{"id":1465777,"date":"2022-05-05T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465777"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:44:56","slug":"sussmann-judge-to-review-docs-clinton-campaign-tried-to-keep-out-of-courts-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sussmann-judge-to-review-docs-clinton-campaign-tried-to-keep-out-of-courts-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussmann Judge To Review Docs Clinton Campaign Tried To Keep Out Of Court\u2019s Sight"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fsussmann-judge-to-review-docs-clinton-campaign-tried-to-keep-out-of-courts-sight%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=1465777&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/John-Durham.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The judge in the case of attorney Michael Sussmann will review a batch of Clinton campaign emails and other documents to determine whether they were improperly concealed from the court.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Christopher Cooper\u2019s ruling is a victory for special counsel John Durham, who has pushed to introduce the documents as evidence in his case against Sussmann, who is charged with lying to the FBI in 2016 about his motivations for presenting the bureau with later debunked evidence of the Trump Organization communicating with Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank. Hillary for America, the law firm Perkins Coi, and others involved in the allegations against former President Donald Trump claimed that the communications and documents Durham is after are protected under attorney-client privilege, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/durham-convinces-judge-to-review-concealed-documents-in-clinton-privilege-battle\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper acquiesced to Durham\u2019s request on Wednesday to view the emails in an \u201cin camera\u201d setting, or in a private area away from the public and press. The batch of documents include a contract between Perkins Coie and the research firm Fusion GPS. The documents also include 30 \u201cinternal Fusion emails\u201d and eight emails between Sussman and tech executive Rodney Joffe, who is alleged to have helped Sussmann compile the faulty data the attorney presented to the FBI. All of the emails relate to the Alfa Bank allegations, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/technofog.substack.com\/p\/transcript-the-fight-over-privileged?s=r\">court transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 38 emails are part of a batch of about 1,500 messages that Fusion GPS has asserted attorney-client privilege over. Cooper questioned Durham prosecutor Jonathan Algor about his intended purpose for the other emails should some of the in camera emails be included in the trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if I were to rule that the 30 emails are not privileged, you\u2019re not going to come back to me with the 1,500 that you want to review?\u201d Cooper asked, according to the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>Algor answered no, but hinted that Durham may have plans to bring more charges in the future. So far, Durham has charged three people in his investigation into the origin of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy. All three men \u2013 Sussmann, Russian analyst Igor Danchenko, and former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith \u2013 were charged with making false statements to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour honor, so I \u2013 not for this trial. I do think that your honor\u2019s decision, though, is important for other investigations,\u201d Algor told Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann approached then-FBI general counsel James Baker in 2016 with what Sussmann claimed was evidence of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and the Russian Alfa Bank. Sussmann allegedly deceived Baker about his motivations for presenting the evidence, specifically that the Perkins Coie attorney was representing both the campaign of then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Joffe.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier filing to the court, Durham said that the CIA had concluded that some of the evidence that Sussmann presented to the FBI was more than just false; it appeared to be purposely faked. Durham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing\">wrote<\/a> in an April 15 filing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>For example, while\u00a0the FBI did\u00a0not reach an ultimate conclusion regarding the data\u2019s accuracy or whether it might have been in whole or in part genuine, spoofed, altered, or fabricated, Agency-2 concluded in early 2017 that the Russian Bank-1 data and\u00a0Russian Phone Provider-1 data\u00a0was not \u201ctechnically plausible,\u201d\u00a0did not \u201cwithstand technical scrutiny,\u201d \u201ccontained gaps,\u201d \u201cconflicted with [itself],\u201d and was \u201cuser\u00a0created and not\u00a0machine\/tool generated.\u201d\u00a0The Special\u00a0Counsel\u2019s Office has not\u00a0reached a definitive conclusion in this regard.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge in the case of attorney Michael Sussmann will review a batch of Clinton campaign emails and other documents to determine whether they were improperly concealed from the court.Judge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1481810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465777","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\/1465777","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}