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Exclusive: Special Counsel’s Office Is Investigating The 2016 DNC Server Hack
thefederalist ^ | 3/10/2022 | margot cleveland

Posted on 03/10/2022 10:02:20 AM PST by bitt

There was previously no known connection between the special counsel and the government’s investigation into the 2016 Democratic National Committee hack.

The U.S. Department of Defense tasked the same Georgia Tech researcher embroiled in the Alfa Bank hoax with investigating the “origins” of the Democratic National Committee hacker, according to an email first obtained by The Federalist on Wednesday. That email also indicates the special counsel’s office is investigating the investigation into the DNC hack and that prosecutors harbor concerns about the DOD’s decision to involve the Georgia Tech researcher in its probe.

The special counsel branded this person “Researcher-1” in court filings. His identity has since been confirmed by his attorney as Georgia Tech’s Manos Antonakakis.

Antonakakis first garnered public attention when Special Counsel John Durham indicted former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann. That one-count indictment charged the former Perkins Coie attorney with lying to FBI General Counsel James Baker when Sussmann provided Baker data and white papers purporting to show a secret communication network between the Russian-based Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.

In charging Sussmann, the speaking indictment explained that tech executive Rodney Joffe first alerted Sussmann to data allegedly compiled by April Lorenzen that supposedly revealed a backdoor communication network between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization. Joffe later allegedly asked two Georgia Tech researchers, Antonakakis and David Dagon—the latter identified in the indictment as Researcher-2—to mine internet data for evidence establishing a Trump-Russia connection.

According to the indictment, in mid-August, Antonakakis “queried internet data” maintained by Joffe’s tech company for the mail1.trump-email.com domain. The results from that search, however, showed no apparent connections between the Trump email and Russia, causing Antonakakis to tell Joffe that the results do “not make sense with the storyline you have.” Nonetheless, Joffe provided Antonakakis, Dagon, and Lorenzen a draft “white paper,” which presented a tale of an Alfa Bank-Trump secret communication channel, which the three then reviewed for Joffe.

Sussmann would later provide the Alfa Bank data and white papers to Baker, telling Baker that he was not acting on behalf of a client. The indictment alleged, however, that in reality Sussmann was acting on behalf of both the Clinton campaign and Joffe when he fed the FBI’s general counsel that Alfa Bank story.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016dncserver; antonakakis; aprillorenzen; brakingbitt; dagon; daviddagon; durham; georgiatech; hillaryskeywordtroll; manosantonakakis; michaelsussmann; researcher1; researcher2; sussmann; whitepapers
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1 posted on 03/10/2022 10:02:20 AM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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2 posted on 03/10/2022 10:02:33 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

I would like to see the Special Counsel investigate the murder of Seth Rich. He deserves that those responsible face justice.


3 posted on 03/10/2022 10:04:21 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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4 posted on 03/10/2022 10:04:24 AM PST by struggle
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To: bitt

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No Hurry, most of the Statutes of Limitations are set to expire.

The years just can be explained.

Ask Roger Stone, Papadopolous, Flynn, and Mannafort.

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5 posted on 03/10/2022 10:05:32 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (And the Wuhan Flu came from a food market and Joe Biden comes from the black community )
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To: bitt

Oh great. Another special investigative team looking into crap that happened six years ago.

What’s next? A special investigator looking into the fraudulent election of 2020? With results to be released at the end of Kamala‘s second term?


6 posted on 03/10/2022 10:12:54 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

“Since conspiracy is an omnipresent crime, it may be prosecuted wherever an overt act is committed in its furtherance. Because conspiracy is a continuing crime, its statute of limitations does not begin to run until the last overt act committed for its benefit.”

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf


7 posted on 03/10/2022 10:13:33 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: AnthonySoprano

An indictment weather sealed or unsealed stops the stutute of limitations


8 posted on 03/10/2022 10:13:55 AM PST by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: Responsibility2nd

if you can’t see all the pieces being revealed day by day, you’re not looking in the right places, friend.


9 posted on 03/10/2022 10:14:55 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

Precisely and well explained.


10 posted on 03/10/2022 10:15:09 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: bitt

Seth Rich revisited!!


11 posted on 03/10/2022 10:16:01 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: struggle

There is no statute of limitations on the conspiracy to murder Seth Rich.


12 posted on 03/10/2022 10:16:16 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: bitt

They already killed Mark Rich. What else do they want?


13 posted on 03/10/2022 10:16:34 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: bitt; little jeremiah
Great catch - and explanation of 'conspiracy'. I pointed out two years ago the investigation would have to become a conspiracy effort - NOT RICO!

I think most of us are reasonably certain that the DNC server was not 'hacked'! ... and note how Crowdstrike is now a major anti-hack advertiser on network TV.

14 posted on 03/10/2022 10:22:37 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: bitt

Listen carefully. This had nothing to do with Seth Rich. Our server was hacked. By those evil guys in the big country invading the small country. In Europe. The Russians.


15 posted on 03/10/2022 10:27:13 AM PST by AndyJackson
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There is also an exception to the statute for crimes where evidence exists in a foreign country. This exception would have to be approved by the presiding judge.


16 posted on 03/10/2022 10:31:24 AM PST by ETCM
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To: bitt

https://www.wnd.com/2022/03/durham-lies-trump-directed-russiagate-probe/


17 posted on 03/10/2022 10:32:54 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: AndyJackson

Listen carefully. This had nothing to do with Seth Rich. Our server was hacked. By those evil guys in the big country invading the small country. In Europe. The Russians.
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Hillary, do your lawyers know you’re posting here??

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18 posted on 03/10/2022 10:34:30 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

It should be very obvious now to anyone who followed this story that Seth Rich (a Bernie Bro) copied the stuff to a thumb-drive and gave it to wikileaks.

Seth Rich was then murdered in a bizarre “robbery” where the robbers took nothing (in DC).

Russia was not the source to wikileaks (per Julian Assange and computer experts who said the materials were copied directly - not downloaded). Podesta’s password was “password” so it is very possible that many nations including our allies had access to their server.

Seth Rich set out to embarrass Hillary and the DNC elders who were selecting Hillary over Bernie and rigging the game by disclosing the emails that proved it.

It probably cost him his life.


19 posted on 03/10/2022 10:35:02 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: ETCM

also, this:

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1501696670022709261?cxt=HHwWmsC5kcjKjNcpAAAA

what do you think?


20 posted on 03/10/2022 10:35:47 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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