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The indictment against Deputy Chairman of the Russian Duma, Aleksandr Babakov, describes how he used cut-outs to recruit an American based off their interest in Cuba to come to parrot the Russian line on Ukraine.

My hypothesis is that the January 6 investigation hasn't so much moved onto a new focus as it is using the proof obtained by the January 8 grand jury that Trump wielded the weapon of the mob to then establish who conspired to shoot that weapon at democracy.

How does it end? A limited Russian victory in the Donbas? A negotiated cease fire of some kind? Perhaps, but there are two other possible end games that appear increasingly likely to me, though I don't see anyone publicly talking about them.

Bill Barr is out claiming that the media should have reported credulously about a hard drive that still cannot be proven to be Hunter Biden's. That's important, because steps he took at DOJ may have protected Rudy Giuliani's efforts to obtain it.

John Durham wants to make Michael Sussmann's trial into a test of whether suspicions about Trump's close associates, Oligarchs, money laundering, back channels with the Kremlin, and German Khan's son-in-law were merited in 2016. That means he better start shoveling over all the evidence that it was.

I first complained publicly about the Alfa Bank allegations on November 1, 2016. I raised questions about the provenance of the Steele dossier the day after it was released, on January 11, 2017. I started raising concerns that Russia had succeeded…

John Durham wants to argue that a private citizen's attempt to learn about real crimes by a Presidential candidate and his campaign manager before he is elected amounts to a criminal conspiracy. But he may find Michael Sussmann's trial instead focuses on Sussmann's understanding, in real time, of Donald Trump's very real role in a hack of his client. 

John Durham says Michael Sussmann should not be allowed to scrutinize the politicized circumstances of his hiring to conduct an investigation into the claimed politicized circumstances of Robert Mueller's hiring.

Six weeks before the Michael Sussmann trial, Durham is making a desperate bid to turn it back into the conspiracy he's sure exists.

Because the only admissible proof of the import of Trump's actions on the rioters is what was public, much of the evidence that would be needed to prosecute Trump has already been collected in the course of the January 6 investigation.