Thread by @KingMakerFT

Thinking some more on what’s going on with the newest Durham revelation that Durham just this month obtained new documents from the OIG, here’s my theory. The documents relate to a meeting Sussmann had in March 2017 with the OIG- specifically the IG and the OIG general counsel,

about something Sussmann’s client, Joffe (Tech Executive-1) found: A computer used by an employee of the OIG had surfaced somehow on the internet and that the computer was linked to a foreign- based VPN. That fact alone raises all sorts of questions, such as how Joffe found this,

whether what he found was part of a contract obtained by his company Neustar with the FBI- that very month, and whether there was any blackmail involved. For if the supposedly illicit communications by someone within the OIG became known by Joffe as part of Neustar’s cyber

security contract with the FBI, didn’t Neustar, as a contractor, have the obligation to report the findings to the contracting agency, the FBI? That was not done, because the FBI had no record of it. So why did Joffeand Sullivan bypass the contractual reporting and go directly to

the OIG? Was this part of an effort to influence the OIG’s review of the FBI’s handling of the Midyear Exam investigation into Hillary’s illegal server? Or at least an effort to monitor what was going on in that review? We can only speculate. A couple of things are clear. First,

since the OIG sat on the documents all these many months and never disclosed their existence to either the FBI or Durham. there is a strong suggestion that one or more persons within the OIG was hiding something. The second issue has to do with how Durham came to shake the tree

in the first place. The records sought by Sussmann’s attorneys include documents showing what the FBI’s practices and policies are with respect to anonymous tips. One of their defenses will be that Sussmann told the FBI he had no client when he passed on info regarding Alfa Bank,

that would be equivalent to the FBI receiving an anonymous tip, and the identity of the client wasn’t material. So regarding the “tip” given to theOIG, a defense lawyer would like to draw a parallel or argue a pattern of Sussmann passing on those types of tips. But Sussmann’s

lawyers have stirred up a hornet’s nest that could implicate Sussmann’s client Joffe in further criminal activity. We’ll have to watch this closely before we can draw any hard conclusions.

BTW if you really would like something to turn your brain into a pretzel with, consider this: According to the Mueller indictment of the Russians who allegedly hacked the DNC, one of the central pieces of the puzzle was a computer having an IP located in Moscow involved. The book

Loaded for Guccifer 2.0 by @HisBlakeness clarifies that this computer used a VPN signaling the computer was in Russia, although not necessarily there in fact. Anyway the question is what was Joffe digging into when he spotted this alleged foreign VPN tied to the OIG computer?

Did Joffe hack the computer? If so, did he have anything to do with the VPN being there?

But Sussmann’s lawyers obviously view the OIG episode as exculpatory for Sussmann. If Sussmann acted in good faith, there still remains the issue of what Joffe was up to.