A View from the Beach: PSA: Clinton.com Goes On Trials Tomorrow

In the person of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman: John Sexton at Haut Hair, The trial of Michael Sussmann starts Monday

When we last checked in with the John Durham case against Michael Sussmann, Durham’s team had asked the judge to decide whether a small group of Fusion GPS emails were covered by attorney-client privilege. According to lawyers for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Fusion GPS was hired solely to provide legal advice about defamation and libel laws which meant everything they did was legal consulting work. Judge Christopher Cooper didn’t seem to buy that claim and yesterday announced that Fusion GPS would have to turn over 22 emails to the prosecutors.

Fusion, the Clinton campaign and its law firm Perkins Coie say the emails don’t show any wrongdoing, but they have fought in court to prevent Durham from obtaining them…

“Fusion did more in connection with the Alfa Bank allegations than simply provide information and analysis to (Clinton campaign lawyer Marc) Elias so that he could better advise the Campaign on defamation risk,” federal Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in a ruling, explaining that the emails went beyond typical attorney-client work.

“It is clear that Fusion employees also interacted with the press as part of an affirmative media relations effort by the Clinton Campaign. That effort included pitching certain stories, providing information on background, and answering reporters’ questions,” Cooper wrote.
That’s a clear win for Durham’s team, though the judge also said that prosecutors can’t use those emails in the case against Sussmann because they will be turned over on the eve of his trial which starts Monday. Yesterday the Washington Post described the trial as the first real test of Durham’s approach to the case.

The charge against Sussmann is the first Durham case to go to trial. A Washington-based researcher faces trial later this year for allegedly lying to the FBI about how he collected allegations against Trump. In 2020, a former FBI lawyer pleaded guilty to illegally changing a government record.

Robert Mintz, another former federal prosecutor, said the trial next week “will be the first real test” of Durham’s work. By going to trial, he said,Sussmann has “thrown down the gauntlet and challenged the significance of the prosecution and the wisdom of bringing the case.”…

“The strategy,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew DeFilippis said in court Monday, “was to create news stories … to get the government to investigate it … and to get the press to report the government was investigating.”…

Prosecutors signaled this week that they plan to call a host of current and former law enforcement officials to describe how the FBI pursued the Alfa Bank accusations, and to paint Sussmann as part of a “joint venture” that included Joffe, Clinton’s campaign, research firm Fusion GPS and cybersecurity experts.
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Kimberley Strassel argued yesterday that Durham’s team has already gone a long way to revealing the machinations behind the scenes of the Clinton campaign, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS and the rest . . .

I used to follow, and post the Russiagate and Durham trial material daily, but lately progress has been slow and incremental, and stuff has been going into cold storage for periodic update posts. But now it looks like it's coming to a head. I still have considerable doubt that even John Durham can find 12 jurors in Washington D.C. objective enough to look at the evidence and decide that a Democrat lawyer working for Hillary Clinton broke the law. Nevertheless, I look forward to the trial revealing the grand scheme of the Clinton campaign to dirty Trump (which is not in itself illegal, just dirty), and to use her sway, and the sway of the Democrat party to wrangle the offices of federal government, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and likely the NSA into going along. I doubt they needed much more than a little encouragement and cover. At least the perfidies of the Clinton crime family and their governmental enablers will be aired in public.

UPDATE: I screwed up. Now it's tomorrow.

Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.

Below the fold, my accumulated Durham related posts, still more or less in their original order, so new stuff is at the bottom:

and just for good measure, a bit of catch up on "Russiagate" as a whole:

Don Surber: Jon Stewart boldly takes on Mueller 4 years too late
BARR: No Longer Your Father’s FBI | The Daily Caller
The Scandal Obama Still Won’t Acknowledge - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Media Collusion: Nets Silent on Hillary Being Fined Over Sketchy Steele Dossier | Newsbusters
Biden DOJ helps Trump by blocking Strzok's efforts to force deposition | Washington Examiner
What The Media Still Isn't Telling You About Russiagate | ZeroHedge
The Biden administrative continues the Democrat war against Mike Flynn - American Thinker
Exclusive: Researchers Said DNC Hack Claims Relied On 'Spoofed' Data

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Saturday, May 14, 2022

PSA: Clinton.com Goes On Trials Tomorrow

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