Special Counsel John Durham's indictment of then-Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann--for lying to the FBI in claiming he was not representing any client when in fact he was representing the Clinton campaign and an unnamed tech executive in bringing a bogus tale of collusion between the Trump Organization and Russian Alfa-Bank to it--implicates more than just Sussmann and his clients.
The FBI went on a wild goose chase to investigate Sussman's conspiracy theory. But the Bureau quickly concluded that there was no evidentiary basis to believe any of it...this fraud — one of so many that formed the Russiagate scandal — played a significant role in shaping media coverage of the 2016 election. Spurred on by Hillary Clinton herself, the liberal sector of the corporate media used this fake claim to bolster their narrative that Trump and the Russians were secretly in cahoots. And the story of how they spread this disinformation involves not just the potential criminality outlined in this indictment of Hillary's lawyer but, even more seriously, a rotted and deeply corrupted media.
