Blocking evidence: Clinton campaign tries to keep memos from Durham's upcoming trial

[mystery-ak]

Blocking evidence: Clinton campaign tries to keep memos from Durham's upcoming trial

Clinton campaign and its top two former officials, John Podesta and Robby Mook, argue evidence about its Russia dirt digging on Trump should be protected by attorney-client privilege.


By John Solomon

Updated: April 20, 2022 - 3:40pm

   

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and its former top officials are intervening in Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation, seeking to block the release of memos about its Russia research on Donald Trump on grounds that it is covered by attorney-client privilege.

The requests were filed late Tuesday by the campaign, its former chairman John Podesta, its former campaign manager Robby Mook and its former law firm Perkins Coie, coming about a month before the start of former campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s trial on a charge of lying to the FBI.

“Hillary for America respectfully moves this honorable court to intervene as an interested non party to assert privilege claims over documents and information that the government seeks to compel,” the campaign wrote in its motion.

The motion is designed to block evidence of the campaign's work with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and the firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump alleging Russia collusion, some of which was later shared with the FBI and CIS by Sussmann.

Durham alleges some of the Trump dirt the campaign shared with the government was false and that Sussmann lied to conceal the fact he approached the FBI on behalf of the campaign and a tech executive linked to the campaign. Sussmann has pleaded innocent.

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[Smokin Joe]

C'mon, man! It's obvious what was going on.

Hillary has her peeps hire people to produce a 'hit document' on Trump to leak to the Obama DOJ so they could 'investigate' and turn over the material they got to Hillary's campaign (directly or indirectly), all the while maintaining the concept that because Trump was being investigated there was something to find with the help of the gushing media.

It didn't work, but it should have been prosecuted form the git-go, and a lot of people fired over it in the FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc.

This dirty trick makes Watergate look like a kids birthday party, and it is just complex enough to be written off as "conspiracy theory", the Dems' first line of defense.

[GtHawk]

I think Clinton's privilege should be held to the same low standard they force Trumps to.