Look carefully at this tweet from Catherine Herridge at CBS. Notice anything?
Emphasis mine:
“#Durham filing reveals his team learned for first time, this month, the Office of the Inspector General had TWO cellphones for former FBI General Counsel who is central witness in Sussmann case, “the Government has been working diligently to review their contents.””
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has known about the Durham probe of Michael Sussmann for how long? And specifically, the criminal case against Sussmann revolved around the central witness, the point of contact with former FBI General Counsel, Jim Baker. Yet the OIG said nothing to John Durham about their possession of Baker’s phones until this month?
Think about what that tells us?
TechnoFog has more details about the latest court filing SEE HERE. He also notes the issue of the Durham team only recently being notified by the OIG in January:
…”There is also a curious paragraph discussing the fact that Durham, in January 2022 – learned from the DOJ Inspector General that they possessed “two FBI cellphones of the former FBI General Counsel to whom the defendant made his alleged false statement, along with forensic reports analyzing those cellphones.” Durham’s team is going through those cell phones now to analyze their contents.
And there will be more, with Durham stating, “the Government expects to receive additional information and documents in the coming weeks that may be relevant to the charged conduct.” (read more)
Techno has a great perspective and is always a great source for interpretation of the legal filings. However, I would draw attention to the obvious question about the internal policing unit of the DOJ, the Office of Inspector General, not notifying the special counsel of the evidence in their possession.
It’s likely, from the information inside the current and previous filings, that sometime in the interviews with James Baker (a friend of the Lawfare alliance consisting of Ben Wittes, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe), the former FBI general counsel noted he turned over his phones to the OIG, most likely as an outcome of the previous OIG investigation into the political weaponization of the FBI in the OIG FISA application investigation around Carter Page.
Baker telling Durham he gave his phones to the OIG, likely led to Durham asking DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz about them. The OIG then recently admitting they had them…. as evidence… and so, here they are.
However, on its face the OIG not informing the Durham probe about them previously confirms what we previously outlined about how the information silos are used to contain and control information adverse to the interests of the DC system, writ large. Compartmentalization is how the corrupt enterprises of the Fourth Branch of Government, in this instance the DOJ, can bury information. It’s a feature, not a flaw.
Why didn’t you tell us you had the murder weapon? Well, you didn’t ask… and so it goes.
Keep in mind who is playing this game of hide the pea in the institution of Main Justice we are talking about.
The OIG is the internal watchdog, the internal police of the federal police apparatus. The guys who are supposed to be holding the justice system to account are the same guys who are keeping the justice system from accountability.
Chew on that for a few minutes while you contemplate all the previous OIG reports that resulted in exactly nothing, despite – or actually as a feature of their carefully worded content.
Yes, that would put the main office in charge of official justice obfuscation and damage control squarely in the hands of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Does that make all those OIG reports shade a slightly different, perhaps darker color grey?
Factually, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always a complete ruse perpetrated upon the American people, with the intended objective to stop candidate Trump, then hamstring President Trump, then cover up what they were doing to accomplish those goals, and then finally destroy the Trump presidency. Y’all know the story, I am not repeating it.
However, all of these tentacles of intrigue and rabbit hole exploration can get so intentionally complex that people lose sight of the bigger picture. The current question should be ‘why didn’t the DOJ-OIG inform Durham of the evidence they carried’?
Unfortunately, when you start asking those types of questions, you start to get too close to the heart of the issue. The entire apparatus of the U.S. Dept of Justice and the FBI are corrupt. As to the bigger question: will the Durham probe finally outline all the evidence to prove all the years of deception and fraud perpetrated by the massive aligned system of corrupt government? My short and painful answer is, NO.
The longer answer is attached to the one issue that all researched opinions and analytical theories never touch. The 800lb gorilla in the room that no one will put into their accountability prism, because it blocks all other sunlight:
If Durham was going to reveal the scale of corruption within these institutions, ie. what optimistic folks proclaim as possible; how is Durham going to handle the reality that Robert Mueller’s entire existence was in place to hide it?
The DOJ and FBI are corrupt and weaponized divisions of a corrupt system of U.S. government. The OIG providing willfully blind cover for the corruption within the institutions they are supposed to police is simply more evidence of the rot within them.
These institutions are being maintained in their current form by everyone in DC pretending not to know things – including John Durham.
Do we really think the same DOJ that facilitated, then defended, the targeting of parents at school board meetings would allow Durham to exist if he was a risk to their institution?
Or is it more likely that Bill Barr was the Bondo, and John Durham is the spray paint?
You decide.
At best, maybe Durham can nail some of the worst of the Lawfare crew. Boastburg and the others judges on the federal bench in DC don’t give me much hope. The things those judges are saying to order the pre-trial detention of those poor J6 defendants – is so over the top – you wonder how they can look themselves in the mirror. Full blown TDS writ large infecting the bench.
Trump was a danger to the Deep State. These judges ARE the Deep State
Then, why did Trump tell people to take the “vaccine?” See
From Steven Fishman
2022/01/25
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/2022/01/25/dod-whistleblowers-declare-military-manipulating-data-showing-massive-increase-in-vax-injuries-senator-ron-johnson-demands-evidence-of-corruption-be-preserved/comment-page-1/#comment-104573 :
Excerpt written by Steven Fishman in the Comment section:
“Furthermore, I demand that everyone responsible for the havoc, death, and destruction must be held thoroughly accountable for the global genocide and premeditated murder of innocent Americans, including Presidents Biden and Trump. After all, the buck stops with the President, as Harry Truman once said, and neither 45 nor 46 is willing to renounce and repudiate OPERATION WARP DEATH.”
The counter is that Trump is the single person on earth the entire cabal does not want to be POTUS.
For your information he never told everybody to take them he said he would recommend that everyone get them but that would be their choice and that’s because the Deep State scientist told him it was okay do you understand any of this?
I’m not surprised that the OIG is as swampy as the rest of the cabal.
IMO, President Trump did not know the extent of the swamp. If he runs and wins again, I suspect VSGPDJT will not make the same mistake again. Fire them all. Clean house on US attorneys and any other swamp creature he’s allowed to dismiss. He needs loyal cabinet members and the first mission is to nuke the swamp.
I would love to see him run, but, I don’t think he will, for the sake of his family.
But he made it possible for all to see how deep the swamp is.
Yes, part of the coverup for sure. But as I have sourced this story by various tellers of the story, I have two possible conclusions:
One of the things in one telling of the story is that they are going over this new phone evidence and will supply it to the defense as soon as possible.
From the start, having more than one FBI phone seems suspicious but who knows. But if they wanted to create something which exonerates or confuses the validity of existing prior evidence, that would be a way to do that.
I think this is a really superior article, a great article, but I disagree with the conclusion!
I never expected the Durham team to get this far, and would never endeavor to predict the outcome as the forces they are up against are awesome and ultra–powerful, BUT . . . Mr. Durham is a man of honor and I am familiar with his background and career as have been with several volunteer anticommunist groups who follow the CIA and his investigations of them (immaculate) — and his cleanup work in the aftermath of the MUELLER mess in Boston, leads me to believe he’s the best hope out there — why some us were shocked when Barr appointed John
Durham, completely unexpected!
And his examining DARPA people — involved in multiple angles — leads one to believe that Team Durham is going deep!
A thought:
Speculation: Durham charged Sussman in order to get Sussman to give him a sword to cut through the stonewalling at the OIG and elsewhere.
Speculation 2: Sussman weirdly seems to be playing along, prompting Durham with info that might help him find stuff. Could it be that this is a kind of cooperation? If Sussman “later” decides to cooperate, don’t be surprised.
Why would Sussman, a private attorney, be meeting with the OIG in March 2017? Wouldn’t the OIG be out of his jurisdiction?
Was Sussman representing a government employee that the OIG wished to question? If so, who?
That’s a most cogemt point — since Sussmann worked there in the past, he may know Horowitz or someone else in the department????
Again, too suspicious?!
I dream of integrity rising from the ashes and bringing justice with it.
We can hope but I still got mega doubts that anything significant like Hillary going to prison will ever happen..but if Durham actually produced..Trump would have fulfilled his most popular campaign promise to DRAIN THE SWAMP..He’s the one that got the ball rolling..He EXPOSED THEM ALL for what they are…CORRUPT DC..I’m convinced more than ever of the deep states ABILITY to steal the presidency 2020
Two of the Associate Special Counsels are West Point Grads. Here’s to honoring “Duty, Honor, Country”. I also fully realize that there is a distinction between “legal” vs. “ethical/moral”.
“information silos are used to contain and control information”
To aid, abet, and conceal criminality.
Criminals covering for criminals.
Rank and file… pffftt’!
It would circumstantially appear that Barr gave Durham a partial road map of the Comey-Brennan- Obama plan from his short-lived former deputy AG …..that Barr let resign without prejudice.
Durham has gotten key players to flip using SOP and it is paying dividends. I expect good things from Durham and I suspect the McCabe-Biden retirement reinstatement caper has put a boil under Durham that McCabe and his misplaced hubris will come to wish he retired sooner. Fingers and toes are all crossed
Barr is in some ways the most corrupt traitor of them all since he led us all to believe he was for real, until of course he made excuses for, and refused to investigate, the stolen 2020 election.
You covered one revelation from the filing admirably and drew the appropriate conclusion. But I’m curious why you didn’t cover all the other revelations, some of which are directly relevant to your headline?
For example:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/durham-court-filing-reveals-doj-inspector-general-horowitz-withheld-key-evidence-from-special-counsel_4241595.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily
“Durham Court Filing Reveals DOJ Inspector General Horowitz Withheld Key Evidence From Special Counsel”
It looks to me that IG Horowitz now ought to fall under the Durham Special Counsel Investigation for Corruption. The Special Counsel Charter said anything that arises during the investigation.
Durham covered up Muellers cover up of Whitey Bulger’s life of crime. They’re all BAR attorneys and members of the private BAR guild
another way to drag this out in perpetuity (sp?) . we may have answers i 2036
The truth is that Trump won and Biden lost, the proof is if they went through so much trouble try to remove Trump why would they stop before re-election?