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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. 0000001907 00000 n Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Durham Report Executive Summary. 0000017026 00000 n 4. 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. Washington, D.C. U.S. 0000093315 00000 n %%EOF As reported in the Wall Street Journal, in 2016, Galkina was a press secretary to Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian Internet entrepreneur living in Cyprus.REF In early 2016, Galkina travelled to Washington, D.C., in an effort to develop a marketing campaign for Servers.com, one of Gubarevs business interests. 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). 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 . 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. lm@Z 31(`w} CM ,Y\ y gg` 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. 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. Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022, Statement of Expenditures, October 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022, Statement of Expenditures, April 1, 2021 - September 30, 2021, Statement of Expenditures, October 19, 2020 - March 31, 2021, Department of Justice endstream endobj startxref Christopher Steele (Orbis Business Intelligence). Opposition research is the collection of information on the background, activities, etc., of ones opponent or opponents in an effort to uncover damaging details that will undermine them.REF, Fusion GPS utilized the $1 million paid to it to hire several sub-vendors to research alleged ties between Trump and Russia.REF Fusion GPSs sub-vendors included Nellie Ohr (the wife of Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who served as a conduit to provide certain Steele Dossier reports to the FBI); Edward Baumgartner (a Russia researcher based in London); and Graham Stack (a freelance journalist).REF The most notable opposition research generated by Fusion GPS was through its sub-vendor Christopher Steelethe so-called Steele Dossier.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. Durham's investigation is still active and is presenting evidence to a grand jury. 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. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. endobj Although I hadexpected Mr.Durham to complete his work by the summer of2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional information he uncovered . Report all fires and smoke to Duke University Police Department by dialing 911 from any campus phone. According to Durhams indictment of Igor Danchenko, Dolan was connected to the most sordid allegation in the Steele Dossierthat in 2013, Trump had engaged in salacious sexual activity while a guest in the presidential suite at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton hotel.REF, At the time, Dolan was employed by KGlobal, a Washington, D.C.based public relations firm.REF Prior to that, Dolan held several senior roles in Democratic political circles, including as the state chairman for President Bill Clintons 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, adviser to Hillary Clintons 2008 campaign, and a volunteer for her 2016 campaign.REF As a public relations executive, Dolan interacted with senior officials in the Russian government, including the press secretary of the Russian Presidential Administration, as well as the Russian ambassador to the United States.REF, In June 2016, Dolan traveled to Moscow and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton. The primary component of Hillary for Americas disinformation campaign was its effort to smear then-candidate Trump with false reports that he was conspiring with the Kremlin to help him win the 2016 electionthe so-called Steele Dossier assembled by a former British spy and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Durham also recommended the creation of a municipal government and a supreme court in British North America. "DURHAM REPORT ROCKS POLITICAL WORLD," one of the banners on One America News proclaimed. 0000008520 00000 n Publication date 1912 . 0000006621 00000 n 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. Phone: 202-514-2000 Table of Contents 2/3 - Letter from the President and 2021-22 Board of Trustees 5 - A Proud History . 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. In D.C., Galkina asked for assistance from Danchenko, who in turn introduced Galkina to Dolan (by way of Danchenkos former boss at Brookings, Fiona Hill).REF Dolan was ultimately paid $75,000 by Aleksej Gubarev for his message development and outreach efforts in the U.S.REF, During the summer of 2016, Danchenko, Dolan, and Galkina traded gossip and spoke frequently, according to interviews and e-mails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.REF Dolan and Galkina communicated regularly, expressing their mutual support for Hillary Clinton. August 12, 2021 Back in April of 2019, Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham to look into how the FBI investigated whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials. Danchenko, who has been friends with Galkina since they were both teenagers in Russia, described Galkina as a key source for what he called the Trump dossier.REF According to Danchenko, Galkina knows someone in the Kremlin with direct/indirect access to Sergey Ivanov (then chief of staff to the Russian Presidential Administration). <>/Metadata 531 0 R/ViewerPreferences 532 0 R>> 0000128152 00000 n In May 2019, then-Attorney General William Barr assigned federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBIs) 2016 investigation into alleged collusion between the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and Russia, an investigation given the code name Crossfire Hurricane.REF For the purpose of protecting the investigation and providing additional independence to Durham, in October 2020, Barr formally appointed Durham as a special counsel charged to. 3. Fn6Xp_)G;&M. 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. 0000003227 00000 n A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. 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. For the report on the FBI's investigation into links between Donald Trump and Russia, see. Please do not reply to this e-mail, as this account is not monitored. Special Counsels Office In 1840, the population of Canada East was estimated at 670,000, while the population of Canada West was estimated to be 480,000. This is a big story. This activity will . 0000106946 00000 n 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 She did not even live in Russia in 2016. He was indicted by Durham on November 3, 2021, on five counts of making false statements to the FBI. 0 0000128256 00000 n 0000058401 00000 n lj-!36j2o((u tl#tCR]]MBhIt:Xj4r~'E9FM' [2] He had just been appointed Governor General and given special powers as high commissioner of British North America. After the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837, Lord Durham was sent from England to investigate the cause of the unrest. [17], This article is about the 1839 report on the causes of rebellions in Canada. David Mills, Richard Foot, and Andrew McIntosh, Carol Wilton, "'A Firebrand amongst the People': The Durham Meetings and Popular Politics in Upper Canada. But there is no evidence that Galkinareferred to in the Danchenko indictment as Russian Sub-Source-1was a Kremlin insider.
