Posted on 02/01/2022 12:15:33 AM PST by weston
BA$TARD!!!
Special Counsel John Durham Is Opening Up About His Spygate Investigation, But Why?
BY: MARGOT CLEVELAND
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Last Friday, Special Counsel John Durham filed yet another document with the federal court presiding over the criminal case against former Clinton Campaign attorney Michael Sussmann. Formally labeled a “Motion to Inquire into Potential Conflicts of Interest,” the most recent court filing maintained that Sussmann’s defense attorneys at Latham & Watkins held multiple conflicts of interest because of their previous representation of Sussmann’s law partner, Marc Elias, and their former law firm Perkins Coie. Given those conflicts, Durham’s team argued the court should require Sussmann to waive the conflicts on the record.
In making this argument, however, Durham’s office included extensive details related to the purported conflicts that also exposed, more broadly, several aspects of the underlying Special Counsel investigation. For instance, over the course of some thirteen pages, Durham revealed for the first time that in addition to providing FBI General Counsel James Baker data purporting to show the existence of a secret communication channel between the Trump organization and the Russian Alfa Bank, Sussmann provided the CIA during a February 9, 2017 meeting, “data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by Trump Tower, Trump’s residential apartment building, the EOP, and a healthcare provider, of internet protocol or IP addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provided.”
In that same motion, Durham claimed that Sussmann told the CIA, “that these lookups demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations.” The motion further explained how Sussmann had allegedly obtained this data, namely through tech executive Rodney Joffe whose internet company “had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP.” Joffe and his associates, the motion added, “exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.”
Durham’s Friday filing was not the first time the Special Counsel’s office spoke through court documents — far from it.
Documents Do the Talking
From the beginning, the Special Counsel’s office let their documents do the talking, with the Sussman indictment spanning twenty-seven pages and including details suggesting “a scandal much deeper than merely Sussmann’s role in a second Russian hoax — a scandal that entangles the Clinton campaign, multiple internet companies, two federally-funded university researchers, and a complicit media.”
Then, a month later, in response to Sussmann’s “Motion for a Bill of Particulars” — a motion seeking more details concerning the charged crime — Durham revealed additional facts about the Special Counsel investigation. In that response, Durham’s team detailed the breadth of the information gathered to date by the Special Counsel’s office, including by “subpoenas and grand jury testimony” of “political organizations” (plural) and “an investigative firm.”
A “discovery update” filed by Durham in January added even more insight into the Special Counsel’s probe, including that there is still “active, ongoing criminal investigation” of Sussmann’s conduct. That court filing also revealed that Sussmann’s law partner and the top lawyer for Hillary Clinton, Marc Elias, had testified before a grand jury empaneled by the Special Counsel’s office, along with many of the other big names, such as James Baker and Bill Priestap.
The biggest revelation from the “discovery update,” however, concerned the fact that in early 2017, Sussmann, again on behalf of Joffe, met with the Inspector General of the Department of Justice about a “cyber-related matter.” During that meeting, Sussmann told the Office of the Inspector General or OIG that one of his “clients had observed that a specific OIG employee’s computer was ‘seen publicly’ in ‘Internet traffic’ and was connecting to a Virtual Private Network in a foreign country.”
The discovery update also revealed that Sussmann’s legal team informed the Special Counsel’s office that Joffe was the client who had “observed” the “cyber-related matter” Sussmann reported directly to the Inspector General. And armed with that information, Durham’s team returned to the OIG and obtained additional documentation concerning that meeting, even though the OIG office had originally claimed “it had ‘no other file[] or other documentation’ relating to this cyber matter.”
A few days after filing the “discovery update,” Durham filed a “clarification to that document which in itself exposed more intrigue, with the special counsel’s office stating that it is now interviewing individuals connected to the Sussmann-Joffe “cyber-related matter” that Sussmann brought to the attention of the DOJ’s Inspector General in March 2017. The “clarification” also revealed the OIG’s lack of cooperation and lack candor with the Special Counsel’s office, particularly in its withholding of relevant documents and cell phones potentially pertinent to the Durham investigation.
The Special Counsel’s filings in its criminal case against Igor Danchenko followed the same pattern. In that case, Durham’s team charged Danchenko in a five-count indictment with lying to the FBI during the agents’ questioning of him related to his role as Christopher Steele’s “Primary Sub-Source.”
The Danchenko indictment surpassed the length of the charging document in Sussmann’s case, with Durham’s team providing detailed allegations, over the course of thirty-nine pages, suggesting the Special Counsel’s office has been untangling many of the threads of Spygate.
For instance, the speaking indictment in Danchenko’s case cleared Sergei Millian, whom Durham alleged Danchenko had falsely claimed was his sub-source for the “intel” included in the dossier. Even more significant was the charge that Danchenko lied to the FBI about never communicating with “PR Executive-1,” whom attorney Ralph Martin later confirmed was his client, Charles Dolan Jr.
As I explained at the time, “the revelation that Danchenko used Dolan as a ‘sub-source’ for the dossier is significant because of Dolan’s long-time connections to the Clintons and the Democrat Party—and because none of what appears to have been sourced to Dolan was true, including one claim in the dossier that Dolan invented.”
Thus, by elaborating on his case against Danchenko, Durham revealed to the public that “a Clinton crony in the person of Dolan fed Danchenko false information that Danchenko then presented to Steele as intel. Steele then regurgitated Danchenko’s claims in the Clinton campaign-funded dossier the former MI6 agent provided the FBI,” which led to the surveillance of the Trump campaign.
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Of course, I will post a picture of your dear little sweetie, just freep mail it to me.
*HUG*
Thanks so much!
I still cry about losing her..
She was my baby!
Evidently all the men walking around filming live missed it. One did say something about one arrest so I assume it was Chris. Otherwise EVERYONE is having a GREAT time. Had a snow blizzard and they are building snowmen having snowball fights etc. I have been watching live threads all day long.
You have mail!
*evil grin*
Sent you another mail to correct the first one!
Sorry about That!
Just saw one guy being interviewed live and he said the police are slowly arresting from the top down. They are also stopping anyone coming in with supplies etc.
The man is calling for EVERYONE to come this weekend.
That's exactly what all white supremacist, domestic terrorists do.
No one is sure if the cute calico female was abandoned by a previous owner here at the retirement community or just showed up one day. The people living in the villas at the bottom of the hill take care of her. When one moves out, the torch gets passed. My housemate and I ended up with the responsibility. We named her Lola, and she and I bonded.
I speak fluent Cat, although the dialect I speak is Siamese. Calico is apparently quite a different dialect. When I meow in a certain way, Lola looks at me as though I had mispronounced a word in French. But I'm conversant with her affirmative meow when I ask her if she wants to go out. Her hungry meow is unmistakable.
When I take an afternoon nap, she puts her head on the left ankle as a pillow and curls up against the other ankle. If I move the left ankle, she grabs at it with her claws. "Hey, you took my pillow."
At night, she curls up with me until around midnight, when she meows that it's time for her nightly ramble. She has brought back 4 mice, 2 birds, a rat and a lizard. I keep telling her that I wouldn't mind the occasional deer carcass, but she doesn't associate the local deer with prey.
In the morning, she meows insistently to come in and get fed. Then she spends the next 6 hours in her cave under my bed before going out for her daily adventure.
She'll turn on her back and ask me to scratch her chinny-chin-chin. Sometimes she'll turn that request into combat play. She's quite a character.
Tamara Lich also arrested.
(DEPLORABLE HUG & IRREDEEMABLE SMOOCH RETURNED)
It’s lovely to “see” you tonight!
Sounds like Lola has really bonded with you!
My half Maine Coon Cat is like Lola-he’s
very affectionate if HE initiates it, and very
disinterested if he did not!
Apparently it is a trait of theirs.
He is not as affectionate as Minette
was, but maybe boy cats just aren’t?
*HUG*
Thank you, Gran!
*smooch*
You are so very welcome.
Hey!That’s a beautiful bird.
I don’t know the names of the birds here or the sounds they make specifically. I should probably look it up because I sure enjoy their music.
I didn’t know anything about 5G before, I just did a quick search and found a lot of problems with birds. Poor things. And who knows what it’s doing to us as well.
Apparently, it is a European species that was being sold in America as a caged bird. When pet stores were not allowed to sell them, they just let them loose. They are in many states now.
She’s gorgeous! Look at those beautiful eyes, I love that about black cats. Those green eyes just pop out.
It’s so hard to lose them. They stay with us as long as children!
BARBER - In Trudeau’s dictatorship he can be held without charges indefinitely...
CANADA’S JANUARY 6.
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