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        1. Another development for in-the-weeds enthusiasts of the Durham-Sussmann case: the defense has a new filing with a bunch of handwritten notes of a March 6, 2017, FBI meeting attended by Baker at which there was knowledge that Sussmann had a client. /1 pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/235637/04519212888.pdf
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        The defense appears to be planning to use this to suggest that Sussmann at the meeting itself or early subsequent phone calls made clear that he had a client, making things murkier. And to point out that Durham apparently didn't show these notes to Baker to refresh his memory. /2
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      The previous notes ("d/n say who client was") were from Mary McCord, the head of DOJ national security division. These are from Tashina Gauhar, a top intelligence oversight DOJ official: /3
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    The were also trying to figure out Trump's outlandish tweet accusing Obama the "bad (or sick) guy" of having wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign, whether there was anything that could be a garbled version of./4
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      The notes attached to the filing also show a snapshot of Trump-Russia investigation generally at that point in time, including discussion of Manafort, Flynn, Page, Papadopoulos, etc./5
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        I want to study all this more, but for now:/end Exhibit A is Tashina Gauhar: pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/235637/04519212889.pdf Ex B is Mary McCord pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/235637/04519212890.pdf Ex C is the calendar invite showing who was there pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/235637/04519212891.pdf Ex D is Scott Schools pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/235637/04519212892.pdf
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          P.S. I think this is them puzzling over the Louise Mensch / Heat Street thing
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