Responsible government was only granted to these colonies after 1848.[13]. B/W PDF download. 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. 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. L*%.%3v8;;z}} 0aEK.Ayz=um [eL&4:Dh@r,Lf?^f-E} SLL FpS9 $p% $ #1Kplr WXi6F:XoF`-\ Select the All Archive Items drop down or use the search feature to access older documents. 0000004382 00000 n 8~IHu8&'_ 0c _*@nHJgj(fY|\[b\88( R|0)c $_q2un3-W7hr.W7qt}yaH To conduct their Government harmoniously, in accordance with its established principles, is now the business of its rulers; and I know not how it is possible to secure that harmony in any other way, than by administering the Government on those principles which have been found perfectly efficacious in Great Britain. 2021 Action Report. 0000002535 00000 n 0000127591 00000 n Whatever Durham uncovers, the Clinton campaignincluding Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivantouted the fabricated Alfa-Bank allegation in the days leading up to the 2016 election. This activity will . Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed. I would not impair a single prerogative of the Crown; on the contrary, I believe that the interests of the people of these Colonies require the protection of prerogatives, which have not hitherto been exercised. The full story of Hillary for Americas 2016 disinformation campaign against Donald Trump may only come to light if and when federal prosecutor John Durham releases a final report at the conclusion of his investigationand the full truth may never be known. Manos told Joffe that his findings do not make much sense with the storyline you have.REF. [citation needed], Durham resigned on 9 October 1838 amid controversy excited in London by his decision of the penal questions[17] and was soon replaced by Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, who was responsible for implementing the Union of the Canadas. To the extent that was true at all, it was only true among Trump's closest political allies, not the. Read Here. The actions alleged in these indictments should be condemned so that they are never repeated by any political campaign in the future. Both Canadas were in a state of distress. His Report contained many inaccuracies about Upper Canada and was bitterly resented in Lower Canada for its unsympathetic view of French Canadians. ", New, Chester. Marc Elias was a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm and the lead attorney for Hillary for America at the firm. 0000128152 00000 n The purpose of this report is to summarize the Attorney General's findings and conclusions with regards to the incident, which resulted in the death of Michael Barrett. But there is no evidence that Galkinareferred to in the Danchenko indictment as Russian Sub-Source-1was a Kremlin insider. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and 41 Senate colleagues sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to request an update on the status of Special Counsel John Durham's review of the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's inquiry into allegations of Russian collusion during . 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. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. In an effort to further increase public aware- ness of Soviet active measures, the FBI has provided me with an update of its 1983 report on Soviet active measures operations here in the United States. [9] Those suggestions would be put into place decades later, during the Confederation of Canada. Room B-103 Danchenko pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial is currently set to commence on October 11, 2022.REF. Legal Fellow and Manager, Meese Center for Legal Studies. 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. 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW iHOA]/]uK9bXqAn.SoE'6r1)7dfaoN:1 W196>K c+X0 > stream \_2qiWo|K{mBh 6/7 - Durham Tech Installs Fifth President J.B. Buxton 0000003935 00000 n 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. 0000093522 00000 n 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. Like all such quarrels, it has, in fact, created, not two, but several parties; each of which has some objects in common with some one of those to which it is opposed. 6xts~zAMGXwtTf. ", Newbould, I. D. C. "Lord Durham, the Whigs and Canada, 1838: The Background to Durham's Return", Smith, William. FACTS A. Overview of the incident On March 11, 2017 at approximately 12:59 a.m., 911 received a call regarding a disturbance at 18 Edgewood Road in Durham, NH. In August 2016, Manos queried the Neustar Internet data for the Trump organization domain name (mail1.trump-email.com) and determined that none of the domains that had communicated with it had links to Russia. 86 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<941EA52D12A78343B6ADFE423C199631>]/Index[68 26]/Info 67 0 R/Length 86/Prev 360930/Root 69 0 R/Size 94/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream 0000005119 00000 n stream This report focuses on the current situation in County Durham, regarding accessing appointments Although I hadexpected Mr.Durham to complete his work by the summer of2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional information he uncovered . David Mills, Richard Foot, and Andrew McIntosh, Carol Wilton, "'A Firebrand amongst the People': The Durham Meetings and Popular Politics in Upper Canada. We are unable to respond to your request while this matter is being litigated. Adobe Reader may be required to view some documents. Durham CAN's Strategy Team met 2021, like many of CAN's institutions, by continuing to adapt in the face of the pandemic while simultaneously "dis-organizing and re-organizing" CAN for a new season of leadership. ", Henderson, Jarett. 0000090351 00000 n [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires. hb```e``*b`a`Rcd@ AF~. The information herein is taken largely from indictments and other court filings in the cases filed against Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko. Publication date 1912 . endstream endobj 72 0 obj <>stream 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 endobj Sussmann was indicted by Durham on September 16, 2021, on one count of making a false statement to FBI General Counsel James A. Baker. Fn6Xp_)G;&M. According to Durhams indictment, Danchenko fabricated the Steele Dossiers central allegationthat the Trump campaign was conspiring with Russia. The Report was highly controversial. 0000007890 00000 n Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann (Perkins Coie LLP). Reg.) % Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) led to a series of reforms and changes. "[12], The British Parliament implemented the first point immediately but not the second. The Canadian rebellions in British political thought, 18351840. The WSJ report cited anonymous sources. 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. We will contact you again once the litigation in this matter allows. Fusion GPS is a Washington, D.C.based consulting firm that, according to its website, provides premium research, strategic intelligence, and due diligence services to corporations, law firms, and investors worldwide.REF The firm was founded by two former journalists, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch.REF, Marc Elias of Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS in April 2016 to perform a variety of research services relating to then-candidate Donald Trump.REF Simpson, Fritsch, and others at Fusion GPS conducted preliminary research on then-candidate Trump, then collectively decided that they needed to do what they could to keep Trump out of the White House.REF Perkins Coie, using funds paid to it by Hillary for America and the DNC, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million in 2016.REF, Fusion GPSs role was to provide opposition research on then-candidate Trump relating to his alleged relationship with Russia. Igor Danchenko is a Russian national who was once employed as a policy analyst for the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.based think tank. [2] He had just been appointed Governor General and given special powers as high commissioner of British North America. Durhams indictment of Michael Sussmann and other court filings reveal how senior members of Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign formed a joint venture with lawyers, opposition researchers, foreign nationals, and computer data analysts to produce false opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump and aggressively disseminated that disinformation to reporters, the FBI, and others. It was also pointed out that an uprising had occurred in Upper Canada where there was only one "race". It was pointed out that many of the Patriote leaders were of British or British Canadian origin, including among others Wolfred Nelson, the hero of the Battle of Saint-Denis; Robert Nelson, author of the Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada, who would have become President of Lower Canada had the second insurrection succeeded; journalist Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan; and Thomas Storrow Brown, general during the Battle of St-Charles. The complete report enti- tled "Soviet Active Measures in the Untied States 1986-87" follows my remarks. Durham report full text. 4 0 obj Choose the drop down menus to view archived documents. An official website of the United States government. A briefing report was provided to the Environment and Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) on the 11th April 2022 which updated Members on local air quality management across County Durham. 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. Indeed, so much praise has been showered on the famous Report that it may come as a surprise to some to learn that when it appeared it was widely . Hb```f``/f`c``cd@ A;@ This Legal Memorandum is an effort to unravel the joint venture and place each of the parties to Clintons disinformation campaign into the proper context. 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. 0000009189 00000 n 0000011232 00000 n 170/03. This paper summarizes Special Counsel Durhams findings to date regarding just some of the actions taken by key players in Hillary for Americas 2016 disinformation campaign against Trump. A lock ( Following consultation with Mr. Durham, I have determined that, in light ofthe I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 1, 2021. 0000017026 00000 n 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 . ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. 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. The entire mistrust which the two races have thus learned to conceive of each other's intentions, induces them to put the worst construction on the most innocent conduct; to judge every word, every act, and every intention unfairly; to attribute the most odious designs, and reject every overture of kindness or fairness, as covering secret designs of treachery and malignity. 0000128256 00000 n 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). "[11], "We are not now to consider the policy of establishing representative government in the North American Colonies. 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. sJevR9/M+a$X;E$ fB#L4:4bl[GEj;_ px".crp VZClX#rBC+:@ 3EB@ XKQ, 0000003227 00000 n Thank you,-----------------------------------------Initial Request StaffOffice of Information PolicyU.S. 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. the details, and results of air quality monitoring for 2021 at 0000008520 00000 n After the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham was sent from England to investigate the cause of the unrest. That, of course, didn't happen. In 2016, Danchenko was a salaried employee of Orbis Business Intelligence, and was the primary source of information that formed the core of the allegations found in the Steele Dossier.REF Danchenko was interviewed on multiple occasions by the FBI in 2017 and allegedly told multiple lies during those interviews. Department of Justice, Subject: Your FOIA Request FOIA-2021-01633. Overview 1.1 This report provides an overview of the current economic climate and Regional John Durham Sussmann filing 2/11/22 Contributed by CNN Digital (CNN) p. 1. It is one thing to dredge up a political candidates youthful indiscretions or shady financial dealings, but it is quite another to fabricate false and sensational allegations, present them to the FBI as fact, and serve them up to a willing media in the weeks leading up to Election Day. 4. 0000010649 00000 n Washington, D.C. U.S. @\aJ '.a}29[s&33C[0/txlvJ{/ u3 endstream endobj 700 0 obj 526 endobj 701 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 700 0 R >> stream 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. Washington, D.C. 20530, Russian National Indicted for Making False Statements to the FBI, November 4, 2021, Grand Jury Indicts D.C. Attorney with Making False Statements to the FBI in 2016 Regarding Alleged Communications Between Trump Organization and Russian Bank, September 16, 2021, U.S. Department of Justice Poor farming conditions that year led to reduced harvests and increased poverty for farmers. Learn more. HdRFIQI[Zv,w89|T iW;~a/Az [+;(&q#;%e\G'Ys>)DaW.%Yu7vsta(7yYnrmT>,|z)2S 2 Eric HotchkissSenior Government Information SpecialistOffice of Information Policy, Subject: RE: Freedom of Information Act Request #FOIA-2021-01633. @oE9Xs!pQnGQF 06 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. 0000004842 00000 n Its major recommendation, responsible government, originated with the Baldwins and other moderate reformers rather than with . 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). MuckRock is a non-profit collaborative news site that gives you the tools to keep our government transparent and accountable. 0000001411 00000 n The United States of America, by and through its attorney, Special Counsel John H. Durham . <>/Metadata 531 0 R/ViewerPreferences 532 0 R>> 2 0 obj [6] Much more important was the impact on Anglophone Canada, where led by Joseph Howe, Robert Baldwin, and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine it produced dramatic reforms.[7]. PDF Download. In a September 2016 e-mail to a Russian associate, Galkina stated that Dolan would take me to the State Department if Hillary wins.REF, According to Danchenkos interviews with the FBI, Galkina was a fount of information on the Trump campaigns ties to the Kremlin. @VD'" p1H "6e~e 4<<<>$Z%"t1T]`0yJVw*`(#0|m]Q1LS='uHdP#qRUD]Uom;TIHFo6d~ hDcMV}i 82 endstream endobj 704 0 obj 545 endobj 705 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 704 0 R >> stream According to documents filed by Durhams team and other published reports, which serve as the basis for the factual assertions in this Legal Memorandum, the effort was funded, approved, and briefed to the highest level of the Clinton campaign. 0000100284 00000 n 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. However, Durham believed that the problems in mostly Lower Canada were not of a political nature, but rather of an ethnic one. 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. 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. 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. endstream endobj 69 0 obj <>/Metadata 9 0 R/Pages 65 0 R/StructTreeRoot 18 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 70 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> endobj 71 0 obj <>stream endstream endobj 74 0 obj <>stream 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. 0000011210 00000 n had ever been reported in the Steele Dossier, when, in fact, Danchenko had gathered information that was featured in the Steele Dossier from Dolan regarding former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.REF, Charles Dolan, Jr. 1 0 obj 0000009663 00000 n Much remains to be uncovered, exposed, and proven by Durham. 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. He was interested in not only unifying Upper and Lower Canada but also including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 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. HtUM0WpVu=q_U+J\J'qlK7o^ ,xpM!f,?MP8hc=W bQ3j]z9E3W*TO9BairKA :"F8=u~ZxAR*yt'ut>W (i26N/w26z?pd%`ZM$Nt}u *BP)A[ykB&s7C7;OlCZ9CL}m#un\n!KRr=8e^72("QeNd76F!)`6aH+C@^(=K`W%? 0000009167 00000 n (alterations in original) (quoting Wheat, 486 U.S. at 161). Secure .gov websites use HTTPS Indictments filed by Durham show. Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. Justice.gov Special Counsel John Durham's Office Special Counsel John Durham About On October 19, 2020, John Durham was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel by the order below. Rodney Joffe, then an executive at Neustar, Inc., a Virginia-based Internet technology company, is a central figure in the Alfa-Bank disinformation campaign.REF Joffe appears to have had an interest in Hillary Clintons election. !3v V!IT&`:caM&YH~susF*`L`}GbeU"iiN;_"8' ZQ~jL$%~o,2Du&^}FYW&!m6*X3~n/ReCe, The Steele Dossier sets forth the alleged conspiracy as described by Danchenko in report 2016/095: Danchenko claims that he heard the well-developed conspiracy allegation from Sergei Millian (referred to above as Source E), a BelarusianAmerican who formerly served as the president of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce in the USA.REF. "[10], "At first sight it appears much more difficult to form an accurate idea of the state of Upper than of Lower Canada. Page was placed under FBI surveillance in an operation that was later flagged in a December 2019 report (pdf) conducted by the Department of Justice's inspector general, who found errors and omissions in how the . She did not even live in Russia in 2016. Among other items that were ultimately reported in the Steele Dossier, Galkina was Danchenkos source for the allegations that Michael Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in August or September 2016 and that Carter Page met with Igor Diveykin, a senior Kremlin officialan allegation later cited by the FBI in its FISA application to surveil Page.REF. The second major component of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign was its effort to smear then-candidate Trump with a false allegation that the Trump organization had a secret channel of communication with Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia. This report has been prepared to satisfy Section 11 of Ontario Regulation (O. 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. 0000003027 00000 n "[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. "Histoire de la rsistance du Canada au gouvernement anglais", in, This page was last edited on 13 December 2022, at 11:26. The newly created Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was required to have equal representation from Canada East and Canada West,[14] even though the population of Canada East was considerably larger. He believed the British Parliament should give the colonies more power by a responsible government. That is particularly the case when, as here, Hillary Clintons political operation retained a law firm in an attempt to provide legal cover for the campaigns opposition research efforts. endstream endobj 73 0 obj <>stream