Dead-Ender John Durham Appeals to Court of Public Opinion After Being Humiliated In Actual Courts of Law (Updated)

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The most corrupt Attorney General in the history of the United States, Bill Barr, appointed U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham special counsel for the purpose of undermining the Russia investigation into Donald Trump. Durham was “investigating the investigators,” i.e., Bill Barr “weaponized the Justice Department” to pursue Trump’s conspiracy theories about the “deep state.”

He got one attorney for the FBI to plead guilty to falsifying information in a court document for a FISA warrant, but Durham was humiliated in court – twice – in the only two prosecutions he brought.

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The final Durham Report was released today after wasting four years “Investigating the investigators” and it contains only the worn out claims of right-wingers that we knew four years ago. This was a spectacular waste of taxpayer money.

But his final report will provide fuel to the right-wing media “catapulting the propaganda” around their dated claims about the Russia investigation.

It is important to note that the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Final Report almost three years ago entirely contradicts the conclusions of the Durham Report. Durham is just a dead-ender trying to appeal to the court of public opinion – the right-wing noise machine = after he was humiliated in actual courts of law.

The “bombshell” indictments of the Russia investigators promised by Donald Trump and his sycophant supporters in Congress and media propagandists never came to fruition. This was a complete dud. But Trump’s sycophants in Congress will continue to flog this dead horse because conspiracy theorists always create a new conspiracy theory when the one they promoted is discredited.

The New York Times reports, In Final Report, Trump-Era Special Counsel Denounces Russia Investigation:

John Durham, the Trump-era special counsel who for four years has pursued a politically fraught investigation into the Russia inquiry, accused the F.B.I. of a “lack of analytical rigor” in a final report made public on Monday that examined the bureau’s investigation into whether the 2016 Trump campaign was conspiring with Moscow.

Mr. Durham’s 306-page report appeared to show little substantial new information about the F.B.I.’s handling of the Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, and it failed to produce the kinds of blockbuster revelations impugning the bureau that former President Donald J. Trump and his allies had once suggested that Mr. Durham would find.

Instead, the report — released without substantive comment or redactions by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland — repeated previously exposed flaws in the inquiry, including from a 2019 inspector general report, while concluding that the F.B.I. suffered from a confirmation bias as it pursued leads about Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia.

“Throughout the duration of Crossfire Hurricane, facts and circumstances that were inconsistent with the premise that Trump and/or associated with the Trump campaign were involved in a collusive or conspiratorial relationship with the Russian government were ignored or simply assessed away,” Mr. Durham declared.

Mr. Durham revisited criticisms uncovered in a separate investigation and continued to insinuate that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had helped fuel the Russia investigation. In 2019, an inspector general found that the F.B.I. had botched wiretap applications used in the inquiry.

“Our investigation also revealed that senior F.B.I. personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor toward the information that they reviewed, especially info received form politically affiliated persons and entities,” Mr. Durham wrote. “This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation.”

But in using the word “triggered,” Mr. Durham’s report echoed a conspiracy theory pushed by supporters of Mr. Trump that the F.B.I. opened the investigation in July 2016 based on the so-called Steele dossier, opposition research indirectly funded by the Clinton campaign that was later discredited.

In fact, as Mr. Durham acknowledged elsewhere in the report, the dossier did not reach those investigators until mid-September. The F.B.I. instead opened the investigation based on a tip from an Australian diplomats, following WikiLeaks’ publication of hacked Democratic emails, that a Trump campaign aide had previously seemed to indicate advance knowledge that Russia would release information damaging to the Clinton campaign.

The special prosecutor’s findings were sent to Mr. Garland on Friday and were presented to Congress and the news media without any additions or alterations, a department spokeswoman said.





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1 thought on “Dead-Ender John Durham Appeals to Court of Public Opinion After Being Humiliated In Actual Courts of Law (Updated)”

  1. “Jim Jordan smacked down by Dem for quoting ‘discredited Durham report’ at weaponization hearing”, https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-john-durham/

    Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) pushed back on [Coup Plotter insurrectionist] Rep. “Gym” Jordan (R-OH) after he cited special counsel John Durham’s report on the FBI’s probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

    The disagreement came during a House Judiciary hearing on the “weaponization” of federal law enforcement.

    “Politics is driving the agenda in our federal agencies,” Jordan asserted. “If you don’t believe me, just read the Durham report from yesterday. No probable cause, no predicate, no evidence whatsoever, and yet they used a fake dossier from the Clinton campaign to open an investigation into a presidential campaign.”

    “Here’s what the Durham report said,” he continued. “Quote — failed to, the FBI failed to uphold their mission of fidelity to the law. They didn’t follow the law.”

    Jordan claimed that the weaponization was not limited to presidential campaigns.

    “Today, they come after American citizens,” he said.

    Nadler appeared shocked at Jordan’s citation.

    “Mr. Chairman, I should be astonished, but I’m not, that the chairman of the committee would quote from the discredited Durham report,” he said, “and the discredited Mr. Durham, who filed, I think, a 300-page report giving his opinions, but whose two prosecutions both resulted in acquittals and jurors saying, why did we ever even have to take this?”

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