Posted on 05/17/2022 6:55:46 AM PDT by janetjanet998
John Haughey of The Epoch Times twitter feed with live updates
John Haughey @JFHaughey58 · 1h Deliberations begin Tuesday morning at the E. Barnett Prettyman U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., in Michael #Sussmann's trial for allegedly lying to the FBI about the #Trump Organization's purported ties to a Russian Bank
There will actually be 16 jurors seated during the trial with four not knowing that they are alternates and will not be "in the room" when the case goes to the jury for a verdict.
Lengthy discussion regarding the infamous #SteeleDossier ...former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele cannot be compelled to testify so the dossier will enter the case tangentially in testimony from several witnesses, including #FusionGPS employee Laura Seago.
Is this charge a joke? Like stealing from a thief.
Yep typical DC BS.
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
The tip about the Alfabank-Trump connections was later debunked. But Sussmann played no role in the actual cyber research itself. As such, the govn’t is not permitted to introduce evidence about whether the data was “fabricated or spoofed,” per Judge Cooper
Martin is saying DNS data itself is not enough to establish connections between domains and IP addresses.
(why did they FBI look into it then?)
Cross-examination of Agent Martin is about to begin
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
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Replying to
@SarahNLynch
Just because one computer is doing a look up of another site doesn’t mean emails were exchanged, Martin confirms to Sussmann’s lawyer. This data shows “a potential connection,” Sussmann’s lawyer says
Kabuki. All for show and all to remind we serfs our masters are above the law.
Charlie Savage
@charlie_savage
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Starting with the premise that DNS data doesn’t tell you for sure whether a computer actually communicated with another one, he gets Martin to agree that to actually find out if it happened, you’d need steps like search warrants, subpoenas — i.e. stuff FBI can do
The United States calls FBI special agent Scott Hellman
He oversees a team of cyber crime investigators at the FBI.
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
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An exhibit shows James Baker, GC for FBI at the time, took initial custody of the evidence turned over by Sussmann, and then it went next to
@petestrzok
before making its way into the custody of several other
@FBI
officials
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
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Hellman says he was upset that in his chain of custody review, he could not determine the source of the thumb drives and other materials. “I was frustrated I was not able to identity of who had provided these thumb drives... to Mr. Baker.”
Sussmann-Durham trial: Prosecution says Clinton lawyer used FBI to create an ‘October surprise’ against Trump
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
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Exhibits on the screen are showing snapshots of some of the allegations about purported Trump Org-Alfabank connections that were shared with the FBI by Sussmann. He provided technical data on thumb drives and accompanying narratives explaining the data
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
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Replying to
@SarahNLynch
Hellman says he concluded the allegations of a secret communication channel between the Trump Org & Alfabank did not hold water.
“Whoever had written that paper had jumped to some conclusions that were not supported by the technical data,” he said.
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
“There was not enough data there to make the conclusion there was a) any communication or b) secret communications between the Trump Organization and Russia,” Hellman said.
Charlie Savage
@charlie_savage
Hellman explains he and his supervisor were skeptical. They looked at the data & the white paper that accompanied it & disagreed with the methodology/conclusions. Didn’t think it made sense that a secret channel would use a server with Trump’s name on it, connecting directly.
Sarah N. Lynch
@SarahNLynch
Hellman says it would be “abnormal” that a presidential candidate would try to hide his communications with a Russian bank by labeling his domain with the name “Trump.” He also said if there were secret communications, Russia is a sophisticated player that could hide it
John Haughey
@JFHaughey58
Hellman said it took him and another agent less than a day to ascertain the data and “white papers” on two thumb drives Sussmann gave Baker did not support the Trump-Alfa Bank “secret connection” allegation.
Charlie Savage
@charlie_savage
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Hellman says in terms of technical analysis, he would do the same steps regardless of knowing where the data came from. But.../30
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Charlie Savage
@charlie_savage
...In terms of what level of investigation to open, he would want to know who provided the data and with what motivation to figure out how much he trusts the “facts” & whether to gather more info. (He didn’t open investigation bc no hacking; Chicago FBI did - a full, he said)./31
Charlie Savage
@charlie_savage
One of the cybersecurity researchers who developed the Alfa Bank data and analysis and had been on the prosecutors witness list, Manos Antonakakis, has invoked Fifth Amendment so won’t testify, DeFilippis said
This is interesting
Leslie McAdoo Gordon ⚖️ 👠🇺🇸
@McAdooGordon
Interesting tidbit: He was “frustrated” because Baker WOULDN’T tell him who he got the data from! even for the Chain of Custody and the “Greensheet” (FBI form for identifying evidence owners). Baker didn’t complete the Custody form - Hellman initiated it.
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