Confirmation that Rudy was working as a CHS for FBI & DOJ when approaching Ukrainians & Russian spies behind them.
FBI & DOJ used news articles about Rudy's activity in the warrant to collect the #receipts Rudy gathered. Didn't mention his CHS interviews!
emptywheel.net/2023/12/29/rud…
As I have been pointing out for several years, Rudy was a witness not a target of that investigation.
#ButNothingsHappening
The FBI refused to provide Rudy's 302s (if they were 302s) with NY SAC William Sweeney.
Likely because sharing Rudy's status as a CHS would complicate the effort to have the NY FBI affiant sig the warrant affidavit. If the agent doesn't know Rudy's a CHS, he can't tell the court.
Remember at this time, FBI & DOJ are still hunting for a suspected Russian mole in the NY FBI office. I bet they didn't want that mole to learn that Rudy was catching his Russian employers.
While Emptywheel tries to blame this on Barr his team.
She can't understand why AG Merrick Garland's DOJ wouldn't want the NY office to have the evidence of Rudy's cooperation with the FBI & DOJ.
It's because cooperation doesn't belong in parenthesis.
The people on the left & the right both believed that FBI & DOJ were out to get Rudy.
When DOJ told us 2 1/2 years ago that Rudy wasn't a target of the investigation. He had collected the evidence that needed attorney client privilege review by a court appointed special master.
Rudy's cooperation with FBI & DOJ against Parnas & others was revealed in May of 2021 in court filings in the special master appointment case.
Of course the court appointed a former judge who as a prosecutor worked with Rudy & Trump to put mobsters away.
It is great to see people on the eve of 2024 catching up to what I found in May of 2021. Now if only they would believe what they read without applying a fake news filter to it first!
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