Steven Groves is Margaret Thatcher Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation. % 0000003027 00000 n On May 13, 2019, directed John Durham , U.S. Attorney for the District ofConnecticut, to investigate certain intelligence and law -enforcement activities surrounding the 2016 presidential election. [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 was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. 0000004612 00000 n This is a big story. 0000010649 00000 n I entertain no doubts as to the national character which must be given to Lower Canada; it must be that of the British Empire; that of the majority of the population of British America; that of the great race which must, in the lapse of no long period of time, be predominant over the whole North American Continent. We will contact you again once the litigation in this matter allows. 6/7 - Durham Tech Installs Fifth President J.B. Buxton 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. endobj 0000004883 00000 n According to Durham, the French culture in Canada had changed little in 200 years and showed no sign of the progress that British culture had made. R>g. In May 2019, then-Attorney General William Barr assigned federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBIs) 2016 investigation into alleged collusion between the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and Russia, an investigation given the code name Crossfire Hurricane.REF For the purpose of protecting the investigation and providing additional independence to Durham, in October 2020, Barr formally appointed Durham as a special counsel charged to. endstream endobj startxref Justice.gov Special Counsel John Durham's Office Special Counsel John Durham About On October 19, 2020, John Durham was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel by the order below. 21-582 (CRC): MICHAEL A. SUSSMANN,:: Defendant. 0000017026 00000 n @ ^Lk 0000128256 00000 n The full story remains elusive. After these doubts were expressed about any connection between the Trump organization and Russia, Lorenzen suggested that such a connection could be faked. As related by Durham: Despite their knowledge that the Russian Bank Data was a red herring and that there were no secret communications channel, Joffe, Lorenzen, Dagon, Antonakakis, and Sussmann drafted a white paper touting the Alfa-Bank disinformation. PDF IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF - Reuters Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. Indictments filed by Durham show that the Steele Dossier and Alfa-Bank allegations of a conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin were entirely concocted. This led to the Act of Union, 1840. Durham report proves Hillary Clinton was Putin's puppet not Trump ", Cameron, David R. "Lord Durham Then and Now. Lord Durham's Report: Text Abridged by Gerald M. Craig She did not even live in Russia in 2016. www.adobe.com. The "Report" led to major reforms and democratic advances. The two Canadas were subsequently merged into a single colony, the Province of Canada, in the 1840 Act of Union. The visible and broad line of demarcation which separates parties by the distinctive characters of race, happily has no existence in the Upper Province. Fusion GPS is a Washington, D.C.based consulting firm that, according to its website, provides premium research, strategic intelligence, and due diligence services to corporations, law firms, and investors worldwide.REF The firm was founded by two former journalists, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch.REF, Marc Elias of Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS in April 2016 to perform a variety of research services relating to then-candidate Donald Trump.REF Simpson, Fritsch, and others at Fusion GPS conducted preliminary research on then-candidate Trump, then collectively decided that they needed to do what they could to keep Trump out of the White House.REF Perkins Coie, using funds paid to it by Hillary for America and the DNC, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million in 2016.REF, Fusion GPSs role was to provide opposition research on then-candidate Trump relating to his alleged relationship with Russia. 2021 Action Report - Durham [15] Lord Durham had not recommended this approach and had instead proposed that the representation should be based on the respective populations of the two regions. PDF Different Perspectives: The Durham Report and Act of Union "Lord Durham and the British Background of His Report. 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. 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. Foers article in Slate describes how Lorenzen began collecting Internet data on the Trump organization in late July 2016. A-month-and-a-half earlier, Perkins Coies Marc Elias exchanged e-mails with Robbie Mook, Jennifer Palmieri, and Jake Sullivan concerning the [Alfa-Bank] allegations that Sussmann had recently shared with [the New York Times Eric Lichtblau].REF The opposition research efforts that resulted in the Slate article,REF as well as other articles published on October 31 in the New York Times by Eric LichtblauREF and Mother Jones by David Corn,REF were bought and paid for by Hillary for America through campaign agents Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, and others. Lorenzen began carefully keeping logs of the Trump servers DNS [domain name system] activity and circulated the data in periodic batches to colleagues in the cybersecurity world.REF Lorenzens datareferred to by Durham as the Russian Bank Datapurported to show the existence of a secret channel of communications between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank.REF One of the colleagues Lorenzen provided the Internet data to was Rodney Joffe.REF, Rodney Joffe (Neustar, Inc.). 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 full story of Hillary for Americas 2016 disinformation campaign against Donald Trump may only come to light if and when federal prosecutor John Durham releases a final report at the conclusion of his investigationand the full truth may never be known. DA Deberry will present the 2021 Annual Report virtually on Wednesday, February 16, at 6 p.m. Members of the public can view the presentation and submit questions on the Durham DA's Office . Hillary for Americas disinformation efforts consisted of two main components: (1) creating and disseminating the so-called Steele Dossier that falsely alleged, inter alia, the existence of an extensive conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin;REF and (2) concocting false allegations regarding a secret computer communications link between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank, Russias largest private commercial bank. 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. An official website of the United States government. 0000106946 00000 n 0000127373 00000 n Search the Archives. Special Counsels Office hb```e``*b`a`Rcd@ AF~. 0000009663 00000 n Durham Report In 1838, the British politician Lord Durham was sent to British North America to investigate the causes of the rebellions of 1837-38 in the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. Choose the drop down menus to view archived documents. In October, Fritsch and two other Fusion GPS employees visited Foer at his home to brief him on the Alfa-Bank allegations. <>/Metadata 531 0 R/ViewerPreferences 532 0 R>> Olga Galkina. Page was placed under FBI surveillance in an operation that was later flagged in a December 2019 report (pdf) conducted by the Department of Justice's inspector general, who found errors and omissions in how the . August 12, 2021 Back in April of 2019, Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham to look into how the FBI investigated whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials. Order No. 4878-2020 - United States Department of Justice Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. 0000093522 00000 n Rodney Joffe, then an executive at Neustar, Inc., a Virginia-based Internet technology company, is a central figure in the Alfa-Bank disinformation campaign.REF Joffe appears to have had an interest in Hillary Clintons election. ", New, Chester. [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. 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While the general contours of Hillary for Americas opposition research efforts during the 2016 election period have been reported in the press and have been the subject of congressional and inspector general investigations, many new details have been uncovered by Durhams investigation and revealed in federal indictments relating to former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann and former Brookings Institution policy analyst Igor Danchenko. PDF Finance and Administration Committee Report - durham.ca "The influence of the Durham Report." 10. The Steele Dossier sets forth the alleged conspiracy as described by Danchenko in report 2016/095: Danchenko claims that he heard the well-developed conspiracy allegation from Sergei Millian (referred to above as Source E), a BelarusianAmerican who formerly served as the president of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce in the USA.REF. Reg.) 0000005852 00000 n "Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence and the Struggle to Abolish Irresponsible Government in Lower Canada. At the Healthwatch County Durham annual event in November 2021, Pauline Fletcher, the Dental Commissioning Lead North East and North Cumbria provided an update on the current position, including a lot of useful information about the NHS dental contract. In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. "DURHAM REPORT ROCKS POLITICAL WORLD," one of the banners on One America News proclaimed. 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. His report contains the famous assessment that Lower Canada had "two nations warring within the bosom of a single state. 0000001907 00000 n : The Regional Municipality of Durham . %PDF-1.3 % . 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. Soviet Active Measures in The United States-an Updated Report by The 0000002535 00000 n hbbd``b`: $@Dp,. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. Durham Report | The Canadian Encyclopedia In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that Russian intelligence had assessed that Clinton had approved a disinformation operation against Trump. 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 3. PDF Access to an NHS dentist in County Durham During his stay, Dolan received a tour of the presidential suite and met with the hotels general manager and other staff.REF Dolan was told during the hotel tour that Trump had once stayed as a guest in the presidential suite.REF Importantly, the staff member who provided the tour to Dolan did not mention any lewd or salacious activity by Trump during his stay in the presidential suite.REF, Danchenko had lunch with Dolan at some point during the June 2016 trip to Moscow.REF During interviews with the FBI, Danchenko claimed to have collected information concerning Trumps purported activities at the [Ritz-Carlton] from various sources, such as the hotels general manager and other staff.REF, It is unclear from Danchenkos indictment whether he actually heard about salacious information regarding Trump from Dolan, from Ritz-Carlton staff, or whether Danchenko simply embellished the information to appear valuable to Steele. He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. EPUB . The indictment states that Sussmann met with Baker at FBI headquarters on September 19, 2016 (less than two months before the presidential election), and presented him with data files and three white papers purporting to show a secret channel of communications between Internet servers belonging to the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank.REF (It turns out that the Internet server in question did not belong to the Trump organization, but rather had been administered by a mass marketing email company that sent advertisements for Trump hotels and hundreds of other clients.)REF, During his meeting with Baker, Sussmann allegedly told Baker that he (Sussmann) was not acting on behalf of any client, which led Baker to believe that Sussmann was acting as a good citizennot as a paid advocate or political operative.REF The indictment further alleges Sussmann was, in fact, acting on behalf of two clientsHillary for America and Rodney Joffe, an executive at Neustar, Inc., a Virginia-based Internet company.REF. 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. 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. Thank you,-----------------------------------------Initial Request StaffOffice of Information PolicyU.S. In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. 0000006388 00000 n View the Durham Police Department Promise (PDF) View the Durham Police Department General Orders (PDF) [9] Those suggestions would be put into place decades later, during the Confederation of Canada. 3 0 obj In an effort to further increase public aware- ness of Soviet active measures, the FBI has provided me with an update of its 1983 report on Soviet active measures operations here in the United States. Danchenko claims that in July 2016, he received a phone call from an anonymous caller he believed to be Millian, even though he had never met him and never heard his voice.REF Danchenko claimed that he and the mysterious caller spoke for 1015 minutes, during which time they discussed Paul Manafort, Carter Page, communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, and information to the effect that the Kremlin might be of help to get Trump elected.REF Danchenko further claimed that he and the anonymous caller agreed to meet in New York City in the future. Durham also recommended the creation of a municipal government and a supreme court in British North America. 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. 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. Lord Durham was sent back to Canada in 1838 by British Parliament and the Crown to investigate the cause behind the rebellions of both Upper and Lower Canada and propose suggestions to fix any remaining problems and lessen the chance of future rebellions. On October 31, 2016, one week before Election Day, Sullivan hyped the false Alfa-Bank disinformation in a press release. 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. Durham may be investigating whether and to what extent then-candidate Hillary Clinton had knowledge of the disinformation campaign. 2 provocativelyand misleadingly1describes for the first time Domain Name System ("DNS") traffic potentially associated with former Presid ent Donald Trump, including data at the Executive Office of the President ("EOP"), that was alle gedly presented to Agency-2 in February 2017. 0000090351 00000 n Simpson and Fritsch did so both with regard to the Steele Dossier and the Alfa-Bank allegations, both of which have proven to be unsubstantiated, if not entirely fabricated. Regarding both of those components, concerted efforts were made by the Clinton campaign, Perkins Coie attorneys, Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, and others to present false allegations to the FBI and to disseminate them to media outlets for the purpose of denigrating Trump and his campaign. I received your voicemail asking for a status of your request for a copy of the Durham Report Executive Summary. Please be advised that another request for this same information is now the subject of litigation. ", Henderson, Jarett. The people living in both colonies in Canada were struggling, as the economic situation in both areas all but collapsed. That has been irrevocably done and the experiment of depriving the people of their present constitutional power is not to be thought of."[8]. Analysis: The Durham report reveals how bad information spreads in [6] Much more important was the impact on Anglophone Canada, where led by Joseph Howe, Robert Baldwin, and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine it produced dramatic reforms.[7]. Drinking Water System Category: Large Municipal Residential . When providing information to Members of Congress after the fact, officials were careful to say that the intelligence community does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.REF Still, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama on this intelligence. HtUM0WpVu=q_U+J\J'qlK7o^ ,xpM!f,?MP8hc=W bQ3j]z9E3W*TO9BairKA :"F8=u~ZxAR*yt'ut>W (i26N/w26z?pd%`ZM$Nt}u *BP)A[ykB&s7C7;OlCZ9CL}m#un\n!KRr=8e^72("QeNd76F!)`6aH+C@^(=K`W%? 2021 Action Report. download 1 file . Durham CAN's Strategy Team met 2021, like many of CAN's institutions, by continuing to adapt in the face of the pandemic while simultaneously "dis-organizing and re-organizing" CAN for a new season of leadership. "[11], "We are not now to consider the policy of establishing representative government in the North American Colonies. (alterations in original) (quoting Wheat, 486 U.S. at 161). 0000006621 00000 n 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. L*%.%3v8;;z}} 0aEK.Ayz=um [eL&4:Dh@r,Lf?^f-E} SLL FpS9 $p% $ #1Kplr WXi6F:XoF`-\
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