Paul Sperry’s latest claims that Durham has given out more than one immunity deals is not surprising. Defense lawyers in DC probably already figured this out. The question then, is, who are the lucky culprits who got get-out-of-jail-free deals and are now singing like songbirds?
Looking at this from a trial lawyer’s standpoint, there was always one major issue that gave defendants a window of opportunity at trial to confuse the jury into believing that the Alfa Bank DNS lookups were genuine and justified a complete, thorough investigation by the FBI and
CIA. If the jury could be convinced of that fact, then the argument would be that everything that was done was not only justified, but protected by the First Amendment right to petition the govt and right of free speech, in the form of going to the press. A jury could easily be
confused and misled by mind-numbingly boring technical details of DNS lookups and other computer speak. So how would a smart lawyer close this defense window of opportunity? Easy. Get the testimony of of the cyber scientists who created the illusion in the first place - even if
he has to hand out immunity deals to get the testimony. That way the ones who designed the spoofs that triggered the phony lookups would explain what they did, why they did it, and how it was meant to deceive. That then focuses the jury on the critical issue in the case as to
the bigger fish defendants: Which of them knew this was all a sham, and who came up with this fraudulent scheme in the first place?
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