“People on the 7th floor to include director are fired up about this server.” Joseph Pientka to Curtis Heide, Sept. 21, 2016, as read in court and reported by The Epoch Times, May 24, 2022
The Epoch Times (John Haughey and Zachary Stieber, May 24, 2022; updated June 2, 2022) reported that the line was made public at the trial of Michael Sussmann. The same story quotes the rest of the message: “Reachout [sic] and put tools on.” And: “Its [sic] not an option—we must do it.” The paper identifies Pientka as a Washington-based FBI agent writing to Heide in Chicago, days after Sussmann took the Trump Organization–Alfa Bank allegation to the bureau.
That is a contemporaneous FBI message, as a newspaper recounted it from a public trial. It is not a finding that a secret Trump–Alfa channel existed. The same Epoch Times piece says FBI cyber personnel deemed the allegation false quickly and that the CIA later did the same. Durham’s Sussmann case is a separate docket. This site does not invent a conviction of Pientka out of a chat.
Just the News later ran related Crossfire Hurricane document stories that name leadership pressure on the Alfa/Sussmann track. Those pieces are reporting. They do not replace the trial exhibit. RealClearPolitics was searched for a Pientka byline hit; none was located.