93 0 obj <>stream 0000009663 00000 n On May 13, 2019, I directed United States Attorney John Durham to conduct a preliminary review into certain matters related to the 2016 presidential election campaigns, and Mr. Durham's review subsequently developed into a criminal investigation, which remains ongoing. 0000009189 00000 n 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. Durham knew how to organize support in Upper Canada. Washington, D.C. U.S. 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. Durham also recommended the creation of a municipal government and a supreme court in British North America. 0000017026 00000 n Galkina was (perhaps unknowingly)REF a source who provided a great deal of information to Danchenko that was ultimately reported in the Steele Dossier. Among other items that were ultimately reported in the Steele Dossier, Galkina was Danchenkos source for the allegations that Michael Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in August or September 2016 and that Carter Page met with Igor Diveykin, a senior Kremlin officialan allegation later cited by the FBI in its FISA application to surveil Page.REF. Read Here. endobj 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 visible and broad line of demarcation which separates parties by the distinctive characters of race, happily has no existence in the Upper Province. Search the Archives. 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 . 0000007890 00000 n Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. 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. 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. endobj Mr. You had assigned it reference number #FOIA-2021-01633. 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. "[1] He would return to that theme repeatedly throughout his report. As well as increased political tension and bitterness between parties and races of people, particularly in Lower Canada. 2 provocativelyand misleadingly1describes for the first time Domain Name System ("DNS") traffic potentially associated with former Presid ent Donald Trump, including data at the Executive Office of the President ("EOP"), that was alle gedly presented to Agency-2 in February 2017. 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. Lock Secure .gov websites use HTTPS o1.J,s/aQ)Xd6! Please do not reply to this e-mail, as this account is not monitored. Overview 1.1 This report provides an overview of the current economic climate and Regional [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. 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. Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. Select the All Archive Items drop down or use the search feature to access older documents. 681 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 684 /H [ 1907 628 ] /L 235723 /E 128735 /N 8 /T 221984 >> endobj xref 681 53 0000000016 00000 n <>/Metadata 531 0 R/ViewerPreferences 532 0 R>> 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. t]dKeX)Q\tO=4{yG h[#fF _KQ/PUg8Iizs(Ni:g7a=|5;6Xv\+P j 0000007240 00000 n Legal Fellow and Manager, Meese Center for Legal Studies. B/W PDF download. However, Durham believed that the problems in mostly Lower Canada were not of a political nature, but rather of an ethnic one. ?[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( Sussmann was indicted by Durham on September 16, 2021, on one count of making a false statement to FBI General Counsel James A. Baker. If dialing from a personal cell phone or an off-campus telephone within Durham, the call will immediately reach the Durham Emergency Communications Center. DAISY download. The central players in the joint venture were Hillary for America, Perkins Coie LLP, and Fusion GPS. 0000011232 00000 n 3 0 obj 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. The report was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". O. "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. "[10], "At first sight it appears much more difficult to form an accurate idea of the state of Upper than of Lower Canada. 3. The report of Durham was laid before Parliament in London on 11 February 1839. Although I hadexpected Mr.Durham to complete his work by the summer of2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional information he uncovered . endstream endobj 74 0 obj <>stream View the Durham Police Department Promise (PDF) View the Durham Police Department General Orders (PDF) 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. 0000004883 00000 n 0000127373 00000 n 0000002535 00000 n In August 2016, Manos queried the Neustar Internet data for the Trump organization domain name (mail1.trump-email.com) and determined that none of the domains that had communicated with it had links to 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. z($Pl4p7QG5P/XB0hY,@b5=!p1 h?^$.m]rV26xj# ynMpOY]whozF- ;4#Jo}) pQyas&f|_B\e"HM3U? He was indicted by Durham on November 3, 2021, on five counts of making false statements to the FBI. It is one thing to dredge up a political candidates youthful indiscretions or shady financial dealings, but it is quite another to invent and fabricate sensational allegations, present them to the FBI as fact, and serve them to a willing media in the weeks before Election Day. This Annual Report for the calendar year 2022 is designed to inform you about your drinking water system. How Durham County Council is addressing the gender pay gap.. 10 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. 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. 0000004842 00000 n The people living in both colonies in Canada were struggling, as the economic situation in both areas all but collapsed. The caller should first state they are on Duke Campus and then state the building name. 10. ", Newbould, I. D. C. "Lord Durham, the Whigs and Canada, 1838: The Background to Durham's Return", Smith, William. In addition to exploiting the public and non-public data held by Internet Company-2 and Internet Company-3, Joffe tasked Lorenzen and two Georgia Tech computer researchersManos Antonakakis and David Dagonto search through Neustars Internet data for any information about Trumps potential ties to Russia.REF Joffes goal, according to Durham, was to support an inference and narrative regarding Trump that would please certain VIPs., From the beginning, Antonakakis was dubious about the alleged connection between the Trump organization and Russia. 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. 2021 Action Report. 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. 6 the [legal] profession and that legal proceedings appear fair to all who observe them.'" Id. 0000011210 00000 n 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. He was interested in not only unifying Upper and Lower Canada but also including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 0000004382 00000 n %PDF-1.3 % "The Reception of the Durham Report in Canada.". 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. In an August 2016 e-mail to Lorenzen, Dagon, and Antonakakis, Joffe stated that the data was not a secret communications channel between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank, but rather was a red herring.REF. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. Publication date 1912 . 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. [9] Those suggestions would be put into place decades later, during the Confederation of Canada. On October 19, 2020, John Durham was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel by the order below. 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. Durham report full text. The Durham investigation indicates a coordinated effort by the Clinton campaign to disseminate false allegations against Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. To the extent that was true at all, it was only true among Trump's closest political allies, not the. ", 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. Steven Groves is Margaret Thatcher Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation. Durham arrived in Quebec City on 29 May. His report contains the famous assessment that Lower Canada had "two nations warring within the bosom of a single state. Antonakakis e-mailed Lorenzen and Dagon: Joffe himself expressed doubt about the Russian Bank Data that started the whole project. He released a campaign statement regarding an article that had appeared in Slate magazine.REF Sullivan, as if learning about Alfa-Bank for the first time, feverishly stated: To amplify Sullivans statement, Hillary Clinton herself tweeted the press release to her 10 million followers, stating, Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.REF. To better enhance this relationship, we are providing clarification and information on our Use of Force policy. 4. According to Papineau and other Patriotes, the analysis of the economic situation of French Canadians was biased. 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. %PDF-1.7 4878-2020 Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022 They differ on one point, and agree on another; the sections, which unite together one day, are strongly opposed the next; and the very party, which acts as one, against a common opponent, is in truth composed of divisions seeking utterly different or incompatible objects. 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 notable British Whig politician John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, was sent to the Canadas in 1838 to investigate and report on the causes of the rebellions of 183738. 2 0 obj The parallel nature of government organization in Australia and Canada to this day . V:I LORD DURHAM'S REPORT, 1839 Lord Durham spent only five months in the Canadas and less than two weeks in Upper Canada. In the long run, it advanced democracy and played a central role in the evolution of Canada's political independence from Britain.[3]. Town of Durham 2022 Annual Report Permit Number GSM 000076 January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022 Primary MS4 Contact: Wade M. Thomas, Nathan L. Jacobson & Associates, Inc., wthomas@nlja.com, 860.526.9591 This report documents Town of Durham's efforts to comply with the conditions of the MS4 General Permit to the maximum extent practicable 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. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires. 0000003027 00000 n 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 . Millian was essentially Igor Danchenkos deep throat sourcealthough in this instance, the source was entirely fabricated, according to Durhams indictment of Danchenko. Report all fires and smoke to Duke University Police Department by dialing 911 from any campus phone. ", Martin, Ged. The Durham investigation indicates a coordinated effort by the Clinton campaign to disseminate false allegations against Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. 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. lm@Z 31(`w} CM ,Y\ y gg` 0000017608 00000 n 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. 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. [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. : GOVERNMENT'S MOTION TO INQUIRE INTO POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 1. %%EOF 0000010649 00000 n ", New, Chester. As described by Durham with regard to the Alfa-Bank allegations, the Clinton campaign and its agents are alleged to have formed a joint venture, the goal of which was to gather and disseminate derogatory non-public information regarding the internet activities of [Donald Trump] and his associates.REF. It was considered controversial as it suggested radical ideas for the time, such as for the British Parliament granting the Canadas a responsible government. 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. and Reg.) The full story remains elusive. "Banishment to Bermuda: Gender, Race, Empire, Independence and the Struggle to Abolish Irresponsible Government in Lower Canada. endobj Olga Galkina. [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. 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.