Dems are telling the press they’re worried the country is too “distracted” by inflation to care about their January 6 hearings. pic.twitter.com/C05BDYW1rU
— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) April 27, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Will the Jan 6th investigation be more of a let down than the Mueller report??
Hard to say... the expectations were so great during the Mueller probe. This one has almost nobody's interest...
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Rudy Giuliani is expected to appear next month before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The expected appearance comes after months of negotiations between lawmakers and the former mayor of New York, who served as former President Donald Trump's personal attorney for much of his presidency.
Giuliani, a central figure in Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election, was subpoenaed by the committee in January and has been engaging with lawmakers, through his lawyer, about the scope of the subpoena and whether he may be able to comply with some requests.
In its subpoena, the committee alleges Giuliani "actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of the former President and sought to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results." The subpoena also states Giuliani was in contact with Trump and members of Congress "regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election."
CNN has previously reported that Giuliani oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme.
CNN also has previously reported that Giuliani may be willing to testify about claims of election fraud but that he did not intend to waive executive or attorney-client privilege.
It is unclear whether the committee has agreed to honor Giuliani's concerns about privilege, but he can invoke privilege protections in response to individual questions if he so chooses.
As with other witnesses under subpoena, the committee has previously said it expected Giuliani to "cooperate fully." The committee declined to comment Wednesday on Giuliani's expected appearance.
His upcoming appearance comes as several high-profile individuals from Trump's inner orbit have recently spoken with the committee voluntarily. Trump's daughter and former senior White House adviser, Ivanka Trump, was interviewed for nearly eight hours earlier this month, and her husband, Jared Kushner, has met with the panel as well. Donald Trump Jr. also is expected to meet with the committee in the coming weeks.
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Like other witnesses under the subpoena, the committee had previously stated that it expected Giuliani to “cooperate fully.” The committee declined to comment on Giuliani’s expected appearance on Wednesday.
His impending appearance comes as several high-profile figures in Trump’s inner orbit have recently spoken voluntarily to the committee. Trump’s daughter and former senior White House adviser, Ivanka Trump, was interviewed for about eight hours earlier this month, and her husband, Jared Kushner, also met with the panel. Donald Trump Jr. is also expected to meet with the committee next week. Giuliani has faced legal risks on several other fronts. TanmoyWorld reports that federal prosecutors in New York may soon reach a charging decision on its foreign lobbying efforts involving Ukraine. He faces possible fines or disposal for trying to overturn the 2020 election results for Trump. And the Dominion voting system has filed a multibillion-dollar defamation suit against Giuliani for his baseless electoral fraud claims.
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Joffe worked on the Trump-Russia material with Sussmann, the Clinton campaign lawyer who was charged in September with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting where he passed along the data. Prosecutors claim Sussmann falsely told the FBI he shared the data as a concerned citizen, but he was really there on behalf of his clients: the Clinton campaign and Joffe.
The above is not news.
Why post it Alky?
Going into the planting season.
"Diesel supplies dwindle, some buyers shut outDiesel supply is over 20% below the average for this time of year"
Joe is feckless.
Joffe’s lawyers blast Durham
Responding to Wednesday’s hearing, a spokesperson for Joffe said the latest comments from prosecutors were “baseless and reckless” and accused Durham of pushing an “unfounded political narrative through false innuendo” to connect Joffe to a supposed anti-Trump plot.
“Mr. Joffe did not defraud or mislead any branch of the US Government,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Furthermore, the data at issue did not belong to the Government and did not contain private or personal information about any individual, nor was it manipulated in any way.”
Lawyers for Sussmann say Joffe is a key part of their defense and will offer testimony that helps exonerate Sussmann. Sean Berkowitz, a Sussmann attorney, accused the prosecutors of making a “tactical decision” by holding the criminal probe over Joffe’s head as a way of blocking him from testifying at trial. Because of the potential criminal exposure, Joffe intends to plead the Fifth, according to his lawyers.
“They’ve been looking at this forever,” Berkowitz said. “They ought to be able to make a (charging) decision.”
Berkowitz has asked federal Judge Christopher Cooper to dismiss the case if prosecutors don’t give Joffe immunity to testify. Cooper said Wednesday that he’ll try to issue a ruling soon.
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Lawyers representing Joffe previously told CNN that Durham is pushing a cherry-picked narrative to make it look like Joffe fudged the data to harm Trump and help Clinton get elected. Instead, they said it “was his patriotic duty to share” the data with the FBI. He and Sussmann maintain that they funneled the data to the US government out of national security concerns.
It has been known for a while that Sussmann shared the data from Joffe and his researchers with the FBI and later with the CIA after Trump was inaugurated in January 2017. Prosecutors said Wednesday for the first time that the material had been later shared with Congress as well.
Prosecutors have previously said that Joffe’s company at the time, Neustar, had access to the internet data through a contract with DARPA, a Pentagon research agency. The contract was intended to hunt for cyber intrusions by hostile countries. Durham has said Joffe and his colleagues “exploited” their access to domain name system information to find dirt on Trump.
Some of the internet data also pertained to Russian-made Yota phones that were allegedly pinpointed near the Trump campaign headquarters and the White House offices. Past Durham filings about the Yota phones stirred a frenzy in right-wing media about supposed spying on Trump, which led to a rebuke from the judge and a partial walk-back from prosecutors.
A spokesman for Joffe previously said he is “an apolitical internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government” and that his dealings with the data were perfectly legal. In court filings, Joffe’s lawyers said he has received harassing and threatening messages in the wake of the Sussmann indictment, in which he was repeatedly referred to as “Tech Executive 1.”
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