No collusion (Though I heard that’s not a crime) just amplification of a false story by right wing media
Various reports on revelations by Special Counsel Durham contain egregious errors. First and foremost, the new filing by Durham never says the Clinton campaign or its lawyers paid a tech company for anything.
Durham never said the tech executive cited in the filing “infiltrated” any Trump or White House server. That was taken from a quote of a former Congressional aide working for Devin Nunes’s committee.
The Clinton campaign obviously didn’t exist when Trump became president and there is no mention in the Durham filing that the Clinton campaign was involved in anything having to do with White House servers.
In fact, the filing says the tech firm only had access to White House servers and data because it was asked by the Trump White House to provide services.
The tech firm and its executive have never been accused of crimes and have not been charged. The executive works to uncover cybercrimes. Michael Sussman was the attorney for the tech executive mentioned in the filing. Sussman took information to both the FBI and CIA.
The filing says the Clinton campaign hired a “investigative firm” known for years to be Fusion GPS. It is not a tech company. It did opposition research. The filing does not reveal to what extent Fusion GPS was aware of the tech company’s data.
Cybersecurity experts concerned about Russians hacking the Democratic National Committee’s server say they looked for possible Russian hacks to Trump’s servers. This has been public knowledge since 2016.
Many of the details of how cybersecurity experts searched for Russian ties to Trump servers were told by the experts themselves in this 2018 article by Dexter Filkins of NewYorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...trump-campaign
The story is not new. Most of it was revealed in the recent indictment of Michael Sussman, a Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to the FBI. Durham alleges Sussman went to the FBI on Clinton’s behalf without revealing it. Sussman maintains his innocence.
News organizations such as the New York Times did stories about the Durham revelations when Sussman was indicted.
Fox News on-air personalities compound the errors by spinning its own inaccurate story beyond recognition
Here’s the document filed by Durham. USA v Sussmann Government’s Motion to… on Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/document/5584...TS-OF-INTEREST
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