Democrats Sicced The Equivalent Of A Special Counsel On Themselves

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On August 3, 1948, Time magazine’s associate editor Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that, in the 1930s, he had been “a member of the Communist Party and a paid functionary of that party.” He told the committee he had worked with a network of federal employees to bring about “the Communist infiltration of the American government.” He identified former State Department official Alger Hiss as a member of his spy network.

One month later, Hiss sued Chambers for defamation. During civil discovery in that case, Hiss’ lawyers demanded that Chambers produce written proof of his relationship with their client. They were confident that Chambers was lying.

Much to their shock and utter dismay, Chambers produced copies of stolen State Department cables that he claimed Hiss had provided for use by Soviet intelligence. In addition to being a Communist, the civil discovery had produced physical evidence that Hiss had been an espionage agent for the Russians.

This astonishing development resulted in the Justice Department launching a criminal investigation. Because the statute of limitations had expired on any possible espionage charges, the government laid a perjury trap. Before the grand jury Hiss denied under oath that he had passed copies of stolen government documents to Chambers. Consequently, he was indicted, convicted of perjury, and sentenced to five years imprisonment.

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But what is clear is that the DNC is following in Hiss’s path. It has hung its case on the alleged Russian hack. Since this is central to its theory of liability, it is going to have to prove by a preponderance of the evidence (the level of proof in civil cases) that the Russians did the hacking and shared the results with the Trump campaign. On the other hand, the defendants are now able to legally test and challenge that claim.

The attorneys for defendant Roger Stone have already notified the DNC that it must preserve its files, email server, and other purported evidence of hacking. Their notice states, “One purpose of this letter is to advise the DNC we intend to test the basic underlying claims that ‘Russians’ hacked, stole, and disseminated DNC data, rather than the various other plausible scenarios, including internal theft.”


In Trump Conspiracy Lawsuit, Democrats Sicced The Equivalent Of A Special Counsel On Themselves
 
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