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0000007890 00000 n It was also pointed out that an uprising had occurred in Upper Canada where there was only one "race". Search the Archives. That has been irrevocably done and the experiment of depriving the people of their present constitutional power is not to be thought of."[8]. 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. The visible and broad line of demarcation which separates parties by the distinctive characters of race, happily has no existence in the Upper Province. 10. Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) led to a series of reforms and changes. PDF Town of Durham, Connecticut 2022 Annual Report General Permit for the As was the case with other significant Steele Dossier allegations, no evidence has arisen to indicate that either the CohenPrague or PageDiveykin meetings ever took place. ", Anna Plassart, and Hugo Bonin, "Democratic struggle or national uprising? It was considered controversial as it suggested radical ideas for the time, such as for the British Parliament granting the Canadas a responsible government. 0000128152 00000 n 4878-2020 Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022 0000058401 00000 n "Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence and the Struggle to Abolish Irresponsible Government in Lower Canada. %PDF-1.6 % 4 0 obj During his stay, Dolan received a tour of the presidential suite and met with the hotels general manager and other staff.REF Dolan was told during the hotel tour that Trump had once stayed as a guest in the presidential suite.REF Importantly, the staff member who provided the tour to Dolan did not mention any lewd or salacious activity by Trump during his stay in the presidential suite.REF, Danchenko had lunch with Dolan at some point during the June 2016 trip to Moscow.REF During interviews with the FBI, Danchenko claimed to have collected information concerning Trumps purported activities at the [Ritz-Carlton] from various sources, such as the hotels general manager and other staff.REF, It is unclear from Danchenkos indictment whether he actually heard about salacious information regarding Trump from Dolan, from Ritz-Carlton staff, or whether Danchenko simply embellished the information to appear valuable to Steele. 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. 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 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 [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. Hl y9JsLJ=T=Tm/1'`|3?7!IcT o|0E5ixuVLI u4As+dQ 8yAO! He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) Justice.gov Special Counsel John Durham's Office Special Counsel John Durham About On October 19, 2020, John Durham was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel by the order below. 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. This paper summarizes Special Counsel Durhams findings to date regarding just some of the actions taken by key players in Hillary for Americas 2016 disinformation campaign against Trump. Page was placed under FBI surveillance in an operation that was later flagged in a December 2019 report (pdf) conducted by the Department of Justice's inspector general, who found errors and omissions in how the . @B@1a`6@6Fy KLG.0.`aS T: # mzXL-;?A(3| FbJLKX?%=Thpia`x@Q{AA!Q%*i@>q@a;jsv|}\: 0 endstream endobj 733 0 obj 498 endobj 684 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 680 0 R /Resources << /ColorSpace << /CS2 693 0 R /CS3 689 0 R >> /ExtGState << /GS2 723 0 R /GS3 724 0 R >> /Font << /TT5 688 0 R /TT6 690 0 R /TT7 695 0 R /TT8 697 0 R /C2_1 709 0 R /TT9 708 0 R >> /XObject << /Im1 715 0 R >> /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] >> /Contents [ 699 0 R 701 0 R 703 0 R 705 0 R 711 0 R 713 0 R 716 0 R 729 0 R ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 612 792 ] /CropBox [ 0 0 612 792 ] /Rotate 0 /StructParents 0 /Annots 685 0 R >> endobj 685 0 obj [ 686 0 R 687 0 R ] endobj 686 0 obj << /Type /Annot /Subtype /Link /Rect [ 271.79999 278.55609 388.00562 294.32385 ] /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /H /I /A 730 0 R /StructParent 1 >> endobj 687 0 obj << /Type /Annot /Subtype /Link /Rect [ 264.05994 95.13617 416.72458 110.90393 ] /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /H /I /A 731 0 R /StructParent 2 >> endobj 688 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 146 /Widths [ 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 333 0 0 0 333 250 278 0 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 0 333 0 0 0 0 500 0 722 0 722 722 667 611 778 778 389 0 778 667 944 722 778 611 0 722 556 667 0 0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 556 444 556 444 333 500 556 278 333 556 278 833 556 500 556 556 444 389 333 556 500 722 500 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 ] /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /BaseFont /JCKDBC+TimesNewRoman,Bold /FontDescriptor 694 0 R >> endobj 689 0 obj /DeviceGray endobj 690 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 116 /Widths [ 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250 0 250 0 500 500 0 0 500 0 0 0 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 667 0 667 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 889 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 722 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 0 444 500 444 333 500 556 278 0 500 0 0 556 500 0 0 0 0 278 ] /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /BaseFont /JCKDDM+TimesNewRoman,BoldItalic /FontDescriptor 691 0 R >> endobj 691 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 891 /CapHeight 0 /Descent -216 /Flags 98 /FontBBox [ -547 -307 1206 1032 ] /FontName /JCKDDM+TimesNewRoman,BoldItalic /ItalicAngle -15 /StemV 133 /FontFile2 718 0 R >> endobj 692 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 891 /CapHeight 656 /Descent -216 /Flags 34 /FontBBox [ -568 -307 2028 1007 ] /FontName /JCKDGH+TimesNewRoman /ItalicAngle 0 /StemV 94 /XHeight 0 /FontFile2 720 0 R >> endobj 693 0 obj [ /ICCBased 722 0 R ] endobj 694 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 891 /CapHeight 656 /Descent -216 /Flags 34 /FontBBox [ -558 -307 2034 1026 ] /FontName /JCKDBC+TimesNewRoman,Bold /ItalicAngle 0 /StemV 160 /XHeight 0 /FontFile2 719 0 R >> endobj 695 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 226 /Widths [ 250 333 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 333 0 0 250 333 250 278 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 278 278 0 0 0 444 0 722 667 667 722 611 556 722 722 333 0 0 611 889 722 722 556 722 667 556 611 722 0 944 0 722 0 0 0 0 0 500 0 444 500 444 500 444 333 500 500 278 278 500 278 778 500 500 500 500 333 389 278 500 500 722 500 500 444 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 444 444 0 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 444 ] /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /BaseFont /JCKDGH+TimesNewRoman /FontDescriptor 692 0 R >> endobj 696 0 obj 539 endobj 697 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 146 /Widths [ 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250 0 250 0 500 500 0 0 500 0 0 0 500 0 333 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 611 667 722 611 0 0 0 333 0 0 556 833 667 722 0 0 611 0 556 722 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 444 500 444 278 500 500 278 0 444 278 722 500 500 500 0 389 389 278 500 444 667 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 ] /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /BaseFont /JCKDJD+TimesNewRoman,Italic /FontDescriptor 698 0 R >> endobj 698 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 891 /CapHeight 656 /Descent -216 /Flags 98 /FontBBox [ -498 -307 1120 1023 ] /FontName /JCKDJD+TimesNewRoman,Italic /ItalicAngle -15 /StemV 83.31799 /FontFile2 727 0 R >> endobj 699 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 696 0 R >> stream \_2qiWo|K{mBh 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. 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. PDF Office ofthe Attorney General - The New York Times 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. 6 the [legal] profession and that legal proceedings appear fair to all who observe them.'" Id. "Lord Durham and the British Background of His Report. 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. 0000127591 00000 n and PDF United States District Court for The District of Columbia United States According to Durham, the core allegation of the Steele Dossierthat an extensive conspiracy existed between the Trump campaign and the Kremlinwas invented out of whole cloth by former Brookings Institution policy analyst Igor Danchenko, a Russian national on Steeles payroll. That, of course, didn't happen. In total, Hillary for America (through Fusion GPS) paid Steele $168,000 for his efforts.REF, Durhams investigation has revealed that Steeles key sources for the dossier were not senior Russian officials or savvy Kremlin insiders, but rather Igor Danchenko (a Washington, D.C.based policy analyst); Charles Dolan, Jr. (a Washington, D.C.based public relations executive with a long history of working in Democrat Party politics); and Olga Galkina (a Cyprus-based Russian national who was a press secretary to a Russian tech company but had dreams of serving in a future Clinton State Department).REF, These dubious sources did not, in fact, provide any actual evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia. Durham report proves Hillary Clinton was Putin's puppet not Trump The Steele Dossier paints a picture of a highly placed source in the Trump campaign relating inside information regarding Manaforts resignation as campaign manager and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowskis dislike for Manafort.REF Dolan informed Danchenko that he received the inside information about Manafort and Lewandowski over drinks with a GOP friend of mine.REF In fact, Dolan had never met with a GOP friend but rather obtained the information about [Manafort] from public news sources.REF. "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. The parallel nature of government organization in Australia and Canada to this day is an ongoing proof of the long-enduring effects of the report's recommendations. 0000003066 00000 n Secure .gov websites use HTTPS 0000009663 00000 n Durham Report Executive Summary MuckRock Special Counsel John Durham's Office | Special Counsel John Durham Durham Probe: Final Report Will Be Damning | National Review 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). 0000011232 00000 n H|n@)@EjTKiL%lkVC93y Please do not reply to this e-mail, as this account is not monitored. Rodney Joffe, then an executive at Neustar, Inc., a Virginia-based Internet technology company, is a central figure in the Alfa-Bank disinformation campaign.REF Joffe appears to have had an interest in Hillary Clintons election. Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. In 1840, the population of Canada East was estimated at 670,000, while the population of Canada West was estimated to be 480,000. The report was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". 0000010649 00000 n Durham also visited the United States and wrote that he had assumed that he would find that the rebellions had been based on liberalism and economics. The full story may never be known. 0000093236 00000 n 0000017608 00000 n In August 2016, Manos queried the Neustar Internet data for the Trump organization domain name (mail1.trump-email.com) and determined that none of the domains that had communicated with it had links to Russia. In exile in France, Louis-Joseph Papineau published the Histoire de la rsistance du Canada au gouvernement anglais (History of the resistance of Canada to the English government) in the French La Revue du Progrs in May 1839. Rubio, Blackburn, Colleagues Demand Durham Report Be Made Public The Report on the Affairs of British North America,[1] (1839) commonly known as the Durham Report or Lord Durham's Report, is an important document in the history of Quebec, Ontario, Canada and the British Empire. The Canadian rebellions in British political thought, 18351840. Durham Report: Clinton Campaign Paid to Infiltrate Trump - Newsmax Whatever Durham uncovers, the Clinton campaignincluding Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivantouted the fabricated Alfa-Bank allegation in the days leading up to the 2016 election. 0000009167 00000 n Zack Smith. Wider comparative analysis of 2021 published data 8 Chart 4 - Variation of gender pay gap data regionally (North East Councils)9 5. Opposition research is the collection of information on the background, activities, etc., of ones opponent or opponents in an effort to uncover damaging details that will undermine them.REF, Fusion GPS utilized the $1 million paid to it to hire several sub-vendors to research alleged ties between Trump and Russia.REF Fusion GPSs sub-vendors included Nellie Ohr (the wife of Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who served as a conduit to provide certain Steele Dossier reports to the FBI); Edward Baumgartner (a Russia researcher based in London); and Graham Stack (a freelance journalist).REF The most notable opposition research generated by Fusion GPS was through its sub-vendor Christopher Steelethe so-called Steele Dossier.REF. Hb```f``/f`c``cd@ A;@ Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light ofthe Analysis of Durham County Council's data 7 4. 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. Among the key takeaways from the Durham investigation: The Durham investigation has seemingly uncovered a coordinated effort by Hillary for America; the Perkins Coie law firm (a Washington, D.C.-based law firm that was retained by Hillary for America to represent the campaign during the 2016 election); strategic intelligence firm Fusion GPS; former British spy Christopher Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence; and various computer researchers based in Virginia, Rhode Island, and at Georgia Tech to generate false, misleading, and sometimes sensational allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump in an effort to win the 2016 presidential election. By the end of August 2016, Antonakakis raised concerns that the Internet traffic data being mined by the researchers did not implicate Trump in any wrongdoing, would not stand up to public scrutiny, and was clouded by their own bias. The actions alleged in these indictments should be condemned so that they are never repeated by any political campaign in the future. 0000093522 00000 n After the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham was sent from England to investigate the cause of the unrest. According to Durhams indictment of Igor Danchenko, Dolan was connected to the most sordid allegation in the Steele Dossierthat in 2013, Trump had engaged in salacious sexual activity while a guest in the presidential suite at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton hotel.REF, At the time, Dolan was employed by KGlobal, a Washington, D.C.based public relations firm.REF Prior to that, Dolan held several senior roles in Democratic political circles, including as the state chairman for President Bill Clintons 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, adviser to Hillary Clintons 2008 campaign, and a volunteer for her 2016 campaign.REF As a public relations executive, Dolan interacted with senior officials in the Russian government, including the press secretary of the Russian Presidential Administration, as well as the Russian ambassador to the United States.REF, In June 2016, Dolan traveled to Moscow and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton. This activity will . In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. Room B-103 93 0 obj <>stream endobj %PDF-1.3 % Special Counsels Office The assertion that the so-called "French" Canadians had no history and no culture and that the conflict was primarily that of two ethnic groups evidently outraged Papineau. Read Here. 2021 Action Report. In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that Russian intelligence had assessed that Clinton had approved a disinformation operation against Trump.

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