There’s an April 2020 article in the Washington Examiner that’s worth another read in light of recent filings by Durham regarding he direction his case against Sussmann is going. The article picks up testimony given in the UK by Christopher Steele about how he first learned
of Alfa Bank -Trump Org connection. Hint: It didn’t come from Danchenko or any of Steele’s source network. Rather, Steele learned of it at the July 29, 2016, meeting at Perkins Coie, attended by Sussmann, Elias, Steele, Simpson, Fritsch (from Fusion GPS),and perhaps Joffe. Steele
testified that Sussmann was the source, and that after the meeting, Simpson tasked Steele with doing research on Alfa Bank’s ties to Putin and to write up the Trump-Alfa story as part of the dossier. Which Steele did, although he testified that Sussmann carried the narrative to
the press. Steele pitched it to Kavelac at the State Dept. here’s the article: washingtonexaminer.com/news/christoph…
So how does this fit in with Durham? Well, Durham told us that Elias has been before the grand jury, and based on what happened and who was present at the July 29 meeting, Elias is central to tying the scheme and all its participants together. Elias was there at the origin. So he
becomes perhaps the central witness in not only the false statement charge against Sussmann , but also in any subsequent conspiracy case.
H/t to @ReginaMourad and @SergeiMillian for reminding us today of this article and it’s importance to describing the operational part of the scheme.
What will Elias say about that meeting? That’s the $64,000 question. Undoubtedly he will say they were planning opposition research, which is not illegal. But what about the part that a frame-up hoax would be presented to the FBI and Dept of State? That’s a crime. And it’s what
happened- largely because a federal investigation into the made up oppo research added gravitas to the narrative. It’s possible Elias will testify that he didn’t know it was made up, and/or he didn’t realize false evidence would be presented to the FBI. But his ability to put
all the major players in the same room at the same time is critical for establishing a conspiracy.

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Feb 17
One thing that jumped out at me from Sussmann’s motion to dismiss is that the theory of dismissal is premised on the assumption that the FBI had but one decision on the table when Sussmann lied about who is client was: The FBI had to decide whether to investigate the Alfa
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I think it’s helpful to read three articles, all out yesterday and today , that relate to the question @HansMahncke poses here:
The articles are this by Paul Sperry, realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/…
This by J.E. Dyer, describing how it’s possible to use targeted DNS data to short cut FISA 702 queries without giving up the game that the IC agent making the query is really targeting Americans: …eoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/and…
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This latest piece by J.E. Dyer (@OptimisticCon ) raises something nobody has yet put together. Dyer takes Durham’s latest filing and reads it side by side with what Devin Nunes told us he saw in the spring of 2017 when he reviewed classified documents describing the irregular
capture of electronic communications by US citizens and their unmasking. Nunes claimed this evidence of spying or surveillance was mind blowing. It fit with what later came out in the FISA court’s opinion describing abuses of 702 by FBI contractors. Dyer makes the case that the
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