Thursday, September 23, 2021

Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt CIA and FBI to Tar Trump

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the criminal probe, which they say has broadened into a conspiracy case.

Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan as Clinton campaign adviser for the 2016 election.

The tech group also pulled logs purportedly from servers for a Russian bank and Trump Tower, and the campaign provided the data to the FBI on two thumb drives, along with three "White papers" that claimed the data indicated the Trump campaign was secretly communicating with Moscow through a server in Trump Tower and the Alfa Bank in Russia.

In late July 2016, during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the CIA picked up Russian chatter about a Clinton foreign policy adviser who was trying to develop allegations to "Vilify" Trump.

On the eve of the election, Sullivan claimed in a written campaign statement that Trump and the Russians had set up a "Secret hotline" through Alfa Bank, and he suggested "Federal authorities" were investigating "This direct connection between Trump and Russia." He portrayed the shocking discovery as the work of independent experts - "Computer scientists" - without disclosing their attachment to the campaign.

Clinton tweeted, "It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia," while attaching a meme that read: "Donald Trump has a secret server. It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.".

According to notes taken by FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, who attended a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting with Obama and Biden, in which Trump, Flynn and Russia were discussed, Biden raised the idea: "VP: Logan Act," the notes read. Although he's not an attorney, Sullivan has argued in congressional testimony and elsewhere that Flynn violated the Logan Act, raising suspicions he may have put the idea in Biden's head. Sullivan had advised the vice president before joining the Clinton campaign.
 

http://preview.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/23/biden_security_adviser_sullivan_tied_to_16_clinton_plan_to_co-opt_cia_and_fbi_to_tar_trump_795498.html 

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