Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John Durham.
A powerful and influential player in the tech world, Joffe tasked a group of computer contractors connected to the Georgia Institute of Technology with finding "Anything" in Internet data that would link Trump to Russia and make Democratic "VIPs happy," according to an August 2016 email Joffe sent to the researchers.
Joffe's lawyer has described his client as "Apolitical." He said Joffe brought Sussmann information about Trump he believed to be true out of concern for the nation.
Joffe himself called the data used to back up the narrative a "Red herring." In another email, Joffe said he had been promised a high post if Clinton were elected, suggesting he may have had a personal motivation to make a sinister connection between Russia and Trump.
A registered Democrat, Lorenzen was tasked by Joffe with making a Trump connection from the data along with the researchers from Georgia Tech, where she has worked as a guest researcher since 2007.
A colleague of Lorenzen who features prominently in the project to link Trump to the Russian bank, but who is not referenced in the indictment, is L. Jean Camp, an Indiana University computer science professor who posted the dodgy data on her website and helped propagate the conspiracy theory in the media.
The indictment stated that Joffe "Shared certain results of these data searches and analysis" with Sussmann for the FBI to investigate, suggesting he may have cherry-picked the data to fit a preconceived "Narrative," - or "Storyline," as the computer researchers also referred to it in emails obtained by Durham.
Monday, October 11, 2021
Durham Probes Pentagon Computer Contractors in Anti-Trump Conspiracy
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