Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John Durham.

The Georgia Tech researchers named as "investigators” on the project included David Dagon and Manos Antonakakis, who the sources confirmed are the two university researchers cited by Durham in his indictment. Antonakakis is the "Researcher-1” referenced in the indictment whom the grand jury said remarked in an email that "the only thing that drives us is that we just do not like [Trump.].”

The original $17 million Rhamnousia contract was approved for five years, federal contracting records show. But the program was recently renewed and has grown into a more than $25 million Defense Department contract — led by the same Georgia Tech research team.

1 This kind of investigation is needed, although I fear it will go nowhere, like all the rest of them.

2 Certainly with Durham doing it. What has he come up with in all his investigations? I never expected anything from him; he's always been a swamp rat.

3 Actually, Andy McCarthy got excited about Durham's stuff, and Andy's tough to impress. Let's see. "The mills of God grind exceedingly slow, but they grind exceedingly fine."

4 Well I sure do hope he's right, but I've grown cynical. Nothing EVER seems to come of these sorts of investigations.