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THE JUDGE IS ONE OF OURS​



The judge in Special Counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Michael Sussmann will have to decide a point of false-statements law: materiality.

Sussmann, of course, is the former Perkins Coie lawyer who represented the DEMOCRAT National Committee (DNC), among other notable DEMOCRAT political clients.

The case against him stems from his efforts to peddle to government investigative agencies the political slander that Donald Trump was a clandestine agent of Vladimir Putin’s Russian regime — at bottom, he is alleged to have concealed that the main client on whose behalf he labored in this endeavor was the Hildebeast.

The crescendo toward which Durham appears to be building is a final report that will show the Trump–Russia “collusion” innuendo that gripped the country for three years was essentially concocted by the Hildebeast and her minions.

Though some comparatively minor crimes may have been committed along the way, such a partisan scheme would not necessarily be a crime in and of itself.

Sussmann’s trial is scheduled for May, but the case has already whipped Washington into a frenzy with allegations of political spying, counterclaims of a political witch-hunt, and now, the return of the ponderous Hildebeast herself.

Shaking off her latest crash-and-burn, the Hildebeast is back making speeches again, wheedling her way into position as the DEMOCRATS’ go-to 2024 alternative in the not-unforeseeable event that BUNGLING Biden continues to stumble and Shamala Harris continues to cackle.

It’s pretty standard fare: Sussmann claims there is no false statement as a matter of law because, he contends, Durham can’t prove that the alleged lie to the FBI was material.

Materiality is the low-hurdle requirement that, to be prosecutable, a lie has to have been material to some decision the government had to make (like whether it would have been important to know, before deciding to pursue an investigation, that an explosive allegation that one major-party presidential candidate was a Putin puppet had actually been ginned up by the other major-party candidate).

The court will eventually rule on the Sussmann camp’s dismissal motion.

In a high-profile, politically fraught case like this one, though, it would be most unusual for a judge to take it on himself to throw the indictment out before trial.

Materiality is one of those “mixed questions of law and fact,” as they say — the jury decides whether, in fact, a lie was material, but the decision is controlled by legal precedents, so the judge also has the power to determine that the prosecutor hasn’t shown enough proof of materiality for the question to be submitted to the jury.

The judge will get several other bites at this apple as the proceedings move along — during trial, when the prosecution rests, right before summations, and even post-trial if the jury finds Sussmann guilty — so there is no need to rule pretrial.

The issue, however, is central to the Sussmann case.

Which brings us to the question: Who is the judge?

Funny you should ask. The case is assigned to Judge Christopher R. “Casey” Cooper, who was appointed to the bench by Obama in 2014.

Cooper is a protégé of the late Judge Abner J. Mikva, for whom he clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1993. Some of us remember Judge Mikva as White House counsel to Blowjob Bill Clinton.



https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/welcome-to-the-swamp-mr-durham/
 
Looky, looky, we caught Hooky

Lisa Hook was the CEO of Neustar, the firm that is now in the spotlight for spying on President Trump for the Hildebeast


Barack Obama appointed Lisa Hook, President and CEO of Neustar, a leader in providing carriers and enterprises with solutions for sending calls, messages and content across networks worldwide, to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).

The NSTAC is a group of up to 30 industry CEOs from major telecommunications companies, network service providers, information technology, finance and aerospace companies. The NSTAC provides the President with critical, collaborative advice and expertise as well as robust reviews and recommendations regarding national security, cybersecurity and emergency preparedness. The NSTAC's goal is to develop recommendations to the President to assure vital telecommunications links through any event or crisis and to help the U.S. Government maintain a reliable, secure, and resilient national communications posture.


https://web.archive.org/web/2011081...ama-Names-Neustar-CEO-Lisa-Hook-to-NSTAC.aspx
 
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