>>16379427

>Devin Nunes on the Sussmann verdict:

>“Durham had to know when he walked into the DC courtroom that it was highly unlikely that he was going to prosecute a well known, prominent Democrat… in the cesspool

^^^^^^^

this

Compiling a list ofwinningfrom Sussman trial, so far based on Margot's two excellent articles. Thinking someone can widdle it down to short bulleted copy pasta. Tried to start on that task by organizing the info a bit.

> https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/31/even-if-the-jury-doesnt-convict-michael-sussmann-the-special-counsel-has-won/

> https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/31/jury-acquits-clinton-campaign-attorney-but-prosecutors-prove-corporate-media-guilty/

Durham Proved the Collusion Hoax Was a Hillary Clinton Enterprise

Sussman trial revealed a Russian Hoax scandal that entangles the Clinton campaign, multiple internet companies, two federally-funded university researchers, and a complicit media.”

• Hillary Clinton holds full responsibility for the Russia collusion hoax

- Durham confirmed theClinton campaign paid forFusion GPS to compile the Christopher Steele dossier.

• The Sussmann case established that her campaign paid for the lies—including those emanating from the Russian-national Igor Danchenko.

• And Special Counsel Durham’s indictment against Danchenko reveals that individuals hired by the Clinton campaign fed that Russian disinformation to U.S. media, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies.

A Court Ruling Requiring More Disclosures

• To date, the Clinton campaign has hidden behind claims of attorney-client privilege to prevent Durham from obtaining documents, communications, and testimony through the grand jury.

-The Clinton campaign claimed material prepared by, or communications between, Perkins and Coie attorneys, Fusion GPS employees, investigators, and other third parties are protected by attorney-client privilege.

• Prosecutors in the Sussmann case, however, succeeded in obtaining a court ruling that several documents withheld by Fusion GPS, based on the Clinton campaign’s claims of privilege, are not protected and must be given to prosecutors.

• this precedent provides the special counsel’s office solid grounds to challenge the privilege in both the Danchenko case and in other grand jury probes that may be pending.

• Piercing the privilege will prove key to further exposing Clinton’s personal involvement in Spygate.

The Legacy Media Was and Is a Leftist Lapdog

• EXPOSED: email communications between the Clinton-campaign-funded Fusion GPS and the fake news at The New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, Yahoo! News, ABC News, and Slate

In one email, Fusion GPS’s co-founder Peter Fritsch pushed ABC News’s Matthew Mosk to run the Alfa Bank story, telling him, “Dude this is huge.” Fritsch took a more aggressive stance with Reuter’s Mark Hosenball, venting in a mid-October 2016 email, “Do the fucking alfa bank secret comms story,” telling him, “it is hugely important.”

Fritsch told Hosenball to “call David Dagon at Georgia Tech.” Of course, thanks to the Sussmann trial, it is now public knowledge that, far from being a disinterested expert, Dagon worked with Joffe to craft the Alfa Bank tale sold to the media and the FBI. Dagon was also rabidly anti-Trump.

“neither Reuters nor ABC did the story then—but Fusion GPS soon found someone who would” when Fusion GPS’s team “went to see Franklin Foer, then working for Slate, to brief him about the data suggesting ties between the Alfa Bank and Trump servers.”

Foer would later “break” the Alfa Bank story on October 31, 2016.

Washington Post and NY Times Boosting Oppo Material

-emails uncovered during the Sussmann prosecution revealed that during the summer and fall of 2016, Fusion GPS folks also regularly chatted with the Washington Post’s Democrat scribe, Tom Hamburger.

• Millian was also the subject of a July 24, 2016 email in which Fusion GPS’s other founder, Glenn Simpson, provided Hamburger three email addresses for Millian—an apparent push for the journalist to focus on Millian as part of the Russia collusion theme.

• Fusion GPS’s Fritsch also pushed Millian on The New York Times’s Eric Lichtblau,

• until late last week, Sussmann intended to call Lichtblau to testify in his defense, but Sussmann dropped the Times reporter from his witness list after prosecutors made clear they intended to question Lichtblau extensively on his communications with various sources.

• Emails between Lichtblau and Fusion GPS revealed the symbiotic relationship between the Clinton campaign opposition research firm and Lichtblau.

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>Compiling a lis

Media Keeps the Lies Circulating

• The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins re-upped the Alfa Bank tale in 2018, in a tome titled, “Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?”

• Filkins then resurrected the story for The New Yorker in October 2020,

• Filkins referenced “Max,” akaRodney Joffe

• thanks to the prosecution of Sussmann, we now know “Max” is tech executive Rodney Joffe, and that his fellow cyber experts pushing the Alfa Bank hoax were 'April Lorenzen and David Dagon.

• Court filings in the Sussmann case also revealed that the cyber researchers saw the Alfa Bank theory as flawed.

• They also showed another expert,Manos Antonakakis, who reviewed the Alfa Bank-Trump whitepapers, had congratulated Joffe on crafting the paper to avoid the most glaring hole in the thesis.

Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally “agreed with the decision” to feed the unverified—and quickly debunked—theory that Trump was communicating secretly with Russia through a back-door Alfa Bank channel.

• trial evidence confirmed the Clinton campaign paid the law firm Perkins and Coie a flat fee of as much as $130,000 per month during the campaign, and authorized lead counsel Marc Elias to hire Fusion GPS for opposition research.

• even charged the Clinton campaign for two thumb drives purchased at Staples used for the Alfa Bank project.

• BTFO: claims that a secret communication channel between Trump and Russia truly existed

Killing the Alfa Bank Hoax For Good. AND Rodney Joffe

• the special counsel’s prosecution also revealed that the Alfa Bank stories were hoaxes

• and the scandalous way they were crafted and seeded to America.

>Joffe taskedtwo Georgia Tech cyber researchers, as well as employees at tech companies over which he had influence, with mining proprietary and sensitive government data for any connectionbetween Trump and Russia to push the Russia collusion narrative.

>Joffe also held responsibility for providing the Alfa Bank data to Sussmann

>Joffe provided a different FBI contact the same Alfa Bank “intel” while asking that agent to maintain his anonymity, thereby creating a problem ofcircular reporting.Special Counsel Durham also revealed that Joffe still risks prosecution.

The more devastating take-down of the Alfa Bank theory, however, came during Sussmann’s trial

when government cyber security experts testified of their review of the data, telling the jury they had:

• quickly concluded the hypothesis made no sense.

• One agent notedit sounded “5150ish” at the time.

• He explained to the jury he meant that the individual positing the Alfa Bank-Trump connection sounded as if he “was suffering from some mental disability.”

Using Federal Agencies to Push Smear Campaigns

• the then-Clinton campaign attorney took the Alfa Bank data to the FBI to bolster its credibility.

• Fusion GPS used the FBI’s investigation—prompted by Sussmann—to sell the Alfa Bank story to the press.

The emails uncovered as part of the Sussmann’s prosecution extended beyond coordination between the Clinton-funded Fusion GPS and the media concerning Alfa Bank. For instance, in mid-May 2016, even before Fusion GPS hired former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS’s Jake Berkowitz emailed Foer several links with introductory sentences about Carter Page, who would later star in the Steele dossier. Peter Fritsch, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, also joined in the email thread, which continued for several days with updated research on Page.

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>>16379791

5.5 years of the fake news pushing a deboonked alfa bank conspiracy theory.

Let's compare.

Fake News Wasington Post spin after Sussman indictment.

They trot out the one guy in the fake news that verbalized alfa bank hoax doubts at the time for some limited hangout mixed with a Lindell smear

> https://archive.ph/pb9Ul

It is entirely fitting that the Alfa Bank rumor will be the final bookend of the Russia probe

Security guards stand at the entrance to Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 24. (Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg News)

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By

Philip Bump

National correspondent

Yesterday at 5:52 p.m. EDT

One of the themes of the past few years has been that the complexity of the Internet, something intentionally left opaque to the user, generates a lot of activity that can be posited as nefarious.

In recent months, that has manifested as a pillow salesman declaring with great certitude that he and his team have data proving that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He doesn’t have that data, as he made clear both when he first claimed that he did and when he later offered to prove that he did, which he couldn’t because he didn’t. But that there are millions of bits of data flying back and forth between countries for millions of reasons, many inscrutable, allows both the well- and nefariously-intentioned to identify connections that don’t exist.

But something similar happened in 2016, as well, offered not as a defense of Donald Trump but a condemnation of him.

Then, Slate published a lengthy story exploring a series of Internet connections between a Trump Organization email server and Alfa Bank, a Russian financial institution. The story dropped late on the afternoon of Halloween, about a week before the election, and seemed to confirm one of the most tantalizing indictments Trump faced: that he was illicitly working with Russia. Not only were there these communications, after all, but they seemed to align with key moments in the presidential race.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign quickly tried to capitalize on it, treating the claims that Trump was working with Russia as stated fact. Her surrogates wrapped it into a broader narrative of Trump’s efforts to kowtow to Russia. At last, it seemed, she had her smoking gun.

Except it was more of an extinguished match. The morning after the story was published, I wrote a lengthy examination of the claim, talking with an expert on this sort of communication who punched a number of very large holes in the idea that it marked quiet coordination between Trump and Russia. In short, the U.S.-based server was not actually a Trump server, but an outside domain the Trump Organization used to send out marketing emails. (To suggest it is a Trump server, then, is akin to saying that Gmail is your server, given your email address.) (If you have Gmail.) The Alfa Bank server appeared to be simply trying to validate the sender of emails it was receiving, the sort of thing we’ve trained email servers to do so that you receive slightly fewer random junk emails from hustlers. So a likely scenario was that the Trump Organization was using a third-party vendor to entice an Alfa Bank employee to visit a Trump golf club and the Alfa Bank server was responding by trying to figure out if this was a legitimate email or not.

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>>16379791

>>16379865

>5.5 years of the fake news pushing a deboonked alfa bank conspiracy theory.

>Let's compare.

On Thursday, though, news: a lawyer working for a law firm retained by Clinton’s 2016 campaign had been indicted… for obscuring his client when discussing the Alfa Bank issue with an FBI official. That conversation happened in September 2016, before the Slate report.

The case against the attorney, Michael Sussman, is somewhat convoluted, boosting his lawyers’ argument that the indictment is centered on politics. But the indictment did include some interesting new details, such as the fact that even the researchers who had dug up the connection in the first place — when asked to see if there was anything bouncing back and forth between the Trumps and Russia — didn’t think it was publicly defensible. It also revealed that the Slate reporter who had broken the story, Franklin Foer, had been pushed to publish when he did out of concern that he would get scooped. Foer replied by sending along a large chunk of the report for review, something he explained to The Post’s Erik Wemple as being a function of the technicality of the story.

That’s very relevant, of course. Foer was checking to make sure that he was getting the technical aspects right, relying on the advocates for the story to confirm that he was. This is not entirely unusual, but this was a story alleging a possible act of collusion by a presidential candidate. Clearly, given their internal concerns, it was useful for Clinton’s extended team to be able to assuage any concerns about the details.

None of this, though, validates some of the overwrought responses to the new indictment. Right-wing media personality Jack Posobiec, for example, claimed on Twitter that this was “a key portion of the Russiagate conspiracy theory,” which is not true — though it was useful for Posobiec to pretend that it was enormously important as he slammed former Clinton campaign official Jake Sullivan, now a senior member of Biden’s administration, for hyping it. The New York Post editorial board similarly inflated the story’s importance, to claim that the “entire Russiagate scare was launched by the Clintonites,” itself a recurring claim that floats around on the right.

“It was all a setup,” the New York Post declared flatly on the basis of this new revelation. It was not all a setup, nor does this particular indictment prove it was.After all, one aim of Durham’s probe was to evaluate if the Russia investigation was not properly predicated. It hasn’t and it seems very unlikely that it will.

We still don’t know exactly what was happening between that Trump-related email server and Alfa Bank. For those who continue to want to believe that it was some complicated communications backdoor (illicit interactions relying, for some reason, on direct communication between a domain with the word “Trump” in it and one based in Russia), they’re welcome to do so. There’s always something that can be a jumping-off point for new questions, to keep certitude at arm’s length.

Just ask Mike Lindell.

>>16379885

<After all, one aim of Durham’s probe was to evaluate if the Russia investigation was not properly predicated. It hasn’t and it seems very unlikely that it will.

>>16379788

>- Durham confirmed theClinton campaign paid forFusion GPS to compile the Christopher Steele dossier.

>>16379788

>- The Sussmann case established that her campaign paid for the lies—including those emanating from the Russian-national Igor Danchenko.

>>16379791

>Killing the Alfa Bank Hoax For Good. AND Rodney Joffe

>- the special counsel’s prosecution also revealed that the Alfa Bank stories were hoaxes

>>16379791

>- quickly concluded the hypothesis made no sense.

>- One agent notedit sounded “5150ish” at the time.

>>16379885

<We still don’t know exactly what was happening between that Trump-related email server and Alfa Bank.

>>16379791

>>Joffe taskedtwo Georgia Tech cyber researchers, as well as employees at tech companies over which he had influence, with mining proprietary and sensitive government data for any connection between Trump and Russia to push the Russia collusion narrative.

>>Joffe also held responsibility for providing the Alfa Bank data to Sussmann

>>Joffe provided a different FBI contact the same Alfa Bank “intel” while asking that agent to maintain his anonymity, thereby creating a problem ofcircular reporting.Special Counsel Durham also revealed that Joffe still risks prosecution.