On Friday, special prosecutor John Durham rattled the political world with a court filing that alleged lawyers for the Clinton campaign hired a technology company to infiltrate computer servers and lay a false trail that would implicate the Trump campaign of having contacts with Russia, according to Fox News.
Durham, hired to investigate the early stages of the Trump-Russia hoax and root out misconduct, has secured the indictment of Michael Sussman, a lawyer who represented the Clinton campaign, who has been accused of lying to the FBI. In November, Democratic operative Igor Danchenko, a contributor to a since-discredited dossier of claims concerning Trump, was charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI.
On Monday, Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense in the waning days of the Trump administration and one of the investigators who exposed the Steele dossier of claims against Trump as a fraud, offered his take on the Durham filing.
In an interview with Newsmax host Greg Kelly, Patel called the actions of those involved in the Russia hoax, “the biggest criminal conspiracy against a sitting president in the United States history.”
Members of Team Clinton “were paid millions and millions of dollars to go out and buy false information from a tech executive,” he said.
“And here’s the worst part. They secured a, quote, ‘sensitive arrangement’ with someone in government to gain access to White House servers. That means someone in government gave them permission and paid the contracting tech executive company’s firm to allow that work to happen,” he said.
Although Durham’s focus ends in early 2017, when the Trump administration was just sliding into its desks, Patel’s speculation aligns with extensive leaks from...