DC: A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Russian-British historian’s lawsuit against several U.S. newspapers and Stefan Halper, a former Cambridge professor who served as a confidential human source for the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe.
Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the statute of limitations had expired for many of the allegations in the defamation lawsuit, which Svetlana Lokhova filed on May 23, 2019. Brinkema also ruled that news articles that Lokhova cited in her lawsuit were not defamatory.
Lokhova accused Halper of conspiring with The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times to leak false statements “as part of a nefarious effort to smear General [Michael] Flynn and fuel and further the now debunked and dead narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.”
She alleged that Halper was behind leaks to the newspapers about an event that Flynn attended at Cambridge on Feb. 28, 2014, when he was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Lokhova, who studies Soviet-era espionage, attended the event along with about a dozen other Cambridge academic and DIA officials.
Beginning in February 2017, stories began appearing in British and U.S. media outlets suggesting without evidence that Lokhova and Flynn had improper contact during the Cambridge event, which Halper co-convened with Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6. read more
But, But, BUHT – CJOTSOTUS Roberts has assured us that there are only professional, nonpartisan judges in the judicial branch, right?? This judge was appointed by clinton…
Chief injustice Roberts assures us the High Court are all Robots as Injusrice Sotomeyer has shown.
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Judge Leonie Brinkema; Clinton appointee.
When are cases going to start going before Trump appointees?