A lawyer for former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann revealed last week that federal agents never asked Sussmann the origin of the data he provided the FBI related to the Alfa Bank hoax.
During last week's oral argument on Sussmann's motion to dismiss, Bosworth posited that Sussmann's allegedly false statement was not "Material" to the FBI-and thus not a crime-by arguing that because the FBI never questioned Sussmann on the source of the Alfa Bank information, it was irrelevant to the investigation.
The failure of the FBI to ask "The basic questions" about the data and white papers Sussmann provided on the purported Trump-Alfa Bank secret communications speaks not of the unimportance of that information, but of the incompetence of the Crossfire Hurricane team.
The revelation last week that no one from the FBI asked Sussmann for the source of the Alfa Bank data and whitepapers suggests these same problems broadly infect federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
There's a Whole Lot of This Going On. It was also not merely Sussmann and Joffe with whom the FBI and intelligence agencies held close contact.
The Sussmann indictment and other documents filed in his criminal case allege this exact scenario, with one cyber expert called merely the "Originator" but since identified as April Lorenzen creating a dataset purporting to show the Trump-Alfa Bank connection.
Knowing the deficiencies in the white paper, Joffe nonetheless allegedly had Sussmann hand it off to the FBI's general counsel, which then triggered a federal investigation into the supposed Trump-Alfa Bank connection.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/04/the-alfa-bank-hoax-is-looking-a-lot-like-crossfire-hurricane/
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