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Durham subpoenas Clinton campaign, DNC in pursuit of ‘joint venture’ angle in Sussmann case

April 24, 2022 | | Print Article

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Special counsel John Durham has reportedly subpoenaed members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democrat National Committee to testify in the trial of former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann.

This was revealed in a court filing submitted by Sussman’s attorneys on Friday.

“[O]n April 19, 2022, the Special Counsel issued trial subpoenas to the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and explained that the Special Counsel was requesting the testimony of witnesses regarding the assertion of attorney-client privilege in front of the jury,” the filing reads.

Look:

Sussmann was a Perkins Coie lawyer who, while working for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, allegedly colluded with a “tech executive” at an “Internet company” to intercept and access former President Donald Trump’s internet traffic data.

After obtaining dirt on Trump, Sussmann then forwarded the dirt to the FBI, claiming at the time that he was merely acting as a “good citizen” versus working for someone. Last September, a federal grand jury indicted him over this alleged lie.

As previously reported, Durham has been attempting to prove that Sussmann’s actions were part of a “joint venture or conspiracy” involving Clinton’s campaign.

To do so, he requested access to the Clinton campaign’s legal and research activity, but the campaign has reportedly been fighting back.

“Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and the Perkins Coie law firm are fighting Durham’s efforts to compel the submission of withheld documents, arguing their claims of attorney-client privilege should keep the records concealed,” according to the Washington Examiner.

“In sworn statements, top Clinton officials John Podesta, Robby Mook and Marc Elias maintain that work Fusion GPS did for the Clinton campaign could be considered part of legal work — and should be protected under attorney-client privilege,” according to CNN.

Fusion GPS is the shady organization that was hired by Perkins Coie to dig up additional information about Trump. It was this group that in turn recruited disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele to piece together the infamous Steele dossier.

Fusion GPS “was not primarily providing or supporting expertise relating to legal advice; instead, it appears that the investigative firm’s primary, if not sole, function was to generate opposition research materials that the firm then shared widely,” Durham reportedly said earlier this month.

The problem with the attorney-client privilege argument made by the Clinton campaign, the DNC, Fusion GPS and Perkins Coie is that Durham now has evidence that all four parties participated in meetings with Sussmann — and not just any meetings, but meetings about how to smear Trump.

“Meeting to agree on the express goal of a joint venture is precisely what happened here, on more than one occasion,” Durham announced in a court filing Saturday.

“The parties agreed to conduct work in the hope that it would benefit the Clinton Campaign, namely, gathering and disseminating purportedly derogatory data regarding Trump and his associates’ internet activities,” the filing reportedly reads.

“The evidence will show that as a result of these conversations and during this same time period, Tech Executive-1 did exactly that: he tasked employees from multiple Internet companies and a university working under a pending national security contract to mine and gather vast amounts of internet metadata in order to support an ‘inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying the candidate to Russia.”

Here’s the key: Every meeting featured Clinton’s rep, Sussman, and thus every meeting was “billed to the Clinton Campaign,” according to Durham.

Sussmann’s attorneys are not pleased with Durham’s efforts to expose everything.

“The Special Counsel continues to overreach: he seeks to admit evidence that the law squarely forbids, he seeks to prove unduly prejudicial allegations he has not charged, and he seeks to prove conduct that is utterly irrelevant to the one discrete crime he has charged,” they complained in Friday’s filing.

They also accused Durham of seeking to prevent their client “from introducing relevant — indeed essential — exculpatory evidence in the form of testimony from his former client, [Tech Executive-1].”

The special counsel responded in his Saturday filing.

“The goal of the joint venture could not have been more clear: it was to gather and disseminate derogatory non-public information regarding the internet activities of a political candidate and his associate. And that venture was far from collateral to the charged crime,” the filing reads.

“Indeed, the above-described joint venture was the very project that led Tech Executive-1 to rely upon the defendant’s services; the very project that gave rise to the Russian Bank-1 allegations; the very project that prompted agents of the Clinton Campaign to meet with Tech Executive-1; and the very project that caused the defendant to meet with the FBI General Counsel and lie to him about the clients who were behind all of this work.”

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33 thoughts on “Durham subpoenas Clinton campaign, DNC in pursuit of ‘joint venture’ angle in Sussmann case”

  1. Just like any Organized Crime Syndicate you hide behind 3rd Parties and corrupt lawyers in an attempt to coverup you criminal conduct. Clintons started this, Obuma followed the Playbook and now the Biden Crime Family Syndicate is doing it. Durham must bring a RICO Case and probably will once Sussmann is convicted.

  2. I will be happy to see this killery bitch hanging upside down from a tree in
    Gitmo ,shot in the head for treasonous actions against the USA ,
    Benghazi slaughter and every crime that stinking bitch has avoided .

  3. Total crooks and the Bulldog Durham has them right where he wants them. My wish is that Hilary gets what is coming to her.

  5. Have you all noticed how they claim attorney-client privilege but seek to deny Trump executive privilege? Alright for me but not for thee!

  7. How can he claim attorney client privilege when he told the FBI he was not working on behalf of any client? Sounds guilty to me. Will be nice once he is convicted, of course he may then mysteriously commit suicide, or is it clintoncide?

  8. Attorney -client privilege…. Yeah, right, like Trump’s attorney-client privilege with Cohen?

  9. Diane, only a total IDIOT would post online prostitution info when the conversation is about the corrupt Clintons. Get a test for STD’s and go back to your porn site.

  10. The Clintons, Bidens and Obamas all have “Plausible Deniability”, they do everything through 3rd parties, so they can never be held responsible. Nothing is going to come of these subpoenas because any pertinent information was destroyed long ago, by the parties, or our corrupt FBI, DOJ and IRS-who are nothing but wings of the Democrat party today. The Swamp knows that justice moves at a snails pace, and by the time the system gets around to subpoenaing people, the statute of limitations has run out, there is no evidence, people die or everyone takes the fifth or Like Hillary-says they cannot recall to the best of their recollection. In the end Democrats know they control ALL the means of investigation and prosecution, and that nothing will happen, except MAYBE to some low hanging fruit-who then are rewarded with very high paying jobs in the private sector. People just do not realize how corrupt our country has become, with virtual 1 party rule by Democrats and all their operatives and apparatchiks in all our government agencies, media, communications and academia-whether Democrats are in the majority or the minority.

    3. Durham is going after 38 specific emails. How does he know this??? I believe he already has copies of them and by subpoena makes them produce the emails so they are automatically entered into evidence without having to expose his whistle-blower.

  11. It’s ALWAYS the Hellary Clinton Campaign or Clinton associates. NEVER Hellary. And this has been “investigated” since 2016. Why so darn long? Oh wait, it’s gubment and gubment “workers”.

  12. ENOUGH WITH DURHAM THIS DURHAM THAT ……JUST LET US SEE SOME INDICTRMENTS AND IMPRISONMENTS BEFORE OCTOBER 2022 the REST < THE BIGGUNS BY JULY 2024 !! and the REPUBLIC SHALL LIVE SOME MORE !!!!

  13. I hope Durham gets to the top tier, but I think it will take a lot oF pressure on the underlings to turn them, because they know all to well what the Clinton Crime Family will do to them iF they turn.
    Arkanaside (def.): Suicide by two (2) bullets to the back oF the head.
    MAGAA Trump 2024 (or sooner)

  15. IF THE JURY FINDS FOR THE PROSECUTION, DONALD J TRUMP WILL BE ON HIS WAY TO BEING THE FIRST TRILLIONAIRE IN HISTORY!

    1. Ive kinda believed that someone somewhere made a bet on who would be the first trillionaire. These are the kinda games that the very rich play with us being pawns in their chess game. They have closed countries down on a whim. They have gotten Presidents fired on their whims. It would be a good thing if Trump did in fact become the first trillionaire. I wouldnt mind at all..

  16. It has taken TOO LONG to PROVE what we mostly KNEW six years ago! I wonder what the WORLD’S RECORD for “Taking the Fifth” happens to be?? I’m sure the clinton clan will demolish that record!! And when they start demanding FILES and RECORDS?? You’d have a better chance oF Finding Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, and the Easter Bunny!!

  18. Just plain extermination of every demoncrat on the planet with something special for things like criminal clinton!!!!!!

  20. SO………WHEN are the “Big Dogs” going to be made accountable?? ALWAYS the underlings that face the music !!

    1. The strategy is to have the “underlings” face HUGE TERMS IN PRISON to get them to turn on the “Big Dogs”. Personally, I’d like to see them Facing the DEATH PENALTY For TREASON and then see how “chatty” they might become!

      1. Problem may be, is that when “underlings” are in prison they become a target to be “clintonized”

    2. He’s working the second tier now. He could be knocking on Hillary’s door if he gets the verdict he’s going after with this trial. Patience. Durham is building a foundation so strong, Hillary will be able to take the fifth to no avail. There, already is so much scheiss on her right now that her testimony will not even be necessary.

  21. Ok. But when is hillary clinton going to be subpoenaed and compelled to testify? There’s no way all this was being done by her subordinates on her behalf and without her knowledge. I’d bet nothing was said or done, and no plan was made, without hillary’s prior knowledge and approval.

    1. Thats why she made the statement or something to the affect that if Trump won , they would all be going to f-ing prison. Surprisingly that statement confirms that she knows what legal means. For a while, even with being a lawyer, that she did know what it meant.

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