{"id":1425694,"date":"2022-04-08T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425694"},"modified":"2022-04-08T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:29:54","slug":"durham-questions-clinton-campaigns-privilege-claims-demands-court-review-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-questions-clinton-campaigns-privilege-claims-demands-court-review-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Questions Clinton Campaign\u2019s Privilege Claims, Demands Court Review Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fdurham-questions-clinton-campaigns-privilege-claims-demands-court-review-them%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=1425694&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><\/div>\n<p>Special Counsel John Durham requested in a Wednesday filing that a federal judge review claims of attorney-client privilege issued by Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and several other entities.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinton campaign and DNC have withheld documents issued by the Perkins Coie law firm under claims of attorney-client privilege, Durham explained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/568638015\/gov-uscourts-dcd-235638-64-0-2\">filing<\/a> submitted as part of former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann\u2019s indictment for allegedly lying to the FBI. He argues that the documents should not be covered because they relate to Perkins Coie\u2019s hiring of Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on then-candidate Donald Trump and not the law firm\u2019s provision of legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>Both the DNC and the Clinton campaign were recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/fec-fines-clinton-campaign-dnc-steele-dossier\/\">fined<\/a> by the Federal Election Commission for claiming that payments to Perkins Coie were for legal consulting and not opposition research.<\/p>\n<p>Durham also lists documents held by Fusion GPS and former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe as being withheld under claims of privilege. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/04\/durham-filing-clinton-sussmann-indictment\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Absurd\u2019: John Durham Filing Roasts Ex-Clinton Lawyer\u2019s Attempt To Get Indictment Dismissed)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fusion GPS in particular \u201c<span class=\"a\">has withheld approximately 1,455 documents that <\/span><span class=\"a\">are responsive to the subpoenas based on claims of attorney-client privilege and attorney work <\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0product protections<\/span>,\u201d according to the filing. However, \u201ct<span class=\"a\"><span class=\"l6\">he vast majority of <\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">the entries reflect communications with no lawyer listed as a sender, recipient, or copied party,\u201d Durham wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">John Durham says in new court filing that Clinton campaign, DNC and Fusion GPS are withholding documents pertinent to Sussmann case by citing a dubious attorney-client privilege claim.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion GPS withheld 1,455 docs, but only 18 involved a lawyer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rGWMnL4QPA\">https:\/\/t.co\/rGWMnL4QPA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UPNYtfxL0q\">pic.twitter.com\/UPNYtfxL0q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckRossDC\/status\/1511883946610642946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Federal prosecutors frequently assert that defendants abuse claims of attorney-client privilege. For instance, Justice Department lawyers recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/antitrust\/google-accused-by-doj-of-hiding-behind-sham-privilege-claims\">accused<\/a> Google of improperly invoking privilege to shield emails requested as part of an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices.<\/p>\n<p>In cases involving privileged materials, a federal judge may review them, or appoint an official known as a special master to do so. A special master was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/09\/project-veritas-special-master-fbi-raid-ashley-biden\/\">appointed<\/a> in a case involving Project Veritas to review documents seized by the FBI that Veritas claims are protected journalistic material. A special master was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/special-master-will-examine-giuliani-raid-materials-and-determine-attorney-client-privilege-01622820275\">appointed<\/a> to review materials <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/29\/rudy-giuliani-fara-ukraine-lobbying\/\">seized<\/a> from Rudy Giuliani that Giuliani claims should be protected by attorney-client privilege.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Durham is requesting that a judge review the documents and then release them to the government if they are not truly covered by attorney-client privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/hillary-clinton-lawyer-dnc-michael-sussman-lying-fbi-durham-probe-robert-mueller-trump-russia-collusion\/\">charged<\/a> with one count of lying to federal officials for his claim to FBI General Counsel James Baker that he was not working on behalf of a client when he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/16\/lawyer-democratic-indicted-lying-fbi-russia-john-durham-donald-trump\/\">alleged<\/a> that the Trump campaign had a covert communications channel with the Moscow-based Alfa Bank. Sussmann was a partner in Perkins Coie\u2019s cyber division at the time he made the allegation. Perkins Coie\u2019s political division, then-headed up by prominent Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, represented the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel John Durham requested in a Wednesday filing that a federal judge review claims of attorney-client privilege issued by Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"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-1425694","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\/1425694","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425694\/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=1425694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}