Along with Elias, Sussmann allegedly played a key role in the creation and dissemination of false allegations relating to the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank. Archive Center Durham, NC CivicEngage xkoF~h V^K]>d9E_;;Qe@dr_33;o6xf~ z>-7x6.gQ*Qfy~?"yp:?rP("+'9D* *\>Vi~4IcT;/fl*ly"RgST*U>zXI$)Yjp%f f52]%$MLKR8l^W+IJI The Steele Dossier paints a picture of a highly placed source in the Trump campaign relating inside information regarding Manaforts resignation as campaign manager and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowskis dislike for Manafort.REF Dolan informed Danchenko that he received the inside information about Manafort and Lewandowski over drinks with a GOP friend of mine.REF In fact, Dolan had never met with a GOP friend but rather obtained the information about [Manafort] from public news sources.REF. For print-disabled users. He produced his famous and highly controversial Report on the Affairs of British North America (also known as the Durham Report) after a short stay in the region. There is some indication that Clinton knew of and approved the campaign. 0000093315 00000 n The John Durham filing that set off conservative media, explained Galkina was (perhaps unknowingly)REF a source who provided a great deal of information to Danchenko that was ultimately reported in the Steele Dossier. The report provided. Elias received budget approval from Mook to hire consultants, including Fusion GPS.REF In total, Perkins Coie paid more than $1 million to Fusion GPS in 2016 for services rendered to Hillary for America.REF. [9] Those suggestions would be put into place decades later, during the Confederation of Canada. [citation needed], Durham resigned on 9 October 1838 amid controversy excited in London by his decision of the penal questions[17] and was soon replaced by Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, who was responsible for implementing the Union of the Canadas. DurhamExecutiveSummary.pdf View Embed Download From: Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General 08/03/2021 Subject: Acknowledgement Letter (8.2.21).pdf Portal Attached is correspondence from the Department of Justice's Office of Information Policy, which is associated with the above-referenced Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The notable British Whig politician John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, was sent to the Canadas in 1838 to investigate and report on the causes of the rebellions of 183738. 0000009189 00000 n Lord Durham's Report has come to occupy such a central place in the history of the Commonwealth of Nations that no apology is needed for making it readily available to students and readers, both inside and outside the schools and universities. sJevR9/M+a$X;E$ fB#L4:4bl[GEj;_ px".crp VZClX#rBC+:@ 3EB@ XKQ, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW There were extensive advance publicity and public processions to attract audiences for meetings. Order No. His team drew upon a long tradition of petitioning and the example of political activism in Britain. This led to the Act of Union, 1840. ", Anna Plassart, and Hugo Bonin, "Democratic struggle or national uprising? 4878-2020 Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022 V:I LORD DURHAM'S REPORT, 1839 Lord Durham spent only five months in the Canadas and less than two weeks in Upper Canada. Washington DC 20530, Contact the Department <> The second major component of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign was its effort to smear then-candidate Trump with a false allegation that the Trump organization had a secret channel of communication with Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia. He was interested in not only unifying Upper and Lower Canada but also including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Days after the 2016 election, Joffe stated in an e-mail that he was tentatively offered the top [cybersecurity] job by the Democrats when it looked like theyd win. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not. He also wanted to resolve the issue of land over Prince Edward Island, but those suggestions failed to come to fruition since the Maritime Provinces were then uninterested. endobj PDF Attorney General'S Report Regarding the March 11, 2017 Homicide in According to documents filed by Durhams team and other published reports, which serve as the basis for the factual assertions in this Legal Memorandum, the effort was funded, approved, and briefed to the highest level of the Clinton campaign. In total, Hillary for America (through Fusion GPS) paid Steele $168,000 for his efforts.REF, Durhams investigation has revealed that Steeles key sources for the dossier were not senior Russian officials or savvy Kremlin insiders, but rather Igor Danchenko (a Washington, D.C.based policy analyst); Charles Dolan, Jr. (a Washington, D.C.based public relations executive with a long history of working in Democrat Party politics); and Olga Galkina (a Cyprus-based Russian national who was a press secretary to a Russian tech company but had dreams of serving in a future Clinton State Department).REF, These dubious sources did not, in fact, provide any actual evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia. 0 View the Durham Police Department Promise (PDF) View the Durham Police Department General Orders (PDF) For the report on the FBI's investigation into links between Donald Trump and Russia, see. Analysis of Durham County Council's data 7 4. According to the Durham investigation, with the active participation of Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie, a group of computer researchers cooked up phony Internet server data in an attempt to create an inference of secret communications and create a narrative regarding Trump.REF, April Tea Leaves Lorenzen. endstream endobj startxref iHOA]/]uK9bXqAn.SoE'6r1)7dfaoN:1 W196>K c+X0 > stream The Durham investigation indicates a coordinated effort by the Clinton campaign to disseminate false allegations against Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. Room B-103 Durhams investigation has revealed that Sullivan and other senior members of Hillary for America were aware of the Alfa-Bank disinformation well before the Slate article was published on October 31. The quarrel is one of an entirely English, if not British population. It was that white paper, among other materials, that Sussmann gave to the FBI.REF As previously stated, Sussmann billed Hillary for America for his time working on the white paper.REF. 93 0 obj <>stream Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. Like all such quarrels, it has, in fact, created, not two, but several parties; each of which has some objects in common with some one of those to which it is opposed. : GOVERNMENT'S MOTION TO INQUIRE INTO POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 1. Durham had believed that to be inevitable because of the progressive nature of the colony's neighbour, the United States. Durham Report | The Canadian Encyclopedia This report has been prepared to satisfy Section 11 of Ontario Regulation (O. This Legal Memorandum is an effort to unravel the joint venture and place each of the parties to Clintons disinformation campaign into the proper context. Foer expressed great interest in the story, e-mailing Fritsch: My editors are very excited about this piece. We will contact you again once the litigation in this matter allows. "Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence and the Struggle to Abolish Irresponsible Government in Lower Canada. 6xts~zAMGXwtTf. Durham knew how to organize support in Upper Canada. % It was pointed out that many of the Patriote leaders were of British or British Canadian origin, including among others Wolfred Nelson, the hero of the Battle of Saint-Denis; Robert Nelson, author of the Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, who would have become President of Lower Canada had the second insurrection succeeded; journalist Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan; and Thomas Storrow Brown, general during the Battle of St-Charles. 0000003027 00000 n The FBIs interviews of Danchenko establish that the most salacious allegation in the Steele Dossierthat Trump was present during the performance of a lewd act at the Moscow Ritz-Carltonwas fabricated by Danchenko and/or Charles Dolan, a public relations executive living in Washington, D.C., with lengthy ties to the Democratic Party. He was indicted by Durham on November 3, 2021, on five counts of making false statements to the FBI. O. Indeed, Brennan wrote in his briefing notes that on July 26, 2016, Clinton allegedly approved of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.REF. Choose the drop down menus to view archived documents. According to Durhams indictment of former Perkins Coie law firm attorney Michael Sussmann, he directed an effort by a group of computer scientists including Rodney Joffe, April Lorenzen, and others to manufacture a false narrative that the Trump organization and the Kremlin had a secret channel of communications. As noted by Durham, Fusion GPSs role was not to assist Perkins Coie or Hillary for America with legal matters, but rather to generate and disseminate opposition research on Trump to the media and others. This Annual Report for the calendar year 2022 is designed to inform you about your drinking water system. PDF The Regional Municipality of Durham Greenbank Drinking Water System The Durham investigation concluded that Danchenkos claims regarding a mysterious phone call from an anonymous source were fictional: Unfortunately for Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, the FBI utilized Danchenkos allegations in Steele Dossier Report 2016/095 as the basis for obtaining four separate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to conduct covert surveillance on Page.REF, Danchenkos other alleged lies to the FBI concerned his communications with various other sub-sources from which Danchenko gathered information that he passed on to Steele. 0000009167 00000 n In an August 2016 e-mail to Lorenzen, Dagon, and Antonakakis, Joffe stated that the data was not a secret communications channel between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank, but rather was a red herring.REF. For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) QC ,e 1993 City Council Meeting Minutes: But the Crown must, on the other hand, submit to the necessary consequences of representative institutions; and if it has to carry on the Government in unison with a representative body, it must consent to carry it on by means of those in whom that representative body has confidence. Danchenko pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial is currently set to commence on October 11, 2022.REF. On the first page of his report he stated that "[w]hile the present state of things is allowed to last, the actual inhabitants of these Provinces have no security for person or propertyno enjoyment of what they possessno stimulus to industry. The Durham Investigation: A Primer | The Heritage Foundation The full story remains elusive. Durhams investigation has revealed that senior members of Hillary for Americacampaign manager Robbie Mook, communications director Jennifer Palmieri, and foreign policy advisor Jake Sullivan (who currently serves as President Joe Bidens National Security Advisor)were briefed on aspects of the disinformation scheme aimed at discrediting then-candidate Trump.REF Hillary for America, as well as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), spent more than $1 million to fund the disinformation campaign, then used the fruits of that campaign to calumniate candidate Trump. HtTn0+xt!| * Vz-[MTr(-^Cgv/7E~;/}*~M&4*(D "MMa)\4bL!%p%@ Durham report full text. 0000003227 00000 n It is one thing to dredge up a political candidates youthful indiscretions or shady financial dealings, but it is quite another to fabricate false and sensational allegations, present them to the FBI as fact, and serve them up to a willing media in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and 41 Senate colleagues sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to request an update on the status of Special Counsel John Durham's review of the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inquiry into allegations of Russian collusion during . To the extent that was true at all, it was only true among Trump's closest political allies, not the. ", New, Chester. 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As part of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign, Fusion GPS hired Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence (Steeles London-based firm) in June 2016 to investigate Trumps purported ties to Russia.REF In the months leading up to the election, Steele disseminated a steady stream of raw intelligence to the FBI, various media outlets, elected officials, and others. %%EOF Durham Tech 2020-2021 Annual Report (text only version) The 60th anniversary logo (a large 60 with Durham Tech -60 years of impact), is embossed over an image of the new Ingram Building. stream R>g. 0000007868 00000 n hAk0a(NHpvYJ'!3CE=}3s`. "X $d,r\oor%]wz]r= Vo Dq/ The Durham investigation has determined that Lorenzen, a computer data scientist, was the original source behind the Alfa-Bank disinformation. %PDF-1.3 % Among the key takeaways from the Durham investigation: The Durham investigation has seemingly uncovered a coordinated effort by Hillary for America; the Perkins Coie law firm (a Washington, D.C.-based law firm that was retained by Hillary for America to represent the campaign during the 2016 election); strategic intelligence firm Fusion GPS; former British spy Christopher Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence; and various computer researchers based in Virginia, Rhode Island, and at Georgia Tech to generate false, misleading, and sometimes sensational allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump in an effort to win the 2016 presidential election. The visible and broad line of demarcation which separates parties by the distinctive characters of race, happily has no existence in the Upper Province. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. Archive Center. "[8], "A plan by which it is proposed to ensure the tranquil government of Lower Canada, must include in itself the means of putting an end to the agitation of national disputes in the legislature, by settling, at once and for ever, the national character of the Province. In mid-October, Fritsch e-mailed Mark Hosenball, a reporter at Reuters, to do the [expletive] alfa bank secret comms storyit is hugely important.REF Fritsch also pushed the Alfa-Bank story on Matthew Mosk at ABC News, telling him dude this is huge in an e-mail.REF, Fritsch found a more eager reporter in Franklin Foer of Slate. He believed as those ideas were already available to the people and understood, nothing less would be accepted or tolerated and so it must be embraced to satisfy the people and maintain the peace: "establishing a representative government in the North American Colonies. One of this biggest of the campaign.REF, On October 31, 2016, one week prior to Election Day, Foer published an expansive 3,800-word article in Slate entitled, Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?REF Foers contemporaneous tweet promoting his article was less circumspect: I just reported: Donald Trump has a secret server[and] it connects to Moscow.REF. Christopher Steele (Orbis Business Intelligence). Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light ofthe HdRFIQI[Zv,w89|T iW;~a/Az [+;(&q#;%e\G'Ys>)DaW.%Yu7vsta(7yYnrmT>,|z)2S 2 endstream endobj 73 0 obj <>stream Hl y9JsLJ=T=Tm/1'`|3?7!IcT o|0E5ixuVLI u4As+dQ 8yAO! As reported in the Wall Street Journal, in 2016, Galkina was a press secretary to Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian Internet entrepreneur living in Cyprus.REF In early 2016, Galkina travelled to Washington, D.C., in an effort to develop a marketing campaign for Servers.com, one of Gubarevs business interests. 681 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 684 /H [ 1907 628 ] /L 235723 /E 128735 /N 8 /T 221984 >> endobj xref 681 53 0000000016 00000 n The report was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". 0000001907 00000 n In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. Michael Sussmann resigned from Perkins Coie on the day he was indicted.REF His trial before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia commenced on May 16, 2022, and he was found not guilty on May 31. The actions alleged in these indictments should be condemned so that they are never repeated by any political campaign in the future. Lambton, John George, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) led to a series of reforms and changes. The parallel nature of government organization in Australia and Canada to this day . A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. \ S7q9|V#LKgE-kDZ download 1 file . 0000008542 00000 n In July, Dolan gifted Clintons autobiography to Galkina, inscribing it with To my good friend [Olga], A Great Democrat.REF Galkina apparently harbored ambitions to move to the U.S. if Clinton won the election. "The Reception of the Durham Report in Canada.". "[1] He would return to that theme repeatedly throughout his report. 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Perkins Coie managing partner John Devaney published a letter in the Wall Street Journal intimating that Sussmanns meeting with Baker was on behalf of Joffea client with no connections to either the Clinton campaign, the DNC, or any other Political Law Group client.REF However, before his meeting with Baker, Sussmann texted Baker the following message on his personal cell phone: Tellingly, Sussmanns billing records at Perkins Coie indicate that he billed his September 19, 2016, FBI meeting with Baker to Hillary for America, describing the meeting as work and communications regarding confidential project.REF Indeed, Durham has uncovered that all or nearly all of Sussmanns recorded time and work relating to the [Alfa-Bank] allegationswere billed to the Clinton Campaign.REF. A locked padlock The 'Durham Report': Special counsel court filing stirs up accusations His Report contained many inaccuracies about Upper Canada and was bitterly resented in Lower Canada for its unsympathetic view of French Canadians. :5O\" ARVER3Dil4@{:F=C,H)X;LS'Pk&mJtNOFw_W:U3!Q#J 2h0"'}_hD2 \ Marc Elias resigned from Perkins Coie on August 22, 2021, less than a month before the extent of Elias alleged role in the Clinton disinformation campaign was revealed in the Sussmann indictment.REF, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch (Fusion GPS). Rogue Prosecutor Steve Descano Drops Case Against Criminal Who Crashed Car Into Familys Minivan, How DNA and Cell Phone Evidence in Idaho Murders Complied With the Fourth Amendment. But there is no evidence that Galkinareferred to in the Danchenko indictment as Russian Sub-Source-1was a Kremlin insider. [5], "The French complained of the arrogance and injustice of the English; the English accused the French of the vices of a weak and conquered people, and charged them with meanness and perfidy. The Report on the Affairs of British North America,[1] (1839) commonly known as the Durham Report or Lord Durham's Report, is an important document in the history of Quebec, Ontario, Canada and the British Empire. PDF Durham Tech 2020-2021 Annual Report (text only version) It was sort of an anti-Mueller Report, whose results promised exoneration for Trump and criminal convictions for those who had wronged him. This is a big story. While opposition research will continue to be a standard part of political campaigns, the actions taken by Hillary for America and its agents should be condemned so that such actions are never repeated by any political campaign in the future. 4 0 obj "[12], The British Parliament implemented the first point immediately but not the second. To conduct their Government harmoniously, in accordance with its established principles, is now the business of its rulers; and I know not how it is possible to secure that harmony in any other way, than by administering the Government on those principles which have been found perfectly efficacious in Great Britain. Search the Archives. On October 31, 2016, one week before Election Day, Sullivan hyped the false Alfa-Bank disinformation in a press release. That, of course, didn't happen. Durham Probe: Final Report Will Be Damning | National Review He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. In Upper Canada and Lower Canada, he formed numerous committees with essentially all the opponents of the Patriotes and made numerous personal observations on life in the colonies. Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed. Mr. Whatever Durham uncovers, the Clinton campaignincluding Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivantouted the fabricated Alfa-Bank allegation in the days leading up to the 2016 election. 0000127373 00000 n The people living in both colonies in Canada were struggling, as the economic situation in both areas all but collapsed. endobj Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to lead a review into the Russia investigation, made the claim in his investigation that brought charges against an FBI attorney and former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who is currently charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Zack Smith. 0000003066 00000 n 0000009481 00000 n 86 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<941EA52D12A78343B6ADFE423C199631>]/Index[68 26]/Info 67 0 R/Length 86/Prev 360930/Root 69 0 R/Size 94/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream