Former Attorney General William Barr has praised special counsel John Durham and his team for doing an “exceptionally able job” after a jury on May 31 found Hillary Clinton campaign cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI.
Sussman, who in 2016 represented the Clinton campaign, was indicted in September 2021 for lying to the FBI when he claimed he had information about an alleged secret communication channel between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and a Russian bank.
While making the claims of alleged communications during a meeting with then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in October 2016, Sussmann claimed that he was not representing any client, while he, in fact, was billing the time to the Clinton campaign….