ICYMI| This week one of the biggest stories of the last few years, if not decades began to break … mostly in the ‘alternative media’. It’s not that sites like ours were the ones to break the story or out witted the MSM, rather the ‘mainstream media’ has largely refused to cover Durham’s bombshells.
Now there is another twist in the plot: Michael Sussmann’s lawyers are requesting that the court move to dismiss Durham’s case against the counselor.
The New York Post reported on this breaking development in the story that has captivated the country this week:
Attorneys for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign lawyer filed a motion Thursday to dismiss special counsel John Durham’s case against him, calling the matter “extraordinary prosecutorial overreach.”
The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, was charged last year in Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation after he was accused of lying to an FBI agent when he told them he wasn’t advising Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
In the motion to dismiss, Sussmann’s legal team said he did not make false statements to the FBI — and argued that prosecutors were pursuing him on a technicality.
His lawyers argued that Sussmann voluntarily met with FBI agents in September 2016 to “pass along information that raised national security concerns.”
Sussmann had raised concerns with the FBI about purported ties between the Trump Organization and Moscow’s Alfa Bank. Further review suggested the supposed digital fingerprints were likely the result of junk email.
“He met with the FBI, in other words, to provide a tip. There is no allegation in the indictment that the tip he provided was false. And there is no allegation that he believed that the tip he provided was false,” the motion says.
Joe Hoft of The Gateway Pundit reported:
‘This past weekend Durham released notes showing that Hillary’s team, which included Sussmann, was spying on the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Most Americans believe that spying on the President is not an immaterial matter.
Perhaps Sussmann’s attorneys believe that Sussmann’s actions were immaterial, but when connected to the grander scheme of attempting a coup of the President of the United States, Sussmann’s lies may very well be material.
This is not good for Sussmann or Hillary. This is why he wants to get out of it now.’
It is ironic that as soon as the government uses the tactics that they deployed against Hillary’s enemies on her lawyers we hear cries of ‘not fair’ and complaints about how he ‘voluntarily met with FBI agents’. The shoe doesn’t feel so good when it is on the other foot, now does it, Michael?
I guess it all comes down to what kind of judge ends up hearing the arguments and making the decision.
It’s sad that we can no longer trust the ‘4th estate’ to hold the government accountable. Instead, the media has become more of a PR arm for politicians who are in ‘the club’ so the speak….
