
has identified neither privilege nor burden that would prevent them from complying with the Subpoena.” In legal papers, the D.N.C. As BuzzFeed’s lawyers argue: “The material requested from the D.N.C.-which amounts only to the digital remnants left by the Russian state operatives who hacked their systems-is highly relevant to Defendants’ ability to establish the truth of the allegedly defamatory claims about them in the Dossier. to follow the law and allow BuzzFeed to fully defend its First Amendment rights,” a BuzzFeed spokesperson wrote in an e-mail.īuzzFeed’s motion asserts that the D.N.C., citing privacy concerns, has been unwilling to comply with a subpoena for that information. “We’re asking a federal court to force the D.N.C.

has information that could show a link between Gubarev and the e-mail hacking, which would undercut his libel claim. In a nutshell: BuzzFeed believes the D.N.C. Now, BuzzFeed is taking the Democratic National Committee to court in an attempt to compel it to turn over information it believes will bolster its defense against Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian business magnate who says he was libeled in the dossier when it tied him to the Russians’ alleged hacking of the D.N.C.’s e-mail servers.


and White House cybersecurity official” to trek all over the world “on a secret mission to verify parts” of the explosive document.
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But the infamous dossier at the heart of the scandal, which was compiled by ex-British spook Christopher Steele on behalf of an intelligence firm alternately retained by the conservative Web site Washington Free Beacon and members of the Clinton campaign, constantly finds its way to the center of the news.įirst there was Monday’s juicy Foreign Policy story revealing that BuzzFeed, which published the dossier in early 2017 and was subsequently sued over it, recently commissioned “a team led by a former top F.B.I. Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign maneuvers mostly in secret.
