", Anna Plassart, and Hugo Bonin, "Democratic struggle or national uprising? 0000007868 00000 n How Durham County Council is addressing the gender pay gap.. 10 Marc Elias was a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm and the lead attorney for Hillary for America at the firm. 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. For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) It was considered controversial as it suggested radical ideas for the time, such as for the British Parliament granting the Canadas a responsible government. Washington DC 20530, Contact the Department [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. Hillary for America. 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 meetings were represented as nonpartisan, respectable, loyal, orderly and deserving of parliamentary support. This report has been prepared to satisfy Section 11 of Ontario Regulation (O. 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. 0000017608 00000 n HtUM0WpVu=q_U+J\J'qlK7o^ ,xpM!f,?MP8hc=W bQ3j]z9E3W*TO9BairKA :"F8=u~ZxAR*yt'ut>W (i26N/w26z?pd%`ZM$Nt}u *BP)A[ykB&s7C7;OlCZ9CL}m#un\n!KRr=8e^72("QeNd76F!)`6aH+C@^(=K`W%? View the Durham Police Department Promise (PDF) View the Durham Police Department General Orders (PDF) 0000009819 00000 n 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.). For print-disabled users. 0000003935 00000 n 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. Elias also served as general counsel to both Hillary for America and the DNC during the 2016 election cycle.REF Michael Sussmann was also a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm during the relevant time period, specializing in privacy and cybersecurity law. Indeed, Fusion GPSs office in Washington, D.C., became something of a public reading room for journalists who were looking for information about Trump.REF According to published reports, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch aggressively shopped the false opposition research: Fusion GPS pressured reporters at several media outlets to publish the false Alfa-Bank disinformation. Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. 0000002513 00000 n 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 United States of America, by and through its attorney, Special Counsel John H. Durham . When providing information to Members of Congress after the fact, officials were careful to say that the intelligence community does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.REF Still, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama on this intelligence. His team drew upon a long tradition of petitioning and the example of political activism in Britain. 0000007240 00000 n The report of Durham was laid before Parliament in London on 11 February 1839. ", David R. Cameron, "Lord Durham Then and Now", Last edited on 13 December 2022, at 11:26, Russia investigation origins counter-narrative Durham investigation, History of the Insurrection in Canada in refutation of the report of Lord Durham, Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, Durham, 1839: "Report on the Affairs of British North America", bound with several appendices that do not appear on this particular link, "Durham Report | The Canadian Encyclopedia", Lambton, John George, 1st Earl of Durham, in the, Report on the Affairs of British North America, "Critical Review of Sir Francis Heads Narrative and of Lord Durhams Report", "Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America, Volume 2: Text of the Report", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Durham_Report&oldid=1127194272, that Upper and Lower Canada be united into one province, and, the introduction of responsible government for all colonies in British North America, Brown, George W. "The Durham Report and the Upper Canadian Scene. According to the Durham investigation, with the active participation of Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie, a group of computer researchers cooked up phony Internet server data in an attempt to create an inference of secret communications and create a narrative regarding Trump.REF, April Tea Leaves Lorenzen. Steven Groves is Margaret Thatcher Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation. @ ^Lk Fusion GPS is a Washington, D.C.based consulting firm that, according to its website, provides premium research, strategic intelligence, and due diligence services to corporations, law firms, and investors worldwide.REF The firm was founded by two former journalists, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch.REF, Marc Elias of Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS in April 2016 to perform a variety of research services relating to then-candidate Donald Trump.REF Simpson, Fritsch, and others at Fusion GPS conducted preliminary research on then-candidate Trump, then collectively decided that they needed to do what they could to keep Trump out of the White House.REF Perkins Coie, using funds paid to it by Hillary for America and the DNC, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million in 2016.REF, Fusion GPSs role was to provide opposition research on then-candidate Trump relating to his alleged relationship with Russia. Durham Region Transit Commission, Conservation Authorities, Durham Regional Local Housing Corporation, and other Outside Agencies to guide the development of detailed 2022 Business Plans and Budgets. 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. MuckRock is a non-profit collaborative news site that gives you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable. While opposition research will continue to be a standard part of political campaigns, the actions taken by the Clinton campaign should be condemned in order never to be repeated. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. This Annual Report for the calendar year 2022 is designed to inform you about your drinking water system. Publication date 1912 . 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. The parallel nature of government organization in Australia and Canada to this day . 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. 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. Like all such quarrels, it has, in fact, created, not two, but several parties; each of which has some objects in common with some one of those to which it is opposed. 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 0000001411 00000 n . TTY/ASCII/TDD: 800-877-8339. L*%.%3v8;;z}} 0aEK.Ayz=um [eL&4:Dh@r,Lf?^f-E} SLL FpS9 $p% $ #1Kplr WXi6F:XoF`-\ 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. endobj [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. We are unable to respond to your request while this matter is being litigated. This led to the Act of Union, 1840. Much remains to be uncovered, exposed, and proven by Durham. ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. 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. 0000005852 00000 n Durham refers to Lorenzen as Originator-1 in the Sussmann indictment.REF, Franklin Foer communicated extensively with Tea Leaves while writing the article that was published on October 31. 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. endstream endobj 72 0 obj <>stream His report contains the famous assessment that Lower Canada had "two nations warring within the bosom of a single state. 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:: v.: Criminal Case No. That, of course, didn't happen. HtUn0+xLqR EPUB . Lord Durham found that although the rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada were over, peace and unity were yet to be found in Canada. Foer expressed great interest in the story, e-mailing Fritsch: My editors are very excited about this piece. 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. 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. After these doubts were expressed about any connection between the Trump organization and Russia, Lorenzen suggested that such a connection could be faked. As related by Durham: Despite their knowledge that the Russian Bank Data was a red herring and that there were no secret communications channel, Joffe, Lorenzen, Dagon, Antonakakis, and Sussmann drafted a white paper touting the Alfa-Bank disinformation. Learn more. 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 6/7 - Durham Tech Installs Fifth President J.B. Buxton 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. Order No. Q endstream endobj 75 0 obj <>stream !3v V!IT&`:caM&YH~susF*`L`}GbeU"iiN;_"8' ZQ~jL$%~o,2Du&^}FYW&!m6*X3~n/ReCe, QC ,e Danchenko pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial is currently set to commence on October 11, 2022.REF. The complete report enti- tled "Soviet Active Measures in the Untied States 1986-87" follows my remarks. 10. Durham also recommended the creation of a municipal government and a supreme court in British North America. Along with Elias, Sussmann allegedly played a key role in the creation and dissemination of false allegations relating to the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank. endstream endobj 74 0 obj <>stream "[1] He would return to that theme repeatedly throughout his report. 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