John Durham is looking to indict a lawyer tied to the Democratic Party for lying to the FBI back in 2016 about Trump and Russia:
NY POST – The federal prosecutor named during the Trump administration to examine the origins of the Russia investigation is close to going to a grand jury to try to get an indictment against a lawyer with ties to the Democratic Party for lying to the FBI.
Special counsel John Durham is focusing on Michael Sussmann’s Sept. 19, 2016, conversation with an FBI employee about a possible connection between a Russia-based bank and servers at the Trump Organization, Fox News reported Thursday.
But the statute of limitations expires Sunday on Sussmann’s meeting with FBI general counsel James Baker, and it’s unclear whether Durham’s probe will continue to be funded past the end of the government’s fiscal year on Sept. 30, the report said.
Lawyers for Sussmann, a partner at Perkins Coie, a law firm that has represented the Democratic National Committee, told Fox News that he is a “highly respected national security and cyber security lawyer” who “served in the Justice Department during both Republican and Democrat administrations.”
“Mr. Sussmann has committed no crime,” the lawyers said. “Any prosecution here would be baseless, unprecedented, and unwarranted deviation from the apolitical and principled way in which the Department of Justice is supposed to do its work. We are confident that if Mr. Sussmann is charged, he will prevail and vindicate his good name.”
Durham’s prosecutors have interviewed officials in the intelligence community and the Justice Department, but have yet to release an official report.
Part of Durham’s probe is to uncover whether Sussmann was secretly working for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the DNC.
A report in the New York Times says Sussmann denied those claims.
I’m sorry, but this seems underwhelming. Durham has been working on this probe for a long time now and I would have expected a lot more than just some DNC connected lawyer lying to the FBI. Now it if turns out that Sussmann is a bigger fish than it seems, I’ll retract my disappointment.
Toward the end of last year when everyone was clamoring for the report that Barr had promised us before the election, I was fairly patient about wanting too much to quickly, as I know these investigations are complicated and take time. But it’s almost a year later and this is all we are getting?
How many times have we heard the great reporter John Solomon say he thought Durham wasn’t far from indictments? But still nothing, except this, I guess. I’m really starting to believe at this point that every single one of the people that perpetrated this phony Trump Russia scandal on the country are not going to be held accountable, and that saddens me greatly.