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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 Dan Jones and The Democracy Integrity Potihect===
On February 10, 2017, Jake Sullivan met with[[Daniel Jones]], [[John Podesta]], and two [[FusionGPS]] operatives to hatch the post-election plan to resurrect rumors Trump was a tool of the [[Kremlin]]. RealClearInvestigations reported the group discussed raising money to finance a multimillion-dollar opposition research project headed by Jones to target the new president.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/14/transcripts_clinton_aides_joined_post-election_bid_to_re-push_anti-trump_dossier_123616.html</ref> In effect, Jones’ operation would replace the Clinton campaign’s operation, continuing the effort to undermine Trump. The goal was to compel agents to continue investigating the false rumors in the wake of the election, thereby keeping Trump's presidency under an ethical cloud.
On March 28, 2017, Jones met with the FBI to pass on supposedly fresh leads he and the cyber researchers had learned about the Alfa Bank server and Trump, and the FBI looked into the new leads after having closed its investigation a month earlier. That same month, FBI Director [[James Comey]] publicly announced the bureau was investigating possible “coordination" between [[Moscow]] and the newly sworn-in president's campaign. Despite the renewed push by Jones, the FBI debunked the tip of a nefarious Russian back channel. Agents learned the email server in question wasn’t even controlled by the Trump Organization. The supposed “secret server" was housed in Lititz, [[Pennsylvania]] and not Trump Tower in [[New York City]], and it was operated by a marketing firm based in [[Florida]] called Cendyn that routinely blasts out emails promoting multiple hotel chains. The third-party server sent spam to Alfa Bank employees who used Trump hotels. Alfa had maintained a New York office since 2001. “The FBI’s investigation revealed that the email server at issue was not owned or operated by the Trump Organization but, rather, had been administrated by a mass-marketing email company that sent advertisements for Trump hotels and hundreds of other clients,” Durham wrote in his indictment. Nonetheless, Jones and Sullivan kept promoting the canard as true. "It wasn’t true," Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]] confirmed in 2019 testimony.
With help from Sullivan and Podesta in 2017, Jones launched a nonprofit group called The [[Democracy Integrity Project]], which raised some $7 million mainly from Silicon Valley tech executives. TDIP hired computer researchers, as well as FusionGPS opposition researchers and [[Christopher Steele]], the foreign author of the now-discredited ''[[Steele dossier]]'', to “prove” the rumors in the dossier. As they sought new dirt on Trump, they fed their information to [[fake news]] [[media]] outlets, leading [[Democrat]]s on the [[Senate Intelligence Committee]], namely Sens. [[Mark Warner]] and [[Ron Wyden]], and the FBI.
As Realclearinvestigations first reported,<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/03/11/trump-russia_20_dossier-tied_firm_sending_dc_journalists_daily_collusion_briefings.html</ref> Jones emailed a daily news bulletin known as "TDIP Research" to prominent Beltway journalists to keep the Trump-Russia “collusion” rumor-mill going, including the debunked rumor about the "secret server." John Durham subpoenaed Jones to testify before his [[grand jury]] hearing the case, along with computer experts and researchers recruited by Michael Sussmann for the Clinton campaign project.<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-contested-afterlife-of-the-trump-alfa-bank-story</ref>
==Arab Spring==
==Arab Spring==