Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finally broke her silence Wednesday on the latest allegations made in special counsel John Durham’s recent lawsuit.
“Trump & Fox are desperately spreading a fake scandal to distract from the real one,” Clinton wrote on Twitter. “So it’s a day ending in Y.”
“The more his transgressions are exposed, the more they lie,” she continued.
“For those interested in reality, here’s a good debunking of their latest nonsense,” she added, linking to a Vanity Fair article titled: “You’ll never believe it, but Hillary Clinton wasn’t actually spying on the Trump White House. ”
Trump and Fox are desperately spreading a fake scandal to distract from the real one. So it is a day ending in Y.
The more his transgressions are exposed, the more they lie.
For those interested in reality, here’s a good debunking of their latest nonsense.https://t.co/iYY8Uxuogx
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 16, 2022
Friday’s filing in Durham’s case shows that a Clinton campaign lawyer used a CTO to access communications data from Trump and White House servers to establish a narrative linking Trump to Russia.
As The Wall Street Journal points out, more questions appeared in Chief Technology Officer Rodney Joffe’s statement in response to the lawsuit.
“Contrary to the allegations contained in Art [the special counsel’s] recent filing, Mr. Joffe is an apolitical internet security expert with many years of experience with the U.S. government who has never worked for a political party and who lawfully provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client who separately provided DNS services to the Executive Office President (EOP),” said a Joffe spokesman, adding that under the terms of the agreement, “access to the data will be possible for the purpose of identifying and analyzing any security breaches or threats.”
“As a result of the EOP hacks and [Democratic National Committee] servers in 2015 and 2016, respectively, there were solemn and legitimate national security concerns related to Russian attempts to infiltrate the 2016 elections,” the spokesman continued. “After identifying DNS queries from Russian Yota phones located near the Trump campaign and EOP, respected cybersecurity researchers were deeply concerned about the anomalies they detected in the data and prepared a report of their findings, which was then shared with the CIA.”
The Russians posed a legitimate election threat in 2016, but Mr. Joffe’s statement does not explain how or why he cooperated with Clinton officials. If the contractor’s job was to monitor threats to the security of the United States, it was his responsibility to report any suspicious activity to the government—immediately and confidentially.
But according to Mr. Durham’s testimony, Mr. Joffe passed on his information to others, namely Clinton campaign lawyers, who also brought in the Fusion GPS opposition research team. This partisan team spent months writing anti-Trump white papers full of unsubstantiated claims that spread across the media. We doubt government contracts include: “If threats arise, call Democrats first.”
Mr. Joffe’s statement raises more questions than answers. Who in the government gave him the contract that gave him such access to White House records? Why did he cooperate with Clinton campaign operatives? How did you come to hire the same lawyer who worked for the Clinton campaign? (WSJ)
If Republicans retake the House after the midterm elections, Ohio Republican Jim Jordan and other GOP lawmakers have vowed to launch an investigation.
