Durham Court Filings
Special Counsel John Durham has made court filings that neither Hillary Clinton nor the Trump community has gotten right. Clinton claimed that Fox News had come close to defamation in reporting on the filings. Poppycock. Fox only read the publicly-available court filing words. Trump claimed that the filings proved Clinton spied on his campaign. It did nothing of the sort.
The filings are carefully written, and I recognize the structure and style. I used the same ones repeatedly as an investigator writing reports to outline what I knew but could not yet prove beyond a reasonable doubt. So, the question is what Durham knows to be true but cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Yet.
He knows that Clinton used covert actors with government contracts to extract information from the Trump campaign and even the Trump White House in order to enable Clinton to fabricate a story about collusion with Russia. I am not a techno type, so please forgive me if I stumble in my descriptions. The contractor in question provided DNS Resolution services. DNS Resolution is a mundane function that resolves conflicts between seemingly similar Domain Names and uses only the “envelope” information to do so. The “envelope” is the record of who is communicating with whom. It cannot be encrypted because the internet isn’t set up to figure out what an encrypted originator or receiver is. The information isn’t encrypted, therefore there is no crime being committed in merely looking at the outside of the envelope.
The problem occurs when the contractor took the information to a law firm working for national Democrats. That may not be illegal, but delivering the results of their work to the President’s rival’s opposition research organization is hardly part of the contract language. Some of the difficulty here is inherent in federal contracting regulations. The organization paying for the work does not contract directly for it. That is the job of a contracting officer, who knows nothing about the paying organization’s needs or intentions, but does know intimately the provisions of the FAR. Thus, if the multi-thousand-page FAR requires the provider to report progress every month, the contracting officer only knows that the provider must report progress every month. If the progress is zero, and the provider reports that, he has met the terms of the contract.
To try and insert some sanity into the process, the organization paying for the work assigns a Contracting Officer Technical Representative, abbreviated COTR and pronounced COTAR. This individual does her or his best to have the actual intent of the contract enforced, not the trivial administrative details. Rarely does that person have much success. The Contracting Officer is concerned with doing the thing right; doing the right thing often interferes with that, so it takes a back seat.
Reporting the envelope information to the Clinton campaign’s lawyers was all that was necessary to construct the Russian-collusion fraud. Getting the unencrypted externals of a Russian bank is easy: Send a query asking for an e-mail response. The externals, the envelope, comes back with the reply. None of that is illegal. None of that is remotely ethical, none of that reflects good judgment on the part of either the Clinton campaign or the federal contractor.
Thus, the Clinton campaign had everything it needed to launch the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that has dogged our country for going on six years. I am not a Trump fan. I am a fan of due process, and that is what the Clinton campaign and the lapdog press denied Trump. If the President of the United States can be denied due process, as is continuing to occur in the witch-hunt called the January 6 investigative committee hearing, then no one is safe.
And then they came for me.
I was recently talking to friends over dinner, Russian Jewish academics in the US, who are moving to another country because they think Trump=Fascism and J6 was a huge threat to democracy. I said the secret police (FBI) going after Trump for bogus reason was a bigger threat and election disputes are normal in the US. There seems to be an unbridgeable divide...
TechoFog on SubStack goes into the details of the Durham data release. Without the details of the DNS service (intended to simply pass on IP information) it's hard to know the full traffic that reached the server. Were they merely a DNS target for Trump's traffic like I use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 because I trust them and it's fast. Set in my router, it takes care of me. If Trump's router used just the contracted server for name resolution, maybe with some filtering, OK. But if that server saw all traffic as a buffer, they could see all Trump traffic. With the info provided all we know is the DNS service. So they would know every site requested and every email target without necessarily knowing who made the request. The logs could be used to snoop on activity.