Trump has fueled high expectations that the investigation would uncover significant malfeasance and undermine the core conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe - that Trump associates embraced help from the Kremlin during the 2016 election, although they did not criminally conspire with Russia to tip the outcome of the race. entities, including the federal government," Westby said, adding, “The motion is unfortunate because it offers a lot of confusing information that is not factually accurate.”ĭurham and his team have cast a broad net in their investigation, interviewing former officials at the FBI, the Justice Department and the CIA. was on high alert after the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails by Russian operatives.Ī spokesman for Joffe said in a statement sent to reporters that Joffe is an “apolitical internet security expert" who has never worked for a political party and who legally provided access to internet traffic data.ĭurham's filing says the researchers mined the EOP's Internet traffic to gather derogatory information about Trump, though the work was done at a time when Barack Obama - not Trump - was president. government and the White House, said Jody Westby, a lawyer for one of the research scientists involved, David Dagon of the Georgia Institute of Technology. 11, in a section titled “Factual Background,” reveals that Sussman “had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.The researchers were not “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016 but were instead working at the request of federal officials to investigate Russian malware attacks that had targeted the U.S. The indictment against Sussman says he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, less than two months before the 2016 presidential election, that he was not doing work “for any client” when he requested and held a meeting in which he presented “purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin.īut Durham’s filing on Feb. The revelation was made in a court filing late last week that centered on potential conflicts of interest connected to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who has been charged with allegedly lying to the FBI. Special Counsel John Durham, who is investigating the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, says in a new court filing that operatives linked to the Clinton campaign “exploited” access to internet traffic linked to several Trump properties, purportedly as part of an effort to connect Donald Trump to Russia. Durham’s filing used the word “exploited.” The headline has been changed. Correction: A previous version of this story, relying on an incorrect report, said Special Counsel John Durham used the word “infiltrate” to describe the actions.
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