That has been irrevocably done; and the experiment of depriving the people of their present constitutional power, is not to be thought of. As noted by Durham, Fusion GPSs role was not to assist Perkins Coie or Hillary for America with legal matters, but rather to generate and disseminate opposition research on Trump to the media and others. That, of course, didn't happen. For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) Legal Fellow and Manager, Meese Center for Legal Studies. But the battle over shaping perceptions is still very . 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. However, Durham believed that the problems in mostly Lower Canada were not of a political nature, but rather of an ethnic one. 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. 1993 City Council Meeting Minutes: Q hAk0a(NHpvYJ'!3CE=}3s`. "X $d,r\oor%]wz]r= Vo Dq/ 0000009819 00000 n endstream endobj 75 0 obj <>stream "[1] He would return to that theme repeatedly throughout his report. 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. It was sort of an anti-Mueller Report, whose results promised exoneration for Trump and criminal convictions for those who had wronged him. [9] Those suggestions would be put into place decades later, during the Confederation of Canada. 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. 93 0 obj <>stream 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. 0000003027 00000 n On October 19, 2020, John Durham was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel by the order below. The full story may never be known. @ ^Lk Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light ofthe 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. 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. Fn6Xp_)G;&M. "[10], "At first sight it appears much more difficult to form an accurate idea of the state of Upper than of Lower Canada. One of this biggest of the campaign.REF, On October 31, 2016, one week prior to Election Day, Foer published an expansive 3,800-word article in Slate entitled, Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?REF Foers contemporaneous tweet promoting his article was less circumspect: I just reported: Donald Trump has a secret server[and] it connects to Moscow.REF. Durham arrived in Quebec City on 29 May. Archive Center. <> HT0|+c+oXZMV? 0000011232 00000 n But there is no evidence that Galkinareferred to in the Danchenko indictment as Russian Sub-Source-1was a Kremlin insider. 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 $75,000 by Aleksej Gubarev for his message development and outreach efforts in the U.S.REF, During the summer of 2016, Danchenko, Dolan, and Galkina traded gossip and spoke frequently, according to interviews and e-mails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.REF Dolan and Galkina communicated regularly, expressing their mutual support for Hillary Clinton. The WSJ report cited anonymous sources. Special Counsels Office 86 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<941EA52D12A78343B6ADFE423C199631>]/Index[68 26]/Info 67 0 R/Length 86/Prev 360930/Root 69 0 R/Size 94/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream <> [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. 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The FBIs interviews of Danchenko establish that the most salacious allegation in the Steele Dossierthat Trump was present during the performance of a lewd act at the Moscow Ritz-Carltonwas fabricated by Danchenko and/or Charles Dolan, a public relations executive living in Washington, D.C., with lengthy ties to the Democratic Party. 0000003227 00000 n endstream endobj 74 0 obj <>stream Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. Rodney Joffe, then an executive at Neustar, Inc., a Virginia-based Internet technology company, is a central figure in the Alfa-Bank disinformation campaign.REF Joffe appears to have had an interest in Hillary Clintons election. In June, it appeared in Canada in Ludger Duvernay's La Revue canadienne as Histoire de l'insurrection du Canada en rfutation du Rapport de Lord Durham (History of the insurrection of Canada in refutation of the Report of Lord Durham). HtUM0WpVu=q_U+J\J'qlK7o^ ,xpM!f,?MP8hc=W bQ3j]z9E3W*TO9BairKA :"F8=u~ZxAR*yt'ut>W (i26N/w26z?pd%`ZM$Nt}u *BP)A[ykB&s7C7;OlCZ9CL}m#un\n!KRr=8e^72("QeNd76F!)`6aH+C@^(=K`W%? 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. Phone: 202-514-2000 tfzN+j))).P"L rU*5qp\j+K^!he _ "Z;sg?2\$vnW45$G'uo51H.Y "*gh&8^Wg~s?RXvY3 ;pk+s h 0tvgS`cX>w%L)O Tr31L+%'0|3!Yc?tc.|1TeGw r2Pf)+j|s{p M4wHy:oOxu5 9c$V. 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 0000008520 00000 n According to Durhams indictment of former Perkins Coie law firm attorney Michael Sussmann, he directed an effort by a group of computer scientists including Rodney Joffe, April Lorenzen, and others to manufacture a false narrative that the Trump organization and the Kremlin had a secret channel of communications. ", Martin, Ged. 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. Durhams indictment of Danchenko shows that other significant parts of the Steele Dossiersuch as the allegation that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen travelled to Prague to meet with Russian conspiratorswere invented by Olga Galkina, a Russian national living in Cyprus who had ambitions of joining the State Department under Hillary Clinton if she won the presidential election. 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. It was also pointed out that an uprising had occurred in Upper Canada where there was only one "race". You had assigned it reference number #FOIA-2021-01633. 6/7 - Durham Tech Installs Fifth President J.B. Buxton 0000002535 00000 n Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America abridged to highlight constitutional defects and recommendations with context REPORT TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY YOUR MAJESTY, in entrusting me with the Government of the Province of Lower Canada, during the critical period of the suspension of its constitution, was . "'The Foundations of Freedom and Civilization': The Durham Report, Municipal Institutions and Liberalism. endstream endobj startxref 0000004382 00000 n A locked padlock 0000003066 00000 n The Durham investigation has determined that Lorenzen, a computer data scientist, was the original source behind the Alfa-Bank disinformation. Indictments filed by Durham show that the Steele Dossier and Alfa-Bank allegations of a conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin were entirely concocted. 0000004842 00000 n In October, Fritsch and two other Fusion GPS employees visited Foer at his home to brief him on the Alfa-Bank allegations. 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. 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. 0000106946 00000 n Indeed, after conducting a 22-month investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller stated that the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.REF, Igor Danchenko. 0000009189 00000 n I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not. "Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence and the Struggle to Abolish Irresponsible Government in Lower Canada. lj-!36j2o((u tl#tCR]]MBhIt:Xj4r~'E9FM' In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. Search the Archives. "DURHAM REPORT ROCKS POLITICAL WORLD," one of the banners on One America News proclaimed. Michael Sussmann resigned from Perkins Coie on the day he was indicted.REF His trial before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia commenced on May 16, 2022, and he was found not guilty on May 31. The three of them collaborated to prepare and write the report.I t was generally disparaged or ignored in Britain but did draw attention from some leading British intellectuals such as John Stuart Mill. The goal was to convince London of the widespread popular support in Canada for the report proposals. Lord Durham believed that, to eliminate the possibility of rebellions, French Canadians had to adopt British-Canadian culture and the English language. The report of Durham was laid before Parliament in London on 11 February 1839. 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. Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to lead a review into the Russia investigation, made the claim in his investigation that brought charges against an FBI attorney and former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who is currently charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Steven Groves is Margaret Thatcher Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation. Galkina was (perhaps unknowingly)REF a source who provided a great deal of information to Danchenko that was ultimately reported in the Steele Dossier. 0000100284 00000 n He was interested in not only unifying Upper and Lower Canada but also including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. This Legal Memorandum is an effort to unravel the joint venture and place each of the parties to Clintons disinformation campaign into the proper context. 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 general conclusions of the report regarding self-governance eventually spread to various other white settler colonies, including Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s (with Western Australia receiving self-government in 1890). Washington, D.C. 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Id. Reg.) 0000001766 00000 n 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 full story remains elusive. H|n@yL/_vWr'j+5R%{S]}8,73guzk!rp/[8P!* JqS!y| 7Aqma?%RI_%P4.|Zz7,(F"Ssf(1A>[g=BN\yqix2BM.d$V+d(#\=B }YBbB2~WNoUb#f}. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and 41 Senate colleagues sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to request an update on the status of Special Counsel John Durham's review of the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inquiry into allegations of Russian collusion during . 0000005852 00000 n 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. I entertain no doubts as to the national character which must be given to Lower Canada; it must be that of the British Empire; that of the majority of the population of British America; that of the great race which must, in the lapse of no long period of time, be predominant over the whole North American Continent. endobj 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 newly created Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was required to have equal representation from Canada East and Canada West,[14] even though the population of Canada East was considerably larger. 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).