Durham issues trial subpoenas to Clinton campaign and DNC

Buffalo NY

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Special counsel John Durham issued trial subpoenas for members of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee as he pushed his theory of a "joint venture" in the case against Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann, who represented the Clinton campaign, and Rodney Joffe. Clinton's campaign, the DNC, the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and the Perkins Coie law firm are fighting Durham's efforts to compel the submission of withheld documents, arguing their claims of attorney-client privilege should keep the records concealed. However, Durham is continuing his legal pressure as he insists those groups played a coordinated role in pushing false Trump-Russia collusion claims. "The parties agreed to conduct work in the hope that it would benefit the Clinton Campaign, namely, gathering and disseminating purportedly derogatory data regarding Trump and his associates' internet activities," Durham wrote. "The evidence will show that as a result of these conversations and during this same time period, Tech Executive-1 did exactly that: he tasked employees from multiple Internet companies and a university working under a pending national security contract to mine and gather vast amounts of internet metadata in order to support an ‘inference' and ‘narrative' tying the candidate to Russia." https://gazette.com/news/us-world/durham-issues-trial-subpoenas-to-clinton-campaign-and-dnc/article_b8810a79-8d66-5fab-be0f-c1104f285719.html