2022 Year in Review, Update, and Happy Holidays!
It was about a year ago that I came down with COVID and suddenly found myself with lots of extra free time around the holiday season. That’s when I started putting in FOIA’s and Open Records Requests. Since then, we’ve put in approximately 300.
I never intended to get this involved.
I was just going to be some guy on twitter who reviewed transcripts, reports, and retweeted some other accounts. What drove me to action is the desensitization within the media, and a complete breakdown in objectivity.
Left wing media outlets repeatedly have been involved in offering narratives from people involved in the stories, often uncritically. They pre-write the stories based on what partisans tell them and if it’s a hit piece on a conservative, they do the bare minimum veneer of objectivity, giving that conservative minutes to provide comment on the written story. Numerous journalists joined up with Fusion GPS, and the truth fell victim to their chance to be in the spotlight. Many others, including Sally Buzbee, knew that the dossier stories and collusion narratives were being pushed hard by the Clinton campaign and never included that fact in any subsequent reporting. They protected them as “sources.”
It’s been debunked. How many times have we heard that? With no further explanation. Whether it’s Russiagate or Hunter Biden stuff, the media has taken an active role and chosen a side. They’re not going to offer all the information and let us choose anymore.
In the fall of 2021, the New York Times ran some favorable coverage for the researchers associated with the Alfa Bank story. They didn’t point out the litany of things that were wrong with the allegations. They didn’t seek to answer the questions an honest person would have. Around the same time, George Stephanopoulos and some ABC reporters scored a lengthy interview with Christopher Steele that ran on Hulu. It is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen, given what we knew at the time, completely failing to pushback on Steele and failing to offer context that we had. More, it actually seems apologetic. It seems intended to rehabilitate Steele’s image.
Fox News hasn’t been any better. Their sole contributions have been getting out way over their skis on Seth Rich stuff and inexplicably running with a narrative that Clinton had paid the cyber researchers involved with the Alfa allegations. The latter portion appeared to be based on an off-handed comment from Kash that had no basis in the body of evidence. But do they pick up and report information that the Twitter sleuths have traced back to source documents? No, of course they don’t. You won’t see anything we find show up on Fox News until and unless a big-name influencer runs with it.
Not a single outlet has made an attempt at seriously presenting the other side of the story or investigating it.
That’s what drives me.
People have lost perspective of how far the story has evolved. We didn’t even know Clinton paid for Fusion GPS and the dossier until October 2017. Remember the Nunes memo, and the barrage of media stories saying FISA couldn’t be abused in the way Nunes described?
Only recently we learned about Danchenko being hidden as a paid CHS.
“Durham fails to show conspiracy,” has been a common headline. That’s an insane takeaway from the evidence that we have. I’m not saying there will be conspiracy charges or any additional charges at all, but, nobody should be sleeping well at night. Nobody should be proud of the FBI right now.
I could go on, but my Substack audience gets it.
All we’re trying to do is to investigate the other side of this thing. So far, the truth seems to be much closer to what we have been suggesting for years than the line in the sand that left wing journalists have drawn over and over.
Especially if you could revisit what they said in 2017, or 2018, or 2019. Why do they (both the left and right wing media who’ve been so wrong) get to continue to control the conversation on this?
We started off the year by giving Paul Sperry our background research on Joffe’s business associations.
Together with Margot, we found out that the same cyber researchers involved in the Alfa allegations worked for SCO Mueller. Most of the country still doesn’t know that.
I think we’ve obtained compelling evidence that they were involved in the DNC hack attribution, raising questions that deserve to be asked.
We obtained evidence that the DOJ routinely runs investigative taskings through DARPA, and that some of these showed up at Georgia Tech, as Senator Wyden acknowledged.
It’s early days, but we helped uncover what I believe to be a massive spying scandal inside the Department of Defense.
For someone who works a demanding full time job, that’s not too bad for a first year. Most of my “finds” are because I worked well into the night, sometimes submitting FOIA’s at 1 or 2am. Sometimes I got out of bed just to submit a FOIA.
We went to court. We sued the federal government twice, and sued Dr. Antonakakis to fight for documents that the public deserves to have. To fight for documents that have been withheld.
Our case against Dr. Antonakakis was dismissed at the trial court a few weeks ago. It’s not over. The statute is clear, the case law is clear, and I have the best lawyers in the State of Georgia. We will appeal, and appeal again if necessary and at the end of the day, I have no doubt whatsoever that we will move into discovery and ultimately obtain the documents we seek.
Where do we go from here?
More.
I have learned so much in the last year. I have developed the knowledge base and skill set to continue this. I will be bringing another case against the federal government soon, and then another.
I am continuing to aggressively pursue documents that private actors hold, and I continue to weigh additional lawsuits there.
What about John Durham?
I have no idea guys. I have no special insights there, I have no sources close to him. I stood across from him for about 10 minutes at the Sussmann trial, I suppose I should’ve said hello and made the kind of friend you tell secret information to.
He could be done, maybe he sets up another grand jury. I’m extremely concerned about interference from AG Garland. Garland was demanding his report last May when Durham clearly wasn’t intending to be done, he was still fighting for Fusion GPS emails.
Theoretically, I might have a play for those Fusion GPS emails.
This thing is such a disaster and I cannot believe that he would walk away without filing more criminal charges. But maybe.
Three years ago he told us he didn’t agree that Crossfire Hurricane had proper predication. Was that because of the companies the supposed GRU operatives leased servers and equipment from in Arizona? Maybe. Was it because of who worked on the DNC hack attribution? Joffe? Manos? Dagon? Maybe.
If I had to guess, Manos and Dagon helped Mueller, and Joffe might’ve slipped information to his contacts at the NSA/FBI/Others through other routes. Joffe could be the source for the October 2016 attribution, and Manos/Dagon and their work could be the source for the Mueller attribution & indictment.
Was it because despite testimony to the contrary, the FBI never got the server images from the DNC/Crowdstrike? Or perhaps there was evidence of tampering? [I don’t know either of these to be true, I just know that as of October 2016 the FBI still didn’t have the server images.]
What about the DOD spying mess? What about Ops-Trust? I don’t know about that either. There are probably 10 different scandals we haven’t heard of that have also been on Durham’s plate.
Stop asking where Durham is. Ask who will protect him against AG Garland. Ask who will bring the subpoenas to look at the issues we already know about.
Hopefully, 2023 is the year. We’ll finally get 95% of the answers and maybe, just maybe, the public will catch up to us and together we can all start asking the right questions.
I’m thankful to have all of you subscribed to my Substack. Without this, there would literally be no point in doing this project because I wouldn’t have a platform.
Happy holidays to all of you.