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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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To: bitt
tasked the same Georgia Tech researcher embroiled in the Alfa Bank hoax with investigating the “origins” of the Democratic National Committee hacker

Documents further revealed that past investigations tasked to this researcher include:

Hillary Clinton's email server

Barack Obama's birth certificate

and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

21 posted on 03/10/2022 10:45:47 AM PST by Meet the New Boss (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: bitt

Well, well, well, look who the DoD gave a $17 million contract for “cyber attack attribution” in November of 2016:

https://rh.gatech.edu/news/584327/17-million-contract-will-help-establish-science-cyber-attribution

‘The new research effort will use data science and engineering techniques to sift through existing and new data sets to find relevant information.

“Using a variety of data sets and analytical techniques, we can distill the information that will be useful to identifying the virtual cyber actors,” Antonakakis said. “These bad actors have to use the network and computer systems, and they have to interact with sources. They are leaving crumbs behind, and we can leverage those.”’

So if the DoD is funding the research, and Antonakis’ AI-driven program finds “crumbs” that lead back to the DoD, or some DoD-protected actors, who do you think he is going to end up “attributing” an attack to? The hand that feeds him?


22 posted on 03/10/2022 10:48:27 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Bob Ireland

Actually, a conspiracy to obstruct justice or actually obstructing justice is just one MANY RICO predicate acts. There are many more predicate acts in play with Durham’s investigation. The statute of limitations for RICO is ten years. That SOL resets every day the conspiracy continues.


23 posted on 03/10/2022 10:52:46 AM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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***Actually, a conspiracy to obstruct justice or actually obstructing justice is just one MANY RICO predicate acts***

I advocate conspiracy to commit treason - to overthrow a popularly duly elected POTUS. A little murder could be thrown in.

24 posted on 03/10/2022 11:09:09 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: Boogieman

wow, good find


26 posted on 03/10/2022 11:43:27 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: WASCWatch

so as of today, we have 10 more years on the daily reset, lol!!!!


27 posted on 03/10/2022 11:44:34 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: ping jockey

and the poor M-13 slobs that were killed afterwards..


28 posted on 03/10/2022 11:45:22 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt

That’s Kamala.


29 posted on 03/10/2022 11:46:14 AM PST by Interesting Times (This space for rent.)
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DC is so incestuous, everybody is completely interconnected financially, legally and socially. When you get into the top law firms like Perkins Coie and Latham & Walker, they are in with everyone on both sides. I think the Judge probably won’t consider that a conflict. There was a time when I was sure Baker was a good man, but nobody lives in the swamp for that long without being corrupted.


30 posted on 03/10/2022 11:48:43 AM PST by ETCM
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To: bitt

Seth Rich wasn’t available for comment. But, the Mayor of Washington, DC and her wife should be questioned.


31 posted on 03/10/2022 12:43:01 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Bob Ireland

And the Crowdstrike servers were in Ukraine (are?) involved in the 2020 election.


32 posted on 03/10/2022 2:01:11 PM PST by little jeremiah (Where We Go One We Go All)
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To: bitt

Could be huge. Please, oh please...if Durham is investigating it, for real, they’ll either end his investigation or the entire DNC org will die. And Comey etc.,

Um..why was DOD tasking DARPA with investigating the supposed CNC hack? Why the US military, not KGB oops FIB ooops FBI?


33 posted on 03/10/2022 3:59:13 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally. The war is on Biden and Obama.)
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That would be correct.

Remember the FBI agents who framed three guys for the murders that Whitey Bulger committed? They were prosecuted and convicted 30+ years later.

Who was the US Attorney who prosecuted the three FBI Agents? Why, that would be John Durham.


34 posted on 03/10/2022 4:15:16 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: WASCWatch

Mueller


35 posted on 05/23/2022 12:16:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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