Roadmap for Congressional Investigation

We know information that the rest of the country doesn’t. There is 50 times more media coverage just on how celebrities feel about the topic of the day than any investigative journalism.

I’ve made no secret as a random & semi-anonymous blogger that nobody has heard of about my disappointment thus far in no apparent Russiagate investigation coming from the Republican Congress. We are owed more than a redacted Durham report, and there are answers that his report just won’t have.

Sure, I anticipate a few subpoenas for testimony after Durham’s report is released and they’ll probably make a big show of a few witnesses in order to score political points. That’s not enough. We need a full investigation with all of the committees involved or a special committee.

Here is what I would do, if I had the power.

I would be spending every waking moment right now putting together a team of investigators with serious credentials. You need good auditors who’ve seen money laundering and fraud, you need trustworthy personnel who’ve worked in federal contracting. You need people experienced at the Department of Defense. You need intelligence analysts experienced in putting together assessments.

You need the top cyber people in the world like Weaponized Autism, the guy/girl who identified April Lorenzen as “Tea Leaves” back in 2017 and debunked the Alfa logs as fraud.

I could give the investigators Weaponized Autism’s name, if they only asked.

As I’ve previously suggested, I would call up the top 5-10 sleuths because there are some crucial pieces that we have that we’ve never released publicly for various reasons that would save quite a bit of time.

I would have all the strategy outlined of how this is going to go and how resources will be deployed for every scenario.

The idea is, you have to hit the ground running in January if you want to get anything done. People will fight the subpoenas, but it’s time to grow some backbone because we have a real problem here. I’m not sure when it became popular for Republicans to ignore this story, but sitting around waiting for Durham to give us everything is the wrong answer.

This is my second call-to-action in the last couple weeks, but all our work is for naught if it doesn’t have any impact. I can tell a few thousand of you about the documents I’ve seen, but it doesn’t change anything. Does Kevin McCarthy know that these guys were working for Mueller? What is his plan to look at the data collection program inside the DOD we’ve helped uncover? I bet he has no clue.

Consider sending members of Congress your thoughts on the need for an investigation. I don’t care if it “interferes” with Durham at this point. We need documents declassified, and we need everything that exists on the DNC hack. If Biden wants to slow walk declassification, we need Congress members with the backbone to raise hell. Hold people in contempt. Slash their funding or shutdown the government until they produce witnesses and documents on YOUR schedule.

I am considering walking into the DC courtroom and telling every judge in the building that Mueller’s case against the GRU is garbage and asking for a protective order to subject the grand jury materials to FOIA. I don’t want to be the guy that drags the DOJ kicking and screaming into the courtroom to defend their case. That really should be an oversight function if the DOJ isn’t going to self-correct.

If any GRU grand jury materials came from Joffe, Dagon, or Antonakakis, we deserve to know.

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• DARPA/DOD - All documents around the DNC hack, Alfa allegations, “Rhamnousia” and “HACCS” contracts, the nature of their relationship and investigative role for the FBI and DOJ. I want testimony from Christopher Schneck, Angelos Keromytis, and Jonathan Smith.

• FBI - I want all their documents too. I want testimony from Delynn Hammell, Elvis Chan, Thomas Grasso, Jim Trainor, J.R Maines, Matthew Braverman, Robert T. Berryman, Chad Hunt, PJ Myers, and then take your pick. Obviously, we need to know more about how Danchenko was approved as a paid CHS too.

• DOJ - Testimony from Zachary Myers, Nicolas Mitchell, David Aaron, David Laufman, and then take your pick from there.

• Mueller Team - Testimony and documents from everyone.

• DOD/NSA/CIA - Need some org charts, but there is a lot of heavy lifting to do throughout these three agencies. Information sent to the FBI, taskings coming down from the DOJ, contracts, relationships with Joffe, Oppleman, their companies, and others, data collection and mining, this portion should probably be 60% of the entire investigation. Could look at AFOSI too.

• Private persons - David Dagon and Laura Seago received immunity and can’t fight against subpoenas for testimony. Start there. Christopher Davis (HYAS), April Lorenzen, Daniel Gillmor, Matt Blaze, Steve Bellovin, Susan Landau, Fabian Monrose, Cricket Liu, Randy Bush, Chris Krebs, Jeroen Massar, Tim April, Dave Dittrich, Alex Stamos, John Kristoff, Chris Clark (Verisign), Chris Inglis, Nick Feamster, Mikey Dickerson, Matt Weaver, L. Jean Camp, Wenke Lee, Daniel Jones, Angelos Stavrou, Tom Daschle, Manos Antonakakis, Rodney Joffe.

• Listrak - I’d like testimony clearing up any ties to the names above, and on server configurations.

• Crowdstrike - All their DNC hack documents, pierce any privilege claims they make, and get testimony from Alperovitch and others, especially on ties to Joffe and asking some broad questions.

• Fusion GPS - Goes without saying.

• Clinton Campaign - Everyone. Certainly need testimony from Gary Gensler.

• Obama White House - Difficult to include everyone, we do need testimony from President Obama. There’s no way around that. We need to know what he was told at key time periods. Obviously we need testimony from his Cabinet, and I’ve always been interested in the National Security Council officials and their documents as well.

• Congress/Senate - Adam Schiff and his 2016-2019 staff, and Senator Mark Warner for the same. It has to happen.

• Others - State Department officials and Georgia Tech come to mind, but if Congress did everything above, there would be a sizeable number of additional inquiries to make. DHS and NTIA are also possible query points. Could certainly add names in every category.

I would be satisified if a Republican Congress did everything above, and got declassified documents out. Use the Church commission as an example.

We are looking at the worst scandal in American history and other than what Congressman Nunes did, nobody has been on top of this. Nunes was stopped way too early and before everything we have learned.

I differ from many on “this side” in that I am not a big fan of Trump in the last year. What he did with the classified documents was wrong. It was illegal.

But AG Garland went way off the deep end ordering a raid on a former President. I don’t trust what he is going to do with John Durham or his report. He has shown himself to be unacceptably partisan.

Nobody in the public is paying attention. Nobody in the media is paying attention. Trump has been acting wacky and he’s losing in all the polls. Congress has every reason to ignore this and move on.

But knowing what we know, how do you do that? How do you completely abandon your oversight function? The scandal is right in front of you and there is no hiding from it. I don’t want more grandstanding from people who pop up on FoxNews only when there is a Durham story. I want an unsexy, meat and potatoes investigation where the investigators are living on burnt coffee and donuts and the sun hurts their eyes when they get out of the SCIF.

There is no tomorrow for our country if we don’t have a reckoning today.

Write your Congressman.