A few days ago when the Michael Sussmann indictment was still ‘looming‘—on September 16, actually—we consider Durham’s Investigative Theory. I had already noted Durham’s apparent interest in Sussmann’s (and Marc Elias’) former law firm, Perkins Coie (PC), but wasn’t sure whether Durham’s interest in PC was in the firm as an entity or simply more or less coincidental to Sussmann and Elias being partners at PC. However, on September 16 I offered this consideration:
I think all of us are missing the most important part of this absolutely wild indictment that quashes so many Deep State narratives of the last 5.5 years.
Sussman was the lawyer tasked with handling the alleged hacking of the DNC, and in that role he hired Crowdstrike. According to this indictment, in the very month before he made that hire, he was conspiring with three tech companies and two university researchers to unlawfully use their access to nonpublic information provided by a pending government cyber security contract to spy on the Trump organization and to fabricate DNS logs that would appear to show that a Trump server was communicating with a Russian bank. These fabricated logs were then fed to the FBI general counsel and the resulting FBI investigation leaked to the media. (Sources: Mueller Report and Sussman Indictment).
Is there any reason to believe the fabricators of those DNS logs could not have taken Russian and Ukrainian malware available on the dark web to anyone with a Tor account to fake an attack on the DNC’s email servers? We have no way of knowing for certain, because after the FBI said the Russians hacked the DNC, Sussman refused them access to the DNC servers, and had Crowdstrike destroy all of the evidence, so that no independent government or private organization could ever examine the logs.
Does Durham dare go all the way and prove that not only Russian Collusion but Russian Interference never happened?!
Related: Dan Bongino has pulled together some very interesting details, and concludes the Sussmann indictment is a much bigger deal than most people think.
Watch his podcast from ~10:00 minutes to ~25:00 minutes as he outlines the material some of which is gleaned from Fool Nelson's twitter feed.
1. When Steele first passed info to FBI/DOJ regarding allegations that Trump Campaign was colluding with Russia, he revealed that the ultimate clients -- for whom FusionGPS, and he by Fusion, were hired by Perkins Coie -- were Hillary's Campaign/DNC.
2. FBI opens Crossfire Hurricane at about this time, putatively based on Downer's tip about PapaD conversation with Mifsud.
3. FBI wants to get a FISA warrant, but knows a warrant based solely on oppo research material from an opposing campaign, won't fly with the FISA court.
4. Steele passes info to FBI via Legat in London and concurrently passes it to people in the NY Field office (Gaeta?)
5. Halper is passing related info (about Carter Page and PapaD) to his handler in NYFO (Somma)
6. NYFO shares info with FBI HQ, which is also getting it from Steele's contacts in DC.
7. Gaeta transfers to CH investigation in mid-August 2016, after having received Steele reporting, which FBI knows is tainted oppo research material.
8. Sussmann goes to Baker at FBI with Alfa Bank connection data/allegation, and specifically states he's not doing this on behalf of any client (which is the basis of his indictment) on 19 September.
9. McCabe immediately orders the field offices to ceases all contact, acceptance of info, from sources Halper and Steele.
10. Bongino concludes McCabe did this because now FBI had a source for an allegation of collusion with Russia that wasn't officially connected back to Hillary's Campaign, and didn't want to risk receiving anything else from less pristine sources that they would have to reveal to
the FISA Court when applying for a warrant on Carter Page.
Two bonus points:
11. Bogino mentions Sara Carter's reporting over the weekend that Alfa bank hired forensic cyber tech people to trace the source of the mysterious lookups from their server's IP address to/from the Trump server. She reported to Bongino that Alfa's techs traced the source one three specific occasions to somewhere in the US, causing their server to appear to be looking up Trump's server.
12. An inference from what Bogino was saying is that Gaeta knew the essence of the Steele Dossier reporting in July 2016, and then JOINED CH in DC in mid-August, but FBI maintained that CH knew nothing about the Dossier material until mid-September. That's contradicted by virtue of Gaeta knowing about it in July, then joining the CH team in mid-August!
Side story: Mickey Dickenson is listed as one of the people being subpoenaed by Alfa Bank in its civil lawsuit. He worked in the Obama WH as a IT guru. What does Alfa bank's attorney's know that we don't?
While all this is of interest, it likely will be mostly moot, in that the Dems best play may be, for Biden to issue preemptive pardons (akin to Ford/ Nixon) to all major players, before any pleas/ convictions.
That way, the MSM etc. can crow about how "nothing was proven, so let's move on."
I have subsequently found a press release from Jenner & Block dated 6 August, that, in passing, mentions Weissmann as a "former partner." So his departure -- for some sort of "in house" position IIRC -- had to be prior to 6 August.
Curiously, Weissmann also suddenly ceased tweeting™ on 10 July. Is that because of the same thing that caused him to leave the law firm where he had scored a gig just a year and a half earlier? Could be coincidence, or not .... Could it be .... a target letter?
Dan Jones testified before Durham GJ?
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/senate-dems-tapped-soros-funded-operative-to-research-trump-russia-conspiracy/
Hmmmmm .....
SWC's latest: https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/the-sussmann-indictment-reads-like
I think all of us are missing the most important part of this absolutely wild indictment that quashes so many Deep State narratives of the last 5.5 years.
Sussman was the lawyer tasked with handling the alleged hacking of the DNC, and in that role he hired Crowdstrike. According to this indictment, in the very month before he made that hire, he was conspiring with three tech companies and two university researchers to unlawfully use their access to nonpublic information provided by a pending government cyber security contract to spy on the Trump organization and to fabricate DNS logs that would appear to show that a Trump server was communicating with a Russian bank. These fabricated logs were then fed to the FBI general counsel and the resulting FBI investigation leaked to the media. (Sources: Mueller Report and Sussman Indictment).
Is there any reason to believe the fabricators of those DNS logs could not have taken Russian and Ukrainian malware available on the dark web to anyone with a Tor account to fake an attack on the DNC’s email servers? We have no way of knowing for certain, because after the FBI said the Russians hacked the DNC, Sussman refused them access to the DNC servers, and had Crowdstrike destroy all of the evidence, so that no independent government or private organization could ever examine the logs.
Does Durham dare go all the way and prove that not only Russian Collusion but Russian Interference never happened?!
Techno Fog's latest assessment of where Durham may be headed:
https://technofog.substack.com/p/where-does-john-durham-go-from-here
He sees many potential targets.
In O/T response from Lawfare courtesy of the witty Wittes. https://www.lawfareblog.com/special-counsels-weird-prosecution-michael-sussmann
Related: Dan Bongino has pulled together some very interesting details, and concludes the Sussmann indictment is a much bigger deal than most people think.
Watch his podcast from ~10:00 minutes to ~25:00 minutes as he outlines the material some of which is gleaned from Fool Nelson's twitter feed.
https://rumble.com/vmqrfn-ep.-1608-an-online-investigator-exposes-a-troubling-connection-the-dan-bong.html
Key points:
1. When Steele first passed info to FBI/DOJ regarding allegations that Trump Campaign was colluding with Russia, he revealed that the ultimate clients -- for whom FusionGPS, and he by Fusion, were hired by Perkins Coie -- were Hillary's Campaign/DNC.
2. FBI opens Crossfire Hurricane at about this time, putatively based on Downer's tip about PapaD conversation with Mifsud.
3. FBI wants to get a FISA warrant, but knows a warrant based solely on oppo research material from an opposing campaign, won't fly with the FISA court.
4. Steele passes info to FBI via Legat in London and concurrently passes it to people in the NY Field office (Gaeta?)
5. Halper is passing related info (about Carter Page and PapaD) to his handler in NYFO (Somma)
6. NYFO shares info with FBI HQ, which is also getting it from Steele's contacts in DC.
7. Gaeta transfers to CH investigation in mid-August 2016, after having received Steele reporting, which FBI knows is tainted oppo research material.
8. Sussmann goes to Baker at FBI with Alfa Bank connection data/allegation, and specifically states he's not doing this on behalf of any client (which is the basis of his indictment) on 19 September.
9. McCabe immediately orders the field offices to ceases all contact, acceptance of info, from sources Halper and Steele.
10. Bongino concludes McCabe did this because now FBI had a source for an allegation of collusion with Russia that wasn't officially connected back to Hillary's Campaign, and didn't want to risk receiving anything else from less pristine sources that they would have to reveal to
the FISA Court when applying for a warrant on Carter Page.
Two bonus points:
11. Bogino mentions Sara Carter's reporting over the weekend that Alfa bank hired forensic cyber tech people to trace the source of the mysterious lookups from their server's IP address to/from the Trump server. She reported to Bongino that Alfa's techs traced the source one three specific occasions to somewhere in the US, causing their server to appear to be looking up Trump's server.
12. An inference from what Bogino was saying is that Gaeta knew the essence of the Steele Dossier reporting in July 2016, and then JOINED CH in DC in mid-August, but FBI maintained that CH knew nothing about the Dossier material until mid-September. That's contradicted by virtue of Gaeta knowing about it in July, then joining the CH team in mid-August!
Side story: Mickey Dickenson is listed as one of the people being subpoenaed by Alfa Bank in its civil lawsuit. He worked in the Obama WH as a IT guru. What does Alfa bank's attorney's know that we don't?
While all this is of interest, it likely will be mostly moot, in that the Dems best play may be, for Biden to issue preemptive pardons (akin to Ford/ Nixon) to all major players, before any pleas/ convictions.
That way, the MSM etc. can crow about how "nothing was proven, so let's move on."
I have subsequently found a press release from Jenner & Block dated 6 August, that, in passing, mentions Weissmann as a "former partner." So his departure -- for some sort of "in house" position IIRC -- had to be prior to 6 August.
Curiously, Weissmann also suddenly ceased tweeting™ on 10 July. Is that because of the same thing that caused him to leave the law firm where he had scored a gig just a year and a half earlier? Could be coincidence, or not .... Could it be .... a target letter?
My new blog article:
http://people-who-did-not-see.blogspot.com/2021/09/steeles-dossier-report-about-alfa-bank.html