Michael Sussmann
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Oct 27, 2026
Marcy WheelerHOST
They got a FISA wiretap of Carter Page in October of 2016.
Marcy WheelerHOST
After the Michael Sussman prosecution, my suspicion is she was told about some kind of warrant targeting Alpha Bank, like a real national security warrant targeting Alpha Bank.
Marcy WheelerHOST
And the reason I say that is all the Michael Sussman records say, here are the reasons we don't think there's anything to this.
Marcy WheelerHOST
And most of the reasoning goes to these two PAC cyber security agents who just didn't even look at the data and said it's wrong.
Marcy WheelerHOST
Didn't know what they were looking at.
Marcy WheelerHOST
They weren't DNS experts, said it was wrong.
Marcy WheelerHOST
Most of it goes to them.
Marcy WheelerHOST
But there is one redacted reference in all of the records in the Michael Sussman case that makes it clear there's some kind of national security collection on AlphaBank.
Kaelan DeeseGUEST
And there is a bit of a discrepancy.
Kaelan DeeseGUEST
I know that there is a reference to this story, to this leak, actually, that took place in the, I believe it was the Michael Sussman legal proceedings.
Kaelan DeeseGUEST
And there was something, a gesture to the effect of, I believe it was Sussman or another person involved in that case had made a...
Kaelan DeeseGUEST
An argument that they thought that this information had already been given over to the FBI and that it wasn't necessarily the same type of standard of classified that it previously was before it got handed over.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
That new effort is where we begin the hour with Brad Adams and Mark Blumberg from the Rule of Law Project.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Also joining us, my friend and colleague, former top DOJ official and general counsel for the FBI, our legal analyst, Andrew Weissmann, is here.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
I feel like I can see you smiling for the first time in two years, Andrew Weissmann, from here.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Let me understand where you came from and how you ended up doing this instead, because it feels like an instead for both of you.
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Lisa RubinCORRESPONDENT
They're out of time that they only had five years to bring these charges against him rather than the full 10.
Lisa RubinCORRESPONDENT
He also is giving us a little bit of an inkling of what this could be about.
Lisa RubinCORRESPONDENT
He says that the materials that are at issue here were also the subject of a trial, a very high profile trial in 2022. against the former FBI general counsel, Michael Sussman.
Lisa RubinCORRESPONDENT
You might remember that investigation grew out of the Durham investigation, the first investigation of the investigators, and the government failed at that trial of Michael Sussman.
Sean ThompsonHOST
Oh
speaker_19UNKNOWN
... who is also the wife of the judge in the Michael Sussmann case with the Steele dossier that, that clipped
JimAUDIENCE
clippedJohn Durham, when he tried to prosecute it and s- let him, not let him go down avenues that would've convicted that son of a gun, son of a dog, as you like to say.
Sean ThompsonHOST
Yes.