Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported on a previously unknown connection between the FBI and the Perkins Coie law firm. Responding to a letter from Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Jim Jordan of Ohio, Perkins Coie attorneys admitted that “the FBI has maintained a secure work environment within Perkins Coie offices.” This arrangement has been in place since 2012.
Gaetz joined Carlson to discuss this stunning discovery. He said, “We got a report from a whistleblower that we confirmed through multiple admissions, including this letter showing that the Democrat Party’s law firm, the law firm that received $42 million from the Democratic Party, has this co-located workspace that they operate in concert with the FBI. Why in the world would that be the case? Why would [FBI Director] Christopher Wray allow it to continue?
“Then you also have to ask yourself why within the last 12 months was the person on behalf of Perkins, Coie operating at that work site Michael Sussmann himself!”
What?
Michael Sussmann, a former partner at Perkins Coie, was found not guilty of lying to the FBI on Tuesday by a jury composed of three Hillary Clinton donors, an AOC donor, and others who had what would, in a just world, be considered disqualifying conflicts of interests.
Special counsel John Durham’s team tried to prove that Sussmann lied when he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in a September 2016 meeting that he wasn’t working on behalf of a client, despite the fact that he’d billed the Clinton campaign for his efforts.
Sussmann set up the meeting to provide the FBI with data he claimed showed nefarious communications between the Trump organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Gaetz continued. “Now we learn that for four years after that lie, Michael Sussmann was in fact operating this secure work environment. What reason would there be for that? And what leverage would the Perkins Coie law firm have over the FBI given this work they’re doing together?”
Carlson asked Gaetz, “This is not normal, correct?”
“I have spoken to former federal prosecutors on the Judiciary Committee, and throughout the country, and I’ve not heard any describe a relationship like this with a private law firm,” Gaetz replied. “And especially because Michael Sussmann was an election lawyer. Why in the world would an election lawyer be operating out of this facility in this way?
“Our concern is that politically motivated dirt was being converted into politically motivated investigations. That’s why Jim Jordan and I are making demands for answers on Christopher Wray immediately.
“It’s my hope certainly, that we shut this facility down. The Democrat Party shouldn’t have this special access, this special portal to the FBI, especially knowing what we do now—that they were often trying to take this opposition research, and then use that for law enforcement counterintelligence purposes,” Gaetz explained.
Carlson responded, “You can’t politicize the country’s biggest law enforcement agency. That’s completely third world.”
Sadly, few will be surprised by this news. Did Durham realize that as soon as the jury was selected for the Sussmann trial, he’d lost his case?
And what recourse does Durham have when the institution he’s accusing a defendant of lying to, is in cahoots with the defendant?
Has the deep state become too entrenched to be eradicated?
A previous version of this article was published on The Western Journal.
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