In a possible false statement to the court flagged by Lawfare’s Anna Bower on Wednesday and contra to 2022 testimony by a Coffee County, Georgia Board of Elections official in a related civil case, Sidney “Kraken” Powell claimed in her motion to sever her criminal case from the other Fulton 19 co-conspirators that in early January 2021 her goons had “unanimous” approval from the board to walk into the county elections office and take whatever they wanted from the server to try to prove their stupid bullshit Dominion Voting Systems hacking conspiracy theories.
Bower cites her own deeply extensive play-by-play of the Coffee County breach to point this discrepancy out. The shortest way we can summarize it is this: Among the Fulton 19 RICO defendants connected to the breach are Powell, former Coffee County GOP Chairwoman Cathy Latham (also a fake elector), bail bondsman Scott Hall, and former County Clerk Misty Hampton. On January 7th, 2021, a day after the Capitol riot and when their Orange God Emperor had already given up the ghost, Hampton let Latham, Hall, and another man, Paul Maggio, into the office to rip code and voter data from the server. Maggio is operations chief for Atlanta-based firm Sullivan Strickler, contracted by the Kraken’s “Defending the Republic” PAC to conduct the “investigation.”
Before the incident became one of the key plot lines in Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s sweeping RICO indictment, the Coffee breach found its way into a long-running case Curling v Raffensperger, filed in 2017 by Fulton County resident Donna Curling who sought to compel the state to ditch electronic voting tabulation systems and count all ballots by hand. Curling actually won in 2020 when federal Judge Amy Totenberg ordered the state to switch from Diebold machines to Dominion equipment, but continued the case when she said that wasn’t good enough for election security. Having learned of the Coffee breach in 2022, Curling subpoenaed Coffee Board of Elections Chair Wendell Stone, member Eric Chaney, Hampton, and Latham to testify about security at the clerk’s office.
Hampton testified Chaney told her to allow Team Kraken into the office to check out the server while Stone testified that the Board had no knowledge of Chaney’s authorization and that he had no unilateral authority to approve the field trip. Chaney pleaded the Fifth after having previously told the county attorney’s office he’d had any involvement. Latham faces a perjury charge for giving false statements in her testimony about who knew what and when about the breach.
Which finally brings us to the Kraken, whose attorneys on Wednesday denied any involvement in the breach whatsoever, claiming the evidence relied on a far too tenuous connection between her and Sullivan Strickler and the Curling case and a whole bunch of other assertions that are probably bullshit so why waste time trying to nail it down. It’s at the end where they write “A unanimous Coffee County Election Board gave permission for the forensic inspection, and nothing was stolen,” [emphasis ours] that really sticks out as suicidally stupid. If she wasn’t involved and is attempting to face trial on her own as such then why does she give a shit whether or not the people who she claims she didn’t send to the clerk’s office had permission from the board of elections or not?
This could and probably should have been shorter and it’s not like our readers need any more details like this to confirm Sidney Powell is utterly insane. They knew that from day one. But sometimes it’s nice to put a little cherry on top of this sundae of outrageously stupid batshittery. Now she’s going to be on the hook over whether or not she was really truly under the impression that the board had given permission to Hall, Maggio, Latham. She really is exactly the kind of deranged fucking idiot Trump would hire and task with overturning an election he lost by 7 million votes.