Durham Probes Pentagon Computer Contractors
in Anti-Trump Conspiracy
Real Clear Investigations,
by
Paul Sperry
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
10/7/2021 10:30:33 AM
Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John Durham.
Durham is investigating whether they were involved in a scheme to misuse sensitive, nonpublic Internet data, which they had access to through their government contracts, to dredge up derogatory information on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign in 2016 and again in 2017, sources say — political dirt
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 10/7/2021 10:46:34 AM (No. 937936)
Yawn. More nameless nobodies will either not get charged or do time served.
He's had -years- to work on this and all we hear about after all this time is he's allegedly looking at a few contractor keyboard monkeys no one ever heard of? Who ordered those people to betray the country?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
justavoter 10/7/2021 10:50:08 AM (No. 937941)
Durham is a joke.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 10/7/2021 10:54:06 AM (No. 937945)
Of course they did....swamp paid them to spy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sully 10/7/2021 11:05:27 AM (No. 937955)
Joffe is the “Max” quoted in media articles promoting the secret cyber plot targeting Trump..."
Um, how can anyone not want to see this? IDK what took so long or what he thinks his end state is, but nailing these tech assassins to the wall is of the utmost importance. Plus gratifying. Plus makes them vulnerable to DJT who will have to goods on his abusers. But that of course is secondary.
Primary is nailing their funders.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
volksford 10/7/2021 11:16:17 AM (No. 937968)
Looks like Durham will eventually go to his grave with the full story of all those involved . We will learn the identity of the third shooter from the grassy knoll before anyone pays for the attempted coup.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/7/2021 11:32:20 AM (No. 937990)
What is the point of bad-mouthing Durham? Why not let this play out without loading him up with skepticism based on nothing factual? I’m for giving the guy a chance to complete his work, wherever it takes him. Those who know about this kind of investigation have said that it can take a number of years. We are criticizing him from a warehouse of ignorance.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sully 10/7/2021 11:51:58 AM (No. 938010)
Reminder: a real investigation does play out differently from a BS railroading like Muelhead's. W/a witch hunt you only need to leak fake stuff and let the MSM keep tossing bs bombs.
You can do that immediately for as long as they let you. Durham, if nothing else, does seem real. But don't compare it to Muellhead's farce.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 10/7/2021 12:04:17 PM (No. 938020)
I'll believe it when Glenn Simpson and others at Fusion GPS go to prison for years. Until then, this is just talk.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
thomthomp 10/7/2021 12:31:27 PM (No. 938051)
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government investigation...
...of Democrats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/7/2021 12:33:35 PM (No. 938055)
These threads often attract drivebys who feel faint when they see a long article. All that single-spaced type. Aaargh.
From the article, an interesting bit could be a kicker. Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is front and center in Durham’s investigation. You can almost hear the drivebys in unison “but Garland will probably short circuit any investigation that gets to close to Biden & Co.” But wait:
Maggie Goodlander: Jake Sullivan's wife worked for Attorney General Merrick Garland as a law clerk when he was a federal judge. That could create a conflict for Garland, who controls the purse strings to Durham’s investigation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 10/7/2021 12:54:00 PM (No. 938078)
It is all interesting. And I'll withhold judgement until we see what happens. But so far, the Deep State has managed to protect their own.
It would be really wonderful if Mr. Durham is actually interested in justice and willing to go after anyone who is corrupt. If that happens, I'll be happy to applaud. I say nothing against Mr. Durham, but justice delayed is pretty much justice denied.
A previous lesson was the years of looking for all the horror shows that were around Hellary and her corrupt Arkansas Whitewater deeds, and BillyJeff who probably raped a couple of women. The great Special Council Ken Starr investigated for years, and while the Clintons got a bit of mud splattered, nobody went to prison, ESPECIALLY the Clintons who ran the whole mess. An no look into the probable rapes, and no real finding on the highly questionable "suicide" of Vince Foster with a LOT of loose ends never sorted out.
So, pardon me if I am a bit skeptical that ANY investigation in DC will ever find any serious criminality on the part of the truly powerful folks who ran it, planned it, paid for it and set it in motion. Long history makes me skeptical.
I sincerely hope that Mr. Durham is THE exception, and is THE sterling man who takes on DC corruption and gets to the bottom of it. I will watch and see, and not throw rocks. But, I won't spend a lot of time cheerleading, either. A polite, "Hey, that's a good thing" may be appropriate from time to time.
We'll see.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 10/7/2021 12:57:17 PM (No. 938081)
Poster #10 points out a major conflict of interest for Judgy Garland in this case. But why would that matter? The utterly corrupt Judgy Garland - - more corrupt than Eric Holder, Janet Reno, and Loretta Lynch combined - - already has a major conflict with his son-in-law raking in millions of dollars from Judgy's illegal witch hunts. So why would this conflict of interest mean anything more to him?
Second point - - the posters who are writing negative things about John Durham - - are simply jealous of his amazing skills on the miniature golf course. Lots of people who have no sports talent - - become green with envy when they see someone who does.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/7/2021 5:38:52 PM (No. 938288)
Many who know about such things, and read the full Sussman indictment, believe that Durham is going the conspiracy route. The Sussman indictment had a deadline for Durham to meet; conspiracy would have no such deadline.
Here - from this article - is an example of what was going on and who was involved. Makes Glenn Simpson and his pathetic little dossier look like small potatoes. And what bound the conspirators together? A mutual dislike of Donald Trump.
On Nov. 17, 2016, the Pentagon awarded Georgia Tech a cybersecurity research contract worth more than $17 million. The project, dubbed “Rhamnousia," would allow researchers to “sift through existing and new data sets” to find “bad actors” on the Internet. The indictment said the researchers had been provided “early access to Internet data in order to establish a ‘proof of concept’ for work under the contract.” Of course, the government did not pay the researchers to look for dirt on Trump in the sensitive DNS databases.
“The primary purpose of the contract,” the indictment noted, "was for researchers to receive and analyze large quantities of DNS data in order to identify the perpetrators of malicious cyber-attacks and protect U.S. national security.”
Instead, the scientists took the political fishing expedition. According to the indictment, Joffe directed Lorenzen and the two university researchers to “search broadly through Internet data for any information about Trump’s potential ties to Russia.”
The Georgia Tech researchers named as “investigators” on the project included David Dagon and Manos Antonakakis, who the sources confirmed are the two university researchers cited by Durham in his indictment. Antonakakis is the “Researcher-1” referenced in the indictment whom the grand jury said remarked in an email that “the only thing that drives us is that we just do not like [Trump.].”
The original $17 million Rhamnousia contract was approved for five years, federal contracting records show. But the program was recently renewed and has grown into a more than $25 million Defense Department contract -- led by the same Georgia Tech research team.
This is a long, fascinating article. We find that many of the players are now involved with Biden.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kumoan 10/7/2021 8:45:47 PM (No. 938438)
I have been at the front of the bus when it comes to verbally trashing Durham; almost better than sex [at my age] is Steyn's over the top parodies re: Durham. Yet, Kash Patel, seemingly alone, is a voice that calls out for patience, as he argues that Durham IS making progress, in a process that usually takes 4-5 years. So, it boils down to whether you believe Kash, a man who does seem to be a bonafide patriot. IMO.
Wouldn't it be something if some shoes dropped before 2022 and the rest before 2024. I wonder if the firing squads would be granted enough time off to vote?
Damn Dominion, full speed ahead.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/7/2021 10:14:38 PM (No. 938506)
Re #14, although I am very fond of Mark Steyn, and have been for a long time, he has made his living mocking… I’d be more apt to put my money with Kash Patel. As cuttingly amusing as Mark can be, he knows from nothing about this sort of thing...
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