Georgia Tech Researcher Saga Continues

Over the last week I have received two new batches of documents. The first came from the Georgia Attorney General office, while the other came from Georgia’s Department of Administrative Services (DOAS).

Both contain additional email strings in the same vein as emails documented in my writeups here and here.

I also want to backup to the documents noted in those two articles to highlight something I glossed over at the time. In the following paragraph we have a reference to “Mr. Trump’s use of a Russian Yota phone..” which appears to be the first indication anywhere that the Yota phone allegation concerned President Trump himself. We recently reviewed the Yota white paper, courtesy of Margot Cleveland; the allegations are underwhelming and the support is sparse.

Moving on to the documents I recently obtained.

It looks like David Dagon is continuing to fight to have all his legal expenses paid by the State of Georgia, representing all of this work was part of his official responsibilities. How it ended up with Fusion GPS and Michael Sussmann is apparently some mystery, explanations for that are starkly absent from their letters. I’m aware of certain communications between David Dagon and Sussmann, including an “anonymous” letter that kicked off some portion of these allegations. You can imagine my utter shock and anger that there continue to be documents withheld from us with no justification. We see some reference to those here:

And reading through the lengthy legal invoice we have some indications of what potential criminal charges were:

We got another representation that they performed work for Special Counsel Mueller:

And then, we got an interesting reference about a pre-existing relationship between Dagon and his attorney, Jody Westby. Westby had a significant relationship with the CIA, including founding In-Q-Tel, a technology company funding apparatus for the CIA to keep them on the cutting edge. This could speculatively suggest a relationship between David Dagon and the CIA, or perhaps some other government agency.

The most important reference is to Durham being forced to back off alleging the data was fabricated:

This was likely due to Dagon’s status of immunity, effectively submarining the investigation. It remains to be seen what would happen if Dagon’s immunity was destroyed by fraud charges in the course of getting all his legal expenses paid by representing DARPA approved the work.

DARPA has publicly denied approving the work.

It’s an extraordinarily odd situation where Dagon at various points maintained joint defense arrangements with the people Durham was investigating.

That concludes the first batch.

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In the next batch, we got a letter referenced in prior documents that purports to explain how other government entities sanctioned this work.

Effectively, it acts as a blackmail letter, noting that:

Contrary to the description of the memorandum, there is no justification whatsoever in the body of the September 28 letter that explains how the work was sanctioned by anyone. Through all the documents I have obtained, I have seen zero evidence that should compel the payment of anyone’s legal fees. There are numerous references to DARPA approving the work, but no substantive evidence.

The rest of the documents appear to be haggling over the payment of David Dagon’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. At various points, it looks like there are people asking the right questions but it never seems like they get the answers.

We have a serious issue here, where people involved in the garbage Alfa data, who gave it to political operatives and not their law enforcement contacts, also worked for Special Counsel Mueller. And they looked at the hack of the DNC and I continue to pose the question of whether the 12 GRU agents indicted by Mueller were indicted using evidence from David Dagon, Rodney Joffe, or Manos Antonakakis.

I am terrified of the answer.