Latest news from New York Times:
John H. Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to scrutinize the Russia investigation, told the Justice Department that he will ask a grand jury to prosecute a prominent cybersecurity attorney on the charge of making a false statement to the FBI. familiar with the matter he said.
The attorney is Michael Sussmann, accused of lying to the FBI in a 2016 meeting about Trump and Russia.
To paraphrase a speech by Winston Churchill, I don’t know if this is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning, but it is a beginning.
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According to the Times, the indictment depends in part on the testimony of the former FBI general counsel:
Baker, the former FBI attorney, is said to have told investigators that he remembered Sussmann saying he was not meeting with him on behalf of any clients.
But Sussmann told Congress a different story, through TechnoFog:
I want to believe that this is the beginning of the accusations by Obama officials who spread the lie that Donald Trump was a Putin puppet and a Russians puppet.
It was an egregious lie, but the media worked tirelessly to spread it and keep it alive. But I am also a realist and acknowledge that hopes for justice have been repeatedly dashed. According to the Times, even Sussmann’s lawyers expect him to be prosecuted.