Thread from Margot Cleveland, so really detailed info on the IG and OIG covered up for Sussman & Joffe (read the article if you can, link below)
Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland
THREAD. Thanks to @Techno_Fog
I have confirmed that Joffe was terminated as an informant in 2021 for cause. Why is this key? Becausethat means Joffe was still an informant in 2017when he had Sussmann go to the OIG as opposed to his handler. Sussmann's defense 1/
12:40 PM · May 18, 2022
2/ argued that Joffe gained nothing by having Sussmann share Alfa Bank data with FBI, to argue Sussmann wasn't representing him. The jury, of course, doesn't get to hear that Sussmann bragged about being lined up for a job with the Clinton campaign, so they might by argument.
12:44 PM · May 18, 2022
3/ But problem remains, if Joffe gained nothing by having Sussmann share Alfa Bank data with FBI, then why would Sussmann than share Alfa Bank & Yota phone data for Joffe with CIA (Clinton campaign was no longer involved at that time)? He obviously "gained" something b/c he did.
12:45 PM · May 18, 2022
4/ In fact, Sussmann told CIA contact if a high-up at CIA didn't take data his client would go to the New York Times. That also conflicts with Sussmann's claim that he wanted to help FBI by giving warning re press. The press was a hammer.
12:46 PM · May 18, 2022
5/ And Sussmann claimed Joffe didn't want Sussmann to take to FBI b/c he didn't trust FBI & because he thought FBI discounted b/c Sussmann's connection to Clinton. But Joffe WAS still an informant at that time, so take to handler.
12:47 PM · May 18, 2022
6/ Then, even more "strange" is Joffe having Sussmann take "intel" to DOJ Office of Inspector general in March 2017 NOT telling IG client's name. (DOJ IG office later withheld evidence on this from Durham's team).
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/31/special-counsel-clarification-reveals-the-dojs-inspector-general-is-not-a-team-player/ But
Special Counsel ‘Clarification’ Reveals The DOJ’s Inspector General Is Not A Team Player
(A lot of OIG employees with IGs were involved in covering for Sussmann and Joffe and who else knows how many more conspirators—this is mind blowing. I'm sure Horowitz is one, because he didn't share the cell phone data with Durham, and apparently from this article a number of other important matters.)
Excerpts from Article: OIG Made Another False Claim
An even more significant takeaway from the special counsel’s Friday supplemental filing concerns not what the OIG said, but what it did not say: After reading the “discovery update” the special counsel’s office filed, the OIG’s only objection concerned the potential that it had previously mentioned possessing cellphones to Durham in another investigation.
TheOIG apparently raised no concerns about the special counsel’s office’s representations to the courtconcerning the “cyber-related matter” involving Joffe and Sussmann, including Durham’s statement that he learned from Sussmann—and not the OIG—that Sussmann had actually met with the IG, and not merely passed Joffe’s tip to an OIG agent.
From Friday’s filing, it also appears the OIG did not challenge Durham’s representation that when the OIG provided Durham’s team the “forensic report” about the Sussmann-Joffe tip, it falsely represented “that it had ‘no other file[] or other documentation’ relating to this cyber matter,” and that later, after Durham further questioned the OIG, additional documentation turned up. If the OIG thinks it has cleared its name, it is sadly mistaken.
7/ now knowing Joffe was still an informant until 2017, having SUSSMANN take the intel to OIG unanimously instead of Joffe taking to his handler makes NO SENSE. How did Joffe benefit? Unless, goal for Joffe was to bolster Sussmann's "credibility" for purposes of the FBI & CIA
12:54 PM · May 18, 2022
8/ tips. End of day, however, Sussmann's claim that Joffe didn't benefit by Sussmann taking intel to FBI doesn't hold water b/c Joffe also had Sussmann take intel to CIA & DOJ IG office instead of handler. He had a reason even if we don't know it.
12:55 PM · May 18, 2022
9/9 Will Durham be able to tell the jury about these facts? Court already ruled CIA meeting can come in, but will these points be made? We'll see.
12:56 PM · May 18, 2022·
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1526966069776220162?s=20&t=LEyqaN0jSkfBhVUCn8bRBA
Link to Article
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/31/special-counsel-clarification-reveals-the-dojs-inspector-general-is-not-a-team-player/