Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The latest Durham filing about possible computer spying and planting false evidence of computer data on Trump the man, and Trump the President finally have been acknowledged by the NY Times, Washington Post, and NBC News

 
The NY Times is trying to explain it all away as either nothing at all  --- OR ---  something so technical, complicated and circuitous that it can't be reported upon as a normal news story  >>>  in other words,  their article about what's contained in the Durham filing is a very busy word salad covered with lots of very spiced up dressing, and little else of note [except as specifically mentioned at the end of this post]


The WAPO coverage was a little more than a "Bump" sort of article  ---  this is old news  --- it was all investigated before  ---  and it was all debunked a long time ago.....  Basically, the latest Durham filing is not adding anything very new to this old story, because it's the same old whine by the same old whiners


NBC News, on the otherhand, seems to have made a report about Special Prosecutor Durham's latest filing that seems to be rather straight forward  ---  espcially compared to the NY Times' and WAPO's coverage.....


Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is saying that  ---  "Trump Really Was Spied On..." and that  "....  Durham says techies linked to the Clinton campaign had access to White House and Trump Tower internet data...."


According to the editorial in today's Wall Street Journal,  "....  In a new legal filing, the special counsel says a tech company that had access to Trump's internet communications shared that data with operatives working for the Clinton campaign in 2016....  Special Counsel John Durham continues to unravel the Trump-Russia 'collusion' story, and his latest court disclosure contains startling information. According to a Friday court filing, the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign effort to compile dirt on Donald Trump reached into protected White House communications....  The filing relates to Mr. Durham’s September indictment of Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who represented the Clinton campaign while he worked for the Perkins Coie law firm. Mr. Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI at a September 2016 meeting when he presented documents claiming to show secret internet communications between the Trump Organization and Russia-based Alfa Bank. The indictment says Mr. Sussmann falsely told the FBI he was presenting this information solely as a good citizen—failing to disclose his ties to the Clinton campaign...."

Here's how NBC News handled the same material in an article yesterday by Tom Winter  >>>  "A tech executive 'exploited' his access to computer data at the Trump White House to find “derogatory information” about President Donald Trump, a special counsel appointed during the Trump administration said in a court filing Friday....  John Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2020 to probe the origins of the FBI’s investigation of Russian election interference, said 'Tech Executive-1,' not named in the filing but first identified by The New York Times as Rodney Joffe, used his access to domain name system, or DNS, data to compile information about which computers and servers the White House servers were communicating with....  Trump and his allies said the disclosure was proof that Trump was under surveillance while he was in office. 'They were spying on the sitting president of the United States,'  Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News on Sunday. 'And it goes right to the Clinton campaign.'  In a statement Monday, Trump said the alleged spying was 'the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate.'..."

Later on in his article for NBC News, Tom Winter wrote that  ---  "... In the filing Friday, prosecutors said 'Tech Executive-1' gave Sussmann data about communications between computer servers at the EOP, two Trump-owned buildings in New York and an unrelated medical firm in Michigan with Russian-made cellphones near the White House. The information collected dated from 2014, during the Obama administration, to February 2017....  According to prosecutors, Sussmann gave the data to an unnamed federal agency at a meeting on Feb. 9, 2017, 20 days into the Trump administration, and said the data 'demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations.'...”

And this:  "....  According to prosecutors, Sussmann did not disclose to the agency, identified by The New York Times as the CIA, that he was working for a client when he provided the report, when he was actually representing 'Tech Executive-1,' aka Joffe....   Legal experts said Sussmann could face additional legal exposure if he failed to disclose his relationship to Joffe....  In a statement, a spokesperson for Joffe said, 'Contrary to the allegations in this recent filing, Mr. Joffe is an apolitical internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government who has never worked for a political party, and who legally provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client that separately was providing DNS services to the Executive Office of the President (EOP).'..."   

As a result of various reports on various media outlets at various times, there is now a concensus that "Tech Executive-1" is Rodney Joffe.....  Joffe's identity as "Tech Executive-1" had been disclosed at the end of September, 2021 by CNN, and also reported in the NY Post, when Prosecutor Durham had sought to subpena more documents of Michael Sussman and the Perkins Coie Law Firm.  However, it is not clear whether Joffe was working "under contract" for the Clinton Campaign, which is not likely, or the Obama White House, which is more likely, at the time all of this went down; and/or to what extent he had been interacting with Michael Sussman on these matters.  

However, it should be noted that something, which the NY Times did report was this tidbit   >>>  "....  Another paragraph in the court filing said that Mr. Joffe’s company, Neustar, had helped maintain internet-related servers for the White House, and that he and his associates 'exploited this arrangement' by mining certain records to gather derogatory information about Mr. Trump...."


15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Straighten Up and Fly Right, Gale! Nobody comes to this site for national news. We come to dunk on Bob Capano in his green deli apron

Anonymous said...

Philip Bump at the Washington Post got it right this time; and Gail, your words about what he said are correct too. Bump pretty much says that this is 'old whine by old whiners' which it is. This whole story has hit a speed 'Bump' and needs to slow down a lot.

Anonymous said...

So its finally exposed that the Obama White House did things Nixon could only have dreamed of. Thats Hope & Change. I guess.

Anonymous said...

But who is mopping the floors in Durhams office?

Anonymous said...

"Too many words." - Brian Fox

Anonymous said...

Nothing like a quote from Congressman Jim Jordan. according to Jordan he spends his free time as a coach with a high school boys wrestling team. Just like Dennis Hastert.

Anonymous said...

We need capano back

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "FILLING IN SOME KEY 'FACTS'..." EDITION

ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE IN "THE HILL" YESTERDAY --- IT'S NOT CLEAR WHETHER RODNEY JOFFE IS A VILLAIN OR A HERO --- BUT HE SURE AIN'T A NOBODY IN THIS WHOLE MESS.....

In part, this is what Harper Neidig writing for "The Hill" had to say yesterday: ".... In a court filing submitted Friday, Durham's office said that the executive, who is referred to in legal filings only as "Tech Executive-1" but has been identified in news reports as Rodney Joffe, used his company's access to nonpublic government domain name system (DNS) data through a pending cybersecurity contract as he was analyzing supposed links between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank.... Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP," Durham's office wrote, using an acronym for the White House's Executive Office of the President.... Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump...."

Also according to yesterday's Harper Neidig article in "The Hill" --- ".... The filing came in Durham's prosecution against Michael Sussmann, an attorney who [both] represented Joffe and [also] worked on behalf of the Democrats and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, for a single count of making false statements to the FBI's general counsel.... Sussmann is accused of falsely telling the FBI's top attorney in a 2016 meeting that he was not representing any client when he presented data that researchers believed could have established a connection between Trump's business and the Moscow-based Alfa Bank.... Sussmann has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing. His attorney did not immediately respond when asked for comment.... Neither Joffe nor the company from which he retired in 2021, Neustar, have been charged with any wrongdoing...."

And to place Durham's most recent filing in a proper context, "The Hill" aericle noted that: ".... Sussmann was indicted in September, and prosecutors said at the time that the cybersecurity researcher he was representing took advantage of access to an executive branch office's servers, but the charging documents did not specify the government entity...."

Anonymous said...

3 years and this is all Durham has !!

Is Durham waiting for everyone to die?

Anonymous said...

In the end we are all dead...

Anonymous said...

A lawyer told a lie !!

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