I am not upset. Didn’t have much of a comeback for that.

Claim victory.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well.
The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Trump Russia Investigation - The New York Times (nytimes.com)


Basically Durham was doing exactly what Trump was accusing the FBI of doing with the Steel dossier.


Funny how the folks that were giddy about the prospects of "Durham Day" are silent about this massive waste of money

Gift link for the unsubscribed:

https://www.nytimes.com/...A&smid=share-url


It's unbeleivable.

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"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek

It is really disgusting. The part about Durham pressured IG Horowitz to change his finding that the Russia investigation had been opened properly is just nuts.

The people that said Barr is a partisan hack have been proven right.......again.

And choosing not to correct the public's understanding that Durham was closing in on criminal charges against [the FBI / deep-state boogeyman of your choice] when in fact he was (presumably reluctantly) having to look at yet another instance of likely criminal wrongdoing by TFG.

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"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek

Don't image this will make it to Foxnews either...

"In 2019, then-Attorney General Bill Barr sought to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation in hopes of proving it was a "witch hunt," but his efforts took an unexpected turn, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Instead, a tip from Italian officials led the Justice Department to quietly open a probe into shady financial deals linked to then-President Donald Trump".

"https://news.yahoo.com/...-name-210419558.html"

The insane thing that is important here is that Barr and Durham essentially did exactly what they hinted Mueller/the FBI might have done, relying on dubiously sourced intelligence as an excuse to go on a fishing expedition. The whole Durham “investigation” was doing the exact wrong doing they were supposed to be “investigating”!

Barr was some an evil and dangerous person.

If you listen to a malignant narcissist and what they accuse you of, they will tell you exactly what they are doing.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

I don't know the law, but it certainly seems like Barr would have some legal issues here. It's a shame the House will be too busy investigating Hunter and Fauci to take a look at this.

It's scary to think he became one of the voices of reason after Jan 6.

I doubt he has any real legal issues here. Unfortunately laws are written by lawyers and judges that make other policies are also lawyers, so the system is set up to protect lawyers. The bar to prosecute a prosecutor is insanely high.

It'd be interesting to eventually learn more about that. Because I wouldn't fully trust Barr/Durham to run that one properly to ground.

But yet another example of a Special Counsel investigation taking a fork in the road. Like Starr being appointed to investigate real-estate transactions, then deciding to investigate blow jobs.

Can't say I necessarily blame Starr for that; one of these is more titillating than the other. </p>

Ending with a whimper. https://www.cbsnews.com/...ussia-investigation/

Hillary's plan to link Trump to Putin was briefed to Obama and Biden - Durham report (msn.com)

Trumps campaign manager was in constant contact with Russian intelligence throughout the campaign. He shared with them swing state micro targeting data……Hillary made him do it.

That's a little misleading - it implies that there was a plan and that Obama and Biden were enlisted into it. The complaint in the report is that Obama and Biden might have been told Clinton was trying to link Trump to Russia and that that idea, that “might have” received less scrutiny than the idea that Trump “might have” colluded with Russia. That contrived contrast is one of the bases for Durham’s long telegraphed conclusion that the FBI was unfair and biased.

That collusion by Trump was unprovable had pretty much been accepted for a long time. And in investigating the king and missing the FBI have proved the adage and had to eat it.

But as best I can tell so far, this is the longest and most expensive opinion piece in history. With one suspended law license and 10bn tweets all anyone has to show for it.

Whimper indeed.

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"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek

What exactly is the problem here? What exactly was wrong with briefing Obama and Biden?

I am beginning to think Durham's investigation of CIA torture under Bush may not have been on the level.

did you even read the first sentence of that Daily Mail Article? It's on MSN, but it comes from the Daily Fail.

"Russian intelligence analysis suggesting that 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had personally approved a plan to 'vilify' her opponent Donald Trump by claiming foreign interference in the election was briefed to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, according to the Durham report."


Yes, the evidence that this is all Hillary comes from the very trustworthy Russians - and they just "suggested" it.


additionally - "Hillary's plan" in the headline suddenly becomes " the 'alleged approval by Hillary Clinton" in the article.

Forget the Russians. Testimony under oath from Mook is a better source for the story.

https://www.politico.com/...info-to-fbi-00034115

“Going to the FBI does not seem like a very effective way to get that information out to the public. We do that through the media,” he said.

Mook said that after discussions at the highest levels of the campaign, they decided to do just that. He also said that somewhere around that time he informed Clinton personally and she concurred.

“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said. “She agreed to that. ... She thought we made the right decision.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/...tigation-robby-mook/
Clinton was briefed about the decision to go to the press with the allegations in the fall of 2016, and according to Mook, "she thought we made the right decision."

https://www.cnn.com/...-mook-fbi/index.html

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The quote "personally approved" seems to be after the fact, not necessarily that Hillary came up with the plan to route the story to the media instead of the FBI.

I am failing to see the problem here.

Isn’t that pretty much the opposite of the supposed scandal? That is, rather than try to get Obama to use the FBI against Trump, Hillary preferred going directly to the public.

Well, once the story had gone public via the media, what choice did the FBI have but to investigate? Of course, I am assuming that Mook is telling the truth in this matter.

Durham burned four years and $6.5M taxpayer dollars......and he burned his reputation.

#ETTD

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Suffer Well.