Then-Vice President Joe Biden met with Oleh Tyahnybok shortly thereafter in April 2014. alamy.com/us-vice-presid…
In June of 2017, Andriy Parubiy, co-founder of the fascist Social-National Party of Ukraine, was inexplicably invited to Washington, where he met with a number of American politicians, including McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
2) Although Russian President Vladimir Putin is rightly deserving of blame, top U.S. officials over the past decade have played important roles in critical events that undermined U.S. relations with Russia and resulted in the destabilization of Ukraine.
3) The deterioration in our relations with Russia, in many ways started with President George W. Bush in 2008 when he dangled before Ukraine the promise of NATO membership during the Bucharest declaration.
Written for a private client [Deripaska] but shared widely within the US State Dept, and sent up to Sec. of State John Kerry and assistant Sec. of State Victoria Nuland — who was in charge of the US response to Putin’s annexation of Crimea and covert invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Nuland: "During the Ukraine crisis in 2014-15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them."
2) On July 28, 2016, Brennan briefed Obama that Clinton had approved a plan to tie Trump to Russian election interference “as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
3) The very next day, on July 29, Sussmann, Elias, Steele and Fusion operatives met in Perkins' offices.
Steele learned of the Alfa allegations at this meeting.
Meanwhile, Baker was asked if this type of interaction with an outside counsel had ever occurred before. In response, Baker admitted that his interaction with Sussmann was singularly unique:
Mr. Baker: I that that’s correct. Sitting here today, that’s the only one I can remember
Sussmann was never interviewed by the FBI, which Baker also found surprising, noting:
“It is logical to me that we [the FBI] would go back and interview [Sussmann].”
Sussmann WAS interviewed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Dec. 18, 2017.
Meadows to Baker:
“Everything about this investigation seems to have been done in an abnormal way, the way that you have gotten the information, the way that Strzok got information, the way that Ohr was used, the way that Perkins Coie actually came in and gave you information.”
Durham also notes an email exchange re: the Alfa allegations involving former Perkins Coie attorney Marc Elias and three Clinton campaign officials: communications director Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook, and senior foreign policy advisor Jake Sullivan.
That email exchange w/Elias, Sullivan, Palmieri and Mook re: the now-disproven Alfa Bank allegations took place on Sep. 15, 2016, only four days before Sussmann took the Alfa information to the FBI.
Horowitz informed Durham that in March 2017 Sussmann told an OIG SAG that one of his clients had observed that a specific OIG employee’s computer was “seen publicly” in “Internet traffic” and was connecting to a Virtual Private Network in a foreign country.
3) At the time Horowitz provided this report to Durham on December 17, 2021, Horowitz represented to Durham & team that it had “no other file[s] or other documentation” relating to this cyber matter.