DOJ watchdog says team ‘likely’ told Durham years ago it had phone of key FBI lawyer
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
| January 31, 2022 05:53 PM
The Justice Department’s watchdog says his team “likely” told John Durham it had phones belonging to an ex-FBI general counsel in 2018 after the special counsel suggested the watchdog had not been completely forthcoming.
The dust-up between Durham and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz comes as the special counsel hinted that Horowitz has slow-walked turning over key information related to a criminal case against Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann.
Durham's team has charged Sussmann with lying to the FBI in 2016 when pushing phony claims about former President Donald Trump secretly communicating with the Russian Alfa Bank. Sussmann allegedly told FBI General Counsel James Baker he was not working for any particular client despite secretly doing the bidding of Clinton’s campaign and billing his services to her — as well as working on behalf of technology executive Rodney Joffe.
The special counsel said Tuesday that Horowitz had recently revealed a March 2017 meeting he’d had with Sussmann, with Durham also saying he’d only been told earlier this month about two phones belonging to Baker that were in Horowitz’s possession. Horowitz’s team did not appear to dispute the former but pushed back on the latter, according to a Friday filing by Durham’s team.
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