A revelation buried in a cache of documents opens a new and potentially important investigative corridor for Special Counsel John Durham. The shady tech executive who featured prominently in the federal indictment of Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was also communicating with a covert group of computer scientists skilled in mining internet data. This revelation raises concerns that the man referred to in special counsel documents as Tech Executive-1, Rodney Joffe, may have shared sensitive government and private internet data more broadly than previously thought.
Joffe's role in Spygate represents one of the most recent developments exposed by the Special Counsel's office. For years, the Christopher Steele dossier stood as a headstone marking the demise of the Russia collusion hoax perpetrated on our country by the Clinton campaign and the corrupt media. But recent court filings indicate the Clinton campaign also holds blame for peddling a second con concerning the Russian Alfa Bank.
A Quick Refresher on the Alfa Bank Tale
The month before Trump and Clinton squared off in the 2016 presidential election, the media began pushing allegations that the Trump organization and the Russian-based Alfa Bank had established a secret communication channel and that the FBI had launched an investigation into that backdoor network. In indicting Sussmann, however, the special counsel's office also revealed that the Clinton campaign bore responsibility for both the FBI probe and the press's coverage of that fake scandal.
According to the indictment, Sussmann provided the FBI's then-General Counsel James Baker with "white papers" and data purporting to show a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. When he met with Baker, Sussman was representing both the Clinton campaign and Joffe, but Sussman lied to Baker about that fact, the indictment charged, telling Baker he was not working on behalf of any client.
The indictment then explained how Sussmann obtained the data and white papers showing the supposed Alfa Bank-Trump connection. According to the indictment, by July 2016, a computer researcher, now known to be April Lorenzen, "had assembled purported DNS data reflecting apparent DNS lookups between Russian Bank-1 and an email domain, 'mail1.trump-email.com." Lorenzen, according to Durham's team, shared the information with Joffe and others, and Joffe told Sussmann about the data.
Joffe later "exploited his access to non-public data at multiple Internet companies to conduct opposition research concerning Trump,” according to the indictment. Joffe did this in a couple of ways, the indictment explained. First, in early August 2016, Joffe allegedly "directed and caused employees of two companies in which he had an ownership interest" "to search and analyze their holdings of public and non-public internet data for derogatory information on Trump."
Second, the indictment claimed that Joffe enlisted the assistance of researchers at Georgia Tech, since identified as Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon. Antonakakis and Dagon, "who were receiving and analyzing Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract," were allegedly tasked by Joffe to scour internet data “for any information about Trump’s potential ties to Russia." Among the data Joffe provided them access to was data obtained by Joffe's tech company in its role as a "sub-contractor in a sensitive relationship between the U.S. government and another company."
While the indictment focused mainly on Joffe's alleged exploitation of data to craft the Alfa Bank-Trump hoax, a subsequent filing by Durham revealed Joffe "and his associates" had also "exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data" to track internet traffic at the Trump Tower, Donald Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).
Using data culled from Joffe's exploitation of that internet traffic, Sussmann met with the CIA on February 9, 2017, and told the intelligence service that data showed supposed connections between the Trump-related locations and the "internet protocol" or "IP addresses" of a supposedly rare Russian mobile phone provider. According to the indictment, Sussmann told the CIA that “these lookups demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations."
These revelations in themselves are huge, showing that, in addition to the Clinton campaign paying for the peddling of the Alfa Bank hoax, "enemies of Donald Trump surveilled the internet traffic at Trump Tower, at his New York City apartment building, and later at the executive office of the president of the United States, then fed disinformation about that traffic to intelligence agencies hoping to frame Trump as a Russia-connected stooge."
Equally significant was the special counsel's assertion that Joffe "exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data," including data Joffe's then-internet company had come to access "as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the [Executive Office of the President]." The exploitation by Joffe of sensitive government or private data to target a political enemy should shock everyone.
But something even more explosive may be lurking beneath this scandal when the allegations contained in the Sussmann indictment are compared to the initial reporting on the Alfa Bank story.
Please go to The Federalist to read more.
A Quick Refresher on the Alfa Bank Tale
The month before Trump and Clinton squared off in the 2016 presidential election, the media began pushing allegations that the Trump organization and the Russian-based Alfa Bank had established a secret communication channel and that the FBI had launched an investigation into that backdoor network. In indicting Sussmann, however, the special counsel's office also revealed that the Clinton campaign bore responsibility for both the FBI probe and the press's coverage of that fake scandal.
According to the indictment, Sussmann provided the FBI's then-General Counsel James Baker with "white papers" and data purporting to show a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. When he met with Baker, Sussman was representing both the Clinton campaign and Joffe, but Sussman lied to Baker about that fact, the indictment charged, telling Baker he was not working on behalf of any client.
The indictment then explained how Sussmann obtained the data and white papers showing the supposed Alfa Bank-Trump connection. According to the indictment, by July 2016, a computer researcher, now known to be April Lorenzen, "had assembled purported DNS data reflecting apparent DNS lookups between Russian Bank-1 and an email domain, 'mail1.trump-email.com." Lorenzen, according to Durham's team, shared the information with Joffe and others, and Joffe told Sussmann about the data.
Joffe later "exploited his access to non-public data at multiple Internet companies to conduct opposition research concerning Trump,” according to the indictment. Joffe did this in a couple of ways, the indictment explained. First, in early August 2016, Joffe allegedly "directed and caused employees of two companies in which he had an ownership interest" "to search and analyze their holdings of public and non-public internet data for derogatory information on Trump."
Second, the indictment claimed that Joffe enlisted the assistance of researchers at Georgia Tech, since identified as Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon. Antonakakis and Dagon, "who were receiving and analyzing Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract," were allegedly tasked by Joffe to scour internet data “for any information about Trump’s potential ties to Russia." Among the data Joffe provided them access to was data obtained by Joffe's tech company in its role as a "sub-contractor in a sensitive relationship between the U.S. government and another company."
While the indictment focused mainly on Joffe's alleged exploitation of data to craft the Alfa Bank-Trump hoax, a subsequent filing by Durham revealed Joffe "and his associates" had also "exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data" to track internet traffic at the Trump Tower, Donald Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).
Using data culled from Joffe's exploitation of that internet traffic, Sussmann met with the CIA on February 9, 2017, and told the intelligence service that data showed supposed connections between the Trump-related locations and the "internet protocol" or "IP addresses" of a supposedly rare Russian mobile phone provider. According to the indictment, Sussmann told the CIA that “these lookups demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations."
These revelations in themselves are huge, showing that, in addition to the Clinton campaign paying for the peddling of the Alfa Bank hoax, "enemies of Donald Trump surveilled the internet traffic at Trump Tower, at his New York City apartment building, and later at the executive office of the president of the United States, then fed disinformation about that traffic to intelligence agencies hoping to frame Trump as a Russia-connected stooge."
Equally significant was the special counsel's assertion that Joffe "exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data," including data Joffe's then-internet company had come to access "as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the [Executive Office of the President]." The exploitation by Joffe of sensitive government or private data to target a political enemy should shock everyone.
But something even more explosive may be lurking beneath this scandal when the allegations contained in the Sussmann indictment are compared to the initial reporting on the Alfa Bank story.
Please go to The Federalist to read more.
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