow prosecutors to introduce evidence that Mr. Joffe had some doubts about the accuracy of the data.
The husband of Lisa Page’s lawyer is a corrupt POS?
Color me shocked.
note that nyt reporter being called as a defense witness won two pulitizers, one when he was younger for warrantless wiretapping by the nsa, the other when older as part of the russiagate pulitzers that the nyt and the washpo have, perhaps, come to regret receiving and the pulitzer committee granting.
Sorry guys but a jury comprised of Washington elites won’t convict one of their own.
“don’t look for Durham to go inside government with his investigation; he appears focused exclusively on the outside players from the Clinton team.”
For now in my opinion.
Durham is doing his job, slowly and methodically but with precision…I hope that once Sussman falls he indeed goes into the next ring and then the to the ring inside that, until he gets to Hillary, who must be shown to be they liar and the criminal that she is.
Until someone in power (not some low level staffer) goes to jail, I am over hearing of the Durham “investigation “