by Callie Patteson at New York Post
Special Counsel John Durham is alleging the Justice Department’s internal watchdog has held back information relevant to Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
In a court filing last week that updated the discovery process and requested more time to produce materials in the case of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann, Durham claimed that the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) had not informed him that Inspector General Michael Horowitz met with Sussmann in March 2017.
The documents said Durham was informed of the meeting Jan. 20 by Sussmann’s defense team and had it confirmed by Horowitz’s office the following day.
“The OIG had not previously informed the Special Counsel’s Office of this meeting with the defendant,” reads the filing, which notes that Sussmann and Horowitz met to discuss claims by a client of Sussmann’s that an OIG employee was connecting their computer to a virtual private network in a foreign country…
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