Posted on 10/25/2017 10:00:10 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Summary: Same law firm paid for dossier that paid the DNC server "investigation."
STORY:
As Rich noted last night, we have learned finally, courtesy of the Washington Post, that Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the notorious “Trump Dossier,” was funded by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Of course, the Clinton campaign and the DNC always want layers of deniability and obfuscation – and let’s note that it has served them well – so they hire lawyers to do the icky stuff rather than doing it directly. Then, when the you-know-what hits the fan, outfits like Fusion GPS try to claim that they can’t share critical information with investigators because of (among other things) attorney-client confidentiality concerns. Here, the Clinton campaign and the DNC retained the law firm of Perkins Coie; in turn, one of its partners, Marc E. Elias, retained Fusion GPS. We don’t know how much Fusion GPS was paid, but the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid $9.1 million to Perkins Coie during the 2016 campaign (i.e., between mid-2015 and late 2016). A friend draws my attention to an intriguing coincidence. In its capacity as attorney for the DNC, Perkins Coie – through another of its partners, Michael Sussman – is also the law firm that retained CrowdStrike, the cyber security outfit, upon learning in April 2016 that the DNC’s servers had been hacked. Interesting: Despite the patent importance of the physical server system to the FBI and Intelligence-Community investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the Bureau never examined the DNC servers. Evidently, the DNC declined to cooperate to that degree, and the Obama Justice Department decided not to issue a subpoena to demand that the servers be turned over (just like the Obama Justice Department decided not to issue subpoenas to demand the surrender of critical physical evidence in the Clinton e-mails investigation). Instead, the conclusion that Russia is responsible for the invasion of the DNC servers rests on the forensic analysis conducted by CrowdStrike. Rather than do its own investigation, the FBI relied on a contractor retained by the DNC’s lawyers. The most significant pressing question about the so-called Trump Dossier is whether it was used by the FBI and the Obama Justice Department to get a warrant from the FISA court to conduct national-security surveillance on people connected to the Trump campaign. As I have previously pointed out, this would not be as scandalous as it sounds if (a) the Justice Department had a good faith basis to believe the people the Bureau wanted to surveil were acting as agents of Russia, and (b) the FBI first corroborated whatever information it took from the dossier before presenting it to the FISA court. But it certainly is interesting that we are once again, in a case involving alleged Russian espionage, reviewing a situation in which the FBI relied on a contractor retained by the DNC’s and the Clinton campaign’s lawyers at Perkins Coie.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453092/scandals-collide-dossier-dnc-server-perkins-coie
Despite the nonsense "17 agencies confirmed..." Russian hacking, no FBI or other U.S. government investigators were ever allowed to touch the DNC servers. Instead, the DNC hired a Ukrainian group who prepared a report saying, "It was the Russians."
This law firm was possibly used to launder money and conduct other illegal activity, such as a U.S. political campaign (Hillary's) hiring foreign workers (Fusion GPS).
Simple fact, the democrats colluded with Russians to swing the election. Do to them every single thing they said Trump deserved.
Perkins Coie laundered the Millions to GPS and didn’t report them as campaign expenditures. They probably broke several laws. Now if we actually had a Justice department and an FBI they would be getting search warants.
Perkins Coie was the same law firm Obama used for his phony birth certificate.
Special prosecutor. Get people to start flipping.
FBI is so corrupt now. The IT guy for Hillary was granted immunity. Why? To shut him up. Rather than to testify, he was given immunity as along as he stayed quiet. That’s how corrupt our government has become.
If you can take millions of dollars and sell out our uranium to the Russians, is there any accountability at all for our politicians?
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose payments for a dossier on Donald Trump, according to a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
The complaint from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center said the Democrats effectively hid the payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law. By law, campaign and party committees must disclose the reason money is spent and its recipient.
“By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures,” said Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a former FEC official. “Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money. The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action.”
Media reports on Tuesday alleged that a lawyer for the Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS to investigate Mr. Trump in April 2016. The private research firm reportedly hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy with ties to the FBI, to conduct the opposition research, and he compiled a dossier containing allegations about Mr. Trump’s connections to Russia.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC funded the effort until the end of October 2016, just days before the election.
“Questions about who paid for this dossier are the subject of intense public interest, and this is precisely the information that FEC reports are supposed to provide,” said Brendan Fischer, director of federal and FEC reform at CLC. “Payments by a campaign or party committee to an opposition research firm are legal, as long as those payments are accurately disclosed. But describing payments for opposition research as ‘legal services’ is entirely misleading and subverts the reporting requirements.”
SOURCE .
> “Instead, the DNC hired a Ukrainian group ...”
Not quite.
Crowdstrike was started with funds from Warburg-Pincus which is Rothschild. Hillary Clinton and Lynn Forester de Rothschild are friends (scroll towards the end of https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/1570).
Dmitri Alperovitch, born in Russia, is a Founder of Crowdstrike which was backed with Rothschild funding (European banking). He’s also a member of the Atlantic Council, a far left organ backed by billionaires in the secret Democracy Alliance.
Summary: Same law firm paid for dossier that paid the DNC server "investigation."
No KIDDING???? That law firm is obviously dirty as hell!
More and more looking to be far more complex and interconnected than even the most avid conspiracy theorists around - gonna tax our patience as the DOJ tries to unravel things and get its ducks in a row....curious to see how Mueller comes out of this....
There’s no way you could use a law firm to violate U.S. election laws.
Unless you’re the Clintons, of course.
The law firm is certainly culpable and part of a criminal conspiracy if they knowingly violate federal law.
That seems to be what happened here.
Good point re Obama.
They must feel they can’t be touched.
Obama also apparently was directly briefed about the Russians bribing Americans over Uranium One.
When scandals collide with the democrats, usually principal informants end up dead.
And so many are -conveniently dead-. The latest Seth Rich.
I hope this newly released informant can testify before he has a -convenient- end...
Of course.
Sorry but you are wrong on this, because the law firm is not the entity that must report to the FEC. The law firm simply claims they didn’t know what they were reporting to the FEC and the FEC would not have a leg to stand on. Thus they are not even going to include them. Were they culpable in reality, of course, but not that put them in any legal jeopardy. The filing is against the Clinton Campaign & DNC only, and never mentions the law firm in its complaint of campaign expenditure reporting violations.
A complaint has been filed.
Not holding my breath anyone will be held accountable.
I think most of us share that sentiment. Hopefully we are all wrong. I am somewhat optimistic though because now that the cat is out of the bag there may have to be something done. But we shall see. If nothing is done then I think there will be huge problems that will cause massive unrest.
Sussmann bump.
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