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In or around mid-2015, in an effort to foster greater coordination and cohesion with Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Campaign, the DNC retained the same law firm, [[Perkins Coie]], to serve as its general counsel. Two of Perkins Coie’s senior partners, [[Marc Elias]] and [[Michael Sussmann]], were largely responsible for handling the firm’s representation of the DNC and the Clinton Campaign in their legal, political, and other affairs. Elias, in particular, was designated as “General Counsel” for
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both the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.  This arrangement violated DNC by-laws requiring the party to be neutral until a nominee was chosen by the primary and convention process.
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*'''2 June.''' Senate voted to pass the USA Freedom Act, at a vote of 67–32. [[John Carlin]] — informed the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] that the USA Freedom Act would allow for the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance to continue for another six months as part of a transition period, despite the fact that it had ‘officially’ shut down on May 30, 2015.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/congress-surveillance-reform-edward-snowden</ref>
 
*'''2 June.''' Senate voted to pass the USA Freedom Act, at a vote of 67–32. [[John Carlin]] — informed the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] that the USA Freedom Act would allow for the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance to continue for another six months as part of a transition period, despite the fact that it had ‘officially’ shut down on May 30, 2015.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/congress-surveillance-reform-edward-snowden</ref>
 
:*Eric Ciaramella meets with Alexandra Chalupa at the White House. Also present were Alexandra Sopko, who at the time was a special assistant and policy advisor to the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which was run by [[Valerie Jarrett]], and Alexa Kissinger, a special assistant to Jarrett.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>
 
:*Eric Ciaramella meets with Alexandra Chalupa at the White House. Also present were Alexandra Sopko, who at the time was a special assistant and policy advisor to the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which was run by [[Valerie Jarrett]], and Alexa Kissinger, a special assistant to Jarrett.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>
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