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. [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. The United States of America, by and through its attorney, Special Counsel John H. Durham . I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 1, 2021. 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. Washington DC 20530, Contact the Department and Foer expressed great interest in the story, e-mailing Fritsch: My editors are very excited about this piece. Durham Report In 1838, the British politician Lord Durham was sent to British North America to investigate the causes of the rebellions of 1837-38 in the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. "DURHAM REPORT ROCKS POLITICAL WORLD," one of the banners on One America News proclaimed. The goal was to convince London of the widespread popular support in Canada for the report proposals. The Report was highly controversial. The full story may never be known. PDF Finance and Administration Committee Report - durham.ca ", Cameron, David R. "Lord Durham Then and Now. 0000009481 00000 n 0000003027 00000 n How Durham County Council is addressing the gender pay gap.. 10 0000007890 00000 n 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. Durham Probe: Final Report Will Be Damning | National Review 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 . @\aJ '.a}29[s&33C[0/txlvJ{/ u3 endstream endobj 700 0 obj 526 endobj 701 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 700 0 R >> stream 0000090558 00000 n "The Reception of the Durham Report in Canada.". Department of Justice, Subject: Your FOIA Request FOIA-2021-01633. In Lower Canada, anglophone Tories were supportive because it would enable them to remain in power. 0000090351 00000 n The report provided. Simpson and Fritsch did so both with regard to the Steele Dossier and the Alfa-Bank allegations, both of which have proven to be unsubstantiated, if not entirely fabricated. For the report on the FBI's investigation into links between Donald Trump and Russia, see. Adobe Reader may be required to view some documents. V:I LORD DURHAM'S REPORT, 1839 Lord Durham spent only five months in the Canadas and less than two weeks in Upper Canada. PDF IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF - Reuters Durham Report - Wikipedia Durham knew how to organize support in Upper Canada. endobj Legal Fellow and Manager, Meese Center for Legal Studies. Publication date 1912 . [5], "The French complained of the arrogance and injustice of the English; the English accused the French of the vices of a weak and conquered people, and charged them with meanness and perfidy. 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). endstream endobj 72 0 obj <>stream 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. Please do not reply to this e-mail, as this account is not monitored. Durham had believed that to be inevitable because of the progressive nature of the colony's neighbour, the United States. 0000001766 00000 n 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 Durham report proves Hillary Clinton not Trump was Putin's puppet By Rebekah Koffler February 17, 2022 5:24pm Updated Vladimir Putin's endgame of destabilizing Washington got a boost from. 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. 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. 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. 0000010649 00000 n "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. From: Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Subject: Acknowledgement Letter (8.2.21).pdf. Drinking Water System Category: Large Municipal Residential . Durham arrived in Quebec City on 29 May. 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. In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. Police Department | Durham, NC He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. In 2016, Danchenko was a salaried employee of Orbis Business Intelligence, and was the primary source of information that formed the core of the allegations found in the Steele Dossier.REF Danchenko was interviewed on multiple occasions by the FBI in 2017 and allegedly told multiple lies during those interviews. John Durham Sussmann filing 2/11/22 Contributed by CNN Digital (CNN) p. 1. 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In Upper Canada and Lower Canada, he formed numerous committees with essentially all the opponents of the Patriotes and made numerous personal observations on life in the colonies. PDF United States District Court for The District of Columbia United States MuckRock users can file, duplicate, track, and share public records requests Durham Report: Clinton Campaign Paid to Infiltrate Trump - Newsmax Whatever happened to the Durham Report? - Renew Democracy Initiative z($Pl4p7QG5P/XB0hY,@b5=!p1 h?^$.m]rV26xj# ynMpOY]whozF- ;4#Jo}) pQyas&f|_B\e"HM3U? [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. HdRFIQI[Zv,w89|T iW;~a/Az [+;(&q#;%e\G'Ys>)DaW.%Yu7vsta(7yYnrmT>,|z)2S 2 Secure .gov websites use HTTPS Thank you,-----------------------------------------Initial Request StaffOffice of Information PolicyU.S. 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. stream Indeed, Brennan wrote in his briefing notes that on July 26, 2016, Clinton allegedly approved of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.REF. French Canadians were opposed to a union that threatened their nationality. MuckRock is a non-profit collaborative news site that gives you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable. Foers article in Slate describes how Lorenzen began collecting Internet data on the Trump organization in late July 2016. "Histoire de la rsistance du Canada au gouvernement anglais", in, This page was last edited on 13 December 2022, at 11:26. Soviet Active Measures in The United States-an Updated Report by The Room B-103 Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. . 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. Indictments filed by Durham show that the Steele Dossier and Alfa-Bank allegations of a conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin were entirely concocted. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> 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. 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW PDF In the United States District Court for The District of Columbia United 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. DAISY download. 0000017608 00000 n 0000106946 00000 n O. If dialing from a personal cell phone or an off-campus telephone within Durham, the call will immediately reach the Durham Emergency Communications Center. Manos told Joffe that his findings do not make much sense with the storyline you have.REF. 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. % 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. %PDF-1.3 % "'The Foundations of Freedom and Civilization': The Durham Report, Municipal Institutions and Liberalism. His Report contained many inaccuracies about Upper Canada and was bitterly resented in Lower Canada for its unsympathetic view of French Canadians. 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". Antonakakis e-mailed Lorenzen and Dagon: Joffe himself expressed doubt about the Russian Bank Data that started the whole project. 0000127373 00000 n At the Healthwatch County Durham annual event in November 2021, Pauline Fletcher, the Dental Commissioning Lead North East and North Cumbria provided an update on the current position, including a lot of useful information about the NHS dental contract. "[8], "A plan by which it is proposed to ensure the tranquil government of Lower Canada, must include in itself the means of putting an end to the agitation of national disputes in the legislature, by settling, at once and for ever, the national character of the Province. On October 31, 2016, one week before Election Day, Sullivan hyped the false Alfa-Bank disinformation in a press release. 0000010026 00000 n In October, Fritsch and two other Fusion GPS employees visited Foer at his home to brief him on the Alfa-Bank allegations. Search the Archives. The caller should first state they are on Duke Campus and then state the building name. In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that Russian intelligence had assessed that Clinton had approved a disinformation operation against Trump. [2] He had just been appointed Governor General and given special powers as high commissioner of British North America. !3v V!IT&`:caM&YH~susF*`L`}GbeU"iiN;_"8' ZQ~jL$%~o,2Du&^}FYW&!m6*X3~n/ReCe, II. According to documents filed by Durhams team and other published reports, which serve as the basis for the factual assertions in this Legal Memorandum, the effort was funded, approved, and briefed to the highest level of the Clinton campaign. Analysis: The Durham report reveals how bad information spreads in ", Martin, Ged. the details, and results of air quality monitoring for 2021 at @VD'" p1H "6e~e 4<<<>$Z%"t1T]`0yJVw*`(#0|m]Q1LS='uHdP#qRUD]Uom;TIHFo6d~ hDcMV}i 82 endstream endobj 704 0 obj 545 endobj 705 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 704 0 R >> stream Zack Smith is Legal Fellow and Co-Manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Both Canadas were in a state of distress. %%EOF 0000009167 00000 n 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. 4878-2020 Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022 Indeed, from 1791 to the rebellions, the elected representatives of Lower Canada had been demanding control over the budget of the colony. 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). 0000009819 00000 n Choose the drop down menus to view archived documents. Lord Durham believed that, to eliminate the possibility of rebellions, French Canadians had to adopt British-Canadian culture and the English language. To conduct their Government harmoniously, in accordance with its established principles, is now the business of its rulers; and I know not how it is possible to secure that harmony in any other way, than by administering the Government on those principles which have been found perfectly efficacious in Great Britain. Igor Danchenko is a Russian national who was once employed as a policy analyst for the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.based think tank. endobj Hillary for America, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, and others have repeatedly, and with some success, claimed attorney-client privilege over documents and communications relating to the disinformation scheme. 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. Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. 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. The people living in both colonies in Canada were struggling, as the economic situation in both areas all but collapsed. 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). In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. PDF Durham County Council Gender Pay Gap report 2022 The actions alleged in these indictments should be condemned so that they are never repeated by any political campaign in the future. The Durham investigation has determined that Lorenzen, a computer data scientist, was the original source behind the Alfa-Bank disinformation. His team drew upon a long tradition of petitioning and the example of political activism in Britain. When interviewed by the FBI in 2017, Danchenko said that when he related the Ritz-Carlton allegations to Steele, he (Danchenko) characterized Trumps alleged activityas rumor and speculation.REF Danchenko further characterized the salacious information as statements made in jest.REF Regardless, Steele reported the allegations in his dossier.REF, Dolan also appears to be Danchenkos sole source in a report relating to Trumps former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. The complete report enti- tled "Soviet Active Measures in the Untied States 1986-87" follows my remarks. Lock 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. 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. Order No. You had assigned it reference number #FOIA-2021-01633. View the Durham Police Department Promise (PDF) View the Durham Police Department General Orders (PDF) Durham report pdf 2021. <>/Metadata 531 0 R/ViewerPreferences 532 0 R>> 0000004382 00000 n 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. \ S7q9|V#LKgE-kDZ Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. 170/03. 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. "Lord Durham and the British Background of His Report. endstream endobj 69 0 obj <>/Metadata 9 0 R/Pages 65 0 R/StructTreeRoot 18 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 70 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> endobj 71 0 obj <>stream 6 the [legal] profession and that legal proceedings appear fair to all who observe them.'" Id. Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light ofthe 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. 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. 0000011210 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. 0000005874 00000 n 0000010627 00000 n The two most well-known suggestions from Lord Durham's report were the fusion of Upper and Lower Canada, to become a single unified colony, the Province of Canada, ruled under a single legislature, and to introduce a responsible government. 0000003965 00000 n Durham brought along a small but highly talented staff, most notably including Charles Buller and Edward Gibbon Wakefield. 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:: v.: Criminal Case No. 2021 Action Report. 0 But there is no evidence that Galkinareferred to in the Danchenko indictment as Russian Sub-Source-1was a Kremlin insider. 0000006621 00000 n Marc Elias was a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm and the lead attorney for Hillary for America at the firm.