{"id":342019,"date":"2021-09-21T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/anatomy-of-a-political-dirty-trick\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:54:09","slug":"anatomy-of-a-political-dirty-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anatomy-of-a-political-dirty-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"#Anatomy of a political dirty trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Anatomy of a political dirty trick<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>There is a long <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and a short game going on in special counsel John Durham\u2019s indictment of Democratic Party lawyer Michael Sussmann on a false-statements count.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The short of it is this: A false statement was allegedly made by Sussmann to the FBI\u2019s then-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> counsel, James Baker, on Sept. 19, 2016. In federal law, the false-statement crime has a five-year statute of limitations, meaning it had to be charged by last Sunday (Sept. 19, 2021). Consequently, even if Durham would probably have preferred to wait until his full investigation was concluded before filing indictments, by delaying beyond Sunday, he would have lost what <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to be an eminently provable felony charge. If he was going to indict Sussmann on this conduct, it was now or never.<\/p>\n<p>Now, more critically, the long game.<\/p>\n<p>It is unusual for a one-count false-statements charge, which can be alleged in a paragraph, to be presented as a 27-page speaking indictment. But Durham wrote a highly detailed account of the facts and circumstances surrounding the false-statements charge. It is significant in that it tells us far more about his investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Here is where the prosecutor appears to be going: The Trump\u2013Russia collusion narrative was essentially a fabrication of the Clinton campaign that was peddled to the FBI (among other government agencies) and to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> by agents of the Clinton campaign \u2014 particularly, its lawyers at Perkins Coie \u2014 who concealed the fact that they were quite intentionally working on the campaign\u2019s behalf, and that they did not actually believe there was much, if anything, to the collusion narrative. It was serviceable as political dirt but would not amount to anything real for criminal or national-security purposes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Sussmann allegedly told Baker that he was not working for any client when he brought Baker sensitive information \u2014 even though Perkins Coie client-billing records obtained by Durham show that Sussmann was logging his time as spent working for the firm\u2019s Clinton campaign account. The indictment describes the information Sussmann gave Baker as expert analyses (mainly in the form of white papers), which showed a backchannel connection between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. The back channel was said to be established by Internet communications between servers at Trump Tower and at Alfa Bank (a top Russian bank said to have Putin-regime connections).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the indictment alleges, Sussmann was working for the Clinton campaign and another client \u2014 an unidentified cyber expert and executive (Tech Executive-1) \u2014 who was expecting to get an important government cybersecurity job if Clinton was elected. (The executive made clear that he \u2014 the indictment describes a he \u2014 had no interest in working for Trump.)<\/p>\n<p>What Durham describes in the indictment will confirm many people in their most cynical perceptions of a sinister Washington deep state. Tech Executive-1 owned Internet companies that offered domain name system \u201cresolution services.\u201d The indictment explains that these involve the lucrative business of translating recognizable Internet domain names (e.g., <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">http:\/\/www.google.com<\/a>) to numerical IP addresses (e.g. 123.456.7.89.). These private companies have arrangements with the government that provide them with access to a great deal of nonpublic information about Internet traffic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"661\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/21.2N016.TargetTrump_web.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=661\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19523650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/21.2N016.TargetTrump_web.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1322 1322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/21.2N016.TargetTrump_web.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=991 991w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/21.2N016.TargetTrump_web.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=661 661w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/21.2N016.TargetTrump_web.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=330 330w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/21.2N016.TargetTrump_web.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post graphic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The government provides this privileged access because the companies are supposed to help with cybersecurity. But Tech Executive-1 and Perkins Coie are said to have exploited this access for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Executive-1 was having contact with Sussmann and another Perkins Coie lawyer (who is not identified in the indictment, but appears to be Marc Elias, who was the main lawyer at the firm for Clinton and the DNC), and with what is identified as a \u201cU.S. investigative firm.\u201d That firm appears to be Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson\u2019s oppo-research outfit that was retained by Perkins Coie, on behalf of the Clinton campaign, to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump \u2014 the exercise that resulted in the farcical \u201cSteele Dossier,\u201d generated principally by Christopher Steele, the former British spy recruited by Simpson for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, then, people closely connected to the Clinton campaign use privileged access to nonpublic information for political purposes. They concoct it into a political narrative that they know is baseless but can be convincingly spun to suggest Trump is in cahoots with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>They then simultaneously peddle that storyline to the media and the FBI \u2014 the latter of which opens an investigation of Trump because the Clinton team, in this instance Sussmann, misrepresents its intentions. Sussmann was supposedly bringing this alarming \u201cevidence\u201d to the FBI not for political purposes but because he and his associates were well-meaning citizens concerned about national security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Naturally in this cozy world, Sussmann is a former Department of Justice cybersecurity official who traded on his long-standing professional relationship with Baker, the bureau\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The indictment details that researchers at Tech Executive-1\u2019s companies were very uncomfortable being tasked to run extensive queries about Trump and his campaign in their databases, but they did it because Tech Executive-1 was a powerful person. The researchers also highlighted significant weaknesses in the Trump\u2013Russia narrative that they were being asked to weave, to the point that even Tech Executive-1 acknowledged it was a \u201cred herring.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But because the objective was to craft a political theme that would damage Trump, rather than to prove an actual national-security peril, this information was kept from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s speaking indictment, then, is much more interesting than the single false-statements charge against Sussmann.<\/p>\n<p>There is one last thing that I find interesting but that is not in the indictment. Among the many risible aspects of the Steele Dossier is that Steele, the great Russia expert, obviously doesn\u2019t know much about Alfa Bank . . . which he repeatedly misspells as \u201cAlpha\u201d Bank. One of Steele\u2019s \u201cintelligence reports\u201d from September 2016 makes extravagant claims about connections and favors exchanged between the owners of Alfa Bank and Putin. Consequently, the owners sued Steele for libel in London.<\/p>\n<p>In British court, Steele was deposed. He related that he didn\u2019t know about any Alfa Bank\u2013Trump connection. So why put it in the dossier? Well, he was told about the alleged corrupt Alfa Bank\u2013Trump tie by .\u2009.\u2009. wait for it .\u2009.\u2009. yes .\u2009.\u2009. Michael Sussmann.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, the Clinton lawyers at Perkins Coie give information to Steele, who folds it into the collusion tall tale he presses on the FBI, without telling the bureau that he\u2019s working for the Clinton campaign (through his cutouts, Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, the Clinton lawyers are getting suspect information from a cyber-exec client who is hoping for a big job in the anticipated Clinton administration, and one of the lawyers \u2014 Sussmann \u2014 presses it on the FBI while allegedly lying in order to conceal that he\u2019s actually working for both the Clinton campaign and the selfsame cyber exec who\u2019s hoping for a job in the Clinton administration.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, having orchestrated the creation of all this smoke, the Clinton campaign exploits it to tell the media and the American people, \u201cSee, Trump is a Kremlin mole!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I suddenly think the eventual Durham report could be very interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew C. McCarthy is the author of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency\/dp\/1641770252?tag=nypost-20\">Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency<\/a>.\u201d Reprinted with permission from National Review.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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