Clinton Campaign Paid Tech Company To ‘Infiltrate’ Trump Servers At White House, Durham Says

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GRETCHEN CLAYSON, CONTRIBUTOR - The Daily Caller


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Special Counsel John Durham released a new filing Friday showing that the Clinton campaign paid a tech firm to “infiltrate” the servers at Trump Tower and later at the White House in an attempt to link former President Donald Trump to Russia.

Kash Patel, the former chief investigator of the Trump-Russia probe for the House Intelligence Committee, said the filing “definitively showed the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,” reported Daily Mail.

“Per Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later President of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax,” Patel concluded.
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This latest Durham filing looked for potential conflicts of interest with regards to former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who was indicted for making false statements to a federal agent in September 2021, according to Daily Mail.

That indictment, said Sussman, told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, that he was not doing work “for any client” when presented “purported data and white papers” at a meeting he requested that allegedly demonstrated a “covert communications channel” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin, Fox News reported.

Durham’s filing revealed how Sussman had “assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients,” one of which was the Clinton campaign. The other, a technological executive named Rodney Joffe, allegedly worked with Sussman at the instruction of the Clinton campaign to “assemble the purported data and white papers” to gather information that would tie Trump to Russia, the Daily Mail reported.

Durham also revealed how Sussman’s own billing records show he “repeatedly” billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the “Russian Bank-1” allegations.

“The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia. This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution,” Trump wrote in response to the filing.

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*Waits*

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Lol.

*Waits for actual story*

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Lol.

*Waits for actual story*

That's from the special prosecutor. So... okay...

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".... who was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in May 2019"

Given the utter corruption of the Trump administration it's another wet fart at this stage.

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This brings us to the court filing that was submitted on Friday. In it, Durham extends his articulation of what allegedly happened as the Alfa Bank rumor was being developed behind closed doors. The key element of the document centers on the DNS data that was being looked at:

The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (“DNS”) Internet traffic pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”). (Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.)
The “particular healthcare provider” is apparently Spectrum Health, which — when the story first emerged in 2016 — was identified as similarly linked to the Trump email server but also provided reporters with the marketing spam emails that explained that connection.

It’s useful to note that Durham’s claim about data being “exploited” emerged early. Both Wheeler and Graham elevated questions about the ethics of digging through collected DNS records to investigate something that was probably outside of any agreement governing what the data was being collected for. But that doesn’t mean 1) that any laws were violated or 2) that this constitutes “hacking.” If I give you a key to my house and you use it to come in and read my diary, I will certainly be angry with you, but it’s not like you committed burglary.

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There we go...Durham has naut and said nothing of the sort that is implied in that headline. If he had actual evidence, he would file an indictment.

On good news, the average MAGA will have no clue what is going on and Trump will handsomely fundraise off this.

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But Sussman has been indicted already... on lying at this point, but that's common leverage to go after bigger fish.

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But Sussman has been indicted already... on lying at this point, but that's common leverage to go after bigger fish.

It mirrors the Russia investigation in the other direction. E.g. Papadopoulos.

Nothing will come of it and the Clintons and the Trumps will never do any jail time. As objectively as I can be I think they are all guilty of political "encroachment". Pushing boundaries and manipulating others for political gain. But no smoking gun.

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It mirrors the Russia investigation in the other direction. E.g. Papadopoulos.

Nothing will come of it and the Clintons and the Trumps will never do any jail time. As objectively as I can be I think they are all guilty of political "encroachment". Pushing boundaries and manipulating others for political gain. But no smoking gun.

Probably correct. If nothing else, the false narrative will hopefully stop.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Jessica Chasmar | Fox News


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Democrats who once pushed to protect then-special counsel Robert Mueller to ensure that his Russia investigation would continue without interference sang an entirely different tune when the Trump administration appointed John Durham as special counsel to continue investigating the origins of that same Russia probe.

Durham has already indicted three people as part of his investigation: Igor Danchenko on Nov. 4, 2021, Kevin Clinesmith in August 2020, and Michael Sussmann in September 2021. Durham's latest court filing on Friday alleges that lawyers from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, including Sussmann, paid to access servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to federal government agencies linking then-President Trump to Russia.

Durham was appointed special counsel by then-Attorney General William Barr on Oct. 19, 2020, giving Durham a degree of added independence, as he can only be fired by an attorney general or someone acting in that capacity. Barr revealed the appointment on Dec. 1, 2020, about a month after the presidential election.

Democrats like Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Jerry Nadler of New York slammed Barr’s appointment at the time, despite previously calling to protect the special counsel's office as Mueller conducted his earlier probe, which concluded without finding any evidence to support claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

"Barr is using the special counsel law for a purpose it was not intended: to continue a politically motivated investigation long after Barr leaves office," Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in December 2020.

But during Mueller's earlier investigation, Schiff was eager to protect the special counsel's office to ensure Mueller could continue the Russia probe without interference. In 2018, he told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that Congress had to "take up a bill to protect Mueller so that we don't invite a crisis."

Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also slammed Durham’s appointment at the time as "one more desperate attempt to feed President Trump’s fixation on events that have been investigated over and over again."

That statement came nearly a year after Nadler introduced legislation to protect Mueller’s earlier investigation from "improper interference."
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Schiff and Nadler, along with House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., had also sent a letter in September 2020 asking the Justice Department's top watchdog to open an "emergency" review into Barr’s handling of the Durham probe.

Fox News first reported Saturday a filing by Durham on Feb. 11 that said Clinton campaign lawyers worked with a technology company and "assembled and conveyed" allegations about Trump’s ties to Russia to present to the FBI and a second federal government agency.

The motion on Feb. 11 focused on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.

The offices of Schiff and Nadler did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

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The hypocrisy is astounding.

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nothing to see here