EXCERPT OF Generally's POST:
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 10/18/22 Vol.429, Q Day 1815, generally wrote:
Now is not the time to go wobbly. Now is the time to stand strong.
p.s. VOTE. Less than 3 weeks to Election Day.
My 2 cents.
The military is the only way, and the white hats are proving it to the public by documenting in court records crimes committed, and having us witness the corruption of the courts (e.g., DC jury nullification) as a result. The world will definitely understand WHY the military will end up being proven to be the only solution after the civil courts have been exposed as consistently malevolent and blind to justice. It's not a few bad courts - it's the entire corrupt DOJ and fellow blackhats throughout the Biden regime.
RICO cases normally work from the bottom up, documenting crimes and associations of smaller fish at each level, pointing up to bigger fish. Even with corrupt courts, Durham is still performing the needed task of getting it into court records.
If Durham hadn't had trials, the public would still be in denial about what really happened, still justify it as the 'ends justify the means' and still be asleep to the fact that the DC courts are far too corrupt to function. The public would falsely believe that any military involvement was never justified because, 'look to the courts!'.
If Durham won trials, the courts would be functioning and the military would not be needed.
But just as with election theft, proving you have all the evidence and documenting who did what, and having the courts refuse to function is going to make the critical difference when the public has to decide whom to trust: the military or our obviuosly corrupt legal system.This does remind me of the Q drop about the chess match, Capablanca vs Marshall, wherein the entire strategy requires moves which continuously make it look like all is lost, and yet the final move brings victory. IN this case, as with election interference, one must go to every rung in the legal system with solid evidence the public understands and let the public see time and time again, justice denied ('lose' good, factual cases one after another). Only then would they understand the 'WHY' behind the statement 'the military is the only way.'
SO Durham appears to lose the trial, while he gains ground for us in the information war that will be the key to preventing Civil War. Remember that 45 was looking at the picture of Lincoln as he decided which steps to take next when the election was stolen.The Black Hats are losing their power to divide - their abuses mound up and their crimes are relentlessly exposed. The Dems are panicking - their voters are fleeing them.
Throughout Trump's first term, the country has been too divided to risk that Civil War, and since his first election, he and other patriots are weaving the splintered country back together. The abuses of the tyrants moving pawns around DC is costing the Dems support - those sick of made up rules and power grabs, lawless EO's and mandates, destroyed businesses and access to fuel and food are crossing the aisle and coming together. It did have to be this way.
Interesting Wiki article. This excerpt below implies an inverse reasoning:
Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its decision in Ex parte Milligan (1866).
The inverse reasoning would be: If the civil courts are not functioning, then military tribunals would be the reasonable alternative means to achieve justice. <<< We are here.
Thank you ransomnote, again and again!
https://technofog.substack.com/p/edva-jury-igor-danchenko-not-guilty
EDVA Jury: Igor Danchenko not guilty on all counts
And - what we learned from the trial
Techno Fog
Oct 18
Igor Danchenko has been found not guilty of providing false statements to federal officials in the course of their “investigation” into the Steele Dossier. After count 1 was dismissed (the Charles Dolan count), these charges remained:
Count 2. March 16, 2017: Danchenko told FBI agents he received a call in late July 2016 from a person he thought was Sergei Millian, when Danchenko knew he had never received a call from Millian.
Count 3. May 18, 2017: Danchenko gave a false statement to FBI agents that he “was under the impression” that the late July 2016 call was from Millian.
Count 4. October 24, 2017: Danchenko falsely stated to FBI agents that he believed he spoke to Millian on the phone on more than one occasion.
Count 5. November 16, 2017: Danchenko lied that he “believed he has spoken to [Millian] on the telephone,” when Danchenko well knew he had never spoken to Millian.
That’s the difficulty of proving a false statements case when the FBI and the Mueller Special Counsel were uninterested in pursuing the truth.
As we’ve seen from the course of this trial, the most important takeaways from this trial have never been the alleged lies. Danchenko himself has long been known as a fabricator, with his deceptions revealed as soon as information on his involvement in the Steele Dossier, his background, and his FBI interviews was released. Cue observations from 2020 from ourselves and many others:
@Techno_Fog
Did Steele’s primary sub-source lie to the FBI?
Sub-source told FBI “to his knowledge he has not had any contacts w/ the Russian intelligence.”
FBI files reveal repeated contacts & familiarity w/ Russian intelligence officials. ??
Byron York @ByronYork
More on the Steele sub-information: https://t.co/XxOQ7E0he2 https://t.co/cZG3LGAKp1
What is more important is that which informs our understanding of the Trump/Russia investigation and the FBI/DOJ/Mueller misconduct that sparked Crossfire Hurricane and continued through the Mueller investigation. That information was revelatory. The institutions were on trial alongside Danchenko, with Durham recognizing in closing arguments that “the FBI mishandled the investigation at issue.” And the institutions rightly suffered. Danchenko might have been spared, but is there any reasonable doubt as to the FBI’s incompetence - and guilt?
This past week, we provided some of the most comprehensive coverage of the Danchenko trial that you’ll find. Our goal is to always provide the most relevant information, preferably through transcript excerpts where you, the reader, can see the testimony for yourself and reach your own conclusions. At the same time, we also aim for concision. We hope that we achieved those goals.
For us, here are some of the most important highlights from the trial:
Steele was offered “up to a million dollars” to corroborate the Dossier.
Danchenko was a confidential human source for the FBI from March 2017 through October 2020. He was accused of giving a number of false statements during that time period. He was paid over $200,000 as an informant, and his status as a CHS buried him as a witness. “Sources and methods.”
The Mueller Special Counsel had FBI Agents and Analysts investigating the Steele Dossier - but purposefully limited the scope of that inquiry, making sure any information damning to their investigation would not be uncovered. Former FBI Intelligence Analyst Brittany Hertzog testified she learned of Charles Dolan’s connections to Danchenko during her time with the Mueller Special Counsel. She requested to interview Dolan; others opposed that request. The opposition won out.
FBI Special Agent Amy Anderson, also part of the Mueller Special Counsel, requested to interview Dolan. Her request was shut down by superiors.
Director Comey was informed on all parts of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, from its beginnings up until (theoretically) his termination.
FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson, who handed Danchenko as a confidential human source, omitted key derogatory information – that Danchenko was the target of a previous espionage case – in his opening paperwork.
FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson was recommended to assess Danchenko’s employer and look at the financial nature of Danchenko’s employment. Helson failed to do so.
FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson was recommended to investigate whether Danchenko lied in his visa and immigration documents. Helson failed to do so.
FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson (there’s a purpose in the repetition) was recommended to conduct a polygraph of Danchenko to determine if he “has ever been tasked by a foreign individual, entity or government to collect information or to perform actions adverse to the U.S. interest.” Helson failed to polygraph Danchenko.
Crossfire Hurricane started based on “a suggestion of some kind of suggestion” from a “friendly foreign government.” It was opened as a “full investigation,” which allowed for the use of “investigative tools” not allowed at the “preliminary investigation stage.
The FBI wanted a FISA on Carter Page “fairly early on” – around the end of July 2016 or soon thereafter. However, the FBI didn’t have enough to “secure” the warrant. The evidence wasn’t there.
FBI Analyst Brian Auten was unable to “confirm or corroborate” any of the Steele Dossier claims from the receipt of the document until the first FISA application in October 2016.
FBI Analyst Brian Auten and FBI colleague Stephen Somma knew Democrat Charles Dolan could be a source of information of the Steele Dossier. Neither asked Danchenko about Dolan.
Dolan would ultimately testify that he believed some Dossier information came from him.
The FBI checked with other agencies and was unable to corroborate the Dossier info.
FBI Analyst Brian Auten is a “subject” of the Durham investigation and will likely be “suspended” by the FBI.
Sergei Millian was a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office. The Crossfire Hurricane team found no evidence Millian had “assisted in the interference” of the 2016 presidential election.
While Danchenko told the FBI he spoke with Millian. E-mails from Millian demonstrate he had no idea who Millian was. The FBI/Mueller Special Counsel never obtained those e-mails.
The unanswered questions
When presented with the FBI failures documented during the Danchenko trial (and the Michael Sussmann trial), one can’t help but be reminded of their investigation of the DNC “hack.” Both investigations have similar types of “errors”: the failure to pursue investigative leads and collect evidence, and uncorroborated claims of Russian interference (or collusion) based on information provided by DNC/Clinton “contractors”.
Here, the FBI and Mueller Special Counsel refused to interview witnesses with knowledge of the Dossier allegations. In the case of the DNC “hack”, the FBI never obtained the DNC server. The FBI didn’t even obtain the unredacted Crowdstrike reports relating to the hack. Instead, the RBI relied upon Crowdstrike, hired on behalf of the DNC by disgraced attorney Michael Sussmann, to essentially inform the FBI’s assessment of the hack. As Aaron Mate explained in this essential essay:
The fact that the Democratic Party employed the two private firms that generated the core allegations at the heart of Russiagate — Russian email hacking and Trump-Russia collusion – suggests that the federal investigation was compromised from the start.
At some point, “mistakes” consistently made in one direction cease to be harmless errors and become circumstantial evidence of something nefarious. (In another context we might call that the “cumulative weight of circumstantial evidence.”) While we can draw inferences from that behavior, Durham faces a more difficult task: using such circumstantial evidence to build a criminal case. Maybe he has more. Maybe not. Maybe these FBI agents and officials were adept at hiding their criminal conduct under the guise of incompetence or cluelessness or a poor memory.¹
We also ask whether that’s it for Durham. The Wall Street Journal reported this would likely be the final prosecution of the Special Counsel, to be followed by a report detailing Durham’s findings. If that’s true, expect the report to be submitted after the midterms, absent further developments or other prosecutions by the Durham Special Counsel. If the reporting is true. We’ll see.
This reminds us of Horowitz’s report on the Carter Page FISAs, which made such findings such as: “While we found no documentary or testimonial evidence that this pattern of errors by Case Agent 1 was intentional, we also did not find his explanations for so many significant and repeated failures to be satisfactory.”
This is the crown jewel of all explanations.
Huge Standing Ovation.
Excellent explanation and analysis. Brava!
General Flynn comes out against Durham.
Flynn is seen by many to have well earned credibility, given his military intel background, his high rank and having all the right enemies in Obama administration, and his official placement by TRUMP in 2018.
There is going to be heightened tensions on the subject of my favorite slug, Durham.
Before Flynn, came Robert Barnes, Att., a few days ago.
Barnes already reviewed the open history of Activity of Barr and of Durham, since Trump.
It was compelling on its face.
Flatly, he claimed they are both Establishment protectors of the Justice Department and FBI. Barr and Durham.
We sit and see,... still,... that we have Zero Wins vs. Countless Losses, in the state courts, higher courts and in the highest, US SC.
The Justice Department is walking their own, while persecuting J6 citizens in the Gulag, to POTUS in Mara Lago.
The Durham thing may simply serve to maybe get us to the US SC. Chances are the Supreme Court will fail us.
This makes true that...
“The MIL is the only way.”
We don’t even know for sure, who’s Mil.
— GPundit
— Flynn
I am trying to have an intelligent discussion outside of FR with someone who is conservative, but does not understand the Durham situation at all. But he thinks he does. This guy gets all his news (at least a good share of it) from Conservative Treehouse.
He is trying to tell me that Sundance (from CTH) went to DC to BRIEF DURHAM on the Danchenko situation. I truly thought he was joking. He really believes this. He also believes that Barr and Durham are black hats and that their goal was just to stall around and accomplish nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas of what to say to this guy? I am near wits’ end. I feel like I’m talking to someone who has drunk the DS-lite version of Kool-Aid.
This is not the only person like this I am dealing with. The only other “conservative” in my neighborhood is a black pilling doomer.
I am just about ready to cut off contact with nearly everyone I know IRL.
I am so grateful to all of you here on FR for being the voices of reason. At least here, even if I disagree with someone, the arguments make sense.
God bless you all!
My thinking has always been that since all the fraud + corruption is obvious, they darn well better have been monitoring election, Jan6, these trials, etc. I even think/thought that’s why Durham did separate trials in two venues to expose both. At this point, however, timelines have merged IMO ... Either we’re on brink of WWIII or everything is a movie... IDK but I’m always watching and we’re blessed to have these threads to keep up on everything and have truth proofed. WWG1WGA + Maranatha :)
Excellent analysis!