Durham lawyer Brittain Shaw's bid to keep Eric Lichtblau off the stand makes sense from a person in the grip of a fevered conspiracy theory. It doesn't accord with a professional who has obligations to protect the privilege of others.
www.emptywheel.net
May 20, 2022
"...In the first words of her opening argument in the Michael Sussmann case, Durham prosecutor Brittain Shaw argued that this case is all about Sussmann’s privilege, his purported ability to exploit high level ties at DOJ
to seed what she claims would be a smear campaign against the guy who was, in fact, hiding secret communications with the Kremlin and soliciting hacks of his opponent..."
Unlike the other sections of its investigation, the SSCI Report on the multiple lucrative real estate deals Trump chased while running for President doesn't explain the counterintelligence risk.
www.emptywheel.net
August 8, 2020
"..
The report
also doesn’t address (as it does in the WikiLeaks section)
Trump’s demonstrable lies about Trump Tower, even though those lies are even more clear cut than his lies on WikiLeaks. After Trump claimed to have no recollection of any of this, he went out to the press and said stuff that made it clear he had very clear recollections about the real estate deals he was negotiating while running for President.
In addition to the three well known deals,
the SSCI Report describes a fourth, one pitched by Boris Epshteyn to Eric Trump..."
Sigh... the one silver lining of Putin launching aggressive war against Ukraine is that it caused the tide to go out, revealing who
is "swimming naked" as far as enabling Putin and his oligarchs, aside from the obvious Trump and his former campaign manager, Manafort.
Please post what
proof, with any actual consistency, that is not hearsay or contradicted by Baker, himself since September, 2016, of what "the untruth" was that Sussman is alleged to have told Baker, and
when and how it was material in influencing the FBI to unjustifiably devote investigative attention and resources.
If I were you, especially in an election year in which congress just authorized $40 billion to assist Ukraine AGAINST sanctioned war criminal
Putin and his sanctioned oligarchs, I'd be more concerned that my posted beliefs, seem remarkably consistent with what Putin would pay to distribute and about CPAC cozying up to Putin's favorite authoritarian neighbor. And Tucker ....?
Link to cached page of the article below.
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Accusations of secret cyber links remain unproved, but both the Russian bank and the Justice Department are pursuing the case.
www.newyorker.com
The Contested Afterlife of the Trump-Alfa Bank Story
By
Dexter Filkins
October 7, 2020
"...In recent weeks, scientists and others quoted in my story have been summoned to testify to a grand jury impanelled by John Durham, the U.S. attorney appointed by Attorney General
William Barr to investigate potential criminal conduct in the Russia probe.
It is unclear whether lawyers for the Justice Department and Alfa Bank are working together, but they share an interest
in pursuing people who have investigated Trump’s ties to Russia. “
There’s a unity of purpose,” one lawyer involved in the litigation told me..."
