Things are going really well.
As we start off the week, we are starting to enter a period that we could get our Open Records Request back from the Georgia AG office that I mentioned here. They started asking me questions last week about producing marketing blast-type emails, so I know they’ve been working on it. More than likely, that will come next week.
I’m hoping that will yield all of the internal discussions at the AG office when they were deciding whether to represent the Georgia Tech researchers against the Durham investigation, before they ultimately decided not to. That should be very interesting. For $850 they better give us something good.
I also took on a little side project and submitted an Open Records request for John Fetterman, the Democrat-Senate candidate in Pennsylvania. Apparently, as Mayor, he used a private email address. However, Braddock has accepted my request and they are working to fulfill my request for all emails sent around the time period that he pulled the shotgun on the jogger. I’ll raise some hell on that one, but it’s unclear if Fetterman will comply before the election.
I’ve been sandbagging on filing an additional lawsuits against DARPA, Cyber Command, the CIA, and the NSA. I’m really hoping that the GOP takes either the House or the Senate and they put together a special committee of some kind for Russiagate. There are too many legitimate questions (and a dozen worthy offshoots like Ops-Trust and Centurylink/DARPA) to expect the Durham report to answer it all.
The litigation we have ongoing already is progressing, but I can’t make any predictions on when we will receive our files. When it’s all over, it’ll make for one hell of a podcast episode to share what is happening behind the scenes.
The Danchenko trial starts in a week.
I was really hoping to go out there like I did for the Sussmann trial to do some live-tweeting but I need to save some money to put some other plans in motion.
I know there are some other sleuths heading out there, so it’s going to be a really fun week to hear their observations.
Durham has a tall order in winning convictions. There are some real challenges with materiality.
We should learn a ton. There is a FBI interview of Ivan Vorontsov (believed to be from June 2017) that is going to be a bombshell and add to the mountain of questions of why and how the FBI could ignore everything that damned their case. I have talked to Vorontsov a little, he seems like a good guy. I really want to know which FBI agents conducted that interview.
@Fool_Nelson has a brilliant theory about a tie-in to Shadow Brokers stuff as well, which is going to blow a lot of minds if that turns up in trial.
Olga Galkina and Chuck Dolan and their understanding of the dossier and Hillary Clinton might open some eyes as well.
Durham is going to lead the team at trial. Hopefully we can get a sense of the validity of the rumors around him and what he might intend going forward.
I’ll set up a chat a little later this week to review Danchenko and as the trial commences next week, I would expect there to be near-nightly chats.
As a (now retired) reporter and editor, I always encouraged my reporters to ask for inspection of FOIA docs before requesting copies to keep expenses down. I don't know if that is possible for your worthy pursuits -- just an idea.
Thanks. I'll be happy when some FBI people are in jail. Strzok's firing letter from Bowdich was really interesting. Wasn't he involved as an attorney for the Blasey-Ford issue?