Chaffetz: Durham Laying Bare ‘Incestuous Relationship’ In Case Regarding Clinton Campaign Lawyer
ohn Durham, the special counsel appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the so-called ‘Russiagate’ counterintelligence probe into then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, is finding evidence of an “incestuous relationship,” a former House Republican claimed on Sunday.
Jason Chaffetz, who was the guest host of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” discussed the latest developments in Durham’s probe with current members of Congress, with an emphasis on Democrat cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann:
…Sussmann was representing the Clinton campaign when in 2016 he passed along information to an FBI counsel. His lawyers say the documents “raised national security concerns” while prosecutors describe them as purportedly detailing a covert channel between a Russian bank and the business of Donald Trump, Clinton’s rival at the time.
Sussmann was charged with lying to the FBI because he falsely told the counsel he was not providing the allegations to the FBI on behalf of any client despite presenting the information on behalf of the Clinton campaign, prosecutors say.
“Special Counsel John Durham asserted in a court filing Friday that the CIA concluded data from Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann alleging coordination between Donald Trump and Russia was ‘not technically plausible’ and was ‘user-created,'” Fox News reported.
“In the filing, Durham responded to objections from Sussmann’s defense regarding what evidence could be admissible at Sussmann’s trial, which is scheduled to begin next month. Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI by saying he was not attending a meeting on behalf of a particular client when he was actually presenting the information on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and a technology executive with whom he worked,” the report added.
The Fox report added:
Durham in February first revealed that the government would establish during trial that among the data “exploited” was domain name system (DNS) internet traffic pertaining to “a particular healthcare provider, Trump Tower, Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).”
In February, Durham said data was exploited “by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump,” adding the data was used to establish “an inference” and “narrative” tying Trump to Russia.
In addition, Sussmann was also representing a person known in Durham’s court filings as “Tech Executive-1,” now known to be former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe. He is accused of concealing them from then-FBI general counsel James Baker in September 2016 when he presented internet data that suggested a now-debunked Trump-Russia link, the Washington Examiner reports.
“The allegation here is that Michael Sussmann got in with a meeting with the general counsel there at the Federal Bureau of Investigation by representing that he wasn’t representing anybody,” Chaffetz, a former GOP representative from Utah, said during an interview with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.).
“But there’s other documentation and flow of money and logs and whatnot,” he added. “That’s why this is a case that is important because these people had this incestuous relationship to be able to actually go in and access things that other people that are on the receiving end of these — of these types of prosecutions don’t get to do.”
The Examiner notes further:
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