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AlfredPToad 4 points ago +4 / -0

I'm not saying it's a bad article. It's pretty good. It's just one caveat that billing statements often aren't privileged.

My credentials are Clarke v. American Commerce Nat. Bank, 974 F. 2d 127 (9th Cir. 1992) https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4668677461185860899

In that case the feds asked for attorney billing statements from the bank's attorney. The bank raised the privilege, and the lower court said the crime-fraud exception applied. The 9th Circuit disagreed and said that the exception didn't need to apply, because the billing statements weren't even privileged in the first place.

Granted, it depends on what each line item says. Something like "Meet with FBI" is different from "Meet with FBI - I think they bought the story about DNS lookups, but it's probably not legal to x, y, z." Only the first part would get released. So an in camera review of the hours probably did happen. The judge may have redacted some of the entries... and Durham's report may just be based on what wasn't redacted.

Edit: However, I totally agree that 95% of the indictment didn't need to be in there... and it doesn't make sense to include all of that info if you haven't already secured some way of proving it / or it's misdirection / etc.

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AlfredPToad 12 points ago +12 / -0

I was thinking about the attorney-client privilege issue, and it's not a given that that has happened.

While the substance of communications are very much protected, attorney's bills and time-sheets are far less protected. They do get turned over fairly often, without having to meet the crime-fraud exception or do an in camera review... e.g. if the existence of the representation is not secret, and the time / agency is a relevant question.

Edit: It's HUGE because it means a judge can do an in camera review of Clinton's communications with Sussman, and if there's anything there... then the dam breaks.

An in camera review may occur if the movant shows “a factual basis adequate to support a good faith belief by a reasonable person that an in camera review of the materials may reveal evidence to establish the claim that the crime-fraud exception applies.” US v. Zolin, 491 U.S. 554, 572 (1989) (internal citations omitted).

This indictment meets that test. The warrants, in camera review, etc. may have already happened... but there's no question that they're in play. The question is whether Clinton will be successful in throwing Sussman under the bus.

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AlfredPToad 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, they'd throw out Lindell v. ...

However, he said "we" have a lawsuit coming in 4-5 weeks.

If he's working with the audit, etc. then "we" could mean Arizona v. US

Neither Lindell nor Arizona can challenge how Wisconsin runs Wisconsin's elections, but Arizona might have standing to challenge how Congress counted Arizona's electoral votes (or lack of electoral votes).

If they (Arizona) says, "Wait, we never cast any electors! Those were fraudulent electors. The legislature never approved that..." That sounds like a different question.

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AlfredPToad 10 points ago +10 / -0

Why are 3716 and 3717 the same?

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AlfredPToad 7 points ago +7 / -0

3718

Dec 18, 2019 1:33:50 PM EST

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 7d3ebd No. 7547301

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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1207363916759736321

Durham discoveries can lead to early retirement[?]

Think FBI departures.

Think DOJ departures.

Q

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AlfredPToad 6 points ago +6 / -0

But it goes deeper:

In between the 1) Page 9 Marker, and 2) the Over 9,000 meme... is a third 9: paragraph "i" (the 9th letter).

The two markers [9] are book-ending / pointing us to a third marker [9]:

i. During the same time period, employees of Internet Company-3 also drafted and provided to Tech Executive-1 a written paper reflecting, in substance, some of the same technical observations contained in the Russian Bank-1 allegations that SUSSMANN later conveyed to the FBI.

Not sure the relevance of this off the top of my head.

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AlfredPToad 6 points ago +6 / -0

IDK, it draws me to Paragraph 9 of the indictment:

In or about April 2016, the Democratic National Committee ("DNC") retained SUSSMANN to represent it in connection with the hacking of its email servers by the Russian government. In connection with his representation of the DNC as the victim of a hack, the defendant met and communicated regularly with the FBI, the DOJ, and other U.S. government agencies.

Same people. Same time. Same MO.

On page 9:

more than 9,000 IP addresses

Nice memes, Durham!

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AlfredPToad 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's starting to look like the leaky vaccine is causing the variants and mutations...

COVID is a bio-weapon that was released on purpose. So, odds are that any new, major variants (e.g. Delta) are also variants that are being released on purpose. E.g. One of the main changes to Delta that makes it spread easier is a trait that was known to exist in certain strains of influenza and had the same effect... and could be added to influenza strains... and had never before been found on a coronavirus... and now it magically appears on this one.

At just the right time:

How could Delta variant possibly originate in India... in late 2020, and also be highly targeted toward vaccinated people. There was no vaccinated population in India for the virus to adapt to. It adapted in advance?!

It waited until after the vaccines were developed, but before they were widely used!? Whoever is engineering the strains wanted access to the vaccines so they could tailor the strain to target vaccinated individuals.

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AlfredPToad 1 point ago +1 / -0

WTH is "Military Intelligence Equipment" with 1,600 units at a unit cost of $78k? That's like 98% of everything.

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AlfredPToad 5 points ago +5 / -0

They've already moved beyond "Climate Change" to "Climate Not-Changing."

It doesn't matter whether cars caused that blizzard. The could have been prevented had those people bought electric cars. Conservatives are to blame for all the bad weather because they haven't changed the climate.

Which, frankly I can get behind. Trump made summers hot. He made it snow in winter, and rain in the spring. The man's a god. lol

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AlfredPToad 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nixon ended the Vietnam war.

As far as I'm aware there's never been any credible suggestion that Nixon had anything to do with the break-in. However, please correct me if I'm wrong.

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AlfredPToad 4 points ago +4 / -0

"parallel construction"

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AlfredPToad 13 points ago +13 / -0

Maybe they're finding out this is what people want and will come back if you offer it.

They're a propaganda arm. They don't care about viewers or profits. Their funding will get laundered and sent to them one way or another. Their job is to hold the right side of the Overton window. If they're talking about it, then it's 'cause they can't keep it out of the public consciousness (and need to spin it), or need to use it to spin something else.

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AlfredPToad 6 points ago +6 / -0

Masks weren't intended to stop the spread. The whole point was to slow the spread, so that hospitals weren't overrun. That was accomplished within the first month or so... when we realized that it wasn't nearly as dangerous as China made it out to be.

Now that we have plenty of capacity, all we're doing is selecting for a worse strain / training the virus to spread even easier (and hurting the economy / tanking the dollar / allowing communist takeover, etc).

But in terms of the virus: It's just like stopping antibiotics too early, or stopping their HIV meds. All infections (and species) evolve to be resistant. Life finds a way. Either you contain and eliminate it, or you learn to live with it and mitigate the consequences.

It's time to grow up and live with it the same way we learned to live with Influenza, and other viruses before that. It's no big deal. So long as there are people to be infected, they will be infected with something. Just wash your hands, exercise, eat healthy, don't drink / smoke, etc. and pray your heart gives out first? I mean, we're all going to die from something sometime.