Oh goodie, there is another OIG investigation still ongoing!
Sussmann's emails with FBI from January 2016-June 2016...
226 emails from FBI's holdings involving Rodney Joffe & one of his companies, Packet Forensics?
Typo that is Sussman’s emails to FBI thru June 2017.
Sussmann's lawyers think he was under FBI surveillance...
FBI says they verbally provided the results, under discovery if there was any...
Looks like they were fishing to see if FBI had a FISA on Sussmann...
Sussmann's team also wants to identify who at FBI told the NYTimes that the Russian Collusion allegations against Trump were false. Destroying the planned election eve story Sussmann, Simpson, & Steele had planted at NYT's!
They gave 37 emails to the defense!
This is the story they are fishing for...
Hillary's oppo research team had spent months convincing NYTimes to accuse Trump of collusion & use the AlfaBank FBI investigation as their proof Trump was guilty.
FBI made it blow up in Hillary's face with this! nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/…
Fusion GPS & Sussmann had their entire effort to frame Trump, Baker & Comey blow up in their face.
Fusion GPS Russian expert Ed Baumgartner knew who to blame!
Sussmann's defense has focused on Gray Mail, demanding classified information for the defense so DOJ has to choose between harming national security & prosecuting the defendant.
As I mentioned when Sussmann was charged, CIPA was created to prevent this from succeeding.
So DOJ is pushing the FBI & other government agencies to declassify the documents because Sussmann needs them for a fair trial.
Sussmann threatened to throw DOJ in the Briar Patch, & DOJ is dragging all of the agencies into the Briar Patch to declassify the documents!
I wonder what information that Sussmann's lawyers went fishing for in AD Priestap's above Top Secret Counterintelligence notebook!
Seems the lawyers for the witnesses & other subjects of the investigation have made false allegations against Durham & his investigators. And Sussman's lawyers knew to ask for these misconduct allegations against Durham's team.
These normally privileged emails will be handed over
The judge or DOJ may order this to be SOP later...
But DOJ searched for misspellings of Sussmann's name & has turned over 1099 items in FBI files.
In October, Durham's team went to OIG to request additional evidence & documents from the AlfaBank & Crossfire Hurricane investigations to include in the discovery request.
Releasing internal data that would not otherwise become available in any case!
KABOOM!
In addition to his efforts to sway FBI & CIA, Sussmann approached OIG in early 2017.
Claiming one of his clients (Joffe) had observed an OIG Special Agent in Charge using a VPN to communicate with a foreign country.
Were Joffe & Sussman framing them to control OIG cases?
Sussman did approach OIG on behalf of Joffe in March 2017!
Sussman held a meeting with IG Horowitz & his then General Counsel William M. Blier who was General Counsel from 2010-2018.
To tell them about Joffe's 'forensic report' accusing a SAC at OIG of foreign collusion...
Also huge, OIG has been holding James Baker's phones without anyone knowing that. I think that identified Baker as one of the FBI whistleblowers OIG has discussed in the past but not named. Providing hard evidence of Sussmann's efforts against Baker & FBI!
Very curious, due to the burden (DOJ OIG is focused on COVID aid corruption investigations) OIG did not run Durham's requests for discovery on all of the evidence Horowitz's team collected.
Instead, Horowitz asked Durham's team is assist with the searches bypassing OIG people...
FBI Inspection Division (internal affairs) is investigating the agents on the Russia investigations. They have not been handed over to Durham yet, but they expect them to be handed over.
Docs usually not provided in cases either unless a specific agent's misconduct is involved.
Sussmann's team demanded all of Joffe's contracts (mostly classified programs) with the FBI & other agencies. Instead of dropping Sussmann's charges, Durham's team is getting the documents & forcing declassification & review under CIPA.
Either Sussmann is trying to claim he was an anonymous tipster & FBI outed him. Or there is evidence related to other anonymous tips to FBI. Did Sussmann & his team flood the FBI with fake Russian collusion tips to juice the system?
Sussmann's defense claims that there were additional CIA personnel at his Feb. 2017 meeting.
Is he trying to out CIA covert personnel like Valerie Plame?
Or did CIA conceal information from Durham when they investigated the meeting?
So with all the new information, classified information getting declassified, OIG evidence searches, & similar issues, Durham asks for permission to be a little late with a small amount of discovery that is hard to gather information.
Judge will probably approve.
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For those who don't understand the law in this case, Congress has authorized the Attorney General to specially appoint lawyers & conduct legal proceedings at the same level as US Attorneys without confirmation. It's specifically authorized.
While Canon ignores Section 515, it specifically authorizes AGs to appoint special attorneys to prosecute criminal cases & run grand juries same as a US Attorney can.
She claims the law does not authorize the AG to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a US Attorney.
Julian Assange flying to the North Marianas to plead guilty to espionage.
Gets a 62 month prison sentence, but will be released with time served for his 5 years in British prison.
The choice of the Northern Marianas Islands is unusual.
That US territory is a hub for Chinese money laundering to the US & to US politicians. Wonder if he will testify to a US grand jury while he is there? Or has he already done so by Zoom?
The Chinese have been buying off Swampy politicians on Pacific islands that are US territories to infiltrate them to get into the US financial system.
The Northern Marianas, the Solomons, & many others...
Beny Steinmetz connects to so much corruption around the world!
Steinmetz was arrested 3 years ago shortlay after FBI seized Hunter & Rudy's electronic devices including communications with his lawyer former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
#ButNothingsHappening
On behalf of Steinmetz & other clients, Freeh tried to gain access to Trump & Biden through Guiliani & Hunter. Freeh marked all his emails as Attorney Client privileged in an effort to protect them. DOJ needed filter teams or a special master to read them.
Exclusive: The case of the Michael Cohen condo just got a whole lot more interesting!
I found an online report on the resident. It isn't an embassy or a diplomat.
It appears to be a couple who are financial reporters for CNBC & Bloomberg?
It was well publicized that Michael Cohen's condo at 111 Murray Street is 19West or 19W.
A condo that he rented on 11/27/18 prior to pleading guilty in SDNY on 11/29/18.
The website identifies as a resident of 19W Sara A Eisen, 39 formerly of Cincinatti, OH.
It appears to be Sara A. Eisen the co-host of CNBC's Squakbox. One of her associates listed on the website is her husband Matthew Levine. usphonebook.com/address/111-mu…
The majority of Daszak's funds came from DOD, but the previous investigations focused on Daszak taking money from NIH that prohibited him from conducting GoF work.
Work he did in Wuhan anyway & concealed it from NIH.
Daszak claimed he 'accidentally' conducted GoF work in Wuhan in 2018-2019. But he concealed this from NIH until 2021 even though his grants required immediate reporting of 'accidental' GoF results.
US sanctions Russian Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Beloglazov, the owner of the financial firm Titul for colluding with Putin's Oligarch Oleg Deripaska to sell his shares in an Austrian construction firm!
Shares frozen by sanctions...
#ButNothingsHappening