“[John] Durham, the former U.S. attorney in Connecticut, was appointed in 2019 by then-Attorney General William Barr to investigate possible misconduct within the U.S. government as it investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and any ties to the Trump campaign. One of the three people he’s charged is Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election…

“[According to a court filing last Friday] Sussmann relied on data gathered by a technology executive he worked with whose company, according to Durham, helped maintain servers for the White House. The executive, Rodney Joffe, enlisted the help of computer researchers who were already analyzing large amounts of internet data through a federal government cybersecurity research contract, tasking them with mining information to establish an ‘inference’ tying Trump to Russia, the court filing says. The researchers exploited domain name system internet traffic at locations including Trump Tower, Trump’s Central Park West apartment building and the Executive Office of the President, or EOP, Durham said.” (AP News)

The right argues that Durham’s investigation has uncovered serious misconduct.

The left argues that there is little substance behind Durham’s allegations.