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2022-04-06 Government Corruption
Durham bombshell: Prosecutor unveils smoking gun FBI text message, 'joint venture' to smear Trump
[JUSTTHENEWS] Special Counsel John Durham is revealing new smoking gun evidence, a text message that shows a Clinton campaign lawyer lied to the FBI, while putting the courts on notice he is prepared to show the effort to smear Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
 with now-disproven Russia collusion allegations was a "conspiracy."

In a bombshell court filing late Monday night, Durham for the first time suggested Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
's campaign, her researchers and others formed a "joint venture or conspiracy" for the purpose of weaving the collusion story to harm Trump's election chances and then the start of his presidency.

"These parties acted as 'joint venturer[s]' and therefore should be 'considered as co-conspirator[s],'" he wrote.

Durham also revealed he has unearthed a text message showing Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann falsely told the FBI he was not working on behalf of any client when he delivered now-discredited anti-Trump research in the lead-up to the 2016 election. In fact, he was working for the Clinton campaign and another client, prosecutors say.

The existence of the text message between Sussmann and then-FBI General Counsel James Baker was revealed in a court filing late Monday night by Durham's team. Prosecutors said they intend to show Sussmann gave a false story to the FBI but then told the truth about working on behalf of the Clinton campaign when he later testified to Congress.

"Jim — it's Michael Sussmann. I have something time-sensitive (and sensitive) I need to discuss," Sussmann texted Baker on Sept. 18, 2016, according to the new court filing. "Do you have availability for a short meeting tomorrow? I'm coming on my own — not on behalf of a client or company — want to help the Bureau. Thanks."

Prosecutors said the text message will become essential evidence at trial to show Sussmann lied to the FBI.

"The defendant lied in that meeting, falsely stating to the General Counsel that he was not providing the allegations to the FBI on behalf of any client," Durham's motion said. "In fact, the defendant had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including (i) a technology executive ("Tech Executive-1") at a U.S.-based Internet company ("Internet Company-1"), and (ii) the Clinton Campaign."

The prosecutor noted that in House testimony a year later Sussmann admitted he made the FBI approach at the instruction of his client.

"We had a conversation, as lawyers do with their clients, about client 1 needs and objectives and the best course to take for a client," Sussmann testified in a deposition taken by then-House Intelligence Committee Republican investigative counsel Kash Patel. "And so it may have been a decision that we came to together. I mean, I don't want to imply that I was sort of directed to do something against my better judgment, or that we were in any sort of conflict."

Durham also told the court he plans to present evidence that Sussmann worked with the Clinton campaign, tech executive Rodney Joffe, identified as Tech Executive-1, and others in a "joint venture" to promote a now-disproven story that Donald Trump had a secret computer channel at the Moscow-based Alfa Bank with the Kremlin to hijack the election.
Posted by Fred 2022-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 None of this will make any difference. If there's one thing I've learned, you can force facts directly in front of people's faces and they still will refuse to change what they think. It's sad, honestly. We would have such a better world if this wasn't the case.
Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-06 01:53||   2022-04-06 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Time for public shame displays. Pilloried and throw all manor of trash at them.
Posted by Dale 2022-04-06 03:49||   2022-04-06 03:49|| Front Page Top

#3 And the FBI instantly believed the lie and ran happily down the hallway with a FISA warrant with obviously unverified evidence.
Posted by Airandee 2022-04-06 04:40||   2022-04-06 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4 * Trigger Warning * Subversive Content *

That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-06 07:21||   2022-04-06 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The Bureau hears what it wants to hear, is aware of what it wants to be aware of, and reports what it wants to report.

"If you know the identity or whereabouts of these two persons of interest, contact the Boston Office of the FBI Special Agent in Charge at the phone number provided on the bottom of your screen."
Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-06 07:28||   2022-04-06 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Exhibit #1 in why nobody should be allowed to "have a career in government."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-06 07:35||   2022-04-06 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 #4: i'm for it! When? Where? Who? i'm 85 and probably not physically fit but i can load and shoot.
Posted by Hupusoth Glarong4620 2022-04-06 10:25||   2022-04-06 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 ^#4 I think I read that someplace before. You will be arrested for thought crime.
Posted by Glenmore 2022-04-06 14:26||   2022-04-06 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Alas... had the writers of these fancy things been less loquacious and more direct.

God's laws were so much wiser even if they lacked the pomp of hollow and mutable rhetoric. Who judges today what causes are 'too light and transient'? And all some clever bastitches have to do is make the 'long Train of Abuses and Usurpations' all about the slavery and the cotton picking. And there you are.

Mankind today cannot sit complacent adhering to dead men's ideas of what a State is and where freedoms begin and end.

If everybody's equal, the cannibal has a right to eat your kids. Practicality before blind adherence to laws and conventions. Without it, you are destined to be marched dutifully into darkness.

Sorry, I just believe constitutions must evolve with the times. When they were written they were cute. An attempt at godhood, a declaration of implied nobility. Today, they are toys for the enablers of predators, thugs and ravagers.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-06 14:50||   2022-04-06 14:50|| Front Page Top

#10 ..it has. It's been amended 27 times in accordance with Article V. It's not impossible. If you read the American Constitution, understand the unamended base document is a contract between 13 sovereign states and a national government, ratified by the state legislature not by plebiscite, thus the requirement that the states have a say in the amending process.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-04-06 16:20||   2022-04-06 16:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Constitution has a built in change mechanism as pointed out by Procopius2k. Those that want to scrap the Constitution and start over are those that know that their changes would be unpopular and couldn't get through the established way.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-04-06 16:32||   2022-04-06 16:32|| Front Page Top

#12 If everybody's equal, the cannibal has a right to eat your kids.

No. The right to "life liberty & the pursuit of happiness" does NOT imply the right to pursue "happiness" (defined cannibalistically or otherwise) by denying fellow citizens their lives or liberties.
Posted by Heriberto Squank4501 2022-04-06 16:32||   2022-04-06 16:32|| Front Page Top

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