Judging Freedom - Hillary Clinton attny Michael Sussman NOT GUILTY

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

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Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Tuesday, May 31st, 2022. It's about 12.15 in the afternoon here on the East Coast of the United States. Just about 45 minutes ago, a jury in United States District Court in Washington, D.C. found Michael Sussman not guilty of lying to the FBI. Ordinarily not something we'd be concerned with, but Michael Sussman was Hillary Clinton's lawyer during the 2016 campaign and is the former lawyer for the Democratic National Committee. And when he approached the FBI with dirt on Donald Trump, dirt which it now turns out was not true, and dispatched the FBI in a wild goose chase looking

for it, the FBI accused him of lying. The jury found out that he didn't. Of course, nearly everybody who testified for the government, certainly the FBI agents who did admitted that FBI agents regularly lie. This is a crazy moral dilemma about which I have complained for years. If it's going to be a crime for you or me to lie to the FBI, it should be equally as criminal for the FBI to lie to you or me, but it isn't. There's no statute that prohibits the FBI from lying, and the Supreme Court has ruled that the FBI can lie, and it's dealing with witnesses and targets and subjects of investigations. Of course, every once in a while when a jury gets their hands on this, they do the right thing. I don't know if Michael Sussman told a lie. It doesn't seem like it was

very material to me. The alleged lie was that he said he was not representing a client while there, even though, according to the government, he was representing candidate Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. Who cares? I mean, this is the moral equivalent of when a drug dealer was arrested in a phone booth. Remember those phone booths in New York City during the Reagan administration? And the FBI asked him who he was, and he said Nancy Reagan. He obviously wasn't. And they arrested him and prosecuted him for lying. This is insane. I am happy he was acquitted. I am happy that a jury

saw right through this. I'm happy that the jury disbelieved the liars that the FBI have become and that the government put on the witness stand. Now, what to make of John Durham? This is the special prosecutor appointed by William Barr, the last Senate-confirmed attorney general in the Trump administration, whom Trump fired about four weeks before the end of his term. Bill Barr left a parting gift to the Biden administration by appointing his own version of Bob Mueller. He appointed John Durham, who's a U.S. attorney, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, and he appointed Mr. Durham, a good lawyer with an excellent reputation, to get to the bottom of what the FBI knew and when it knew it and what the government knew and when it knew it. Durham has prosecuted two people, both for lying. He prosecuted a young assistant deputy, 28 year old lawyer for changing an

affidavit that went to a court. That young man pleaded guilty and got six months probation. Then he prosecuted Michael Sussman in a case that must have cost the government and Sussman millions, and a jury found him not guilty. Do we really need federal prosecutors opening up the old wounds of the Trump-Russia nonsense, or should we wash our hands of it? I think the jury has spoken, and the jury has basically said, if you're going to accuse somebody of lying, don't put liars on the witness stand. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.