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HOW DARE YOU!! >:-(honorentheos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:29 amOh, and I bag on Perfume. I don't like them as performers not their music and I've posted that, too. So there's that, too.
Interviews by The Times with more than a dozen current and former officials have revealed an array of previously unreported episodes that show how the Durham inquiry became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes as it went unsuccessfully down one path after another even as Mr. Trump and Mr. Barr promoted a misleading narrative of its progress.
- Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump. The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it.
- Mr. Durham used Russian intelligence memos — suspected by other U.S. officials of containing disinformation — to gain access to emails of an aide to George Soros, the financier and philanthropist who is a favorite target of the American right and Russian state media. Mr. Durham used grand jury powers to keep pursuing the emails even after a judge twice rejected his request for access to them. The emails yielded no evidence that Mr. Durham has cited in any case he pursued.
- There were deeper internal fractures on the Durham team than previously known. The publicly unexplained resignation in 2020 of his No. 2 and longtime aide, Nora R. Dannehy, was the culmination of a series of disputes between them over prosecutorial ethics. A year later, two more prosecutors strongly objected to plans to indict a lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign based on evidence they warned was too flimsy, and one left the team in protest of Mr. Durham’s decision to proceed anyway. (A jury swiftly acquitted the lawyer.)
A year into the Durham inquiry, Mr. Barr declared that the attempt “to get to the bottom of what happened” in 2016 “cannot be, and it will not be, a tit-for-tat exercise. We are not going to lower the standards just to achieve a result.”
But Robert Luskin, a criminal defense lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor who represented two witnesses Mr. Durham interviewed, said that he had a hard time squaring Mr. Durham’s prior reputation as an independent-minded straight shooter with his end-of-career conduct as Mr. Barr’s special counsel.
“This stuff has my head spinning,” Mr. Luskin said. “When did these guys drink the Kool-Aid, and who served it to them?”
I haven’t read the report. But the result was one guilty pleas for lying to the FBI and two trials ending with the jury finding “not guilty” in both.
You can't trust a Democrat led FBI to prosecute anyone based on Durham's findings. And who was on the jury in these "not guilty," verdicts in liberal Washington D.C.? Durham's report did not get justice but it told the truth about the Russian collusion hoax and the attempt to stop DJT from becoming president or implementing his America First agenda. What we know is that justice in America is partisan. The FBI has lost all credibility beause Durham's report has revealed it for what it is, a partisan political tool of the Democrat party, no different from the Mainstream media.Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 6:15 amI haven’t read the report. But the result was one guilty pleas for lying to the FBI and two trials ending with the jury finding “not guilty” in both.
From what I’ve read, there is nothing new that the IG’s investigation didn’t find a couple of years ago. Most of the recommendations have already been implemented.
Perhaps Jim Jordan should investigate what looks like an actual attempt to weaponize the FBI instead of the dicking around he’s been doing. It’s
Have you considered a career in LDS apologetics?ajax18 wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 7:22 pmYou can't trust a Democrat led FBI to prosecute anyone based on Durham's findings. And who was on the jury in these "not guilty," verdicts in liberal Washington D.C.? Durham's report did not get justice but it told the truth about the Russian collusion hoax and the attempt to stop DJT from becoming president or implementing his America First agenda. What we know is that justice in America is partisan. The FBI has lost all credibility beause Durham's report has revealed it for what it is, a partisan political tool of the Democrat party, no different from the Mainstream media.
No, I'm a heartlander. I'm a fan of Wayne May and Rod Meldrum. I hear such views are not appreciated at FAIR.Kishkumen wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 8:31 pmHave you considered a career in LDS apologetics?ajax18 wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 7:22 pmYou can't trust a Democrat led FBI to prosecute anyone based on Durham's findings. And who was on the jury in these "not guilty," verdicts in liberal Washington D.C.? Durham's report did not get justice but it told the truth about the Russian collusion hoax and the attempt to stop DJT from becoming president or implementing his America First agenda. What we know is that justice in America is partisan. The FBI has lost all credibility beause Durham's report has revealed it for what it is, a partisan political tool of the Democrat party, no different from the Mainstream media.
