AND SHE WANTS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN – OVERNIGHT:  Hillary Clinton, who's now been nationally famous almost 30 years – longer than FDR at his passing – would apparently like to give it one more try.  She's all over the place, making speeches, giving interviews, even getting her dresses pressed.  But, uh, there's a bit of a problem, isn't there?  From the Washington Examiner: 

Special counsel John Durham told a federal court that he is scrutinizing members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as part of his criminal inquiry into the origins and conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Durham’s team asked a judge to “inquire into a potential conflict of interest” related to the lawyers for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s main anti-Trump dossier source, noting that a separate lawyer at their firm “is currently representing the 2016 ‘Hillary for America’ presidential campaign, as well as multiple former employees of that campaign, in matters before the Special Counsel."

Igor Danchenko, a U.S.-based and Russian-born researcher, was charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI. Durham’s indictment said Danchenko made these statements about the information he provided to Steele for his now-discredited dossier, which the FBI relied upon when pursuing authority for the secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide.

Stuart Sears and Danny Onorato, who took over as Danchenko's defense lawyers this month, told Judge Anthony Trenga of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that Durham’s team was raising questions about Robert Trout, who is of counsel at their firm and represented Clinton campaign members in the past, but argued there is no conflict of interest.

Durham’s team argued the interests of the Clinton campaign and Danchenko “could potentially diverge in connection with any plea discussions, pretrial proceedings, hearings, trial, and sentencing proceedings.”

The special counsel’s team listed out five topics that could become relevant to the defense of Danchenko: “the Clinton Campaign’s knowledge or lack of knowledge concerning the veracity of information” in the Steele dossier; “the Clinton Campaign’s awareness or lack of awareness” of Danchenko’s “collection methods” for the dossier; “meetings or communications” between the Clinton campaign and Steele about Danchenko; “the defendant’s knowledge or lack of knowledge regarding the Clinton Campaign’s role in” the dossier; and “the extent to which the Clinton Campaign and/or its representatives directed, solicited, or controlled” Danchenko’s actions.

COMMENT:  If I were Hillary Clinton, I'd take care of this little business first.  It would be so embarrassing to get indicted in the middle of a presidential campaign.  But, of course, we're sure she's innocent.  Stop laughing.

December 20,  2021