Special counsel John Durham was tasked with finding crimes that may have been committed at the FBI and elsewhere in the federal government. But if he brings charges against lawyer Michael Sussmann, the special counsel will be arguing in essence that the FBI was the victim of a crime.
The theory of possible cyber links between Trump’s business and the bank was pushed to journalists ahead of the 2016 election by computer scientists purporting to have discovered server connections that, they speculated, could signal a secret communications channel between Trump and Russia.
The FBI investigated the data in 2016 and concluded there was nothing particularly suspicious about it.
Sussmann -- a prominent cybersecurity lawyer whose law firm Perkins Coie worked for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign -- lied at a September 2016 meeting with then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in which Sussmann shared information about possible connections between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank.
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