Marc Elias, an attorney for Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready, expresses frustration after new documents were entered into evidence during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th Congressional District voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. “You do that through the media, which is why the information was shared with the media.” “Going to the FBI does not seem like an effective way to get information out to the public,” Mook said. Mook said Friday that he didn’t even know who Sussmann was during the 2016 campaign, and would’ve opposed an FBI meeting. They both testified they didn’t authorize or direct Sussmann to go to the FBI with the explosive Trump tip. Mook and another top Clinton campaign official, general counsel Marc Elias, reinforced that assertion this week on the witness stand. He has pleaded not guilty and maintains that he went “to help the FBI” as a concerned citizen, and that the Clinton campaign wouldn’t have wanted him to meet with the FBI in the first place. Prosecutors charged him with lying to the FBI and allege that he falsely told the FBI official that he wasn’t there for a client, even though he was there on Clinton’s behalf. Sussmann passed along the same information about Trump and Alfa Bank to an FBI official in September 2016.
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The trial has shed light on the dark arts of political opposition research – and how campaigns dig up dirt and plant stories in the press.įederal investigators ultimately concluded there weren’t any improper Trump-Alfa cyber links.Ĭlinton officials say they didn’t authorize FBI meeting Durham is investigating potential misconduct tied to the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. The testimony came in the criminal trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is being prosecuted by the Trump-era special counsel John Durham. After that story came out, Clinton tweeted about it, and posted a news release that said, “This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia.” Slate published a story on October 31, 2016, raising questions about the odd Trump-Alfa cyber links. To listen to the interview in its entirety, click on the audio player above.Takeaways from a critical witness in the John Durham probe's first trialĪ campaign staffer later passed the information to a reporter from Slate magazine, which the campaign hoped the reporter would “vet it out, and write what they believe is true,” Mook said. “Everything is now on Mueller,” she said. Kayyem found the FBI’s confirmation of Steele’s suspicions to be “scary,” making the parts of his dossier about Russian blackmail more believable and likely.
“The biggest takeaway from the testimony is, of course, the FBI statement that we’ve got other stuff," said national security expert Juliette Kayyem said during an interview with Boston Public Radio Wednesday. "We are already on this, and the Steele dossier just actually compliments some of their investigation work.” In the testimony, Simpson states that Christopher Steele, the investigator behind the dossier, was brought in to be questioned by the FBI and was told the information he obtained was credible “because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.”
Simpson’s testimony confirms a New York Times report that the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign’s connection to Russia after Trump aide George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that the Russian’s had dirt on Hillary Clinton, and not after the release of the damaging dossier. The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”
Dianne Feinstein yesterday released the transcript of the Judiciary Committee's interview with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the company that created the now infamous Steele dossier, to the dismay of her Republican colleagues.įeinstein, the top-ranking Democrat of the Judiciary Committee, released a statement yesterday saying, “The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice.
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