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A July 2016 declassified note written by [[CIA]] director [[John Brennan]] references "a proposal from one of her [Hillary Clinton] foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/20/gordon-durham-indictment-in-russiagate-leads-to-jake-sullivan/</ref>
A July 2016 declassified note written by [[CIA]] director [[John Brennan]] references "a proposal from one of her [Hillary Clinton] foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/20/gordon-durham-indictment-in-russiagate-leads-to-jake-sullivan/</ref>
===Collusion with Mark Elias===
Paul Sperry of Realclearinvestigations reported that Sullivan figures prominently in an investigation by Special Counsel [[John Durham]] into an alleged [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]] scheme to use both the [[FBI]] and [[CIA]] to smear [[Donald Trump]] as a colluder with Russia.<ref>https://www.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</ref> Sullivan spearheaded what was known inside her campaign as a “confidential project” to link Trump to the [[Kremlin]] through dubious email-server records provided to the agencies. Sussmann, a partner in Perkins Coie, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements to the FBI about a secret Trump-Russia server. After a months-long investigation, the FBI found no merit to the rumor.
A grand jury indicated in its indictment that several people were involved in the alleged [[conspiracy]] to mislead the FBI and trigger an investigation of Donald Trump. The Clinton campaign project involved compiling a "digital dossier” on several Trump campaign officials – including Lt. Gen. [[Michael Flynn]], [[Paul Manafort]], [[George Papadopoulos]], and [[Carter Page]]. This effort exploited highly sensitive, nonpublic Internet data related to their personal email communications and web-browsing, known as Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses. To mine the data, the Clinton campaign enlisted a team of Beltway computer contractors as well as university researchers with security clearance who often collaborate with the FBI and the [[intelligence community]]. They worked from a five-page campaign document called the "Trump Associates List."
The indictment states that Michael Sussmann, as well as the cyber experts recruited for the operation, "coordinated with representatives and agents of the Clinton campaign with regard to the data and written materials that Sussmann gave to the FBI and the media." One of those campaign agents was Jake Sullivan, according to emails Durham obtained. On September 15, 2016 [[Marc Elias]] "exchanged emails with the Clinton campaign’s foreign policy adviser concerning the Russian bank allegations," as well as with other top campaign officials, the indictment states.
Jake Sullivan was aware of the participants in the project. These included [[Fusion GPS]], which worked for the Clinton campaign to gather dirt and draft the materials Elias discussed with Sullivan, the materials Sussmann later submitted to the FBI. Sullivan personally met with Elias, who briefed him on Fusion's efforts. Sullivan maintained in testimony before the [[House Intelligence Committee]] that he didn’t know of Fusion’s involvement. "Marc [Elias] ... would occasionally give us updates on the opposition research they were conducting, but I didn't know what the nature of that effort was – inside effort, outside effort, who was funding it, who was doing it, anything like that," Sullivan stated under oath. Sullivan testified he didn’t know that Perkins Coie was working for the Clinton campaign until October 2017. Sullivan maintained he didn’t even know that Elias worked for Perkins Coie.
Lying to Congress is a [[felony]]. Though the offense is rarely prosecuted, former Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]] won convictions of two of Trump’s associates on charges of that very offense.
===Collusion with Dan Jones and The Democracy Integrity Project===
===Collusion with Dan Jones and The Democracy Integrity Project===