(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton share more than just a common opponent in Donald Trump.
The two devious Democrats also share ties to the same cybersecurity firm at the center of the newest court filings by Special Counsel John Durham.
Neustar Information Services—the firm that, Durham’s report indicated, was contracted by the Clinton campaign to spy on Trump—also received nearly $20,000 in payment from the Biden campaign, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Neustar’s chief technology officer, Rodney Joffe, allegedly accessed sensitive web traffic data that the company maintained on behalf of the White House executive office in order to collect “derogatory” information about Donald Trump both before and during his presidency.
In addition to having White House access, the company also gained access to the Republican leader’s New York campaign headquarters in Trump Tower.
“Joffe allegedly provided the information to Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who in turn gave it to the CIA during a meeting in February 2017,” the Free Beacon reported. “Durham charged Sussmann in September with lying to the FBI about his investigation of Trump.”
According to the Beacon, Biden’s campaign paid Neustar for accounting and compliance work.
“So the company that Clinton allegedly used to spy on her opponent, Donald J. Trump in 2016—and who allegedly spied upon him in the White House—is connected to the campaign that was running against Trump in 2020,” noted Republic Brief in its reaction to the bombshell allegation. “That is noteworthy.”
Joffe has now retired from Neustar, but while an employee he allegedly told associates that he was investigating Trump in order to please “VIPs” on the Clinton campaign, the Free Beacon reported.
Joffe and Neustar have not been named in court filings for the Sussmann case, but Joffe’s attorneys have confirmed his involvement in the matter to news outlets.
As of Feb. 17, Joffe had not been charged with wrongdoing.
The same can’t be said for Sussmann, who assisted the Clinton campaign after finding what he claimed was “suspicious Internet chatter between the servers of Russia’s Alfa Bank and Trump’s real estate company.”
Sussmann shared his suspicions with journalists and then-FBI general counsel James Baker. Sussmann is accused of lying to Baker during a September 2016 meeting by denying that he was investigating Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
In a key point, noted the Beacon, “Clinton campaign lawyers told campaign officials, including Jake Sullivan, about the Alfa Bank claims.”
Sullivan later joined the Biden campaign and now serves as national security advisor.
Last October, RealClearInvestigations’s Paul Sperry revealed a potential conflict of interest over the fact that Sullivan is married to Maggie Goodlander, a former law clerk and current counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Garland now oversees the Durham probe and has final say over a release of a report of the investigation.
Republican leaders, including Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have called on Justice Department officials with Clinton ties to recuse themselves from the special-counsel investigation.
But the Biden campaign’s ties to the scandal may further complicate matters.
Following the revelation, the Gateway Pundit weighed in with even more potential connections between Biden and the Clinton cabal.
“The questionable payments immediately raise questions about whether the snooping on Trump continued in the most recent election, especially considering the fact that the Biden and Clinton campaigns are the only two presidential committees to have ever paid for the companies [sic] services.”
It would appear that both Clinton and Biden have some major explaining to do, but don’t bet on the leftist mainstream media to demand any answers.
