In a very late-night filing by Special Counsel John Durham {pdf HERE}, in the case against former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann, the special counsel gives the most detailed construct of the “joint venture” between the Clinton team and allies to fabricate a Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory against Donald Trump in 2016.
As we have noted, Durham is focused on the people outside government who fabricated information and triggered years of false accusations against Donald Trump, which ultimately included the creation of a special counsel, Robert Mueller.
John Durham has not touched any of the players inside government within any of his filings, with the exception of former FBI legal counsel James “Jim” Baker, who is a witness and gave testimony for three days to a grand jury. Durham will not touch anyone inside government [fn¹].
Durham is focused on who, how and why they originated the Trump-Russia lies, and whether any laws were broken as they pushed those lies into government institutions which created four years of crisis for the government and former President Trump. Within this filing, Durham focuses on the “joint venture”, or what can be described as a conspiracy to manufacture and/or defraud the government.
I have tried to put clarity on the filing by outlining who/what the terms are. DETAILS:
As you can see, the filing speaks for itself in outlining the origination of the conspiracy. Durham continues….
{SOURCE DOCUMENTS}
These are essentially the players who fabricated the Trump-Russia narrative.
David Dagon (“Researcher-2”), a researcher tasked by Rodney Joffe to fabricate connections between Alfa Bank and Trump, was given immunity in exchange for his cooperation with the special counsel. Fusion GPS employee Laura Seago was also granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for her cooperation with the special counsel.
Suffice to say, Durham knows what they did and how they did it. Now, he needs to prove it by using the evidence the conspirators have among their own documents and discussions.
The current court battle is circling around various lawyers and groups saying they have attorney-client privileges in order to attempt to avoid document production and/or testimony that will put them in legal jeopardy. The Clinton Campaign is claiming communication with Fusion is privileged. Fusion is claiming communication with Perkins Coie is privileged. Perkins Coie is claiming they hired Fusion GPS for legal services, etc. etc. etc.
It takes much more time, but John Durham is working through each of the privilege claims in court, and so far, he has been successful in compelling compliance.
♦ A frequent question: Why didn’t Durham charge Rodney Joffe yet? It’s a good question, and the answer is likely because he’s building that case around something else. Here’s my suspicion.
You will remember, back in 2016, 2017 and 2018, when I said the Clinton team seem to have some kind of “direct portal” into government databases. There was some process clearly evident where the Clinton campaign itself had access to government databases.
We speculated about all kinds of contractors helping her, etc. This is entirely separate from what Fusion GPS and other participants were doing to data-mine information. This is not the people inside government connected to spygate (NSA, Fusion, etc), this is a portal specific to the Clinton campaign itself.
I always called this network the “Clinton Portal“, and the fingerprints from it just kept surfacing as the media described Trump-Russia connections, and then campaign officials would amplify. I’ve said that since mid 2016, and I retained that view throughout. Clinton’s campaign operation was data mining some government database, somehow. The question was who and how?
Rodney Joffe is the explanation that answers that question. Joffe exploiting contractor access to government databases (GA Tech via DARPA), in combination with his access to data from Neustar, gave him a unique position. Joffe was Clinton’s Portal.
My hunch is that Durham is holding back on Joffe because accessing government databases, via a government contract (DARPA) that was not given for that intent, is a bigger set of charges.
Creating intentional fraud is one aspect…. they are all busted. However, using federally contracted access to government databases to exploit information, then fraudulently manipulating that information for the expressed intent on defrauding the same government, is a much heavier charge.
And that’s exactly what Rodney Joffe did, on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
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fn¹ – No one in government will be touched. This entire article is talking about the people in/around the Clinton campaign. Only the Clinton campaign. Nothing else except the Clinton campaign. I rely on readers to be intelligent enough to see the subject and draw a distinction from Govt and Non Govt.
This article, the entirety of it as it is written, is focused on OUTSIDE government. JOHN DURHAM is only looking OUTSIDE GOVT.
If you want to discuss “INSIDE GOVT”, my position stands. Bill Barr was the Bondo, John Durham is the spray paint.
The bottom line in all investigations is that democrats, FBI, and deep state need semi-plausible deniability while those who oppose them need semi-plausible culpability.
Understand SD’s ” Durham’s guardrails” but these may fall by the wayside if the targeted private contractors like Sussman, Elias, others implicate their govt overlords to mitigate their guilt/sentences.
Assuming Durham even allows that offer on the table.
I agree inside government appears to be safe from Durham probe.
Bruce Ohr went out of his way to pedal Steele misinformation while Steele was employed by GPS as was Nellie Ohr his wife.
Bruce Ohrs penalty for his actions? A rather large year end bonus from DOJ!!.
True! But there’s also a very important, immutable, and insoluble fact in all of this, i.e., all the spooks at CIA, DOJ, FBI etc., all have license to lie (and kill, if need be) in order to preserve ‘the mission and protect sources and methods.’
In other words, how does one prosecute fraudulent, politically motivated investigations when the perpetrators are walking around untethered to constitutional limitations like the rest of us, and especially when guilty persons hold sham authorizations to secretly investigate precisely those who righteously seek to investigate THEM (the spooks)? Or, how does one get any information at all when nobody is authorized to speak about classified information or when court orders are denied or thwarted?
The answer is that it takes many years, and well into the expiration of statutes of limitations by the time you gain access to court ordered subpoenas, and testimony on the record.
Apparently, some statutes of limitations in the Durham case carry certain exemptions, but others do not. The latter may also explain why his focus will need to be narrow.
I’ve commented before that DOJ is larded over with unconstitutional internal rules that that exempt officials from accountability to a chief executive, or at times even to the Attorney General.
Those rules need to be challenged in court so that the chief executive can, at his pleasure and discretion, insert himself into any investigation he wishes without recriminations or Pelosi-style, Maxine Waters-style grandstanding that amounts to truckloads of annoying manure.
In other words, babes, it’s in the Constitution. Read it! Article II!
I have stated many times that nothing will come of this as our government is rotten from the top to the bottom. A few low level staffers may be sacrificed for overstepping their roles for their goddess Hillary. Time will tell, we shall see.
Nor will Hillary and her ilk suffer any punishment. It’s really too bad, as it’s her kind who cause us to doubt the justice system.
At least Hillary did not achieve her life long dream of becoming president of the USA. That’s her punishment for being such a grotesque human being, the voters said NO!
She will be punished, but not on Earth.
The justice system is dead ! only we can deal out justice now .
Yours is the only sensible post. “Revolution time, c’mon”
No, you just never understood it to begin with. You have to have explicit evidence of crime, not merely crime by association.
https://toresays.com/2019/05/16/exclusive-john-durham-was-not-appointed-by-ag-barr/
Need Sid Blumenthal connections. He’s likely the original straw stirring it up.
James Wolf 2.0 …
Mark Levin did this already in great detail in March, 2017. The exact same result will happen to the Russia hoax criminals with Durham’s work:NOTHING. However, the GOP’s favorite lesbian couple, Sean Hannity and Lindsey Graham will sell a crap ton of pillows, sheets, and strawberries because of Durham, not to mention the GOP “promising” to get to the bottom of the Russia hoax if they win in November. You know, sort of like they promised to end Obamacare when they kept the majority and Trump won in 2016.
You do understand that the GOP doesn’t have the ability to do anything about it, right? Congress has no authority in these matters.
Just a reminder that another Durham shoe exists outside the purview of a suspect D.C. trial jury…
…namely in the form of an Eastern District of Virginia grand jury.
Wherein resides the CIA-generated “implausible” evidence surrounding the YotaPhone and phony Alfa bank connections.
How that shoe drops is anybody’s guess, but it suggests that a stereoscopic view of Durham’s “conspiracy” plan wouldn’t be frivolous.
(For the Durham skeptics, extra points for how he insulates CIA’s elaborate actions in pursuit of Russia,Russia, Russia with its knowledge that Sussmann’s “evidence” was bogus from the jump.)
An article to consider:
https://shiftfrequency.com/durham-filing-reveals-cia-knew-in-2017-trump-russia-collusion-was-fake/
And we live in a “Banana Republic” under a homo-fascist-communist dictatorship with a two tier justice system. Wow America has lived up to its potential well done democrats. #MAGA
Peter Strzok and Andrew Weissman should spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Those inside government happily prefer to be labeled the fools who were defrauded over defendants.