John Durham has supercharged his review into the origins of the Russiagate hoax orchestrated by the Obama administration during and after the 2016 US election – adding additional top prosecutors to explore different components of the original probe, according to Fox News.
Durham, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut tasked with by Attorney General Bill Barr with investigating the actions taken against the Trump team, has tapped Jeff Jensen – U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who had been investigating the Michael Flynn case. Also added to the team is interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Timothy Shea, according to Fox‘s sources.
“They farmed the investigation out because it is too much for Durham and he didn’t want to be distracted,” said one source, adding “He’s going full throttle, and they’re looking at everything.”
Word of Durham’s beefed-up team comes amid worsening tensions between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats, who have been making the case that the Justice Department’s reviews have become politicized given the decision last week to drop the Flynn case – a move which House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called “outrageous.”
“The evidence against General Flynn is overwhelming,” said Nadler – who probably wasn’t referring to handwritten notes by one of the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn which exposed their perjury trap. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his perfectly legal communications with a Russian ambassador – a plea he made while under severe financial strain due to legal expenses, and to save his son from the FBI ‘witch hunt.’ Flynn would later withdraw his plea as evidence mounted that he was set up.
The DOJ determined that the bureau’s 2017 Flynn interview — which formed the basis for his guilty plea of lying to investigators — was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
Breadcrumbs were being dropped in the days preceding the decision that his case could be reconsidered. Documents unsealed the prior week by the Justice Department revealed agents discussed their motivations for interviewing him in the Russia probe – questioning whether they wanted to “get him to lie” so he’d be fired or prosecuted, or get him to admit wrongdoing. Flynn allies howled over the revelations, arguing that he essentially had been set up in a perjury trap. In that interview, Flynn did not admit wrongdoing and instead was accused of lying about his contacts with the then-Russian ambassador – to which he pleaded guilty. –Fox News
Jensen, the U.S. attorney now working with Durham, was reportedly the one who recommended dropping the Flynn case to Barr.
Barr speaks
When asked whether he thought the FBI conspired against Flynn, Barr told CBS News on Thursday “I think, you know, that’s a question that really has to wait [for] an analysis of all the different episodes that occurred through the summer of 2016 and the first several months of President Trump’s administration,” adding that Durham is “still looking at all of this.”
“This is one particular episode, but we view it as part of a number of related acts … and we’re looking at the whole pattern of conduct,” Barr added, saying that they’re investigating actions taken before “and after … the election.”
And according to Fox’s source, Durham is investigating a “pattern of conduct” which includes lying to the FISA court to obtain warrants to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
President Trump has long-referred to the investigation as a “witch hunt” – which Barr and Durham are now untangling.
“Barr talks to Durham every day,” a source recently told Fox News. “The president has been briefed that the case is being pursued, and it’s serious.”
President Trump on Friday offered a vague, but ominous, warning as the Durham probe proceeds.
“It was a very dangerous situation what they did,” Trump said during an interview with “Fox & Friends” Friday. “These are dirty politicians and dirty cops and some horrible people and hopefully they’re going to pay a big price in the not too distant future.”
Trump was specifically reacting to newly released transcripts of interviews from the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation that revealed top Obama officials acknowledged they knew of no “empirical evidence” of a conspiracy despite their concerns and suspicions. –Fox News
Durham’s probe is expected to wrap up by the end of the summer. Right as Trump is expected to face off against Joe Biden – who was VP while most of this was going on.
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Can anyone remember the last time anyone in power actually was held accountable? It’s usually some underling that’s tossed under the bus. If anything ever really comes of any of these investigations I would be amazed.
It’s going to be GLORIOUS! Hold your breath for justice!
Drain the SWAMP, levy some serious sentences that have NO loop holes of escape. Then see how many planes are warming up their engines on the apron to leave dodge. A person might think of seizing their pass ports and freezing their bank accounts so we don’t have to chase them all over the globe.
Folks we have to get serious about this corruption. One way or another there is going to be pain, lets limit the pain on the little guy for a change. Lets end the fear & denial and move on to a resolution.
IF and that is a big if, they are able to indict any of the conspirators, the trials will be held in the District of Corruption. The chances of a guilty verdict in DC is slim to none and slim left town.
tn,
if they indicted any biggies it would send shock waves thru the system if it were 4 real crimes that couldn’t be explained away–
btw,can’t a fed prosecutor indict pretty much where he chooses?those trials might be held in deep red deplorable country–
Remember that AG Barr is certain that Epstein killed himself. That’s all you really need to remember. This “investigation” is designed specifically to obscure and distract so the biggest theft/scam in the history of Mankind can be completed by some of the very people that the Barr’s of this world have dinner with, and see at class reunions. Tere are no Demcrats , and no Republicans. There is the In Crowd (you ain’t) and everyone else. There is the Haves (you don’t) and everybody else. As things tighten up, and people get surly, remember who the real enemy is, and who protects him. Barr is not on your side. None of them are, not one.
Department of Justice my achin’ ass.
A few of us here on TBP have been saying for years now that there’ll be some mid-level chump(s) who get indicted, because the crimes have been so egregious they’ll have to throw the plebs a bone, but the big fish will swim free. Here we are in mid 2020 and they’re still saying indictments are imminent! All cases will be dropped if Trump loses in November–and that’s a real possibility given that we’re now entering the Greatest Depression–so there are only about five months left for some level of justice. I’m not holding my breath.
Bob P: I sense that you have a reasonable amount of objectivity about you. Like you I have discussed with folks the possibility of indictments, posted my opinion regarding indictments and read the about the pending indictments. I feel you are most likely 85percent correct about how this will play out. I will give it a 10-15 point error either way. It still makes your opinion very likely. I don’t think we will as a country have to wait much pass the election to see what the people are willing to do to save our country and freedoms. It troubled me to see how compliant folks were with this seasonal virus fear tactic. The key is in the door for the fall of the United States if Trump doesn’t take some serious head count. IMO
I have no idea if Barr is or is not on our side. If he turns out to be against us then he and the others will be makin a big mistake if they walk that path I am ah-thinkin.
You just made my day.
Can you do one with Hillary, Bush, Kissinger, Gates, Dr. Fauxi, Schumer and Pelosi for starters….
Well, they are finally going to put some of those pricks into prison!? ////////riiiiiight, don’t hold your breath.
I’m with you. I will not hold my breath but I will wait to see what the summer and fall brings us in November. The way I see it, this election will be a telling event for the history books.
No point in getting excited or turning blue in the face. The way I see it, I am as ready as I will ever be for all this bull crap. At my age I can’t and won’t run so let’r ripe as far as I am concerned.
OMG, The Storm if finally happening! Just you wait, it is coming, for sure this time, only a matter of years now…
You are correct, it could be just moisture in the air that is keeping us from viewing the blue sky.
Still waiting…………………………………………………………………………………….