This article has some interesting tidbits. Hard to remember all the insanity that has taken place the past 5 years. It's good to learn new or be reminded if we heard it before.

New York Times reported --

Some of the questions that Mr. Durham’s team has been asking in recent months — including of witnesses it subpoenaed before a grand jury, according to people familiar with some of the sessions — suggest he has been pursuing a theory that the Clinton campaign used Perkins Coie to submit dubious information to the F.B.I. about Russia and Mr. Trump in an effort to gin up investigative activity to hurt his 2016 campaign.

Sussmann ties a lot of big players and big stories together --

Joseph R. Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan pushed Hillary Clinton’s campaign-financed dossier. It turned out to be a fraud. He also tried to give legs to the fraudulent Alfa server hoax.

Jake Sullivan, who served as the Clinton campaign’s senior policy adviser, attended a post-election meeting, along with her campaign chairman John Podesta, in February 2017 with Glenn R. Simpson, co-founder of the investigative firm Fusion GPS. According to The Washington Times, Mr. Simpson orchestrated the dossier’s distribution to the FBI, other government agencies, and Washington reporters to try to bring down Mr. Trump.

Mr. Sullivan ... gave his seal of approval to the other Fusion GPS pet project. This one claimed that Mr. Trump maintained a secret computer server at Trump Tower that communicated directly with Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest commercial lender. It was, so the theory goes, evidence of collusion.

Mr. Simpson failed to persuade The New York Times to write the story about it at the time, but communistic Slate did.

The Clinton-planted story then drew a reaction from the candidate herself, undoubtedly a setup. She tweeted: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”

Her tweet was supported by Mr. Sullivan, who stated with Mrs. Clinton’s tweet: “New Report Exposing Trump’s Secret Line of Communication to Russia.”

They confirmed each other, nothing more.

“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” Mr. Sullivan said. “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

“This secret hotline may be the key to unraveling the mystery of Trump’s relationship with Russia. Given that he seems to have taken steps to hide the link when discovered by journalists. It seems that the Trump organization certainly felt that something needed to be hidden. “

In February 2017, the FBI concluded that such a Trump-Alfa server did not exist, according to Justice Department Inspector General Michael D. Horowitz’s December 2019 report on bureau wiretap abuses.

[Note: This is the type of setup that Pelosi said they use all the time with the media, called "Wrap Up Smear."]

Without getting too much in the weeds, the Clinton campaign and DNC hired shady Democrat-leaning Fusion GPS to write the dirty dossier and present it to the FBI for their illicit use. They work closely with media, and pay them to spread their ‘findings.’

In April 2016, NSA Director Mike Rogers shut down contractor access to the FBI/NSA database. That’s when Fusion GPS co-founder hired Nellie Ohr to do the research. Her husband was the number 4 man inside the DoJ secret national security division. Fusion also hired Christopher Steele to work with Nellie. Together they came up with the Steele Dossier.

At the same time, Sussman was giving information to the DNC with the same intent. Then Peter Strzok and Crossfire Hurricane appeared to gain FISA warrants allowing them to spy on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

Robert Mueller then hid their treachery.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/durham-seeks-to-charge-perkins-coie-lawyer-in-alfa-server-hoax/