The Trump-era spy chief predicted on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures that Durham's focus on British ex-spy Christopher Steele's now-discredited anti-Trump dossier would serve as a tipping point after critics piled on when the Sussmann trial ended in acquittal.
"I’m optimistic that not only will he [Durham] be successful in some of the ongoing prosecutions, but can expand the indictments that he wants to bring given the involvement of certain FBI officials in spreading a false narrative to the American people," Ratcliffe told anchor Maria Bartiromo.
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Sussmann was accused of lying to the FBI about whom he was representing when, in September 2016, he presented internet data that suggested a now-discredited link between Trump and Russia's Alfa-Bank.
In particular, Sussmann was indicted on charges of concealing his clients — Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and “Tech Executive-1,” known to be former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe — from FBI general counsel James Baker. Sussmann denied lying to the FBI and pleaded not guilty.
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The jury in Washington, D.C., sided with Sussmann on Tuesday. "Despite being falsely accused, I believe that justice ultimately prevailed in my case," Sussmann said in a brief statement after the verdict.
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Ratcliffe said there was not a "just" verdict, lamenting how the judge would not allow specific evidence of the "Clinton conspiracy" to be included in the trial. He also complained about Clinton donors on the jury and the revelation that one juror's daughter was on the same high school crew team as Sussmann's daughter.
This Alfa-Bank matter tied to the Clinton team may not have prompted the FBI's investigation into Trump's links to Russia, but the actions taken by some bureau officials over the course of that inquiry have come under increased scrutiny thanks to disclosures during the trial.
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"We learned that a senior FBI agent involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, Joe Pientka, sent a note to another agent about the Alfa-Bank tip: 'People on the 7th floor including the Director are fired up about this server. Reach Out and put tools on ... it's not an option — we must do it.' The FBI building's seventh floor is where top management, including then-Director James Comey, had offices," the Washington Examiner's Byron York wrote Tuesday.
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Durham has one other active prosecution: a case against Igor Danchenko, a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier, who has pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements to the FBI about the information he provided to the former MI6 agent for his discredited dossier. That trial is slated to start in October in Virginia. The prosecutor has obtained a single guilty plea, which came from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to altering an email about a Trump campaign aide under government surveillance.
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