It starts with a rehash of the Sussmann indictment for trying to fool the FBI into investigating Trump using data from Joffe, representing Joffe & the Clinton Campaign, & billing the Clinton Campaign for the effort.
NYT's broke the story in Sept that Joffe was spying upon the White House while Trump was President.
But it seems their access was much greater than the defensive leaks to the NYT's showed.
Neustar & Joffe had access to the White House servers as part of maintaining servers for the Executive Office of the President.
Note the language that they were "mining" DNS data from the White House. Which points to CIA's newly revealed data mining programs...
As we already knew, Sussmann forced CIA into taking a meeting with him (he threatened to leak it to the media if they did not meet him) providing Joffe's DNS data to the CIA.
More importantly, the findings Sussmann took to the CIA were false.
They also failed to mention that they had data showing Russian phone provider 1 DNS lookups back to early 2014. But they narrowed the data to point at Trump...
So Joffe & his team massaged the data to make it look like Trump was communicating with the Russians.
Then Sussmann lied to the CIA to try & get them to investigate Trump too.
Switching over to the conflict of interest with Sussmann's lawyers from Latham & Watkins.
That the lawyers may have a conflict of interest that would deny him a right to a fair trial.
That the judge will have to decide if Sussmann can waive the conflict of interest and if he tries, the judge may have to decide that the interest of preventing a rigged criminal case may require the judge barring the conflicted lawyers even if the client wants them.
First conflict, Latham represented Perkins Coie & Marc Elias in the Special Counsel's Investigation.
Concern they might throw Sussmann under the bus to protect his employers. Because Elias's instructions & conversations to bill Clinton's campaign & frame Trump & Alfa are relevant
Also claiming that Latham may already know about differences in the 'factual accounts' (testimony) between what Sussmann has testified to & what Elias & Perkins Coie testified to...
Giving them AC privileged access to know what their other clients tried to blame on Sussmann...
As Sussmann may later sue Perkins Coie in regards to his resignation from the firm & Latham may have to defend their representation of Perkins Coie against Sussmann in such a case.
Perkins Coie also represented the Clinton Campaign & Political Organization-1, almost certainly the DNC.
PC represented them from May 2021-July 2021 in regards to the Durham's investigation.
So Latham would be motivated to protect PC & their former clients the HRC campaign & DNC.
Latham also represented Sussmann when he testified to Congress. In that testimony, he admitted that he was representing Joffe when he met with the CIA & FBI. But he still failed to name the Clinton Campaign as his other client.
Latham also advised Perkins Coie in drafting inaccurate statements claiming that Sussmann was representing Joffe, not the Clinton Campaign when he met with FBI's James Baker. Sussmann reviewed that statement before release.
Perkins Coie's Managing Partner also published an Op-Ed claiming that Sussmann was not representing the Hillary Clinton campaign during the meeting with the FBI.
There are emails between Perkins Coie & Latham & Watkins about those false public statements in 2018.
SCO can't read them at the moment because of claimed attorney client privilege by PC, but they might become relevant to motions & the conflict of interests.
Durham is also concerned that Sussmann's attorney Michael Bosworth should be asked by the judge to declare if he has any conflicts of interests in this case that he should disclose.
Because he was Comey's Special Counsel for 7 months in 2013-14 & knows many of the witnesses
I documented this conflict of interest in October.
As I noted in October, Bosworth then worked in the Executive Office of the President from 2014-2017.
Though SCO says Latham has told the SCO office that Bosworth was not involved in getting Joffe access to Obama's White House DNS data during that time...
Trump wasn't the only 1!
Seems weird the way that is phrased, Latham & Watkins say Bosworth wasn't involved. But SCO wants the judge to call Bosworth before the court to tell that to the judge in person...
Wonder if he will recuse from the case to avoid that date with the judge?
This case just keeps getting curiouser & curiouser...
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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