By Kaylee McGhee White, Commentary Writer |
Special counsel John Durham, who has been investigating the origins of the "Russiagate" hoax for the past year, confirmed in a court filing last Friday that former President Donald Trump was illegally spied upon by associates of Hillary Clinton in order to delegitimize his election victory and presidency.
In the filing, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, Durham said he has evidence that “Technology Executive-1,” known to be former Neustar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe, worked with indicted Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann to exploit internet traffic data and access “dedicated servers for the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).” Joffe then “exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump,” the filing says.
Joffe also “enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university” who had access to “large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract,” Durham said.
“[Joffe] tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia,” he added. “In doing so, [Joffe] indicated that he was seeking to please certain ‘VIPs,’ referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton campaign.”
In other words, the Clinton campaign deliberately funded and ordered Sussmann and its other lawyers at Perkins Coie to monitor Trump and his allies, even after he took office, by any means necessary. The man they hired for this job, Joffe, hacked into private servers and exploited relationships he had with private companies to gather data he had no right to. If this isn’t considered criminal behavior, it should be.
Durham’s filing proves the campaign to undermine Trump went far beyond what many suspected. They didn’t just spy on Trump’s campaign, they spied on his White House, and they did so by hacking into the federal government’s confidential servers and then using what they found to manufacture the narrative of Russian collusion.
The worst part is that our intelligence community took the Clinton campaign’s “findings,” which were either highly misleading our outright false, according to Durham’s investigation, and ran with them. The FBI launched an investigation into Trump’s campaign, and congressional Democrats started their own investigation for the sole purpose of making Trump out to be a Russian stooge. And nearly three years later, few of the people responsible for this hoax have faced any consequences.
Hopefully, now that there are signs Durham’s investigation is heating up, that changes soon.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/yes-hillary-clinton-spied-on-donald-trump-while-he-was-president
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