The Goat Pen

hedge wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:56 am "They'll deliver on a promise even if it means short term loss to the company"

What kind of promise? On another note, I've heard that the Costco brand of scotch isn't bad...

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:59 pm You monster

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:01 pm I think he's dead

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 8:13 am I have a soft spot for retards.

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:24 pm https://www.rawstory.com/john-durham-in ... on-emails/

Emails unearthed by the New York Times undercut a key allegation made by John Durham, the prosecutor appointed by former Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI's 2016 probe of the Trump campaign.

Specifically, the indictment alleged that former Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussman alerted the FBI to allegedly suspicious computer traffic between a Trump Tower server and a server connected to a Russian bank despite the fact that the people who uncovered the traffic did not think it was anything nefarious.

However, the Times report shows that emails between the researchers suggest that they took the possibility of Trump officials having back-channel communications with the Russian bank very seriously at the time of their investigation.

"In the narrow scope of what you have defined above, I agree wholeheartedly that it is plausible," wrote the researcher. "If the white paper intends to say that there are communications between at least Alfa and Trump, which are being intentionally hidden by Alfa and Trump I absolutely believe that is the case."

Another example comes from an email written by David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology data scientist who was one of the researchers investigating the server traffic.

"The indictment also suggests Mr. Dagon's support for the paper's hypothesis was qualified, describing his email response as 'acknowledging that questions remained, but stating, in substance and in part, that the paper should be shared with government officials,'" writes the Times. "The text of that email shows Mr. Dagon was forcefully supportive. He proposed editing the paper to declare as 'fact' that it was clear 'that there are hidden communications between Trump and Alfa Bank,' and said he believed the findings met the probable cause standard to open a criminal investigation."