“Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court has ordered the FBI to disclose additional details about FBI and other officials “cc-ed” on the memo used to justify launching the “Crossfire Hurricane” spy operation against President Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign. Judge Carl J. Nichols has given the FBI until June 16, 2022 to respond. The order comes in …
May 2, 2022 – Durham releases FEC filings to counter Clinton claim that Fusion GPS emails should remain secret because they’re ‘legal advice’
(…) The Clinton Campaign (including Robby Mook and John Podesta), Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie, Rodney Joffe, and the DNC are fighting to keep these e-mails and records secret, reasoning Fusion’s “role was to provide consulting services in support of the legal advice attorneys at Perkins Coie were providing to” the Clinton Campaign. That argument – that Fusion GPS was helping …
May 2, 2022- Federal Court orders FBI to disclose more of Strzok’s redacted email used to justify the launch of Crossfire Hurricane
NEW: Fed Court ORDERS Biden FBI to disclose more info about who was involved in spy op against Trump! “This court decision is another step forward in accountability for the worst government corruption scandal in American history.” https://t.co/0ClLdqncB8 pic.twitter.com/JtFrb4mecG — Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) May 17, 2022 “Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court had ordered the FBI to …
May 3, 2022 – Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, is accused of being a Nazi sympathizer by deputy leader of Germany’s Bundestag Left Party
“Kiev’s envoy, Andrey Melnik, is under fire for insulting Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The deputy leader of the Bundestag’s Left Party, Sevim Dagdelen, has accused the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin, Andrey Melnik, of being a Nazi sympathizer and urged for his immediate expulsion. The move was called for after Melnik insulted Chancellor Olaf Scholz, calling him an “offended liverwurst” for his …
May 4, 2022 – Judge grants an ‘in camera review’ of the “privileged” Fusion GPS emails
(…) Hillary for America (or what we might call the Clinton campaign), the DNC, Rodney Joffe, Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS have all been involved in this privilege fight, submitting declarations in support of their motions against Durham’s access to these documents/e-mails. Here we discussed the Clinton Campaign’s dubious assertion that Fusion GPS was providing “legal advice” to the campaign’s …
May 7, 2022 – Bill Clinton’s former special advisor, Mark Middleton, who is also linked to Epstein, dies at 59
“Mark Middleton, a special advisor to the former U.S. President Bill Clinton, died on Saturday leaving a trail of unanswered questions. The cause of the death of Middleton, 59, is not known as his family simply shared the information about his sudden demise which has created a furor on social media. (…) As per a report published by The Sun Middleton …
May 9, 2022 – Democratic political operatives and officials are set to testify in Sussmann trial
“Several high-profile Democratic political operatives and officials are set to take the witness stand next week in the trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, attorneys for both sides revealed in court Monday. Mr. Sussmann is denying government charges that he lied to FBI officials when he tried to supply them with information related to possible links between the campaign of Republican rival Donald Trump and …
May 10, 2022 – Biden’s deputy AG, Lisa Monaco, who attended secret WH meetings that spawned the Russiagate hoax, now wants to indict Trump for the January 6th rally
“The DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco was caught using a pseudonymous email while in office during the Obama years. This comes as no surprise since Monaco was part of Obama’s secret team that met in the White House basement in 2016 to discuss how to set up Donald Trump in their Trump-Russia collusion sham. The Gateway Pundit reported on …
May 10, 2022 – Former Clinton attorney, Michael Sussmann, wants DC jurors to know he is anti-Trump
“Former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann wants to make sure the jurors at his upcoming trial in heavily Democratic Washington, DC, know he was working against former President Donald Trump — even before they hear any evidence in the case. In court papers filed ahead of jury selection set for Monday, Sussmann’s lawyers asked federal Judge Christopher Cooper to include an …
May 10, 2022 – NARA’s Debra Steidel Wall launches the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago
(…) With every development regarding this federal ransacking, two things remain unchanged. It looks increasingly clear that the Trump legal team was cooperating with federal officials regarding the documents in question, so the obstruction of justice allegation gets weaker by the day. Second, where is the crime that precipitated this search of Trump’s home because recent updates only make it …
May 11, 2022 – Obama-appointed Sussmann judge, also knew Sussmann as a “professional acquaintance”
“As the trial against Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann begins, questions have emerged over the judge’s apparent conflicts of interest. In addition to having been “professional acquaintances” with the defendant, US District Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper, an Obama appointee (who was on Obama’s transition team), is married to lawyer Amy Jeffress who’s representing key ‘Russiagate’ figure Lisa Page in her lawsuit …
May 12, 2022 – Fusion GPS loses its fight over “privileged” documents and how Joffe’s “privilege” can be overcome
“We’ve documented the ongoing battle to obtain Fusion GPS e-mails and documents in the Michael Sussmann case. At issue in the Sussmann case are 38 e-mails and attachments between and among Fusion GPS, Rodney Joffe, and Perkins Coie. These 38 e-mails and attachments are among approximately 1,500 documents that Fusion GPS withheld from production to the grand jury based on “privilege.” …
May 14, 2022 – Biden laptop research group, MarcoPoloUSA, releases 128k emails
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May 16, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 1 – Judge allows Hillary Clinton donors in jury pool
“As many as three Hillary Clinton donors — including one who also supported US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are among the prospective jurors for former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s trial. Special counsel John Durham’s team objected to putting one Clinton contributor on the panel after the man said he would “strive for impartiality as best I can.” But the …
May 17, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 2 – Rodney Joffe was a confidential informant for the FBI and was fired “for cause” in 2021
“The technology executive who was one of Michael Sussmann’s clients when Sussmann took sketchy claims to the U.S. government was terminated as a confidential informant by the FBI in 2021, prosecutors revealed during Sussmann’s trial on May 17. Rodney Joffe, the executive, exploited his access to non-public data at multiple technology companies to conduct opposition research into then-presidential candidate Donald …
May 17, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 2 – Opening statements; testimonies of FBI Special Agents David Martin and Scott Hellmann
“It started with disclosure by Special Counsel DeFilippis informing the Court that government witness Dr. Manos Antonakakis (identified as Researcher-1 in the Sussmann indictment) “has decided to invoke his Fifth Amendment right.” He would not be called to the stand. More background on Manos here. From there it was time for opening statements. Special Counsel Brittain Shaw made clear that …
May 17, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 2 – Two FBI special agents and a Neustar employee testify
“Two FBI agents and a Neustar employee testified after opening statements on Tuesday, the second day in the trial of 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, with more witnesses for the prosecution expected to take the stand Wednesday. (…) FBI Special Agents David Martin and Scott Hellman were the prosecution’s first two witnesses, followed by Neustar employee Steve DeJong. …
May 18, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 3 – Marc Elias testimony
(…) Now we get to Marc Elias. Elias meets weekly with Fusion GPS at his office. Typically Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson would be in attendance. Generally, those meetings involved discussions of Elias’s “needs” and Fusion GPS’s “work” – which included what Elias described as the “unusual connections” the Trump Campaign had with Russia. They would also report to Elias …
May 18, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 3 – James Baker testimony
The last witness – former FBI General Counsel James Baker Recall that Baker was approached by Sussmann for a meeting in September 2016 regarding the Alfa Bank allegations. The lie told at that meeting – that Sussmann wasn’t there on behalf of a client – is at issue in this case. Sussmann had scheduled the meeting via a text to …
May 18, 2022 – Sussman trial: Day 3 – Marc Elias testifies he kept Jake Sullivan in the loop on Trump-Alfa Bank hoax
Here’s Marc Elias testifying that he kept Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sulllivan in the loop on the Trump – Alfa Bank Russia hoax. Any reporters going to ask Jake about this? pic.twitter.com/gGoS3lpdyQ — Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) May 22, 2022
May 18, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 3 – Laura Seago testimony
We start with the short testimony of Deborah Fine. Testimony of Laura Seago Laura Seago worked with Fusion GPS back in 2016, where she reported directly to Fritsch and Simpson. She has been granted immunity by the Special Counsel for her testimony. She understood Marc Elias to be the Fusion GPS contact for the Clinton Campaign. Seago stated she was …
May 19, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 4 – More from Marc Elias and James Baker
Day 4 of the Michael Sussmann trial is all Jim Baker, all day. The case against Hillary Clinton’s former lawyer continues with a deep examination of the former FBI agent. Timecodes: 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:34 – Mindmap Overview 00:10:08 – Afternoon Session Transcript (Sussmann Trial Day 3) 00:18:00 – Witness Marc Elias (Continued Direct Examination) 00:35:23 – Witness Marc Elias …
May 20, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 5 – Testimony of CIA employee “Kevin P” who was approached by Sussmann and given the Alfa Bank data
“Former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann denied he was “representing a client” when he gave the CIA faulty data linking Donald Trump to Russia — and appeared “frustrated” that officials weren’t taking the information seriously, two former agency employees testified Friday. One ex-spy — identified in court only as “Kevin P.” — recalled that he and a colleague met with Sussmann …
May 20, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 5 – Robby Mook testifies Hillary approved Trump Russian bank allegations to the media
“Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton approved a plan during the 2016 campaign to feed false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion to the media, her campaign manager said Friday. Testifying to a federal court in the trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, Robby Mook noted that Clinton signed off on a scheme to send journalists data about possible links between Donald Trump and …
May 23, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 6 – FBI leadership kept Chicago field agents in the dark about Clinton as source of Trump-Alfa Bank claims
“In the final weeks leading up to the 2016 election, FBI agents were sent down a rabbit hole of chasing supposed secret communications between then-candidate Donald Trump and a Russia-linked bank. They ultimately found the claim bogus, but not before launching a full investigation and employing both internal and outside experts. The allegation fueled the FBI’s broader probe of alleged Trump–Russia collusion, …
May 23, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 6 – FBI Chicago field office wrongly investigated the Trump-Alfa Bank claims on basis of DOJ’s ‘referral”
“FBI agents probing since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between Donald Trump and a Russian bank believed that the allegations had originated with the Department of Justice — when in fact they came from Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, who had shopped them to the bureau’s then-general counsel days earlier. In the latest revelation to emerge from Sussmann’s trial …
May 24, 2022 – Sussman trial: Day 7 – Trisha Anderson testimony; an email is discussed that proves she did know Sussmann was working for the DNC
“Today in the Michael Sussmann trial, we received additional information regarding the FBI leadership’s involvement in the opening – and execution – of the Alfa Bank/Trump investigation. This included FBI Headquarters not approving an FBI agent’s repeated requests to interview the sources of the Alfa Bank “materials.” But first, we’ll start with the examination of Trisha Anderson. Anderson is currently the …
May 24, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 7 – Testimony of FBI special agent Curtis Heide; FBI HQ rebuffs his request to interview source of Alfa Bank white papers
(…) Back in September 2016, FBI Special Agent Curtis Heide was assigned to the Alfa Bank “investigation in a co-case-agent capacity.” His trainee, FBI Agent Allison Sands, was the lead investigator on the case. The case came from FBI Headquarters in DC – specifically from Joe Pientka. While Heide understood the Alfa Bank allegations came from an “anonymous source,” Heide …
May 24, 2022 – Sussmann trial Day 7: Testimony of Jared Novick, former CEO of BitVoyant
(…) Novick was a former business partner of Rodney Joffe at BitVoyant, a company that focused on private sector cybersecurity. He reported directly to a board on which Rodney Joffe was a member. In August of 2016, Joffe gave Novick a task to dig up data “related to Donald Trump and Russia”: Who did Joffe target? According to Novick: Rodney …
May 24, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 7 – The ‘Crimson Rhino’ File
“More FBI agents took the stand at the Sussmann trial and confirmed they were led astray from the very start of their investigation into claims of Russia collusion with former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The link between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Russia collusion narrative got clearer on day seven of the trial. Taking the limelight in the …
May 24, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 7 – Defense points out an FBI Confidential Human Source who did a technical analysis of the Alfa Bank white paper and believed it was credible
(…) Then there’s the testimony regarding another FBI confidential human source. According to today’s transcripts, another person provided information to the FBI regarding the Alfa Bank allegations: Who is this CHS? Someone with media connections (or someone in the media) close to the Joffe researchers with a political interest in the Alfa Bank allegations. The significance of this is two-fold. …
May 25, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 8 – Prosecution rests, defense witnesses testify
The Prosecution RESTS on Day 8 of the Michael Sussmann trial as defense attorneys call their first witnesses. Timecodes: 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:39 – Mindmap Overview 00:06:08 – Early Superchats 00:06:59 – Afternoon Session Transcript (Sussmann Trial Day 7) 00:12:17 – Witness Curtis Heide (Redirect Examination) 00:16:47 – Witness Jared Novick (Direct Examination) 00:41:38 – Witness Jared Novick (Cross-Examination) 00:56:15 …
May 25, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 8 – Retired FBI Agent Tom Grasso testifies of his connection with Joffe re Alfa Bank and Trump Russia
“Grasso, a witness for Sussmann, was a Special Agent with the FBI whose “primary responsibility involved investigating cyber crimes.” He was part of a unit detailed to the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The NCFTA, as Grasso explained, “is a nonprofit entity where nonprofit entity where private sector and law enforcement can come together to …
May 25, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Day 8 – The cross-examination of former FBI agent Grasso
“We’ll start with some important questions posed by Special Counsel DeFilippis on Joffe’s background. Q. And so Mr. Joffe worked on a number of investigations involving foreign cyber threats; is that right? Grasso: I would say all a matter of cyber threats, yes. Q. Okay. So does that include nation state threats? Would he be, you know, working with the …
May 26, 2022 – Sussmann Trial: Day 9 – Defense Rests, Jury Charged
The Michael Sussman defense team RESTS after their final character witnesses are called to the stand. Judge Cooper reads the jury instructions in preparation for closing arguments on the final day of trial. Timecodes: 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:50 – Mindmap Overview 00:08:28 – Afternoon Session Transcript (Sussmann Trial Day 8) 00:12:24 – Defense Witness Brandon Charnov (Direct Examination) 00:29:19 – …
May 26, 2022 – Former AG Bill Barr calls Russiagate ‘seditious’
“Bill Barr, former U.S. attorney general and author of the new book, “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General,” says that the Russian collusion allegations leveled against former President Donald Trump by Democrats were a “seditious” attempt to undermine his presidency and a “grave injustice.” Barr made those comments on an upcoming episode of BlazeTV host Glenn …
May 26, 2022 – Sussmann Trial Exhibits courtesy of Epoch Times
Link: Sussmann Trial Exhibits
May 31, 2022 – Grassley writes to Wray and Garland about Timothy Thibault and his public political bias against Trump
(…) on May 31, Grassley sent the first of four letters to FBI Director Wray and AG Garland. Grassley leveled a very serious allegation, noting that “while serving in a highly sensitive role that includes threshold decision-making over which Federal public corruption matters are opened for investigation,” the Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the Washington Field Office, Timothy Thibault, violated …
May 31, 2022 – July 25, 2022: Whistleblowers reveal widespread DOJ/FBI misconduct
“Prior to the FBI’s raid Monday on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a string of whistleblower reports alleged that senior officials at the FBI exhibited a pattern of bias in their handling of politically sensitive investigations and also reclassified cases without justification to substantiate the White House’s public narratives on crime and extremism. Beginning in late May, Iowa Republican …
May 31, 2022 – The FBI maintains a workspace, including computer portal, inside the law firm of Perkins Coie
“There is very little that surprises me, but this is completely stunning. An FBI whistleblower came forth to inform Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Matt Gaetz that the FBI maintains a workspace inside the law firm of Perkins Coie. {Direct Rumble Link} In response to a letter sent by Rep. Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan, Perkins Coie, the legal arm …
May 31, 2022 – Sussmann trial: Sussmann edited FBI press release about DNC hack because it ‘undermined’ the DNC’s narrative
Documents released during Michael Sussmann’s federal trial show the FBI solicited advice from Hillary Clinton’s lawyer on a press release describing the intelligence agency’s awareness of the Democratic National Committee hack in 2016. The original press release sent over to Sussmann by Jim Trainor, the assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, noted that the FBI was aware of “a possible …
May 31, 2022 – Michael Sussmann has been acquitted
“The acquittal is no surprise. This is a DC jury, after all. In the Roger Stone case, for example, we documented how a juror lied to get on the panel. (That judge didn’t care.) Making matters worse, the Sussmann judge wrongly allowed a woman to remain on the jury, despite the fact that her daughter and Sussmann’s are on the …