2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Medias lab-leak oops, WHs gaslighting on energy and more, GOPers stand up for life and against AG Merrick Garland, Over a dozen sources had Hunter Biden tips: Sen. Chuck Grassley grills AG, China slams COVID lab-leak theory, accuses FBI of politicizing issue, acquitted Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann. That insinuation also hangs over the other case Mr. Durham has developed, which is set to go to trial later this year. The other two had died in prison. ANOTHER UPDATE: John Durham Does Not Exist? Wes Durham, Jordan Cornette . Please share your thoughts about this article below. At the request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. Dave Flemming, Sean Farnham: ESPN2: Tue, March 7: 11:30 a.m. Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship First Round: ESPN+ 2 p.m. Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship First Round: ESPN+ 2 p.m. New York Life ACC Men's Basketball Tournament First Round. "), (Read "The U.S. Prison for Iraq's Worst. In September, Durhams team indicted Sussmann, and in November, they charged a researcher named Igor Danchenko with lying to the FBI about his work on the infamous Steele dossier, in a case that will go to trial in October. But hes happy to help his buddy Donald out. Colleagues say Durham is thorough and cautious in deciding whether a case deserves to be prosecuted. That can make it hard to get motivated." Tom Winter is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit. I miss having bmaz or Rayne tear me a new one, but I had a case of news overload and just had to take a break for a while. He served a year in prison. texas congressman louie gohmert says at a press conference with freedom caucus members calling . If so, I guess that will solve the mystery. That last one should be grabbing our attention. official that he was not acting on behalf of any client. White Students Forced to Pledge Allegiance to BLM, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump-Era Prosecutor's Case Against Democratic-Linked Lawyer Goes to Ive been covering a REALLY weird story about John Durham recently. (long time not see) The document production comes in the March 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 2021, request for records of communication between Special Counsel John Durham and Attorney General Merrick Garland, and all budget records related to the operations of the office of Special Counsel (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice(No. The F.B.I. But if authenticated, isnt this highly unusual? Within the U.S., we have elected to utilize the classification system to protect such shared information. As it is, the court seems to have conscientiously attempted to wade through a thicket of unusual and complex legal issues in order to focus the trial on what should be at issue based on the crime that Durham actually charged whether the alleged misrepresentation by Sussmann actually occurred and, if so, whether it had a material effect on the FBI, as Durham has claimed. John Durham investigation: Michael Sussmann acquitted of lying to FBI You been drinking brew for breakfast In 1999 he was selected by Attorney General Janet Reno to probe law-enforcement corruption in Boston. Liberal heads exploding everywhere right now just thinking about it!]. Mr. Durhams team is expected to object to any such constraint. "). The case against Sussmann was curious from the start, because it was apparent that Durhams team was less interested in a discrete misrepresentation to the FBI during a single meeting than it was in the broader and arguably unseemly opposition research work of the Clinton campaign, its lawyers and the investigative firm Fusion GPS. But Mr. Durhams team obtained law firm billing records showing that Mr. Sussmann had logged time working on the Alfa Bank suspicions to the Clinton campaign. He said Ive never met the man, never even talked to him., You have Bull Durham, who is supposed to be the toughest, Trump said over the telephone during the show. Prosecutors contended that Mr. Murdaugh had killed his son with a shotgun, then gunned down his wife with a rifle when she ran over to see what had happened. Although the Special Counsel implies that in Mr. Sussmanns February 9, 2017 meeting, he provided Agency-2 with EOP data from after Mr. Trump took office, said the attorney, the Special Counsel is well aware that the data provided to Agency-2 pertained only to the period of time before Mr. Trump took office, when Barack Obama was President.. We invite you to become a WeLoveTrump insider. Legal. who posts videos online under the name Erik D. Kirk. Yet, far from alerting the FISC judges that there was significant reason to disbelieve the information from Steele about Trump who was by then the incumbent president the FBI continued to rely on that suspect information in sworn surveillance applications in April and June 2017, based on which the FISC granted additional spying warrants. 2019 TIME USA, LLC. But the judge barred Mr. Durham from presenting evidence or arguments along those lines, saying that unless there was proof Mr. Sussmann had reason to doubt the data when it was brought to him, there should not be a time-consuming and largely unnecessary mini-trial to determine the existence and scope of an uncharged conspiracy.. Thanks for contacting us. Seeking a meeting with the F.B.I. No charge. I hope that some day in the future we will reach this height of technological prowess. On Monday, attorneys for Sussmann filed a response to the special counsels Friday filing, in which they alleged the special counsel had attempted to create the impression that Sussmann had provided the CIA with data collected from the White House during Trumps presidency despite knowing that data given to the agency dated from the Obama administration. Why it matters: It was the first trial in special counsel John Durham's three-year review of possible misconduct by the intelligence community and prosecutors who investigated the 2016 Trump campaign's ties to Russia. Led a task force to go after Hartford street gangs in 1992. All rights reserved. Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. When you type in the name of a website like Google.com, Graham said, DNS will translate it to a specific IP address and a specific group of servers. As youre looking for videos, dont both sending me this one below. And it goes right to the Clinton campaign. In a statement Monday, Trump said the alleged spying was the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate.. John Durham speaks to reporters on the steps of U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., on April 25, 2006. That allegation led to a four-month FBI inquiry into a possible internet backchannel between the Trump Organization and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank. On Thursday, January 20, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The big picture: So far, the only criminal conviction produced by Durham's investigation was against a low-level former FBI lawyer, who was sentenced to 12 months' probation after pleading guilty to altering an email used to obtain a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. I have come to know and discover that John Durham did not exist prior to 2018. Contributions are received from Because no one Cybersecurity expert Rob Graham told NBC News that what Joffe appeared to have been doing was a search for domain names and addresses to which a computer had tried to connect. But it gets worse. The judges rulings were thoughtful and well-reasoned, which managed to obscure just how unusual it is for prosecutors to be so thoroughly constrained from presenting the case that they want. John Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2020 to probe the origins of the FBIs investigation of Russian election interference, said Tech Executive-1, not named in the filing but first identified by The New York Times as Rodney Joffe, used his access to domain name system, or DNS, data to compile information about which computers and servers the White House servers were communicating with. Ill wait patiently over here but I know you cant. According to prosecutors, during a Sept. 19,2016,meeting betweenSussmannand the FBIs general counsel at the time, James Baker, Sussmann told Baker about suspicions relating to alleged secret communications between the Trump campaign and Russia. He was famous way before Trump and Barr, as the man who reportedly took down Whitey Bulger. Progressives' hateful push for hard-left New York Court of A university finally stands up to woke virtue signaling, Biden's WHO pandemic treaty would kill Americans in the name of 'equity', Canadian teacher with size-Z prosthetic breasts placed on paid leave, What's next for Buster Murdaugh after dad's murder conviction, life sentence, Murdaugh son collapsed outside court after sitting stone-faced through dad's 6-week murder trial: source, Kellyanne Conway and George Conway to divorce. Since Durhams appointment, however, a clear dynamic has dominated his investigation namely, a palpable desire among right-wing operatives, commentators and media outlets to use Durhams work, no matter how thin or nebulous the underlying evidence may be, to try to vindicate the theory that Trump was grievously victimized by the Democratic Party in an effort to defeat him and later hobble his presidency. A tech executive exploited his access to computer data at the White House to find derogatory information about President Donald Trump, a special counsel appointed during the Trump administration said in a court filing Friday. In fact, most photos you see are designed to make you think hes talking and giving press conferences. [Side comment: I bet theyd love to Cancel that guy right about now, huh? Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional details throughout. Thus, pursuant to International law, he was obligated to protect it which he clearly failed to do. The judge ruled, for instance, that Durhams team cannot suggest to the jury that the data provided to the FBI by Sussmann had been improperly obtained or used by Joffe, since prosecutors had failed to provide sufficient evidence showing that Mr. Sussmann had concerns that the data was obtained inappropriately, or that he had any independent knowledge about the data collection beyond whatever he may have learned from Mr. Joffe through privileged communications., Even more significantly, the judge curtailed Durhams ability to present evidence on the question that seems to have been driving the case from the start in particular, whether, as Durham claimed in court filings, there was a wide-ranging conspiracy comprised of officials from the Clinton campaign, the campaigns lawyers, Joffe, Fusion GPS and an assortment of IT professionals to prevent Trumps election by assembling and disseminating the [Alfa Bank] allegations and other derogatory information about Trump to the media and the U.S. government., The court concluded that while Durhams team had proffered some evidence of a collective effort to disseminate the purported link between Trump and Alfa Bank to the press and others, the contours of this venture and its participants are not entirely obvious. The judge went on to observe that it was far from clear that the researchers who were not employed by Mr. Joffe, Fusion GPS, or the Clinton Campaign, and most of whom never communicated with Mr. Sussmann shared in this common goal, and, as a result, ultimately held that Durham had failed to justify what would essentially amount to a second trial on a non-crime.. The attorneys also said that Sussmann never billed the Clinton campaign for the February meeting with the CIA, nor could he have because the campaign had effectively ceased to exist. ET):A previous version of this article incorrectly specified a time period in special counsel Durhams Feb. 11 filing when internet data from the White House was collected. That we had to file a federal lawsuit to get basic budget information about this historic investigation speaks volumes. Before I get to that, let me recap the story we broke here at WeLoveTrump about 3 weeks ago. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME A LINK TO GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS OR BING VIDEO SEARCH RESULTS SEARCHING FOR JOHN DURHAM. No video of the trial, not a single press conference or interview or questions from reporters. Michael Sussmann (right) is facing a single count of lying to the FBIs top lawyer in the run-up to the election in order to instigate a criminal investigation into Trump, but the investigation led by John Durham (left) has come to represent much more in the public imagination. In 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey tasked . Durham was appointed to serve as Special Counsel for the Department of Justice on October 19, 2020: The Special Counsel is authorized to investigate whether any federal official, employee, or any other person or entity violated the law in connection with the intelligence, counter-intelligence, or law-enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns, individuals associated with those campaigns, and individuals associated with the administration of President Donald J. Trump, including but not limited to Crossfire Hurricane and the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, Ill. Just in case the local LEO decide to make you or someone nearby a target. Durhams investigation suffered a significant setback in the spring when a Washington, DC, jury acquitted Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann. Non-reimbursable costs totaled $2,334,911, for costs such as travel ($457,207), rent ($306,350), and Other Contractual Services ($1,297,054). But instead, the notion that Durham has been improperly muzzled by a Democrat-appointed judge however fallacious it may be seems primed to have the opposite effect among many of his supporters. 20 Months: A Comparison of the Mueller and Durham Investigations, shared highly classified Israeli intelligence, almost entirely redacted 302 from Ted Gistaro, https://twitter.com/MattBraynard/status/1333912074741833728, https://laptrinhx.com/rogue-agent-how-rudy-giuliani-got-paid-by-the-government-of-ukraine-to-influence-u-s-1558983820/, https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335357799224709128, https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1335416880148828160, DOJ Says Inciting a Riot Is Not Part of the Presidents Job Description. Breaking: Special counsel John Durham abruptly announces his - TheBlaze was aware that he had represented Democrats on matters related to Russias hacking of their servers, and subsequent communications made clear that he also had a client who had played a role in developing the data analysis concerning Alfa Bank, his lawyers say.