For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) 0000004883 00000 n Read Here. 0000003066 00000 n 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. \ S7q9|V#LKgE-kDZ 0000090351 00000 n His team drew upon a long tradition of petitioning and the example of political activism in Britain. 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. Hb```f``/f`c``cd@ A;@ Lord Durham was sent back to Canada in 1838 by British Parliament and the Crown to investigate the cause behind the rebellions of both Upper and Lower Canada and propose suggestions to fix any remaining problems and lessen the chance of future rebellions. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, in 2016, Galkina was a press secretary to Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian Internet entrepreneur living in Cyprus.REF In early 2016, Galkina travelled to Washington, D.C., in an effort to develop a marketing campaign for Servers.com, one of Gubarevs business interests. 3. TTY/ASCII/TDD: 800-877-8339. 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 people living in both colonies in Canada were struggling, as the economic situation in both areas all but collapsed. (alterations in original) (quoting Wheat, 486 U.S. at 161). He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. It moved Canada slowly on the path to "responsible government" (that is, self-government), which took a decade. The "Report" led to major reforms and democratic advances. % PDF Download. Overview 1.1 This report provides an overview of the current economic climate and Regional 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. In 1840, the population of Canada East was estimated at 670,000, while the population of Canada West was estimated to be 480,000. stream endstream endobj 72 0 obj <>stream Foers article in Slate describes how Lorenzen began collecting Internet data on the Trump organization in late July 2016. As Fusion GPS began to receive Christopher Steeles salacious and unverified (in the words of former FBI Director James Comey) reports, it endeavored to widely disseminate the reports to journalists in the hope that the content of the reports would be published.REF. 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). While the general contours of Hillary for Americas opposition research efforts during the 2016 election period have been reported in the press and have been the subject of congressional and inspector general investigations, many new details have been uncovered by Durhams investigation and revealed in federal indictments relating to former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann and former Brookings Institution policy analyst Igor Danchenko. There is some indication that Clinton knew of and approved the campaign. Phone: 202-514-2000 0000009819 00000 n ", 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. 6xts~zAMGXwtTf. In July, Dolan gifted Clintons autobiography to Galkina, inscribing it with To my good friend [Olga], A Great Democrat.REF Galkina apparently harbored ambitions to move to the U.S. if Clinton won the election. Danchenko, who has been friends with Galkina since they were both teenagers in Russia, described Galkina as a key source for what he called the Trump dossier.REF According to Danchenko, Galkina knows someone in the Kremlin with direct/indirect access to Sergey Ivanov (then chief of staff to the Russian Presidential Administration). Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records: A copy of the Durham's Report Executive Summary that was provided to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) by letter dated May 07, 2018 from the Office of the Assistant Attorney General and enclosed as a copy to this request. For the report on the FBI's investigation into links between Donald Trump and Russia, see. Durhams indictment of Michael Sussmann and other court filings reveal how senior members of Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign formed a joint venture with lawyers, opposition researchers, foreign nationals, and computer data analysts to produce false opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump and aggressively disseminated that disinformation to reporters, the FBI, and others. Zack Smith. This Annual Report for the calendar year 2022 is designed to inform you about your drinking water system. Learn more. 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. The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. had ever been reported in the Steele Dossier, when, in fact, Danchenko had gathered information that was featured in the Steele Dossier from Dolan regarding former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.REF, Charles Dolan, Jr. The Report was highly controversial. FACTS A. Overview of the incident On March 11, 2017 at approximately 12:59 a.m., 911 received a call regarding a disturbance at 18 Edgewood Road in Durham, NH. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. 0000003387 00000 n 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. o1.J,s/aQ)Xd6! hAk0a(NHpvYJ'!3CE=}3s`. "X $d,r\oor%]wz]r= Vo Dq/ 0000002535 00000 n %PDF-1.3 % endobj "[10], "At first sight it appears much more difficult to form an accurate idea of the state of Upper than of Lower Canada. 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. 0000093522 00000 n ", Anna Plassart, and Hugo Bonin, "Democratic struggle or national uprising? 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. In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that Russian intelligence had assessed that Clinton had approved a disinformation operation against Trump. Durham arrived in Quebec City on 29 May. Other key witnesses, such as Rodney Joffe, have asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid providing information to Durham and his investigators. Trump had hoped that Durham would deliver a report before the 2020 election that could help Trump's campaign. Special Counsel Robert Muellers report mentions the Prague allegation only in the context that Cohen denied that a such a meeting ever took place.REF The name of Igor Diveykin does not even appear in Muellers report. 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. Russian National Indicted for Making False Statements to the FBI, Grand Jury Indicts D.C. Attorney with Making False Statements to the FBI in 2016 Regarding Alleged Communications Between Trump Organization and Russian Bank. Thank you,-----------------------------------------Initial Request StaffOffice of Information PolicyU.S. The Durham investigation indicates a coordinated effort by the Clinton campaign to disseminate false allegations against Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. 0000005119 00000 n I received your voicemail asking for a status of your request for a copy of the Durham Report Executive Summary. 21-582 (CRC): MICHAEL A. SUSSMANN,:: Defendant. This is a big story. The report did not see any of its recommendations come into force in the African and Asian colonies, but some limited democratic reforms in India became possible that otherwise would not have been. To the extent that was true at all, it was only true among Trump's closest political allies, not the. 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. 6 the [legal] profession and that legal proceedings appear fair to all who observe them.'" Id. DA Deberry will present the 2021 Annual Report virtually on Wednesday, February 16, at 6 p.m. Members of the public can view the presentation and submit questions on the Durham DA's Office . [9] Those suggestions would be put into place decades later, during the Confederation of Canada. @ ^Lk ?[n$}wTI(@(AI4[zE(D)ZLe]u4L pDeeT:YQ'U k=Fqcjiv\EW2B9MqiX,>>e qkZNLX0'5)[\clvzu4`$R>"0l%* g?rxL>Q*\gPg#cBweLp&^v^nzP>2\S(no)\o{r$-D8O( 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. 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. In mid-October, Fritsch e-mailed Mark Hosenball, a reporter at Reuters, to do the [expletive] alfa bank secret comms storyit is hugely important.REF Fritsch also pushed the Alfa-Bank story on Matthew Mosk at ABC News, telling him dude this is huge in an e-mail.REF, Fritsch found a more eager reporter in Franklin Foer of Slate. According to Durham, the French culture in Canada had changed little in 200 years and showed no sign of the progress that British culture had made. The proposed merger would benefit Upper Canada as, whereas the construction of canals would to a considerable debt load, access to the fiscal surplus of former Lower Canada would allow that debt to be erased. download 1 file . 0000008520 00000 n John Durham Sussmann filing 2/11/22 Contributed by CNN Digital (CNN) p. 1. According to Durhams indictment, Danchenko fabricated the Steele Dossiers central allegationthat the Trump campaign was conspiring with Russia. You had assigned it reference number #FOIA-2021-01633. lj-!36j2o((u tl#tCR]]MBhIt:Xj4r~'E9FM' He produced his famous and highly controversial Report on the Affairs of British North America (also known as the Durham Report) after a short stay in the region. Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) led to a series of reforms and changes. 0000010627 00000 n From: Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Subject: Acknowledgement Letter (8.2.21).pdf. [citation needed], Durham resigned on 9 October 1838 amid controversy excited in London by his decision of the penal questions[17] and was soon replaced by Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, who was responsible for implementing the Union of the Canadas. 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. [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. It was that white paper, among other materials, that Sussmann gave to the FBI.REF As previously stated, Sussmann billed Hillary for America for his time working on the white paper.REF. "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. The meetings were represented as nonpartisan, respectable, loyal, orderly and deserving of parliamentary support. Drinking Water System Category: Large Municipal Residential . However, Durham believed that the problems in mostly Lower Canada were not of a political nature, but rather of an ethnic one. MuckRock is a non-profit collaborative news site that gives you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable. 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. 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. 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.