Since the Court has an independent interest in investigating potential conflicts, see Wheat, 486 U.S. at 161, the Court retains "substantial latitude in refusing waivers of conflicts of In D.C., Galkina asked for assistance from Danchenko, who in turn introduced Galkina to Dolan (by way of Danchenkos former boss at Brookings, Fiona Hill).REF Dolan was ultimately paid $75,000 by Aleksej Gubarev for his message development and outreach efforts in the U.S.REF, During the summer of 2016, Danchenko, Dolan, and Galkina traded gossip and spoke frequently, according to interviews and e-mails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.REF Dolan and Galkina communicated regularly, expressing their mutual support for Hillary Clinton. For the report on the FBI's investigation into links between Donald Trump and Russia, see. I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 1, 2021. In a September 2016 e-mail to a Russian associate, Galkina stated that Dolan would take me to the State Department if Hillary wins.REF, According to Danchenkos interviews with the FBI, Galkina was a fount of information on the Trump campaigns ties to the Kremlin. Without effecting the change so rapidly or so roughly as to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government to establish an English population, with English laws and language, in this Province, and to trust its government to none but a decidedly English Legislature. But the battle over shaping perceptions is still very . As Fusion GPS began to receive Christopher Steeles salacious and unverified (in the words of former FBI Director James Comey) reports, it endeavored to widely disseminate the reports to journalists in the hope that the content of the reports would be published.REF. He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. 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. Washington, D.C. U.S. Antonakakis e-mailed Lorenzen and Dagon: Joffe himself expressed doubt about the Russian Bank Data that started the whole project. H|n@yL/_vWr'j+5R%{S]}8,73guzk!rp/[8P!* JqS!y| 7Aqma?%RI_%P4.|Zz7,(F"Ssf(1A>[g=BN\yqix2BM.d$V+d(#\=B }YBbB2~WNoUb#f}. According to Durhams indictment, Danchenko fabricated the Steele Dossiers central allegationthat the Trump campaign was conspiring with Russia. 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. L*%.%3v8;;z}} 0aEK.Ayz=um [eL&4:Dh@r,Lf?^f-E} SLL FpS9 $p% $ #1Kplr WXi6F:XoF`-\ [16] The British government rejected that recommendation and instead implemented equal representation, apparently to give the English-speaking population of the new province a dominant voice in the provincial government, furthering the goal of assimilating the French-speaking population. The report did not see any of its recommendations come into force in the African and Asian colonies, but some limited democratic reforms in India became possible that otherwise would not have been. 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 It is very difficult to make out from the avowals of parties the real objects of their struggles, and still less easy is it to discover any cause of such importance as would account for its uniting any large mass of the people in an attempt to overthrow, by forcible means, the existing form of Government. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. [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. "The Reception of the Durham Report in Canada.". Special Counsel Robert Muellers report mentions the Prague allegation only in the context that Cohen denied that a such a meeting ever took place.REF The name of Igor Diveykin does not even appear in Muellers report. 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. 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.). 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 Fn6Xp_)G;&M. @VD'" p1H "6e~e 4<<<>$Z%"t1T]`0yJVw*`(#0|m]Q1LS='uHdP#qRUD]Uom;TIHFo6d~ hDcMV}i 82 endstream endobj 704 0 obj 545 endobj 705 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 704 0 R >> stream Durham CAN's Strategy Team met 2021, like many of CAN's institutions, by continuing to adapt in the face of the pandemic while simultaneously "dis-organizing and re-organizing" CAN for a new season of leadership. 0000010026 00000 n R>g. Durham knew how to organize support in Upper Canada. Danchenko pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial is currently set to commence on October 11, 2022.REF. 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 0000004842 00000 n @$F0 b`5 B D( 6= q27@ &^ # 0000003935 00000 n 93 0 obj <>stream 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. The meetings were represented as nonpartisan, respectable, loyal, orderly and deserving of parliamentary support. The two Canadas were subsequently merged into a single colony, the Province of Canada, in the 1840 Act of Union. French Canadians were opposed to a union that threatened their nationality. As well as increased political tension and bitterness between parties and races of people, particularly in Lower Canada. hbbd``b`: $@Dp,. The Durham investigation has determined that Lorenzen, a computer data scientist, was the original source behind the Alfa-Bank disinformation. For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) 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. The caller should first state they are on Duke Campus and then state the building name. 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. 0000006621 00000 n Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. EPUB . 6/7 - Durham Tech Installs Fifth President J.B. Buxton The report provided. The purpose of this report is to summarize the Attorney General's findings and conclusions with regards to the incident, which resulted in the death of Michael Barrett. A briefing report was provided to the Environment and Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) on the 11th April 2022 which updated Members on local air quality management across County Durham. 3 0 obj 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. 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. Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022, Statement of Expenditures, October 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022, Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2021 - September 30, 2021, Statement of Expenditures, October 19, 2020 - March 31, 2021, Department of Justice 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. I definitely would not take the job under Trump.REF, After receiving the Russian Bank Data from Lorenzen in the summer of 2016, Joffe shared the data with Sussmann, with whom he had a prior attorney-client relationship.REF Thereafter, Joffe, with the knowledge and support of Sussmann and Elias, enlisted alliesLorenzen, two Internet companies in which Joffe had an interest, and two researchers at Georgia Tech Universityto conduct research concerning Trump.REF, As alleged by Durham, Joffe used his access at multiple organizations to gather and mine public and non-public Internet data regarding Trump and his associates, with the goal of creating a narrative regarding the candidates ties to Russia.REF Within this context, Joffe stated that he was working with someone who had close ties to the Democratic Party and to Hillary Clinton.REF For his part, Sussmann billed his time on the Alfa-Bank disinformation projectwhat he termed a confidential project in his billing recordsto Hillary for America.REF, As part of the project, Joffe tasked employees at two Internet companiesreferred to by Durham as Internet Company-2 and Internet Company-3to search and analyze their holdings of public and non-public internet data for derogatory information on Trump.REF As part of that tasking, Joffe e-mailed Internet Company-3 a Trump Associates List containing the names, home addresses, personal e-mail addresses, and other information regarding six people connected to Trump.REF According to Durham, personnel at Internet Company-3 were uncomfortable utilizing the companys data in such an inappropriate manner, but they complied with the taskingbecause [Joffe] was a powerful figure.REF Employees at Internet Company-3 subsequently provided Joffe with a report containing technical observations that Joffe later provided to Sussmann.REF, Joffe retired from Neustar at or around the time that the Sussmann indictment was made public.REF He has refused to cooperate or provide testimony to Durham, going so far as to plead his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination when called to testify before Durhams grand jury.REF, Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon (Georgia Tech). She did not even live in Russia in 2016. ", Martin, Ged. Report: 1. 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. Lord Durham's report on the affairs of British North America; by Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840; Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir, 1853-1931. Trump had hoped that Durham would deliver a report before the 2020 election that could help Trump's campaign. It moved Canada slowly on the path to "responsible government" (that is, self-government), which took a decade. !3v V!IT&`:caM&YH~susF*`L`}GbeU"iiN;_"8' ZQ~jL$%~o,2Du&^}FYW&!m6*X3~n/ReCe, Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) led to a series of reforms and changes. 0000008520 00000 n A locked padlock 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. Washington DC 20530, Contact the Department That is particularly the case when, as here, Hillary Clintons political operation retained a law firm in an attempt to provide legal cover for the campaigns opposition research efforts. 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. 68 0 obj <> endobj 0000093236 00000 n Indictments filed by Durham show. The quarrel is one of an entirely English, if not British population. I would not impair a single prerogative of the Crown; on the contrary, I believe that the interests of the people of these Colonies require the protection of prerogatives, which have not hitherto been exercised. "[11], "We are not now to consider the policy of establishing representative government in the North American Colonies. 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. 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:: v.: Criminal Case No. 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. Russian National Indicted for Making False Statements to the FBI, Grand Jury Indicts D.C. Attorney with Making False Statements to the FBI in 2016 Regarding Alleged Communications Between Trump Organization and Russian Bank. Christopher Steele (Orbis Business Intelligence). "'The Foundations of Freedom and Civilization': The Durham Report, Municipal Institutions and Liberalism. 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. Hb```f``/f`c``cd@ A;@ 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 $1 million to fund the disinformation campaign, then used the fruits of that campaign to calumniate candidate Trump. : GOVERNMENT'S MOTION TO INQUIRE INTO POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 1. Although I hadexpected Mr.Durham to complete his work by the summer of2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional information he uncovered . Simpson and Fritsch did so both with regard to the Steele Dossier and the Alfa-Bank allegations, both of which have proven to be unsubstantiated, if not entirely fabricated. That has been irrevocably done and the experiment of depriving the people of their present constitutional power is not to be thought of."[8]. 0000003965 00000 n In addition to exploiting the public and non-public data held by Internet Company-2 and Internet Company-3, Joffe tasked Lorenzen and two Georgia Tech computer researchersManos Antonakakis and David Dagonto search through Neustars Internet data for any information about Trumps potential ties to Russia.REF Joffes goal, according to Durham, was to support an inference and narrative regarding Trump that would please certain VIPs., From the beginning, Antonakakis was dubious about the alleged connection between the Trump organization and Russia. But the Crown must, on the other hand, submit to the necessary consequences of representative institutions; and if it has to carry on the Government in unison with a representative body, it must consent to carry it on by means of those in whom that representative body has confidence. 0000128152 00000 n xkoF~h V^K]>d9E_;;Qe@dr_33;o6xf~ z>-7x6.gQ*Qfy~?"yp:?rP("+'9D* *\>Vi~4IcT;/fl*ly"RgST*U>zXI$)Yjp%f f52]%$MLKR8l^W+IJI In Upper Canada it was rejected by the dominant Tory elite, while out-of-power reformers welcomed the ideal of responsible government. Official websites use .gov II. Lord Durham believed that, to eliminate the possibility of rebellions, French Canadians had to adopt British-Canadian culture and the English language. endstream endobj 73 0 obj <>stream 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. ", Cameron, David R. "Lord Durham Then and Now. MuckRock is a non-profit collaborative news site that gives you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable. Search the Archives. stream The primary component of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign was its effort to smear then-candidate Trump with false reports that he was conspiring with the Kremlin to help him win the 2016 electionthe so-called Steele Dossier assembled by a former British spy and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. "[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. The full story may never be known. "[1] He would return to that theme repeatedly throughout his report. The parallel nature of government organization in Australia and Canada to this day . The full story of the Clinton campaigns corrupt joint venture may only come to light if and when Durham releases a final report at the conclusion of his investigation.

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