The media–Democrat complex’s main gripe about special counsel John Durham’s February 11 Motion is is the prosecutor’s supposedly misleading reference to Internet traffic records (i.e., domain name system data, or DNS) derived from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) — i.e., the president’s staff or the White House.
Last week, in the course of making a motion to ask the court to address defense counsel’s potential conflicts of interest (see my Corner post), Durham disclosed that Sussmann also met with the CIA in early February 2017 and provided Trump–Russia data (from Joffe) that updated what he had given the Bureau in September. Sussmann and his supporters now grouse that Durham’s motion is prejudicially misleading. The gist of this complaint is that Durham was hiding the ball: The EOP records in question cover the period from 2014 until early 2017 — the period during which the president was Obama, not Trump. How could it be, Sussmann supporters theatrically pine, that Trump could be framed by using data from another president’s time in office? How could Trump supporters seriously contend that the Clinton campaign was “spying on the Trump White House” when the Internet-traffic records in question reflect activities of the Obama White House?
The Sussmann-camp claim is itself misleading.
