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  Kimberley Strassel: Truth about techies who targeted Trump ... In recent court filings, Durham explains that these tech experts — including Rodney Joffe, formerly of Neustar, Inc. — were in cahoots with the same crew as Steele, using the same playbook. They worked with Democratic lawyers at Perkins Coie and opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, with the goal of dredging up “derogatory” information on Trump that would please “VIPs” in the Clinton campaign. The techies did so, the Durham indictment says, in part by mining protected Internet data that had been supplied to a government contractor — allowing them to snoop on the White House as well as Trump Tower and Trump’s Manhattan apartment. Joffe’s legal team continues to insist he is “apolitical” and wasn’t aware his lawyer, Michael Sussmann, was billing Team Clinton. (A grand jury impaneled by Durham indicted Sussmann in September on a charge of making a false statement to the FBI. Sussmann pleaded not guilty.) The press i...

Washington Times: President Trump on Monday slammed Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin for sabotaging the DACA deal and causing a possible government shutdown this week. “Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can’t get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military,” the president wrote on Twitter. ... Durbin also said that using the term "chain migration" was offensive to blacks, but here is his using it on the Senate floor . John Steele Gordon says the blame lies with Durbin and teh Democrats for killing the deal. ... So where does the blame fall in this tempest in a teapot? President Trump, if he used the word, should have known that Senator Durbin might exploit it politically by violating the president’s privacy, as he has done often before. Durbin could rely on the Democrats-with-bylines in the media to carry the ball from there. Unfortunately, no one can accuse President Trump of ev...