The committee for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign is seeking to block Special Counsel John Durham from obtaining certain documents related to law firm Perkins Coie and its work with the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and opposition research firm Fusion GPS.In a filing late Thursday, Hillary for America, the principal campaign committee for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, argued that certain privileged documents should be withheld based on attorney-client privilege.
Perkins Coie is the law firm that the DNC and the Clinton campaign used to fund the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier.
The unverified dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence officer, and commissioned by Fusion GPS. To support the opposition to compel and justify the assertion of attorney-client privilege, Hillary For American provided declarations from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
"One of the topics about which Perkins Coie provided legal services and legal advice to HFA involved fact-finding and research that the campaign conducted regarding candidate Donald Trump," Mook states.
"Although I was not aware during the campaign of any contractors that Perkins Coie engaged to assist it in providing legal services and legal advice regarding this work, I did believe throughout the campaign that whatever work Perkins Coie performed, either through its own professionals or through any contractors it may have engaged to assist it, the work was done for the purpose of providing legal services and legal advice to HFA," Mook states.
In his declaration, Podesta states: "HFA asserts its attorney-client privilege and the attorney-work product protection with respect to all documents and information under the control of Perkins Coie or any of its consultants, including Fusion GPS.".
The back-and-forth over documents comes ahead of the trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, which is set to begin May 16.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-seek-block-durham-access-perkins-coie-documents
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