The latest filings by special counsel John Durham’s team revealed a major lie they have been hiding for a long time.
On Thursday, a lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 presidential election was indicted by special counsel John Durham on a single charge of making a false statement to the FBI.
Michael Sussmann, a former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer and an attorney for the Perkins Coie law firm who previously represented the Democratic National Committee following the hacking of its servers by Russia during the 2016 campaign, is accused of lying to the FBI when he claimed he wasn’t representing anyone while handing over information about then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, also made false statements to CIA officers.
Here’s what the Prosecutors write in the indictment:
“Specifically, SUSSMANN state falsely that he was not doing his work on the aforementioned allegations “for any client,” which led the FBI General Counsel (James A. Baker) to understand that SUSSMANN was acting as a good citizen merely passing along information, not as a paid advocate or political operative.”
Sussmann intentionally misled the FBI general counsel because he was acting at the time on behalf of an unnamed tech executive, an “U.S. internet company” and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign.
In a Sept. 19, 2016, meeting, Sussmann provided Baker with white papers that alleged Trump’s business had a secret channel with a Russian bank, allegations the FBI later determined were untrue.
On Feb. 9, 2017, Sussmann met with CIA officers—to whom he also made false statements, according to the new filings.
More details of this report from The Epoch Times:
A memorandum introduced by the special counsel’s team and penned by a CIA official said that Sussmann provided documents and thumb drives that he claimed contained data related to potential Russian activities linked with Trump.
Sussmann “advised that he was not representing a particular client,” according to the notes. Instead, he said he was conveying information from “contacts” who he believed “were acting in good faith and out of a sense of loyalty to the USG,” or U.S. government.
That contradicts how Sussmann told a former CIA employee, who was said to have helped set up the February meeting, that he “represents a client who does not want to be known,” according to notes of the meeting taken by the former employee.
It also contradicts testimony Sussmann delivered to the House Intelligence Committee. Under oath, Sussmann said (pdf) he received the information “from a client of mine.”
Sussmann said he learned of the information by the summer of 2016 but only came forward months later because President Barack Obama ordered an intelligence review of possible Russian interference in elections.
“This information seemed to fall roughly within that, and so I thought that might be—or my client thought that that might be something that was relevant for those that were gathering information regarding foreign-based actors,” Sussmann said.
Another apparently false statement relates to what Sussmann said during the meeting with the CIA concerning his previous meeting with the FBI.
Sussmann gave the same information regarding the alleged secret channel to the CIA that he had to Baker. Sussmann told the officers he had previously contacted Baker but on a “similar, though unrelated, matter,” according to the memo.
In front of the congressional panel, Sussmann said he had already passed on the information to the FBI before he met with the CIA.
“In context, the defendant’s statement that he had provided the FBI with ‘similar, though unrelated’ allegations is false, or at best, misleading,” Durham’s team said in one of the new filings.
Further, the CIA later concluded that both the claim about the secret channel and a separate allegation, which was brought to the CIA and not the FBI, concerning Russian-made phones was “technically plausible,” did not “withstand technical scrutiny,” “contained gaps,” and “conflicted with [itself],” and was “user created and not machine/tool generated,” according to the special counsel’s office.
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