So... Durham may have a bit of a conflict going on
This is from over at emptywheel and is referring to Durham's comments that "If third parties or members of the media have overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the Government’s Motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the Government’s inclusion of this information.". Wellll... Seems like it was not third parties. From the article:
These are not “third parties.” These are:
As I laid out, one of the key perpetrators of the false claims — including the false claims (1) that Hillary paid Rodney Joffe, (2) that Joffe had “infiltrated” the White House, and (3) Joffe had done so when Trump was President — was Kash Patel, the originator of this entire line of inquiry in December 2017, and someone who for years had means to learn that those claims were false.
John Ratcliffe, whom Durham was meeting rather than interviewing Hillary staffers who could substantiate or debunk his accusations that Michael Sussmann was coordinating with the campaign, made these unsubstantiated claims in a TV appearance earlier this week:
There was a “Hillary Clinton campaign plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of collusion with Russia”
Rodney Joffe used DNS data “for an unlawful purpose”
Sussmann “pitched” information “to the FBI as evidence of Trump-Russia connections that simply weren’t true and that the lawyer, Michael Sussmann, and the tech executive knew not to be true”
Donald Trump, who personally nominated John Durham as US Attorney and whose demands for criminal investigations led to Durham’s appointment as Special Counsel, asserted that his “presidency [was] spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.”
The originator of the allegations against Sussmann
A self-described repeat Durham witness
The man who nominated Durham to be US Attorney and, ultimately, was his boss for almost 3 years
But there’s actually another key player in the effort to magnify Durham’s conflicts filing stunt who is even more central to Durham’s work: One of his most important “witnesses,” Sergei Millian’s twitter account.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/19/john-durham-accuses-one-of-his-key-fact-witnesses-sergei-millians-twitter-account-of-misinterpreting-facts/
All the evidence is laid out and sourced at the link. I suggest you read it. This is some big old bullshit going on here.
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