{"id":1933101,"date":"2023-05-18T05:12:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:16:05","slug":"durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham discovers researcher felt threatened by Schiff staffer."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdurham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>University Researcher Felt Threatened by Democrat Staffers Seeking Help to Link Trump to Russia<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>According to a report released by special counsel John Durham, a university researcher felt threatened when pressed by a staffer to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and a Democrat senator seeking help to suss out alleged links between former President Donald Trump and Russia. The incident occurred in November 2018 when the researcher traveled to Capitol Hill with a colleague to discuss a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) cybersecurity program with Senate Armed Services Committee staffers. Afterward, the pair agreed to talk with staffers of the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence (HPSCI) after a staffer for Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), then the ranking member of the armed services panel, mentioned their interest in meeting.<\/p>\n<h3>The Meeting<\/h3>\n<p>In a \u201csecure\u201d room, a HPSCI staff member presented a news article about \u201cTrump, Russia, and Alfa Bank,\u201d the researcher recounted. This article appears to have focused on internet data that Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign used to fuel speculation about an unfounded secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank. The HPSCI staffers said they wanted the university\u2019s help looking into the matter, but the researcher told Durham\u2019s team that he responded by saying it would be inappropriate for a public university \u2014 which in this case appears to be Georgia Tech University \u2014 to do that and he suggested they contact DARPA. That\u2019s when the Reed staffer said, \u201cWe are now in charge,\u201d and \u201cone of the HPSCI staffers said that their boss (Congressman Adam Schiff) would soon take over\u201d HPSCI leadership, per the report. The researcher, identified as \u201cUniversity-I Researcher-3,\u201d \u201ctook the comment as a mild threat,\u201d Durham\u2019s report added.<\/p>\n<h3>The Aftermath<\/h3>\n<p>The researcher said he \u201cdragged\u201d his colleague out of the meeting and offered a warning. \u201cDon\u2019t touch this with a ten foot pole, stay away from this,\u201d the researcher recalled saying. But, as it turned out, the second researcher had been part of an effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durham-filing-suggests-clinton-operatives-spied-on-trump-in-2016-and-in-white-house\/\" title=\"John Durham Filing Suggests Clinton Operatives Spied on Trump in 2016 and in White House\">mine internet data<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer\/\" title=\"Durham discovers researcher felt threatened by Schiff staffer.\">conduct opposition research attempting<\/a> to link Trump to Russia, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">special counsel\u2019<\/a>s report noted. Alleged details about this effort, linked to tech executive Rodney Joffe, were laid bare during Durham\u2019s prosecution of former Clinton campaign Michael Sussmann, who was acquitted last year by a D.C. jury on a charge of lying to the FBI.<\/p>\n<h3>Repercussions<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-issues-trial-subpoenas-for-clinton-campaign-members-and-dnc\/\" title=\"Durham Issues Trial Subpoenas for Clinton Campaign Members and DNC\">special counsel made<\/a> a number of referrals, including one to the Defense Department\u2019s inspector general involving a matter that \u201cinvolved the execution of a contract between DARPA and the Georgia Institute of Technology,\u201d Durham\u2019s report said. At the time of the meeting, as reported by Durham, Schiff would have still been the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. He later became chairman, a perch from which he often insisted there was evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After Republicans won control of the House in 2022, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) booted Schiff from the panel over accusations that Schiff lied about investigations related to Trump. Schiff is now running for Senate.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>In response to Durham\u2019s report, which heavily criticized the FBI\u2019s Trump-Russia probe, Schiff has defended the bureau\u2019s work and argued the special counsel\u2019s inquiry was \u201cflawed\u201d from the start. The incident highlights the political pressure and intimidation tactics used by some Democrat staffers to push their agenda, even if it means compromising the integrity of a public university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>meet with the staffer and senator, feeling intimidated as they pushed for information on Trump&#8217;s alleged ties to Russia. This was revealed in special counsel John Durham&#8217;s report, released by the Justice Department on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1933102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[13172,11773,17667,5159,6566,6579],"class_list":["post-1933101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-discovers","tag-durham","tag-researcher","tag-schiff","tag-staffer","tag-threatened"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}