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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (757075)	2/12/2022 3:21:32 PM
From: garrettjax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Slowly, the worm turns...

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (757075)	2/12/2022 3:25:51 PM
From: didjuneau	1 Recommendation Recommended By Tom Clarke Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Looks like they were doing FISA type NSA archival database searching privately. Is there a parallel database out there, up for hire? Technically, they used it to snoop on Obama's EOP as well. 6. The Indictment further details that on February 9, 2017, the defendant provided an updated set of allegations – including the Russian Bank-1 data and additional allegations relating Case 1:21-cr-00582-CRC Document 35 Filed 02/11/22 Page 3 of 13 4 to Trump – to a second agency of the U.S. government (“Agency- 2”). The Government’s evidence at trial will establish that these additional allegations relied, in part, on the purported DNS traffic that Tech Executive-1 and others had assembled pertaining to Trump Tower, Donald Trump’s New York City apartment building, the EOP, and the aforementioned healthcare provider. In his meeting with Agency-2, the defendant provided data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by these entities of internet protocol (“IP”) addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provider (“Russian Phone Provider-1”). The defendant further claimed that these lookups demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations. The Special Counsel’s Office has identified no support for these allegations. Indeed, more complete DNS data that the Special Counsel’s Office obtained from a company that assisted Tech Executive-1 in assembling these allegations reflects that such DNS lookups (What was the company? Inquiring minds would like to know.) were far from rare in the United States. For example, the more complete data that Tech Executive-1 and his associates gathered – but did not provide to Agency-2 – reflected that between approximately 2014 and 2017, there were a total of more than 3 million lookups of Russian Phone-Provider-1 IP addresses that originated with U.S.-based IP addresses. Fewer than 1,000 of these lookups originated with IP addresses affiliated with Trump Tower. In addition, the more complete data assembled by Tech Executive-1 and his associates reflected that DNS lookups involving the EOP and Russian Phone Provider-1 began at least as early 2014 (i.e., during the Obama administration and years before Trump took office) – another fact which the allegations omitted.