Special counsel John H. Durham has been looking into “Russiagate” since 2019. Then-Attorney General Bill Barr kicked off the Durham investigation into the FBI’s probe of Russian election interference. Politics rather than any real crimes allegedly were the origin of the Robert Mueller Russia investigation.
The investigation into the now-debunked “Steele dossier” compiled by Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been proceeding with limited cooperation from the FBI and DOJ.
Democratic lawyer Michael Sussman was indicted last year for lying to the FBI general counsel James Baker over whether he was advising Hillary Clinton in 2016. The story that Sussman gave the FBI was during the Trump versus Clinton presidential campaign.
Durham claims that the FBI’s watchdog, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, withheld important facts. And Horowitz failed to reveal that he met with Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman in 2017.
Sussmann is accused of feeding the false Russian interference narrative during the election while advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Sussman told the FBI there were ties between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank. This has since been disproven.
Durham files for info from OIG in Court
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) told the special counsel that producing all documents with regards to Michael Sussman would be “burdensome if not impossible.”
