Mr. Heide took the stand in U.S. District Court in Washington in the criminal trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. The FBI agent said that others in the bureau are also being investigated, but he did not say how many or what positions they hold.
Even as FBI cyber experts deemed the allegations false within a day—the CIA would later do the same—the bureau’s counterintelligence arm continued to probe the claims, a move backed by senior bureau officials such as Comey.
The House Administration Committee has sought release of the footage since February, writing in a letter first obtained by The Hill that the video “does not support these repeated Democrat accusations about so-called ‘reconnaissance’ tours.”
FBI leaders pulled field agents from other investigations in 2016 to pursue a false tip linking presidential candidate Donald Trump to a Russian bank, but they concealed that the probe was spurred by information provided by rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign, an FBI agent testified in court Monday.
“Bet most people still don’t know that a Clinton campaign lawyer, using campaign funds, created an elaborate hoax about Trump and Russia. Makes you wonder what else is fake,” he said.
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker testified Thursday that the bureau investigated the data alleging a Trump connection to the Kremlin-linked bank, and found that “there was nothing there.”
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, the Obama appointee overseeing the case, agreed to strike certain portions of testimony delivered Wednesday by Marc Elias but rejected the request for a mistrial.
Two years after Joe Biden was elected US president, voters return to the polls on 8 November.
The midterm elections – so called because they fall halfway through a president’s term – take place every four years.
Durham has charged Sussmann, a former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer, with lying to FBI
Special prosecutor John Durham’s team suggested this week that a technology executive who was hired by a former Clinton campaign attorney may face criminal charges.
“Tech Executive-1,” who was confirmed to be Rodney Joffe, is currently being investigated by Durham’s team, according to a prosecutor. Prosecutors didn’t provide more details.
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