On 5/25/2022, during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray on the fiscal year 2023 budget for the FBI, FBI Director Christopher Wray refuses to answer Louisiana Senator John Kennedy’s questions about the Michael Sussmann trial in John Durham’s probe. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding the developments in the Sussmann trial, while the director repeatedly responded it might not be appropriate to answer questions about an ongoing case wherein his agents are aiding the investigation.
“I think at the right time you’re going to have to address this and assure the American people that the rot is gone,” Kennedy said. Senator Kennedy told him that at some point he is going to have to answer questions regarding the politicization of the FBI.
Sussmann, a 2016 Clinton campaign lawyer and former private attorney, is on trial in a federal court in Washington, D.C., on the charge he lied to the FBI in September 2016 by saying he came to the bureau as a concern citizen with information showing a back channel connection between the Trump Organization and the Kremlin. Special Counsel John Durham has provide evidence that Sussmann was in fact representing clients at the meeting – the Clinton campaign and then-Neustar tech firm executive Rodney Joffe.
The trial is taking place the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and has been scheduled to end Friday, after two weeks. Susssman has plead not guilty to the single charge of lying and faces up to five years in prison if found guilty by jurors. Court proceedings began Tuesday with testimony from ex-FBI Principal Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson, who said she doesn’t recall knowing that Sussmann represented a client when he pushed the Trump-Russia collusion plot to the bureau in 2016. The testimony was critical to the case,, considering Sussmann is charge with lying to the FBI in not disclosing he was representing clients.
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Kennedy wanted FBI Director Wray to assure that the rot is gone. Address the politicization of the FBI.