Good Monday morning.
Here is what’s on 46 agenda today:
11:30am: The President and The Vice President receive the President’s Daily Brief
Here’s the latest episode of Happy Hour with Julie and Liz
Two minutes of hate:
Late Friday, there was a bombshell filing from special counsel John Durham. Remember him? The filing reveals that “lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to ‘infiltrate’ servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an ‘inference’ and ‘narrative’ to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.” At the White House?!?!? Spying on the White House…WTF?
The latest filing deals with former Clinton campaign official Michael Sussman who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. He has pleaded not guilty.
The indictment against Sussmann, says he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, less than two months before the 2016 presidential election, that he was not doing work “for any client” when he requested and held a meeting in which he presented “purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin.
But Durham’s filing on Feb. 11, in a section titled “Factual Background,” reveals that Sussmann “had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.”
Durham’s filing said Sussmann’s “billing records reflect” that he “repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations.”
The filing revealed that Sussmann and the Tech Executive had met and communicated with another law partner, who was serving as General Counsel to the Clinton campaign. Sources told Fox News that lawyer is Marc Elias, who worked at the law firm Perkins Coie.
Durham’s filing states that in July 2016, the tech executive worked with Sussmann, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm 1 on behalf of the Clinton campaign, numerous cyber researchers and employees at multiple internet companies to “assemble the purported data and white papers.”
Durham’s filing states:
the government will 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).“
According to Conservative Tree House, the Tech Executive-1 is Rodney Joffe who worked with a federal cyber contractor called Neustar. You can read more details about the filing over at Technofog’s Substack.
Related stories:
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Most Democrats want Hillary Clinton investigated for any role in Russiagate scandal: poll
46:
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Eminem takes a knee during his halftime performance
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Coronavirus news:
Democratic state, city leaders split on COVID mandates as country recovers from pandemic
Former FDA Scott Gottlieb head urges CDC to change indoor mask guidance
California mask mandate ignored by high-profile celebrities spotted enjoying Super Bowl LVI
‘Now You Do Sound Like Hitler’: Bill Maher Slams Trudeau For Comments On The Unvaccinated
Other morsels:
Kamila Valieva cleared to compete in Beijing Olympics, top sports court rules
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Ivan Reitman, Hollywood producer, ‘Ghostbusters’ director, dead at 75
Oh no! US suspends avocado imports from Mexico after threat to inspector
And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!