Much to the embarrassment of Hillary Clinton, the released files showed that the DNC had secretly collaborated with her campaign to promote her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination over that of Bernie Sanders. On July 22, 2016, just days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks published approximately 20,000 DNC emails.
On July 5, 2016, FBI Director James Comey publicly cleared Hillary Clinton of criminal charges for storing, sending and receiving “very sensitive, highly classified information” on her unclassified, private email server. He then posted online DNC computer files that contained metadata that indicated Russian involvement in the hack. The next day, a self-described Romanian hacker, Guccifer 2.0, claimed he was a WikiLeaks source and had hacked the DNC’s server. On June 15, 2016, CrowdStrike announced that it had detected Russian malware on the DNC’s server. On or about April 30, 2016, CrowdStrike, a California-based private cybersecurity company headed by former FBI official Shawn Henry, was retained by Sussmann to investigate the purported hack of the DNC’s email server. So what is the significance of that averment and why was it included in Sussmann’s false statement indictment?Ĭonsider the following timeline of events: In or around the same time period, Sussmann was also advising the Clinton Campaign in connection with cybersecurity issues.” In connection with his representation of the DNC as the victim of the hack, the defendant met and communicated regularly with the FBI, the DOJ, and other U.S. The indictment also avers that “n or about April 2016, the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) retained Sussmann to represent it in connection with the hacking of its email servers by the Russian government. The indictment avers that Sussmann presented the false narrative to the FBI which then opened an investigation and that the conspirators used the false narrative and the fact of the FBI’s investigation to smear Donald Trump as an undercover Russian agent. Previous articles discussed the indictment’s detailed factual averments regarding how, during the 2016 presidential election campaign, Sussmann and others conspired to concoct a false but “plausible” narrative purportedly demonstrating the existence of a secret channel of internet communications between the Trump Organization, owned by Donald Trump, and the Russian Alfa Bank.
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This is the fourth in a series of articles analyzing the 27-page federal grand jury indictment charging lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a false statement to the FBI.
John Durham and the Mysterious DNC Email Hack | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics Here’s Captain Midnight to explain how it all worked. It was 1950s kid-brainwashing marketing at its best. The message usually turned out to be something like “Drink Ovaltine”. Periodically the Captain would spell out a coded message which young members of his Secret Squadron would translate using their official Ovaltine Secret Decoder Badge. Note: For those of you who never had the privilege of growing up in the 1950s, Ovaltine chocolate mix sponsored the Captain Midnight television show. In the meantime, get out your Ovaltine secret decoder, sit back and enjoy this latest cliff-hanger episode of “John Durham Blows Up Washington”. When I receive the audio download, I will post it on Knowledge is Good. Later today I will be a guest on Chicago’s Morning Answer AM560 to discuss the Durham investigation. Like the previous articles, this one made Real Clear Politic‘s “Most Read” list and has gone viral. Here’s the latest installment of my John Durham series published by The American Spectator.
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