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Today's newsletter includes:

• Bible Verse of the Day - Proverbs 4:7-8
• Weekend reading: new details on Durham's conspiracy case
• Biden Leadership poll
• America the Beautiful - North Dakota
• Texas bound
• Fighting back
• From our staff: The ultimate example of corporate suicide
• Amazing story
• Massive caravan heading this way
• The cost of saying no
• Hymnal - Revive Us Again

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Proverbs 4:7-8

Weekend reading: new details on Durham's conspiracy case

By Mike Huckabee

For months --- years, even --- the refrain we heard was “Where’s Durham?” Is he really doing anything? Why would he just disappear for so long? Oh, well, there will never be justice.”

Anyone who wondered what was taking Special Counsel John Durham so insanely long will wonder no more after reading Paul Sperry’s latest update for REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS. Durham is obviously building a huge criminal conspiracy case surrounding the phony Trump Tower-Alfa Bank computer “pinging” story designed to falsely tie the Trump campaign with Vladimir Putin.

Sperry’s detailed article is your weekend reading assignment, though readers of this newsletter will be familiar with much of it. This time, however, Sperry goes on to identify other players. Along with then-Perkins Coie partner and Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann, “Tech Executive – 1” Rodney L. Joffe, current Biden administration national security adviser (!) Jake Sullivan, former FBI analyst-turned-Democrat-operative Dan Jones, and a team of Georgia Tech cybersecurity experts vying for a big Pentagon contract (which they got), we have some new names.

Another top computer analyst who worked closely with Joffe on this project and is named only as “Originator – 1” in the indictment has been identified by her attorney as April D. Lorenzen, who in media stories used the pseudonym “Tea Leaves” and masculine pronouns to help hide her identity. As Sperry reports, the registered Democrat “was tasked by Joffe with making a Trump connection from the data along with the researchers from Georgia Tech, where she had worked as a guest researcher since 2007.”

Investigators have emails that show her discussing how to fake internet traffic to create an “inference” of Trump-Russia connection that wasn’t really there. According to the indictment, Lorenzen “supplied so-called Domain Name System (DNS) logs from proprietary holdings –- the foundation for the whole conspiracy charge –- and helped compile them for the spurious report that was fed to the FBI.”

The DNS system is described as the “phone book” of the internet, translating domain names for emails and websites into IP addresses in order for web browsers to easily interact. The traffic leaves a record known as DNS “lookups.” These are what have been described as “pings” between servers. (We like to imagine them as being like the sonar “pings” you hear in undersea movies, but that’s just for amusement.)

Lorenzen’s attorney, Boston white-collar criminal defense lawyer Michael J. Connolly, says allegations that she did anything wrong are “unequivocally false.” She was acting in the interest of national security, he says. I’m reminded of what Michael Sussmann’s attorney said about him, that he was acting out of his “patriotic duty,” and get the impression that this crowd of Democrat operatives thought “national security” or “patriotic duty” was anything that might help keep Trump out of the White House.

One thing about all this that makes my blood boil is the close connection between political operatives –- I mean, “contractors” –- such as these and U.S. government departments such as Homeland Security. It definitely adds to our understanding of how the so-called “deep state” actually operates. Lorenzen helped found two tech firms, Dissect Cyber Inc. and Zetalytics LLC, which have contracted with the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division and other agencies. “In that role,” Sperry reports, “she oversees one of the world’s largest and most diverse systems of ‘passive,’ or stored, DNS records, which can be searched to uncover potential security incidents.”

She specializes in identifying the “spoofed domains” that are used in email phishing scams. It seems to me that If anyone knew how to fake a relatively convincing scam involving DNS records, it would be her.

In fact, it turns out to be Lorensen who said in an email, “It would be possible to ‘fill out a sales form on two websites, faking the other company’s email address in each form,’ and thereby cause them to ‘appear to communicate with each other in DNS.’”

Another player not mentioned by name in the indictment is Indiana University computer science teacher and Democrat activist L. Jean Camp, a colleague of Lorenzen’s. She posted the made-up server data on her website and helped push Lorenzen’s fake Trump-Putin conspiracy story in the media, vouching for her friend “Tea Leaves” as “someone with technical authority and access to data.” Around the time she was doing this, she also gave thousands of dollars to Hillary’s campaign.

She was calling for a full-blown FBI investigation of the data she herself had pushed in the media. Her activism continued after Trump was inaugurated; in March of 2017, after the FBI dropped their Trump email probe, she tweeted in rage and called for people to “join the resistance” against Trump. That in itself is no crime, but as prosecutors might say, it “goes to motivation.”

Here’s another new name: Paul Vixie, a computer scientist who reviewed the DNS logs and pushed the story in the media that Trump and Alfa Bank were engaged in a “criminal syndicate.” (Again, Democrats accuse Republicans of what they themselves are doing.) Not surprisingly, he supported Hillary while bashing Trump. “Hillary presented herself as an experienced politician who is prepared to assume the Presidency,” he tweeted in 2016. He referred to Trump in 2020 as a “fake Republican” who “will finish out his life in prison.”

If anyone in this story ends up in prison, it’s not going to be Trump. More likely it’ll be friends of this guy. Providing the FBI with false evidence of a crime is a crime in itself. Mail and wire fraud also appear to have been involved in this conspiracy case.

Sussmann is the one who went to the FBI and passed along evidence that has been called into question. It was in the form of two thumb drives containing DNS logs purported to show patterns of “covert email communication” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, along with three made-up “white papers” that falsely transformed innocuous marketing pinging between Trump and Alfa servers into a nefarious Russian backchannel.

We should all thank Alfa Bank for fighting this; of course, we have no way of knowing, but it may be why these activities ever saw the light of day. (They also deposed Christopher Steele in a successful lawsuit against him.) They commissioned two studies that showed that the DNS data compiled by Joffe and his friends were formatted differently from the Alfa DNS logs. One of the reports specifically posited that the DNS activity might have been “artificially created.” Independent cyber forensic investigators found other problems as well, such as with timestamps.

Be sure and read Paul Sperry’s article for more details, specifically about the rewards Georgia Tech has reaped since being involved in this activity. On November 17, 2016, the Pentagon awarded them a contract worth $17 million. Its purpose, ostensibly, was to identify and protect the U.S. from malicious cyber attacks. Instead, it appears they went on a political fishing expedition. Since then, their original deal has grown into a $25 million Defense Department contract.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/10/07/durham_probes_pentagon_computer_contractors_in_anti-trump_conspiracy_797790.html