New Documents: Someone Is Lying

In the spring I had the pleasure of collaborating with Margot Cleveland at The Federalist, bouncing ideas off each other as we submitted dozens of open records requests to Georgia Tech.

We’d seen some hints of Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon doing work on the DNC hack here or there, but then she snagged a doozy, an email where Manos wrote to colleagues:

Days later, Jerry Dunleavy at the Washington Examiner got DARPA on the record, denying any association with the DNC hack investigation:

“DARPA was not involved in efforts to attribute the DNC hack. Dr. Antonakakis worked on DARPA’s Enhanced Attribution program, which did not involve analysis of the DNC hack,” Jared Adams, DARPA’s chief of communications, told the Washington Examiner. “Further, DARPA was not involved in efforts to attribute the Guccifer 2.0 persona, nor any involvement in efforts to attribute the origin of leaked emails provided to Wikileaks.”

DARPA went on to say:

“Enhanced Attribution, a four-year research effort, did not start until November of 2016," DARPA's spokesman said. "The research associated with the Sussmann allegation, as detailed in the Durham indictment, occurred before then and was not at all affiliated with DARPA nor the EA program.”

This left some confusion, added to when I obtained documents from the Georgia AG office where David Dagon’s attorney noted:

Tonight, I have the next chapter in the story after I obtained a large number of documents from the Georgia Attorney General, and I will be breaking multiple stories in the coming days.

One of the documents I have obtained is a September 28, 2020 letter that David Dagon’s attorneys wrote to the Chief Counsel of Employment & Litigation at Georgia Tech where they noted:

Right off the top, we get clear confirmation that they did work on the hack of the DNC, and that work is subject to Special Counsel Durham’s investigation.

Moving into paragraph 3, they detail that Dagon and Antonakakis provided work product to Special Counsel Mueller, and this information was being transmitted “via DARPA.”

These paragraphs appear to evidence a substantial relationship between the Department of Justice and David Dagon.

@Fool_Nelson recalled this document we obtained in the spring where the former head of the Enhanced Attribution program at DARPA, Angelos Keromytis, noted such ties to the DOJ.

We also get vague references to “attribution research”, presumably the same research that prompts Antonakakis to fear for his life:

I am prepared to speculate that the indictment of the 12 GRU operatives by Mueller is based in some part on the work of David Dagon and Manos Antonakakis, and that work is sequestered as grand jury material and has been shielded from the public under the pretense of a prosecution that will never happen.

Did DARPA sanction this work or not? Who is lying? Did individuals at DARPA go rogue? Did they lie to Dunleavy, and are they trying to cover something up?

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Before we move on, I would like to remind everyone of Allison Sands’ testimony in the Sussmann trial, where she noted a strong desire to interview David Dagon in October 2016 about Alfa bank allegations and the related data, which was fabricated. She was rebuffed by FBI leadership.

At some point, Dagon was working for Mueller and the Department of Justice [even if the information was laundered through DARPA] and apparently, nobody thought to ask him about Alfa allegations and the white paper they believed he had drafted.

There is more to come. The next story won’t cut to the center of Russiagate per se, but I feel it’s an incredibly important story for accountability that might surprise a ton of people. Once I finish releasing stories I will drop the documents in full [and more are expected soon].