Fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok attacked special counsel John Durham’s indictment against Michael Sussmann, claiming the false statements charge would stop sources from reaching out to the FBI and contending the scrutiny of the Trump-Russia investigation led to a reduction in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders.
The indictment against Sussmann, a lawyer who recently left the Perkins Coie law firm, centers on a September 2016 meeting between him and then-FBI general counsel James Baker in which Sussmann pushed allegations of a secret back channel between Russia’s Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.
While Durham says Sussmann told Baker he was not working for any client, the special counsel contends he was secretly doing the bidding of Clinton’s campaign and billing it to her, as well as working on behalf of technology executive Rodney Joffe.
