Investigative journalist Paul Sperry, in his recent article “Durham Investigates Pentagon Contractors Who Helped Clinton Campaign Plot Russia Hoax,” has fleshed out more of the story and names involved in government subversion, from the 27-page indictment drawn up by John Durham. Sperry provided a window into the dirty and cynical operation to hijack the 2016 election, and to carry out a coup against Donald Trump when he became President with scare stories about Vladimir Putin’s control of Trump. Durham’s indictment of Perkins Coie’s Michael Sussmann sketched out a story of an unnamed “Tech Executive -1” using access to non-public internet data, provided by contracts with the intelligence community, to manufacture, in particular, a link between Trump and a Russian bank, Alfa Bank. Since the release of the indictment, Sussmann’s collaborators have been lawyering up, as the indictment made it clear that they, too, are in the cross-hairs.
In July, 2016, the un-democratic activities of the DNC and of Hillary Clinton to rig the results against her opponent, Bernie Sanders, were being exposed by WikiLeaks. On July 26, 2016, Clinton had approved a plan to “stir up a scandal,” that Trump was an agent of Putin. Two days later, CIA head John Brennan warned President Obama (and select others) that Moscow knew that Clinton had given the go-ahead to “vilify” Trump as a Russian agent and/or puppet. In August, Sussmann was working with a longtime client of Perkins Coie, Neustar’s Rodney L. Joffe (aka “Tech Executive-1") to use his internet/tech companies and connections to troll through non-public records and manufacture a narrative so as to, as one email put it, make Democratic “VIPs happy.” (Joffe’s lawyer, Steven Tyrrell, has now confirmed that his client is “Tech Executive-1"; though Joffe’s name has recently been scrubbed from Neustar, where he had been their chief cybersecurity officer.) Joffe’s network of cybersecurity companies, with their Pentagon and Homeland Security contracts and high-level security clearances, went into action. Joffe had been a regular adviser at Obama’s White House.
Their primary contact with Clinton’s campaign was Jake Sullivan, now President Biden’s National Security Adviser. (Sperry adds that Sullivan’s wife, Maggie, had worked for Merrick Garland, the Attorney General who controls John Durham’s budget.) Sussmann shopped their narrative to the FBI in September, 2016, creating an investigation, and fed the story to the media for an election eve surprise. Jake Sullivan briefed Clinton: “This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” and this is what went out on her October 31 tweet that went viral: “Donald Trump has a secret server. It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank” with Clinton’s comment, “It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia.”
