Why Trump is once again claiming that he was spied upon in 2016 (Durham's crap)

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Why Trump is once again claiming that he was spied upon in 2016 (Durham's crap)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/14/why-trump-is-once-again-claiming-that-he-was-spied-upon-2016/


No paywall
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This brings us to the court filing that was submitted on Friday. In it, Durham extends his articulation of what allegedly happened as the Alfa Bank rumor was being developed behind closed doors. The key element of the document centers on the DNS data that was being looked at:

The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (“DNS”) Internet traffic pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”). (Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.)


The “particular healthcare provider” is apparently Spectrum Health, which — when the story first emerged in 2016 — was identified as similarly linked to the Trump email server but also provided reporters with the marketing spam emails that explained that connection.

It’s useful to note that Durham’s claim about data being “exploited” emerged early. Both Wheeler and Graham elevated questions about the ethics of digging through collected DNS records to investigate something that was probably outside of any agreement governing what the data was being collected for. But that doesn’t mean 1) that any laws were violated or 2) that this constitutes “hacking.” If I give you a key to my house and you use it to come in and read my diary, I will certainly be angry with you, but it’s not like you committed burglary.

Yet that’s how the paragraph above has at times been conveyed. On Fox News, for example, a story about the Durham filing ran with the headline “Clinton campaign paid to ‘infiltrate’ Trump Tower, White House servers to link Trump to Russia: Durham.” There are a few problems with this, including that the connection between Clinton’s team and the Perkins Coie Alfa Bank investigation is not direct, nor did Durham use the word “infiltrate,” a word that suggests illicit access to data.

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[Drafe Hoblin]

The most intriguing word in Durham's filing...  'Among'.

The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was..... etc., etc., etc.

Dan Bongino pointed that out this morning.  Safe to say that Durham was alluding to some equally weighty charges.

[SVPete]

DUpipo going for a swim:

[Ralph Wiggum]

The most intriguing word in Durham's filing...  'Among'.

The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was..... etc., etc., etc.

Dan Bongino pointed that out this morning.  Safe to say that Durham was alluding to some equally weighty charges.

One of the dutiful Democrat Party stenographers at the Washington Post tossed something out late afternoon, completely dismissing this.  It is a paywall item (which I get with my tax dollars), but not worth even bringing over to read Phillip Bump's tripe.   As SV Pete has just posted as I type this, something to do with that river in Egypt.