0000009189 00000 n As part of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign, Fusion GPS hired Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence (Steeles London-based firm) in June 2016 to investigate Trumps purported ties to Russia.REF In the months leading up to the election, Steele disseminated a steady stream of raw intelligence to the FBI, various media outlets, elected officials, and others. It was his opinion that those problems could be solved through the assimilation that he would expect to result from the way he recommends uniting the Canadas, factoring in the Anglophone majority in Upper Canada. 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. How Durham County Council is addressing the gender pay gap.. 10 Want the latest investigative and FOIA news? 0000004612 00000 n iHOA]/]uK9bXqAn.SoE'6r1)7dfaoN:1 W196>K c+X0 > stream 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. 0000011210 00000 n HtUn0+xLqR 4 0 obj A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. "[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. ", Newbould, I. D. C. "Lord Durham, the Whigs and Canada, 1838: The Background to Durham's Return", Smith, William. Report all fires and smoke to Duke University Police Department by dialing 911 from any campus phone. This report has been prepared to satisfy Section 11 of Ontario Regulation (O. Special Counsel John Durham, of course, is scrutinizing the origins of the Obama administration's Trump/Russia probe a probe that holdover officials at the FBI and other government. 0000005874 00000 n After the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham was sent from England to investigate the cause of the unrest. o1.J,s/aQ)Xd6! Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) led to a series of reforms and changes. % He produced his famous and highly controversial Report on the Affairs of British North America (also known as the Durham Report) after a short stay in the region. On May 13, 2019, I directed United States Attorney John Durham to conduct a preliminary review into certain matters related to the 2016 presidential election campaigns, and Mr. Durham's review subsequently developed into a criminal investigation, which remains ongoing. As described by Durham with regard to the Alfa-Bank allegations, the Clinton campaign and its agents are alleged to have formed a joint venture, the goal of which was to gather and disseminate derogatory non-public information regarding the internet activities of [Donald Trump] and his associates.REF. Adobe Reader may be required to view some documents. In October, Fritsch and two other Fusion GPS employees visited Foer at his home to brief him on the Alfa-Bank allegations. Authors: Table of Contents 2/3 - Letter from the President and 2021-22 Board of Trustees 5 - A Proud History . Report: 1. DAISY download. 0000100284 00000 n Although I hadexpected Mr.Durham to complete his work by the summer of2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional information he uncovered . The central players in the joint venture were Hillary for America, Perkins Coie LLP, and Fusion GPS. <>/Metadata 531 0 R/ViewerPreferences 532 0 R>> 4. Durham had believed that to be inevitable because of the progressive nature of the colony's neighbour, the United States. Analysis of Durham County Council's data 7 4. 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 David Mills, Richard Foot, and Andrew McIntosh, Carol Wilton, "'A Firebrand amongst the People': The Durham Meetings and Popular Politics in Upper Canada. Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. Vjsc27v4gO* yZt3?U{ 'K@ 6 Drinking Water System Category: Large Municipal Residential . Please be advised that another request for this same information is now the subject of litigation. 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. 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. 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. 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. 0000005852 00000 n 0000009663 00000 n R>g. A lock ( 0000001411 00000 n However, he eventually concluded that the real problem was the conflict between the traditionalist French and the modernizing English. The complete report enti- tled "Soviet Active Measures in the Untied States 1986-87" follows my remarks. In an August 2016 e-mail to Lorenzen, Dagon, and Antonakakis, Joffe stated that the data was not a secret communications channel between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank, but rather was a red herring.REF. 6 the [legal] profession and that legal proceedings appear fair to all who observe them.'" Id. Washington, D.C. 20530, Russian National Indicted for Making False Statements to the FBI, November 4, 2021, Grand Jury Indicts D.C. Attorney with Making False Statements to the FBI in 2016 Regarding Alleged Communications Between Trump Organization and Russian Bank, September 16, 2021, U.S. Department of Justice Rogue Prosecutor Steve Descano Drops Case Against Criminal Who Crashed Car Into Familys Minivan, How DNA and Cell Phone Evidence in Idaho Murders Complied With the Fourth Amendment. In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. 0000006388 00000 n 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. The report was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. t]dKeX)Q\tO=4{yG h[#fF _KQ/PUg8Iizs(Ni:g7a=|5;6Xv\+P j In 1840, the population of Canada East was estimated at 670,000, while the population of Canada West was estimated to be 480,000. In 2016, Danchenko was a salaried employee of Orbis Business Intelligence, and was the primary source of information that formed the core of the allegations found in the Steele Dossier.REF Danchenko was interviewed on multiple occasions by the FBI in 2017 and allegedly told multiple lies during those interviews. "The Reception of the Durham Report in Canada.". [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. www.adobe.com. According to Durhams indictment, Danchenko fabricated the Steele Dossiers central allegationthat the Trump campaign was conspiring with Russia. 0000003066 00000 n Galkina was (perhaps unknowingly)REF a source who provided a great deal of information to Danchenko that was ultimately reported in the Steele Dossier. download 1 file . 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. It was pointed out that many of the Patriote leaders were of British or British Canadian origin, including among others Wolfred Nelson, the hero of the Battle of Saint-Denis; Robert Nelson, author of the Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, who would have become President of Lower Canada had the second insurrection succeeded; journalist Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan; and Thomas Storrow Brown, general during the Battle of St-Charles. 0 Marc Elias resigned from Perkins Coie on August 22, 2021, less than a month before the extent of Elias alleged role in the Clinton disinformation campaign was revealed in the Sussmann indictment.REF, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch (Fusion GPS). Have a question about Government Services? 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. 0000003387 00000 n The Canadian rebellions in British political thought, 18351840. 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. If dialing from a personal cell phone or an off-campus telephone within Durham, the call will immediately reach the Durham Emergency Communications Center. ?[n$}wTI(@(AI4[zE(D)ZLe]u4L pDeeT:YQ'U k=Fqcjiv\EW2B9MqiX,>>e qkZNLX0'5)[\clvzu4`$R>"0l%* g?rxL>Q*\gPg#cBweLp&^v^nzP>2\S(no)\o{r$-D8O( Durhams indictment of Michael Sussmann and other court filings reveal how senior members of Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign formed a joint venture with lawyers, opposition researchers, foreign nationals, and computer data analysts to produce false opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump and aggressively disseminated that disinformation to reporters, the FBI, and others. 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. 1993 City Council Meeting Minutes: Archive Center. \_2qiWo|K{mBh Christopher Steele (Orbis Business Intelligence). The second major component of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign was its effort to smear then-candidate Trump with a false allegation that the Trump organization had a secret channel of communication with Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia. TTY/ASCII/TDD: 800-877-8339. 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. 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. His team drew upon a long tradition of petitioning and the example of political activism in Britain. 0000008542 00000 n 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 Foer expressed great interest in the story, e-mailing Fritsch: My editors are very excited about this piece.