Special counsel John Durham's criminal inquiry into the origins and conduct of the Russia investigation will lead to "many more" indictments, former Rep. Devin Nunes predicted Monday.
As for whether Hillary Clinton, whose 2016 presidential campaign and associates are increasingly being implicated in the so-called Russiagate scandal, finds herself in legal jeopardy for possibly directing the creation of a collusion narrative to undermine former President Donald Trump's campaign and administration, the onetime chairman of the House Intelligence Committee suggested that Durham has to conduct a flawless investigation.
"What did she know, and when did she know it?" Nunes said in response to Newsmax host Eric Bolling asking if Durham has gathered sufficient evidence to show criminal intent by Clinton and have her thrown in jail. "Durham is going to have to run a perfect investigation here. He’s got to wrap up all the people that were involved." Which higher-level people get roped in depends on which indictments Durham "continues to bring," Nunes added before saying it was his assessment that there will be "many more" indictments. Nunes noted that "high-level DNC lawyers seem to be in trouble."
Trump and his allies are animated over a court filing by Durham on Friday that says his team is gathering evidence to show that a technology executive, known to be former Neustar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe, and his associates "exploited" a pending government contract to gain access to internet traffic at the White House, Trump Tower, and other places to establish a narrative tying Trump to Russia.
Nunes said the idea of a political campaign setting up a scheme to "scrape data from servers on your opponent is Communist China-type stuff." Even more alarming, Nunes added, is the prospect of the Clinton team and supporters gaining access to "the most secure communication system in the world" — data from the White House regarding the president of the United States.
WHITE HOUSE DECLINES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT DURHAM SPYING ALLEGATIONS
The new filing from Durham was a motion for the Washington, D.C., federal court to look into possible conflicts of interest related to the defense team of Michael Sussmann, an attorney who has been indicted in the special counsel's investigation on the accusation that he lied to the FBI in a meeting in which he shared since-debunked claims of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank by saying he was not representing any clients when he was acting on behalf of the technology executive and the Clinton campaign. Sussmann denies any wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty.
Sussmann responded to Durham in court Monday night, with his lawyers saying in part that the special counsel's filing "includes prejudicial — and false — allegations that are irrelevant to his Motion and to the charged offense, and are plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage, and taint the jury pool."
Although Trump has come out with statements saying, "What Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Democrats did with respect to spying on a President of the United States, even while in office, is a far bigger crime than Watergate,” neither Joffe nor members of the Clinton team have been charged with a crime in Durham's investigation.
“Contrary to the allegations in this recent filing, Mr. Joffe is an apolitical internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government who has never worked for a political party, and who legally provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client that separately was providing DNS services to the Executive Office of the President (EOP)," a spokesperson for Joffe said in a statement reported by NBC News.
Durham has been investigating the FBI’s Trump-Russia inquiry since his appointment by former Attorney General William Barr in 2019. Two other people have been charged in the yearslong investigation that has long been criticized by Democrats and some legal observers who claim the inquiry is meant to undercut Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation and inflict damage on Trump's political foes.
Igor Danchenko, a U.S.-based and Russian-born researcher who was British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s main anti-Trump dossier source, has been charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI. An indictment said Danchenko made these statements about the information he provided to Steele for his now-discredited dossier, which the FBI relied upon when pursuing authority for the secret surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Danchenko has pleaded not guilty. Ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to editing an email fraudulently to say Page was “not a source” for the CIA and was sentenced to a year of probation.
John Ratcliffe, Trump's final director of national intelligence who gave Durham 1,000 intelligence documents he said months ago would support more charges, told Fox News on Monday that he expects "quite a few more indictments." Nunes told Newsmax that Ratcliffe, who was a prosecutor and also a part of the House Intelligence Committee inquiry before leaving Congress to join the Trump administration, "knows what he's talking about — plus, he's seen all the intelligence."
During his time in Congress, Nunes spearheaded 14 criminal referrals to the Justice Department related to the Russia investigation and the 2016 election. Nunes resigned his House seat at the start of the year to become CEO of Trump's media venture, Trump Media and Technology Group, which is creating what it is calling the Truth Social platform.
Nunes said he took on the new role to counter existing social media platforms that are "censoring" content, and he accused the "fake news media complex" of ignoring the Russiagate "disaster." Nunes said this is a "scandal" in its own right.
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