A Georgia Tech researcher’s candid reaction to the indictment of a former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer hints at an intriguing development in the Russia collusion scandal. Two days after the indictment dropped, the researcher told a university lawyer and other higher-ups that the special counsel had lied in the indictment about the Alfa Bank hoax, according to a document first obtained by The Federalist on Thursday.
But the details the Georgia Tech researcher explained instead reveal a more damning scenario concerning his peers’ potential access to data from the Executive Office of the President, or EOP, during the Trump transition period. These new revelations come six months after Special Counsel John Durham indicted Michael Sussmann on one count of lying to FBI General Counsel James Baker.
That indictment, as I previously explained, “alleged that when Sussmann met with Baker on September 19, 2016, to provide the FBI attorney with data and ‘white papers’ that purported to establish a secret communication channel between the Trump organization and the Russia-connected Alfa Bank, Sussmann falsely claimed he was not acting on behalf of a client, when in reality Sussmann was working both for the Clinton campaign and an unnamed ‘U.S. technology industry executive’ since confirmed to be Rodney Joffe.”
What We Know From the Indictment
While Durham’s team charged Sussmann with a single count of lying to the FBI, the special counsel’s speaking indictment added great texture to the origins of the Alfa Bank conspiracy theory. According to the indictment, by late July 2016, a computer researcher operating under the moniker “Tea Leaves” and branded “Originator-1” by the special counsel’s office had assembled data purporting to show communications between Alfa Bank and the email domain “mail.1.trump-email.com.”
“Originator-1,” since identified as April Lorenzen, then shared that data with Joffe and two university researchers called simply Researcher-1 and Researcher-2 in the indictment, but now known to be Georgia Tech’s Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon, respectively.
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