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UK's Russiagate keeps giving

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 07:42:41 +0000

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UK's Russiagate keeps giving

Williamson was appointed Sec for Defence on Nov 2 2017. Days after FBI revealed it was investigating suspected Russian assets/agents operating in London. Some of these had met Foreign Office officials. These including Johnson, then Foreign Secretary
2/https://t.co/x9Vf995MS0
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 3, 2022

I should also point out the

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:13:04 +0000

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I should also point out the correlation between the Spectrum (green) system, and the Alfa Bank (red and blue) systems. While the Alfa Bank systems are clearly strongly linked and acting as one, Spectrum lookups are not in synch with them at a minute-by-minute level.
— Thomas A. Fine (@thomasafine) February 14, 2019

Clinton ok'd press leak long

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 21:05:58 +0000

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Clinton ok'd press leak long after FBI botched investigation as feared - about the time that Comey issued another outrageous comment about her before the election "just in case it proves to be something" or whatever dumb excuse he gave.

Hillary is the perpetrator by being hacked - victim as villain, quite the switcheroo. Even better, Trump as the good guy. Fantasy football's got nothing on these Keystone Kops.

Tweeting out once more, since lots of people are talking abt this stuff.

There Was No Crime Predicating the Durham Investigationhttps://t.co/CoIqXNSocC
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 2, 2022

After Sussmann trial defeat,

artappraiser — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:13:52 +0000

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After Sussmann trial defeat, what's next for the John Durham probe?https://t.co/65uqZLhNDf
— AlbieReal (@albie_real) May 31, 2022

Analysis by Marshall Cohen Published 4:13 PM EDT, Tue May 31, 2022

Alfa Bank besides odd pings

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:06:07 +0000

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Alfa Bank besides odd pings

Burt's ties to Trump include reviewing Trump's speech (and, as Mueller would later find, participation in some panels at which he took an anti-Nato stance). pic.twitter.com/UiHkQzb6nB
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 31, 2022

And finally, there's a reference to Burt's tie to Deutsche Bank pic.twitter.com/IfSHewHClB
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 31, 2022

Sussmann innocent, as

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:12:00 +0000

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Sussmann innocent, as predicted

harpiesays:

May 31, 2022 at 1:59 pm

NPR has a quote from the Jury Foreperson [also a photo of Durham leaving the courtroom]: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/31/1102150260/special-counsel-durham-fails-first-courtroom-test-in-his-three-year-probe

The jury forewoman, who did not give her name, told reporters outside the courthouse that “I think we could have spent our time more wisely.”

“It didn’t pan out in the government’s favor and that’s on them,” she also said.

harpiesays:
May 31, 2022 at 2:10 pm

More from jurors at WaPo:
https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/status/1531692900903530499

Jury Forewoman: “Politics were not a factor” [] “Personally, I don’t think it should have been prosecuted” [] [the government] “could have spent our time more wisely.”

A second juror: [in the jury room] “everyone pretty much saw it the same way.”

Like, here's the list of government officials Fox News hoped would be investigated/arrested/jailed under the "investigate the investigators" rubric. They got... a failed charge against a lawyer no one had ever heard of. https://t.co/lqeZMBEGmW pic.twitter.com/QiL4hywrgp
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 31, 2022

3 year lie investigation

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 30 May 2022 23:08:24 +0000

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3 year lie investigation turns out to not matter because the "lie" (which the only witness who didn't write it down now can't quite remember if happned or not) wasn't relevant to why the FBI agent took the meeting to start. Your tax money at work - fanning the tabloids, not so much the jury. As long as they can get Hillary's emails in the headlines a few more days, Durham & crew are happy - they did what Trump sent them to do. Great (& lucrative) work if you can get it.

Here's what Baker said about that statement on cross, with context. https://t.co/Qd2BUbtw80 pic.twitter.com/sa0IeW0W61
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 30, 2022

Here's how Sussmann lawyer

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 29 May 2022 10:00:32 +0000

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Here's how Sussmann lawyer Sean Berkowitz described FBI's failure to talk to David Dagon, even though they understood him to be the author of the Alfa Bank white paper. pic.twitter.com/XjxLbefwTd
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 28, 2022

Sussmann prosecuter lies to

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 29 May 2022 07:06:21 +0000

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Sussmann prosecuter lies to sum it all up(a lawyer made the FBI eat it's homework, honest - the wouldn't have been lazy as fuck and completely uninquisitive if only they knew Hillary or Joffe were involved)

Of course the defense has already rested, so Durham's shits can say what they want with impunity. Hopefully the jury took good notes. Of course Sussmann can easily appeal this shoddy mess, including DeFelippes/Durham ignoring judge's orders again and again, but Durham is playing for the Fox News National Enquirer crowd that's cheering James O'Keefe, not concerned about legal logic and upholding judicial standards.

Here DeF claims there can be no doubt that Fusion told Hosenball about the FBI investigation. He makes this claim even tho Franklin Foer didn't mention the FBI investigation in a story Fusion was more closely involved in. pic.twitter.com/EuWM8ifOX1
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 29, 2022

Andrew DeFilippis, 3 years into a wild witch hunt begun with no predication, who didn't even investigate Sussmann's sworn explanation before charging, says you can't weaponize LE, this is not a conspiracy, this is abt truth. pic.twitter.com/imcsygmrxj
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 29, 2022

Mandiant correctly reported

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 26 May 2022 05:26:59 +0000

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Mandiant correctly reported that the subject of the investigation, which Durham agrees has ties to Russian intelligence, upon being alerted to the investigation via a variety of means, no longer had data logs when Mandiant arrived.

It is not an ad hom attack to observe that.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 26, 2022

(Mandiant was the consultant company Alfa hired)