Hillary Clinton Campaign attorney Michael Sussmann has been indicted by Special Counsel John Durham for lying to the FBI. When Sussmann met with the FBI in 2016 to alert them to suspicious internet traffic between a Russian bank and a Trump email server, he said he was a concerned citizen doing his patriotic duty, not representing any client. No big deal, right? What's a tiny white lie when America is at risk of takeover by Putin puppet Donald Trump? If Trump had a secret communications channel for receiving his orders from Putin, the FBI should investigate it.
Small problem number one: The FBI decided nothing was nefarious about the DNS lookups (Domain Name System) between Alfa Bank and the Trump email server.
Small problem number two: Sussmann billed his time preparing for and attending this and other meetings to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. It gets worse.
Techno Fog: CIA Bombshell: The Sussmann data was "user created"
Durham provided to the Court two sets of notes related to Sussmann’s representations to the CIA. The first was from Sussmann’s January 31, 2017 contacts with a CIA employee where Sussmann discussed wanting to provide to the CIA data on “the presence and activity of a unique Russian made phone around President Trump.” It was said that this secret activity started in April 2016 and continued after Trump’s “move to the White House.”
Sussmann alleged the Russian phone (YotaPhone) was always close to Trump (“only around the President’s Movements”), surfacing at his Trump Tower Network in April 2016 and being used through Wi-Fi at Trump’s Grand Central West apartment. The phone even “appeared with Trump in Michigan” when he was interviewing a Cabinet Secretary.
At a minimum, this confirms what we reported nearly two months ago: that the Trump transition data was passed to the CIA. Yet it’s also more than that. The CIA was provided with data all the way back from April 2016.
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The CIA reviewed the Trump/YotaPhone data (and the Alfa Bank data) in early 2017. The fact that the CIA accepted this data on President Trump is its own scandal. In any event, the CIA’s findings are significant, as they concluded that the data was not “technically plausible” and was “user created and not machine/tool generated.”
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Michael Sussmann's little white lie has opened a can of worms, revealing a well coordinated project involving a law firm, an investigative firm, a technology firm, researchers at Georgia Tech, the news media, and the Clinton campaign. And there is sure to be more. In fact, Durham granted immunity to one of the Georgia Tech researchers, and he plans to grant immunity at trial to an employee of the investigative firm. Immunity in a case about lying to the FBI? Though no one has been charged with it, the word "conspiracy" appears in the filings.