The Epoch Times Article RatingSussmann Trial to Proceed but Questions Remain About What Can Be Asked in Court
Apr 14, 2022 View Original Article
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| "Durham maintains that by not disclosing ties to Roffe, the Clinton Campaign, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Sussma misled FBI persoel and deprived the FBI of information that might have permitted it more fully to assess and uncover the origins of the relevant data and analysis, including the identities and motivations of Sussma's clients.Cooper referenced Durham's claim in his ruling, noting as the Special Counsel argues, it is at least possible that statements made to law enforcement prior to an investigation could materially influence the later trajectory of the investigation." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Martin's testimony will explain that DNS is a naming system for devices coected to the internet that translates recognizable domain names, e.g., http://www.google.com, to numerical IP addresses, e.g., 123.456.7.89, the notice reads." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "However, those 2,700 look-ups using a mail1.trump-email.com host were dispatched by Cendyn, which does marketing/promotions for hotels, including for Trump hotels, and issued across the metaverse through a spam email contractor, Philadelphia-based Listrak." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Martin is regarded as among the nation's foremost authorities in advanced digital forensics, malware automation, data and network analysis." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "In an April 4 notice, Durham's office said the primary purpose of Martin's testimony will be to describe for the jury the basic mechanics, architecture, and terminology of the DNS system and DNS data so that they can understand various technical concepts that appear in documents and other evidence to be presented at trial." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Durham's office said Martin will describe how certain private companies and entities maintain DNS 'resolvers' and, in some cases, offer 'DNS resolution services' to their customers." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Martin will a further explain that a DNS 'lookup' refers to an electronic request by a particular computer or device from another device or server." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "On March 30, Durham's office informed defense attorneys it would call FBI Special Agent David Martin, the agency's Cyber Technical Analysis Unit Chief, to testify as an expert witness." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "According to filings, Durham's line of inquiry will ask Martin to provide the jury with specific examples of DNS data ... to describe the interpretation and meaning of such data, including particular fields that appear within the data." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Sussma will be tried for not informing Baker that he was working for Rodney Joffe, whose cybersecurity firm had a contract to monitor the President's Office DNS (Domain Name System) traffic, and for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign committee, which his Washington, D.C.-based Perkins Coie lawfirm represented." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Now -- a mere six weeks before trial -- the special counsel has provided a perfunctory and legally deficient notice that he intends to call Special Agent David Martin of the FBI to offer highly technical and complex testimony at trial, including [at his sole discretion] on a topic that the special counsel has told the court he does not intend to put at issue at trial, Sussman's attorneys argued, namely, the accuracy of the data that Mr. Sussma provided to the FBI, as well as the accuracy of the conclusions drawn from that data." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Durham maintains that by not disclosing ties to Roffe, the Clinton Campaign, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Sussma misled FBI persoel and deprived the FBI of information that might have permitted it more fully to assess and uncover the origins of the relevant data and analysis, including the identities and motivations of Sussma's clients.Cooper referenced Durham's claim in his ruling, noting as the Special Counsel argues, it is at least possible that statements made to law enforcement prior to an investigation could materially influence the later trajectory of the investigation." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "In a 12-page April 8 motion, Sussma's attorneys said Durham failed to meet the deadline in introducing a new expert witness to the case and asked Cooper to exclude certain expert testimony from being heard, including anything from Martin that includes interpretation and meaning of the data provided to the FBI." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Cooper's ruling did not address Durham's 23-page April 6 filing demanding Clinton's Campaign, DNC, and Fusion GPS produce more than 1,450 documents withheld as attorney-client privileged communications, nor did he clarify questions regarding the extent of testimony to be provided by an expert witness called by Durham." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But Cooper, an Obama appointee, rejected that argument, writing in a six-page ruling that the motion to dismiss only addressed one part of the legal test that determines if a statement is material in a legal case." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
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45% :Durham maintains that by not disclosing ties to Roffe, the Clinton Campaign, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Sussmann "misled FBI personnel and deprived the FBI of information that might have permitted it more fully to assess and uncover the origins of the relevant data and analysis, including the identities and motivations of Sussmann's clients."Cooper referenced Durham's claim in his ruling, noting "as the Special Counsel argues, it is at least possible that statements made to law enforcement prior to an investigation could materially influence the later trajectory of the investigation.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.