According to Durhams indictment, Danchenko fabricated the Steele Dossiers central allegationthat the Trump campaign was conspiring with Russia. 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:: v.: Criminal Case No. endobj Durhams indictment of Michael Sussmann and other court filings reveal how senior members of Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign formed a joint venture with lawyers, opposition researchers, foreign nationals, and computer data analysts to produce false opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump and aggressively disseminated that disinformation to reporters, the FBI, and others. Elias also served as general counsel to both Hillary for America and the DNC during the 2016 election cycle.REF Michael Sussmann was also a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm during the relevant time period, specializing in privacy and cybersecurity law. 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW In June, it appeared in Canada in Ludger Duvernay's La Revue canadienne as Histoire de l'insurrection du Canada en rfutation du Rapport de Lord Durham (History of the insurrection of Canada in refutation of the Report of Lord Durham). Lord Durham was sent back to Canada in 1838 by British Parliament and the Crown to investigate the cause behind the rebellions of both Upper and Lower Canada and propose suggestions to fix any remaining problems and lessen the chance of future rebellions. Much remains to be uncovered, exposed, and proven by Durham. Mr. In an effort to further increase public aware- ness of Soviet active measures, the FBI has provided me with an update of its 1983 report on Soviet active measures operations here in the United States. If dialing from a personal cell phone or an off-campus telephone within Durham, the call will immediately reach the Durham Emergency Communications Center. HtUn0+xLqR "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. According to documents filed by Durhams team and other published reports, which serve as the basis for the factual assertions in this Legal Memorandum, the effort was funded, approved, and briefed to the highest level of the Clinton campaign. Durham may be investigating whether and to what extent then-candidate Hillary Clinton had knowledge of the disinformation campaign. @oE9Xs!pQnGQF 06 According to Durhams indictment of Igor Danchenko, Dolan was connected to the most sordid allegation in the Steele Dossierthat in 2013, Trump had engaged in salacious sexual activity while a guest in the presidential suite at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton hotel.REF, At the time, Dolan was employed by KGlobal, a Washington, D.C.based public relations firm.REF Prior to that, Dolan held several senior roles in Democratic political circles, including as the state chairman for President Bill Clintons 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, adviser to Hillary Clintons 2008 campaign, and a volunteer for her 2016 campaign.REF As a public relations executive, Dolan interacted with senior officials in the Russian government, including the press secretary of the Russian Presidential Administration, as well as the Russian ambassador to the United States.REF, In June 2016, Dolan traveled to Moscow and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton. In May 2019, then-Attorney General William Barr assigned federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBIs) 2016 investigation into alleged collusion between the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and Russia, an investigation given the code name Crossfire Hurricane.REF For the purpose of protecting the investigation and providing additional independence to Durham, in October 2020, Barr formally appointed Durham as a special counsel charged to. Learn more. We are unable to respond to your request while this matter is being litigated. ", Cameron, David R. "Lord Durham Then and Now. lm@Z 31(`w} CM ,Y\ y gg` However, Durham believed that the problems in mostly Lower Canada were not of a political nature, but rather of an ethnic one. Lock He released a campaign statement regarding an article that had appeared in Slate magazine.REF Sullivan, as if learning about Alfa-Bank for the first time, feverishly stated: To amplify Sullivans statement, Hillary Clinton herself tweeted the press release to her 10 million followers, stating, Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.REF. [6] Much more important was the impact on Anglophone Canada, where led by Joseph Howe, Robert Baldwin, and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine it produced dramatic reforms.[7]. o1.J,s/aQ)Xd6! HdRFIQI[Zv,w89|T iW;~a/Az [+;(&q#;%e\G'Ys>)DaW.%Yu7vsta(7yYnrmT>,|z)2S 2 Marc Elias was a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm and the lead attorney for Hillary for America at the firm. This is a big story. The notable British Whig politician John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, was sent to the Canadas in 1838 to investigate and report on the causes of the rebellions of 183738. Special Counsels Office Zack Smith is Legal Fellow and Co-Manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Since the Court has an independent interest in investigating potential conflicts, see Wheat, 486 U.S. at 161, the Court retains "substantial latitude in refusing waivers of conflicts of It is one thing to dredge up a political candidates youthful indiscretions or shady financial dealings, but it is quite another to fabricate false and sensational allegations, present them to the FBI as fact, and serve them up to a willing media in the weeks leading up to Election Day. On the first page of his report he stated that "[w]hile the present state of things is allowed to last, the actual inhabitants of these Provinces have no security for person or propertyno enjoyment of what they possessno stimulus to industry. The entire mistrust which the two races have thus learned to conceive of each other's intentions, induces them to put the worst construction on the most innocent conduct; to judge every word, every act, and every intention unfairly; to attribute the most odious designs, and reject every overture of kindness or fairness, as covering secret designs of treachery and malignity. "Lord Durham and the British Background of His Report. The Durham investigation concluded that Danchenkos claims regarding a mysterious phone call from an anonymous source were fictional: Unfortunately for Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, the FBI utilized Danchenkos allegations in Steele Dossier Report 2016/095 as the basis for obtaining four separate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to conduct covert surveillance on Page.REF, Danchenkos other alleged lies to the FBI concerned his communications with various other sub-sources from which Danchenko gathered information that he passed on to Steele. The purpose of this report is to summarize the Attorney General's findings and conclusions with regards to the incident, which resulted in the death of Michael Barrett. Antonakakis e-mailed Lorenzen and Dagon: Joffe himself expressed doubt about the Russian Bank Data that started the whole project. 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Fn6Xp_)G;&M. The report was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". Responsible government was only granted to these colonies after 1848.[13]. Hillary for America. Millian was essentially Igor Danchenkos deep throat sourcealthough in this instance, the source was entirely fabricated, according to Durhams indictment of Danchenko. @$F0 b`5 B D( 6= q27@ &^ # Indictments filed by Durham show. When providing information to Members of Congress after the fact, officials were careful to say that the intelligence community does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.REF Still, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama on this intelligence. It was pointed out that many of the Patriote leaders were of British or British Canadian origin, including among others Wolfred Nelson, the hero of the Battle of Saint-Denis; Robert Nelson, author of the Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, who would have become President of Lower Canada had the second insurrection succeeded; journalist Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan; and Thomas Storrow Brown, general during the Battle of St-Charles. Indeed, Brennan wrote in his briefing notes that on July 26, 2016, Clinton allegedly approved of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.REF. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS Durham report proves Hillary Clinton not Trump was Putin's puppet By Rebekah Koffler February 17, 2022 5:24pm Updated Vladimir Putin's endgame of destabilizing Washington got a boost from. We will contact you again once the litigation in this matter allows. \_2qiWo|K{mBh 681 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 684 /H [ 1907 628 ] /L 235723 /E 128735 /N 8 /T 221984 >> endobj xref 681 53 0000000016 00000 n Igor Danchenko is a Russian national who was once employed as a policy analyst for the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.based think tank. Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed. sJevR9/M+a$X;E$ fB#L4:4bl[GEj;_ px".crp VZClX#rBC+:@ 3EB@ XKQ, Select the All Archive Items drop down or use the search feature to access older documents. Indictments filed by Durham show that the Steele Dossier and Alfa-Bank allegations of a conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin were entirely concocted. His report contains the famous assessment that Lower Canada had "two nations warring within the bosom of a single state. Danchenko claims that in July 2016, he received a phone call from an anonymous caller he believed to be Millian, even though he had never met him and never heard his voice.REF Danchenko claimed that he and the mysterious caller spoke for 1015 minutes, during which time they discussed Paul Manafort, Carter Page, communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, and information to the effect that the Kremlin might be of help to get Trump elected.REF Danchenko further claimed that he and the anonymous caller agreed to meet in New York City in the future. 0000010627 00000 n endobj Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. 0000004382 00000 n 0000002513 00000 n ?[n$}wTI(@(AI4[zE(D)ZLe]u4L pDeeT:YQ'U k=Fqcjiv\EW2B9MqiX,>>e qkZNLX0'5)[\clvzu4`$R>"0l%* g?rxL>Q*\gPg#cBweLp&^v^nzP>2\S(no)\o{r$-D8O( That, of course, didn't happen. The full story may never be known. In Upper Canada and Lower Canada, he formed numerous committees with essentially all the opponents of the Patriotes and made numerous personal observations on life in the colonies. Papineau, Louis-Joseph. In this season of internal change and leadership development, CAN continued to . Q In Lower Canada, anglophone Tories were supportive because it would enable them to remain in power. Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. In total, Hillary for America (through Fusion GPS) paid Steele $168,000 for his efforts.REF, Durhams investigation has revealed that Steeles key sources for the dossier were not senior Russian officials or savvy Kremlin insiders, but rather Igor Danchenko (a Washington, D.C.based policy analyst); Charles Dolan, Jr. (a Washington, D.C.based public relations executive with a long history of working in Democrat Party politics); and Olga Galkina (a Cyprus-based Russian national who was a press secretary to a Russian tech company but had dreams of serving in a future Clinton State Department).REF, These dubious sources did not, in fact, provide any actual evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia. By the end of August 2016, Antonakakis raised concerns that the Internet traffic data being mined by the researchers did not implicate Trump in any wrongdoing, would not stand up to public scrutiny, and was clouded by their own bias. Washington DC 20530, Contact the Department 0000009167 00000 n 0000005874 00000 n I definitely would not take the job under Trump.REF, After receiving the Russian Bank Data from Lorenzen in the summer of 2016, Joffe shared the data with Sussmann, with whom he had a prior attorney-client relationship.REF Thereafter, Joffe, with the knowledge and support of Sussmann and Elias, enlisted alliesLorenzen, two Internet companies in which Joffe had an interest, and two researchers at Georgia Tech Universityto conduct research concerning Trump.REF, As alleged by Durham, Joffe used his access at multiple organizations to gather and mine public and non-public Internet data regarding Trump and his associates, with the goal of creating a narrative regarding the candidates ties to Russia.REF Within this context, Joffe stated that he was working with someone who had close ties to the Democratic Party and to Hillary Clinton.REF For his part, Sussmann billed his time on the Alfa-Bank disinformation projectwhat he termed a confidential project in his billing recordsto Hillary for America.REF, As part of the project, Joffe tasked employees at two Internet companiesreferred to by Durham as Internet Company-2 and Internet Company-3to search and analyze their holdings of public and non-public internet data for derogatory information on Trump.REF As part of that tasking, Joffe e-mailed Internet Company-3 a Trump Associates List containing the names, home addresses, personal e-mail addresses, and other information regarding six people connected to Trump.REF According to Durham, personnel at Internet Company-3 were uncomfortable utilizing the companys data in such an inappropriate manner, but they complied with the taskingbecause [Joffe] was a powerful figure.REF Employees at Internet Company-3 subsequently provided Joffe with a report containing technical observations that Joffe later provided to Sussmann.REF, Joffe retired from Neustar at or around the time that the Sussmann indictment was made public.REF He has refused to cooperate or provide testimony to Durham, going so far as to plead his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination when called to testify before Durhams grand jury.REF, Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon (Georgia Tech). MuckRock users can file, duplicate, track, and share public records requests Choose the drop down menus to view archived documents. The second major component of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign was its effort to smear then-candidate Trump with a false allegation that the Trump organization had a secret channel of communication with Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.