"The defendant [Sussmann] further claimed that these lookups demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using a type of Russian-made wireless phone in the vicinity of the White House and other locations."
"[Joffe] had a history of providing assistance to the FBI...but decided in this instance to provide politically-charged allegations anonymously through the defendant and a law firm that was then-counsel to the Clinton Campaign"
Why?
"defendant claimed that he was not acting on behalf of any clients when, in fact, he hid his relationship with clients who harbored political and business interests tied to allegations against a then-Presidential candidate."
Durham revealing "business interests" is interesting.
More from Durham on the business angle:
"[Sussmann] chose to conceal from the FBI that he was acting as a paid advocate for clients with political and business agendas."
The most obvious interpretation is that Joffe went after Trump for political as well as business reasons.
"might have revealed further information about Tech Executive-1’s coordination with individuals tied to the Clinton Campaign"
Durham is careful with his words. Joffe *coordinating* with the Clinton campaign is juicy.
(btw Alfa's lawyers might want to revisit Joffe's deposition)
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2/ The deterioration relations with Russia started with President George W. Bush in 2008 when he dangled before Ukraine the promise of NATO membership during the Bucharest declaration, boldly claiming, “We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.”
3/ In 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher promised the Kremlin not to expand NATO eastwards in return for German unification. However, since then, NATO has incorporated 14 additional Eastern European countries.
Here's a big lie from a Feb 16, 2017 FBI briefing (not known who was briefing/being briefed):
The briefer claims that Trump's "Russia if you're listening" comment triggered Downer to come forward. That's a lie. Downer came forward earlier. Strzok told the same lie in his book.
Here's the analogous section from Strzok's book. I called out Strzok's lie at the time. He then claimed he misremembered because he didn't have his notes when he wrote his book.
Now we know that too was a lie, a lie about a lie. The FBI was pushing the Downer lie all along.
Here's the original tweet in which I called out Stzrok's lie about Downer. Btw, @CBSNews and @CBSDavidMartin still haven't corrected their false reporting on this.
Rough translation of a key section of Wiesendanger taking Drosten to the woodshed.
Drosten, who founded the Gain of Function advocacy group "Scientists for Science" in 2014 has had the entire German media to himself. Finally his lies are being called out. archive.fo/KzjNw
Drosten got excessively triggered by the publication of this Cicero article today, so much so that he called a renowned scientist an extremist. Of course, Drosten never offered an explanation for his fraudulent Lancet letter, which was one of the points raised by Wiesendanger.
1/ Interesting supplemental filing from Durham. Horowitz must have complained that Durham publicly exposed him. But the supplemental filing does not address the crucial issues, i.e. it does not address Horowitz's lies and omissions about Sussmann, it only covers Baker's phones.
2/ Remarkably, even though the supplement is limited to Baker's phones, it is speculative on that issue. Horowitz says it's "likely" Durham was told about the phones in 2018. Durham says he does not recall being told. Be that as it may, the main issue is left totally unaddressed.
3/ Never mind what was or wasn't said in 2018. The point is that Horowitz failed to disclose his possession of the phones in Oct 2021 when Durham specifically requested any information that may be relevant to the Sussmann case (Baker is the main witness, his phones are relevant).
There are many ways we know it came out of the lab. This is probably still the best reason.
Daszak's explanation as to why he didn't have a conflict of interest is mind-bogglingly insane. Yet, instrad of taking down Daszak's fraudulent natural origins letter, the editor of the Lancet (himself a CCP stooge) spent a year negotiating with Daszak. What is going on?