Court filing alleges Clinton campaign spying

In 2016, attorney Michael Sussman went to the FBI with a tip that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was communicating with a Russian bank that had ties to the Kremlin. What he didn’t disclose, according to court documents obtained by Fox News, was that he was working for the Clinton campaign. Sussman now faces criminal charges of lying to the FBI. The charges stem from an investigation by special counsel John Durham into the origins of the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. That investigation lasted years into the Trump presidency and ultimately found no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

What was the Clinton campaign doing? The court filing says that an unidentified tech executive provided Sussman data about web traffic to and from servers for Trump Tower, Trump’s New York City apartment building, and eventually the White House. Sussman claimed the information showed links between the Trump campaign and the Russian Alfa Bank. But Durham’s filing, according to Fox News, said the data Sussman passed on to the FBI showed a minimal amount of Russia-related internet traffic compared to the rest of the country as a whole. An attorney for Sussman denied that he lied to the FBI. Trump said the revelations constitute a “scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate.”

Dig deeper: Read Harvest Prude’s report in The Stew about the dubious origins of the Russia investigation.