@EmptyWheel is missing the big revelation.

While the indictment is vague on what non-public data was being accessed to spy upon Donald Trump during the campaign, it is almost certainly connected to this April 2017 ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
#Spygate
Let's first look at what the indictment says...
Sussman represented IC-1 in Feb. 2015 in a matter with an agency, likely to be FBI.
I believe this matter was gaining access to non-public information from FBI.
IC-2 employees queried non-public data to spy upon Trump & his associates.
TE-1 then brough in University-1 & Researchers 1 & 2.

Their missionL spy upon Trump & find information to please VIPs.
The University was negotiating a contract with Agency-1, likely the FBI, to get large quantities of non-public data.
Tea Leaves (O-1) & TE-1 were going to sell the data to the Uni with Agency-1 paying them to analyze it.
As a 'proof of concept' IC-1 gave the Uni access to the non-public data that the IC-1 gained access to from a US government office as part of a sensitive relationship with the US govt.
O-1, R-1 & R2 used non-public data that IC-1 had been granted access to to protect the US from cyberattacks, to instead spy upon Trump & his associates.
R-1 conducted an about query for "mail1.trump-email.com" almost certainly using that access to Agency-1 data provided to IC-1.

If this all sounds familiar it is!
This FIS Court opinion & order covers a very similar incident.
On 3/9/17 an audit of an FBI office, almost certainly the Washington Field Office, found that an organization consisting of mostly contractors had been given access to FBI's raw FISA database.

dni.gov/files/document…
I believe it is FBI's Washington FO because on that same day, Lisa Page texted Peter Strzok to inform him of a huge "f up" at WFO that Andrew McCabe was dealing with.
The contractors were given access to FBI raw FISA data to provide analytical assistance to the FBI.
But were given access far beyond what was necessary.

FBI closed this specific access on April 18th 2016.
This access was ruled to be illegal by the FIS Court! FBI notified the court on 10/4/16 that it was investigating whether other similar accesses had been set up.
The date is uncertain on this one, but a private agency working for another government agency had been given similar access by FBI. These contractors were installing a software tool but FBI could not explain why it gave them access to raw FISA data.
FIS court wanted more information on these violations.
Here's the kicker, the date the improper access was given is redacted. But the access was intentional with a Memorandum of Understanding approved by unnamed or unknown FBI lawyers.
I don't have a source handy, but guess who was Associate Director In Charge of the Washington FBI Field Office in early 2015? Andrew McCabe.
Who was his counsel assigned to provide him lawyerly opinions? Lisa Page.
What are the odds that the same people dealing with the F up at WFO are the same people who were running it when the FISA access was granted?
Did McCabe, Page & Sussmann negotiate FISA access for IC-1 & TC-1?
In an similar story to IC-1s access to do about queries on FISA date?
And how did the story end?
With Admiral Rogers of the NSA reporting the illegal about queries to the FISC in October of 2016. The same day the @carterwpage's FISA was signed using data from Sussman's contractor Fusion GPS!

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18 Sep
@nimkef has a great thread on Neustar, the company that is the clear favorite to be Internet Company-1 in the #SussmannIndictment.
It's making me reevaluate my identification on US Agency-1 in both the indictment & the 3 letter agency redacted from the FISC "about queries" ruling
I have previously speculated that the agency in the FISC case where contractors got access to raw FISA data, was the CIA. As that case noted it was another agency that got the FBI to give contractors access to the data.

dni.gov/files/document… ImageImageImageImage
Since 2018, the primary speculation has been that the 3 letter agency behind the first redaction is CIA.
But Neustar's relationship with FCC makes be now feel it is the agency behind this MoU to provide illegal access to NSA raw data. Image
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17 Sep
I want to do this short thread on why the Sussman indictment is so important.
It is laying down the keystone that is placed to allow the other arches to connect, creating a window or door, while supporting the weight of the stones to be added later. #Sussmann #DurhamIndictment
That individual keystone may not look that important, it may even look merely decorative to the untrained eye.
But it is the essential engineering piece to build the entire wall, building or cathedral.
The investigations of Russian Collusion, Spygate, & whatever other names have been used are investigating some of the most complex crimes in history.
We were given a billion piece jigsaw puzzle with no idea what it looked like.
Worse, the people who made it, fed us false images!
Read 19 tweets
16 Sep
Perkins Coie lawyer who billed Hillary Clinton's campaign for creating fake report framing Trump for Russian Collusion is indicted by a federal grand jury under Special Counsel John Durham.
#ButNothingsHappening
huffpost.com/entry/michael-…
Indictment is available here!

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2106…
Sussmann lied to FBI General Counsel James Baker pretending he was acting as a 'good citizen' to deceive the FBI that he was not representing his clients Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign or Tech Executive-1.
Read 66 tweets
16 Sep
Perkins Coie lawyer billed Clinton Campaign for the project to frame Trump for Russian Collusion!

The plotters have long relied on heavily spun leaks to them in order to set a false narrative before the real story breaks.
#ButNothingsHappening
archive.md/jUcJD
The 'journalists' at the @nytimes seem puzzled that it will be politically explosive that one of the DNC & Hillary's lawyers is going to be indicted for lying to the FBI to trick them into investigating Donald Trump's links to Russia.
I guess this is the new Republicans Pounce!
@nytimes Of course Trump & his supporters have accused the DNC, Perkins Coie, Sussman, & the Clinton Campaign of framing Trump for Russian Collusion.
Because that is what happened.
Sussman reportedly lied to the FBI that he was not representing a client while giving the FBI a false report
Read 29 tweets
14 Sep
3 former US intelligence personnel (likely NSA) indicted for spying on Americans for the United Arab Emerites.

Wonder why this breaks right after the 1/6 coup news!

reuters.com/world/us/ameri…
Just breaking so I am sure there will be more news soon.

I had a thread on this a long time ago connecting it to possible sources for Spygate information...
Clinton Administration NSC staffer Richard Clarke was the person who arranged this contract between former NSA staffers & the UAE.

Read 14 tweets
14 Sep
Looks like we have had the first attempted military coup in US history. Only question is, who was in on the sting to test the Pentagon swamp creatures & who was caught in the sting?
It doesn't look good for Gen. Millery, but is that intentional?
cnn.com/2021/09/14/pol…
Was Milley leading the coup?
Or was he serving as bait & making sure none of his subordinates would take coup actions without his okay?
There are different reasons for wanting tight control...

Why are we back to the "we're going to land this plane" analogy?
How quickly did this 'coup' go into action?
Well the media coverage of it began at 9:18AM on 1/7/21 only 5 hours after the Biden electors were certified overnight...
cnn.com/2021/01/07/pol…
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