{"id":1294065,"date":"2022-02-13T00:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294065"},"modified":"2022-02-13T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T05:22:41","slug":"john-durham-filing-suggests-clinton-operatives-spied-on-trump-in-2016-and-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durham-filing-suggests-clinton-operatives-spied-on-trump-in-2016-and-in-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"John Durham Filing Suggests Clinton Operatives Spied on Trump in 2016 and in White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-durham-filing-suggests-clinton-operatives-spied-on-trump-in-2016-and-in-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2017\/12\/donald-trump-phone-call-getty-image.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion in federal court in Washington, DC, on Friday alleging that Hillary Clinton\u2019s political allies paid a contractor to spy on Donald Trump \u2014 both as a candidate, and as president \u2014 using cell phone data.<\/p>\n<p>The motion was filed in the case of former Clinton Campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sco\/pr\/grand-jury-indicts-dc-attorney-making-false-statements-fbi-2016-regarding-alleged\">charged<\/a> with lying to the FBI about whether he was working for the campaign when he told the FBI about a false link between Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sussmann was a partner at Perkins Coie, which often represents Democrats and which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier\/2017\/10\/24\/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html\">hired<\/a> Fusion GPS to produce the false Russia \u201cdossier\u201d on then-candidate Trump, at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Durham\u2019s filing deals with a potential conflict of interest involving Sussmann\u2019s legal representation from&nbsp;Latham &amp; Watkins LLP, which also represented others in the investigation \u201cwhose interests may conflict with those of the defendant.\u201d These, the Techno Fog blog <a href=\"https:\/\/technofog.substack.com\/p\/durham-clinton-allies-spied-on-the\">notes<\/a>, include Perkins Coie, former Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias, and the Hillary Clinton campaign. If they are also charged or exposed to criminal liability, the firm might face a conflict of interest among the various defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The filing then reveals that Sussmann was involved in an effort to mine data from a project run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at a U.S. university (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/10\/07\/durham_probes_pentagon_computer_contractors_in_anti-trump_conspiracy_797790.html\">identified<\/a> in previous reports as Georgia Tech) to spy on Trump and his associates \u2014 at Trump Tower, at Trump\u2019s private residence, and at the Executive Office of the Presidency once Trump took office int the White House. Their goal was to dig up damaging information that could then be used to build the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d narrative against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>As Durham notes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/558443477\/US-v-Sussmann-GOVERNMENT-S-MOTION-TO-INQUIRE-INTO-POTENTIAL-CONFLICTS-OF-INTEREST\">filing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>4. The Indictment also alleges that, beginning in approximately July 2016, Tech Executive-1 had worked with the defendant, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm-1 on behalf of the Clinton Campaign, numerous cyber researchers, and employees at multiple Internet companies to assemble the purported data and white papers. In connection with these efforts, Tech Executive-1 exploited his access to non-public and\/or proprietary Internet data. Tech Executive-1 also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract. Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish \u201can inference\u201d and \u201cnarrative\u201d tying then-candidate Trump to Russia. In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain \u201cVIPs,\u201d referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>5. The Government<span class=\"a\">\u2019s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data <\/span><span class=\"a\">Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (\u201cDNS\u201d) Internet traffic<\/span><span class=\"a\">&nbsp;pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump\u2019s Central <\/span><span class=\"a\">Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States <\/span><span class=\"a\">(\u201cEOP\u201d). (Tech Executive-1\u2019s employer, <span class=\"l6\">Internet Company-1, had <span class=\"l7\">come to access and maintain <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS <\/span><span class=\"a\">resolution services <span class=\"l6\">to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this <span class=\"l8\">arrangement by <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">mining the EOP\u2019s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information <\/span><span class=\"a\">about Donald Trump.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"outer_page_3\" class=\"outer_page only_ie6_border\">\n<div id=\"page3\" class=\"newpage\">\n<div class=\"text_layer\">\n<div class=\"ie_fix\">\n<div class=\"ff2\">\n<p>The filing further explains that claims of collusion involving were based on supposed hookups from these targeted sites with a Russian mobile phone provider, but failed to note that these connections were common in the U.S. and had begun in 2014 \u2014 i.e. during the Obama administration, long before Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations in Durham\u2019s filing are already being compared to Watergate, which began when Republican operatives broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 presidential campaign. In this case, however, the alleged spying was not confined to the campaign but continued after the election, once Trump was already the president.<\/p>\n<p>July 2016 also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/23\/brennan-russia-house-intelligence-late-july-liberal-media\/\">marks<\/a> the point at which the Obama administration launched its investigation into supposed links between Trump and Russia, after Trump joked at a press conference about Russia looking for Hillary Clinton\u2019s missing emails.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2017, after radio host Mark Levin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/03\/03\/mark-levin-obama-used-police-state-tactics-undermine-trump\/\">noted<\/a> evidence in the public domain that investigators had used wiretaps to eavesdrop on Trump associates, Trump claimed the government had his \u201cwires tapped\u201d and was attacked by the media.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers\">quoted<\/a> former Trump aides reacting to the news of Durham\u2019s filing, claiming it vindicated their suspicions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former chief investigator of the Trump-Russia probe for the House Intelligence Committee under then-Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Kash Patel, said the filing \u201cdefinitively shows that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPer Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later President of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax,\u201d Patel told Fox News, adding that the lawyers worked to \u201cinfiltrate\u201d Trump Tower and White House servers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former President Trump also issued a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia. This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution. In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sussmann has pleaded not guilty in the case.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion in federal court in Washington, DC, on Friday alleging that Hillary Clinton\u2019s political allies paid a contractor to spy on Donald Trump \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}