0000009819 00000 n Attached is correspondence from the Department of Justice's Office of Information Policy, which is associated with the above-referenced Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. [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. "The Reception of the Durham Report in Canada.". 0000008542 00000 n 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. Overview 1.1 This report provides an overview of the current economic climate and Regional Indeed, from 1791 to the rebellions, the elected representatives of Lower Canada had been demanding control over the budget of the colony. xkoF~h V^K]>d9E_;;Qe@dr_33;o6xf~ z>-7x6.gQ*Qfy~?"yp:?rP("+'9D* *\>Vi~4IcT;/fl*ly"RgST*U>zXI$)Yjp%f f52]%$MLKR8l^W+IJI The Durham investigation indicates a coordinated effort by the Clinton campaign to disseminate false allegations against Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. 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. When providing information to Members of Congress after the fact, officials were careful to say that the intelligence community does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.REF Still, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama on this intelligence. hbbd``b`: $@Dp,. Michael Sussmann resigned from Perkins Coie on the day he was indicted.REF His trial before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia commenced on May 16, 2022, and he was found not guilty on May 31. 0000090558 00000 n 0000011210 00000 n Among the key takeaways from the Durham investigation: The Durham investigation has seemingly uncovered a coordinated effort by Hillary for America; the Perkins Coie law firm (a Washington, D.C.-based law firm that was retained by Hillary for America to represent the campaign during the 2016 election); strategic intelligence firm Fusion GPS; former British spy Christopher Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence; and various computer researchers based in Virginia, Rhode Island, and at Georgia Tech to generate false, misleading, and sometimes sensational allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump in an effort to win the 2016 presidential election. Days after the 2016 election, Joffe stated in an e-mail that he was tentatively offered the top [cybersecurity] job by the Democrats when it looked like theyd win. As noted by Durham, Fusion GPSs role was not to assist Perkins Coie or Hillary for America with legal matters, but rather to generate and disseminate opposition research on Trump to the media and others. 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. 8~IHu8&'_ 0c _*@nHJgj(fY|\[b\88( R|0)c $_q2un3-W7hr.W7qt}yaH 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. 0000017586 00000 n Trump had hoped that Durham would deliver a report before the 2020 election that could help Trump's campaign. 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. 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. For the report on the FBI's investigation into links between Donald Trump and Russia, see. 0000008520 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. The WSJ report cited anonymous sources. Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light ofthe Durhams indictment of Danchenko shows that other significant parts of the Steele Dossiersuch as the allegation that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen travelled to Prague to meet with Russian conspiratorswere invented by Olga Galkina, a Russian national living in Cyprus who had ambitions of joining the State Department under Hillary Clinton if she won the presidential election. o1.J,s/aQ)Xd6! Steven Groves 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. Vjsc27v4gO* yZt3?U{ 'K@ 6 He also wanted to resolve the issue of land over Prince Edward Island, but those suggestions failed to come to fruition since the Maritime Provinces were then uninterested. Durham had become the Governor-General in Lower Canada in 1837 but soon submitted his resignation because of his conflict with British Parliament mostly because of his progressive nature. 0000090351 00000 n During his stay, Dolan received a tour of the presidential suite and met with the hotels general manager and other staff.REF Dolan was told during the hotel tour that Trump had once stayed as a guest in the presidential suite.REF Importantly, the staff member who provided the tour to Dolan did not mention any lewd or salacious activity by Trump during his stay in the presidential suite.REF, Danchenko had lunch with Dolan at some point during the June 2016 trip to Moscow.REF During interviews with the FBI, Danchenko claimed to have collected information concerning Trumps purported activities at the [Ritz-Carlton] from various sources, such as the hotels general manager and other staff.REF, It is unclear from Danchenkos indictment whether he actually heard about salacious information regarding Trump from Dolan, from Ritz-Carlton staff, or whether Danchenko simply embellished the information to appear valuable to Steele. 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. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not. 4 0 obj 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. lj-!36j2o((u tl#tCR]]MBhIt:Xj4r~'E9FM' 0000093315 00000 n HdRFIQI[Zv,w89|T iW;~a/Az [+;(&q#;%e\G'Ys>)DaW.%Yu7vsta(7yYnrmT>,|z)2S 2 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. 6/7 - Durham Tech Installs Fifth President J.B. Buxton Manos told Joffe that his findings do not make much sense with the storyline you have.REF. 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. trailer << /Size 734 /Info 678 0 R /Root 682 0 R /Prev 221973 /ID[] >> startxref 0 %%EOF 682 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 680 0 R /Metadata 679 0 R /Outlines 54 0 R /OpenAction [ 684 0 R /XYZ null null null ] /PageMode /UseNone /PageLabels 677 0 R /StructTreeRoot 683 0 R /PieceInfo << /MarkedPDF << /LastModified (D:20030107235741)>> >> /LastModified (D:20030107235741) /MarkInfo << /Marked true /LetterspaceFlags 0 >> >> endobj 683 0 obj << /Type /StructTreeRoot /RoleMap 106 0 R /ClassMap 109 0 R /K 472 0 R /ParentTree 647 0 R /ParentTreeNextKey 21 >> endobj 732 0 obj << /S 360 /O 533 /L 549 /C 565 /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 733 0 R >> stream To the extent that was true at all, it was only true among Trump's closest political allies, not the. Durham's investigation is still active and is presenting evidence to a grand jury. 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. DurhamExecutiveSummary.pdf View Embed Download From: Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General 08/03/2021 Subject: Acknowledgement Letter (8.2.21).pdf Portal Attached is correspondence from the Department of Justice's Office of Information Policy, which is associated with the above-referenced Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. HtUn0+xLqR endstream endobj 72 0 obj <>stream Please be advised that another request for this same information is now the subject of litigation. From: Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Subject: Acknowledgement Letter (8.2.21).pdf. HtTn0+xt!| * Vz-[MTr(-^Cgv/7E~;/}*~M&4*(D "MMa)\4bL!%p%@ The report provided. 0000017608 00000 n MuckRock is a non-profit collaborative news site that gives you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable. 2 0 obj 0000005874 00000 n "The influence of the Durham Report." The proposed merger would benefit Upper Canada as, whereas the construction of canals would to a considerable debt load, access to the fiscal surplus of former Lower Canada would allow that debt to be erased. This report has been prepared to satisfy Section 11 of Ontario Regulation (O. Steven Groves is Margaret Thatcher Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation. A-month-and-a-half earlier, Perkins Coies Marc Elias exchanged e-mails with Robbie Mook, Jennifer Palmieri, and Jake Sullivan concerning the [Alfa-Bank] allegations that Sussmann had recently shared with [the New York Times Eric Lichtblau].REF The opposition research efforts that resulted in the Slate article,REF as well as other articles published on October 31 in the New York Times by Eric LichtblauREF and Mother Jones by David Corn,REF were bought and paid for by Hillary for America through campaign agents Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, and others. 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. 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. I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 1, 2021. But there is no evidence that Galkinareferred to in the Danchenko indictment as Russian Sub-Source-1was a Kremlin insider. [2] He had just been appointed Governor General and given special powers as high commissioner of British North America. : GOVERNMENT'S MOTION TO INQUIRE INTO POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 1. "'The Foundations of Freedom and Civilization': The Durham Report, Municipal Institutions and Liberalism. Hb```f``/f`c``cd@ A;@ 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. As was the case with other significant Steele Dossier allegations, no evidence has arisen to indicate that either the CohenPrague or PageDiveykin meetings ever took place. Russian National Indicted for Making False Statements to the FBI, Grand Jury Indicts D.C. Attorney with Making False Statements to the FBI in 2016 Regarding Alleged Communications Between Trump Organization and Russian Bank. Archive Center. Legal Fellow and Manager, Meese Center for Legal Studies. Analysis of Durham County Council's data 7 4. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. endobj "[4] and called the French Canadians "a people with no literature and no history".[5]. 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. Durhams filings indicate that the central component of the joint ventures disinformation campaignthe so-called Steele Dossierconsisted almost entirely of rumors, innuendo, and outright falsehoods fabricated by sources reporting to former British spy Christopher Steele. 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. 0000093236 00000 n II. Antonakakis e-mailed Lorenzen and Dagon: Joffe himself expressed doubt about the Russian Bank Data that started the whole project. In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that Russian intelligence had assessed that Clinton had approved a disinformation operation against Trump. Report: 1. Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann (Perkins Coie LLP). For instance, Danchenko allegedly told the FBI that none of his conversations with Charles Dolan (infra.) 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. H|n@)@EjTKiL%lkVC93y Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America abridged to highlight constitutional defects and recommendations with context REPORT TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY YOUR MAJESTY, in entrusting me with the Government of the Province of Lower Canada, during the critical period of the suspension of its constitution, was . 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. The report was entitled "Report on the Affairs of British North America". ", Martin, Ged. [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. On the first page of his report he stated that "[w]hile the present state of things is allowed to last, the actual inhabitants of these Provinces have no security for person or propertyno enjoyment of what they possessno stimulus to industry. Washington, D.C. U.S. On October 19, 2020, John Durham was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel by the order below. We will contact you again once the litigation in this matter allows. The information herein is taken largely from indictments and other court filings in the cases filed against Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko. 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). tfzN+j))).P"L rU*5qp\j+K^!he _ "Z;sg?2\$vnW45$G'uo51H.Y "*gh&8^Wg~s?RXvY3 ;pk+s h 0tvgS`cX>w%L)O Tr31L+%'0|3!Yc?tc.|1TeGw r2Pf)+j|s{p M4wHy:oOxu5 9c$V. Unravelling all of the major and minor players in Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign is daunting. John Durham Sussmann filing 2/11/22 Contributed by CNN Digital (CNN) p. 1. 0000127591 00000 n 0000003227 00000 n The report did not see any of its recommendations come into force in the African and Asian colonies, but some limited democratic reforms in India became possible that otherwise would not have been. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires. 0000001766 00000 n 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. The full story may never be known. Department of Justice, Subject: Your FOIA Request FOIA-2021-01633. Want the latest investigative and FOIA news? Hl y9JsLJ=T=Tm/1'`|3?7!IcT o|0E5ixuVLI u4As+dQ 8yAO! The meetings were represented as nonpartisan, respectable, loyal, orderly and deserving of parliamentary support. Lord Durham's Report has come to occupy such a central place in the history of the Commonwealth of Nations that no apology is needed for making it readily available to students and readers, both inside and outside the schools and universities. O. 0000007262 00000 n It is very difficult to make out from the avowals of parties the real objects of their struggles, and still less easy is it to discover any cause of such importance as would account for its uniting any large mass of the people in an attempt to overthrow, by forcible means, the existing form of Government. After the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham was sent from England to investigate the cause of the unrest. . How Durham County Council is addressing the gender pay gap.. 10 The two Canadas were subsequently merged into a single colony, the Province of Canada, in the 1840 Act of Union. The people living in both colonies in Canada were struggling, as the economic situation in both areas all but collapsed. 0000005119 00000 n 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 . I received your voicemail asking for a status of your request for a copy of the Durham Report Executive Summary. % "[11], "We are not now to consider the policy of establishing representative government in the North American Colonies. Hillary for Americas disinformation efforts consisted of two main components: (1) creating and disseminating the so-called Steele Dossier that falsely alleged, inter alia, the existence of an extensive conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin;REF and (2) concocting false allegations regarding a secret computer communications link between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank, Russias largest private commercial bank. The complete report enti- tled "Soviet Active Measures in the Untied States 1986-87" follows my remarks. 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. 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 June, it appeared in Canada in Ludger Duvernay's La Revue canadienne as Histoire de l'insurrection du Canada en rfutation du Rapport de Lord Durham (History of the insurrection of Canada in refutation of the Report of Lord Durham). The "Report" led to major reforms and democratic advances. The report of Durham was laid before Parliament in London on 11 February 1839. Publication date 1912 . "[1] He would return to that theme repeatedly throughout his report. ", 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. 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. "[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. !3v V!IT&`:caM&YH~susF*`L`}GbeU"iiN;_"8' ZQ~jL$%~o,2Du&^}FYW&!m6*X3~n/ReCe, 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. Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed. Since the Court has an independent interest in investigating potential conflicts, see Wheat, 486 U.S. at 161, the Court retains "substantial latitude in refusing waivers of conflicts of Without effecting the change so rapidly or so roughly as to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government to establish an English population, with English laws and language, in this Province, and to trust its government to none but a decidedly English Legislature. While the general contours of Hillary for Americas opposition research efforts during the 2016 election period have been reported in the press and have been the subject of congressional and inspector general investigations, many new details have been uncovered by Durhams investigation and revealed in federal indictments relating to former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann and former Brookings Institution policy analyst Igor Danchenko.

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