Which didn't happen. That was brought up during Maddow's segment last night. The best Durham can hope for here is a conflict of interest catch on the lawyer.
Sussman is the easy thread that is getting pulled first, it will unravel -
most- of the corruption because Sussman was an octopus that had tentacles in many aspects of it.
The general framework of the Chicago Thugocray's "spying" and surrounding criminality has been known since before the 2016 election and we have a non-political document that lays it out and tells us the criminality dates back to 2012 (remember the IRS targeting scandal?) . . .
You
could scan pages 81 -86 of the
first Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's orders pertaining to the Obama FBI's illegal mining of the NSA database and harvesting of private information on US Citizens:
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf
Of course that isn't a charging document, it only explains facts the FISA court discovered / learned and ordered the Obama FBI to stop the data mining and harvesting and abuses of US citizen's rights (which of course the Obama admin. ignored).
Again, that spying on political opponents dates back to 2012, sped up when Trump became a candidate, went into hyper-drive when he became the presumptive nominee and then warp-speed as the election approached . . . And then disintegrated into panic and desperation when Trump won . . .
After months of harvesting and weaponizing raw NSA data on Trump and associates, by Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacobs and Nellie Ohr, it was then piped into the FBI's Counterintelligence Division through Agent Peter Strzok, DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr (husband of Nellie, a Fusion GPS employee), and DOJ/FBI lawyer Lisa Page. That information was hoped to be massaged and refined to become the “insurance policy” in case Trump won, to further the "Russia Collusion" hoax.
Once Trump won, panic set in. The Russia Hoax was nothing more than an elaborate cover-up for the illegal spying. They needed a FISA warrant on somebody,
anybody in the Trump orbit because that would give the FBI an 18 month look back and the two-hop rule and could put, retroactively, put all the illegal spying on Trump under the "legal" umbrella of a secret FISA warrant.
By hook, crook, forgery and lying they got their warrant on Carter Page. That warrant got them the authority to examine the communications of Page and everyone Page talked, texted, emailed with and everyone they talked, texted and emailed, looking back 18 months and then they kept misrepresenting and lying to obtain renewals for that warrant -- IOW, the conspricy exended past the origination, the inception, so, about that "statute of limitations" expiring soon . . .
Understand what the the "two-hop rule" does . . . If Page talked to 200 people in that 18 months, and then those people talked to 200 people, that brings upwards of 40,000 people under the umbrella of that
SECRET FISA warrant. That's why they needed that warrant on a Trump "insider" . . .
Understand, this all goes right into the Oval Office . . . Susan Rice and Samantha Powers and Ben Rhodes are neck deep They were central in the FISA §702(16)(17) abuse of NSA data-- AKA "unmasking" and the regular inclusion of illegally harvested information in Obama's Presidential Daily Briefing so it could be disseminated and weaponized within the thugocracy for political purposes in the most secure, "eyes only" manner. Understand, that was going on for years before Trump came on the scene. Hello Justice John Roberts!
Oh yeah, Sussman, almost forgot!
So when Admiral Rogers stopped "private contractor" access to the FBI's NSA database on April 18, 2016, Mary Jacoby, wife of Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson, rushed to the White House
the next day and spent 14 hours there.
By the end of April of '16, a week and a half after that White House confab, Fusion GPS was in the employ of the HRC campaign and the DNC, no doubt with Terabytes of pilfered NSA data, a deal brokered by a Perkins-Coie lawyer that was working for the HRC campaign and the DNC by the name of Michael Sussman . . . Who lied to the FBI, telling them he was not working for any client that had any interest in the information he was providing, while billing the HRC campaign for the time he was talking with the FBI.
Yeah, you keep waiting for Rachael Maddow to give you the latest news!
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