Stories of a top aide to USAO John Durham, Nora Dannehy (good Irish family), leaving the investigative unit have hit the media narrative cycle. However, here’s a slightly different perspective about her departure you won’t see anywhere else.
CONNECTICUT – Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned from the U.S. Justice Department probe – at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said. (read more)
That highlighted narrative segment is horse-pucky.
Unbeknownst to Ms. Dannehy, we met, we crossed paths in DC. It was an serendipitous outcome of putting my physical presence in a position to interact. From our encounter Ms. Dannehy seemed to be a functionary of the investigative process; located in DC as an outcome of her task assignment.
Dannehy, very familiar with the DC national security networks; and carrying a top-secret clearance level; had a role to play where she reached into compartmented silos, retrieved information, conducted interviews and then sent the raw data along with summaries back up the investigative pipeline. Ergo, she seemed to be an investigative “functionary.”
Although she was/is obviously a badge carrying member of the Orange-Man-Bad committee (most of them cannot hide that inherent disposition), she seemed competent and detached emotionally from the work. That said, obviously this ‘Durham’ investigation touches on several ‘third-rails’ that could negatively impact the financial prospects of any DC insider if their assigned role undermined the position of the administrative state that functions to pay the network. Did that play a role? If I were a betting man….
♦ Here’s the way it looks to me. The Durham probe, actually more like the Aldenberg probe, has slightly shifted direction. Additional inquires are now being made into the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel conduct. That explains why the ‘Woods File’ story surfaced; and that explains why the iPhone scrubbing FOIA info was produced; it’s an insiders control-game and it continues.
With any slight shift toward questioning the unquestionable, stuff happens. Mueller, and his DC enabled career of “public service”, is a protected entity (a third rail of sorts). Any shift into the disposition of that enterprise is a disconcerting and troubling shift for all of those who operate within the DC administrative state.
It’s a weird inside the bubble dynamic. Any review of the individual elements within the bubble brings out a certain level of defensive angst from every element inside the bubble. The system protects itself. Any slight defect or investigative penetration of the membrane is considered a risk. [Think: ‘first rule of fight club‘ etc.]
If, as I suspect, a series of investigative paths starts to merge upon the operation of the special counsel, any networked official who is dependent on the system is going to want to avoid participating…. Especially if their private sector financial attachment is connected to their ability to reenter the bubble to engage the trough; just like Ms. Dannehy.
In this scenario a bail-out from assignment only reflects an individual choosing to stop traveling in the rabbit hole out of a sense of self-preservation. That outlook doesn’t define any time-frame within the investigation; nor does it attribute a coming interim report as a consequence of the investigative travels so far. It’s simply a functionary making a decision to exit and retain private sector access to the same system. Nothing more.
Warmest best.
PS. Hello fellas.
Sundance gets it. (Does anyone read his full articles? Sometimes you wouldn’t know it…)
In this scenario a bail-out from assignment only reflects an individual choosing to stop traveling in the rabbit hole out of a sense of self-preservation. That outlook doesn’t define any time-frame within the investigation; nor does it attribute a coming interim report as a consequence of the investigative travels so far. It’s simply a functionary making a decision to exit and retain private sector access to the same system. Nothing more.
She had already left the government sector for the private sector and the cushine$$ that goes with that. She has apparently been a litigator, now doing investigative work for Durham. Based upon her school graduation dates, she is estimated to be about 60. $he decided to go back to the private $ector. No more, no le$$. No matter what media and others try to make of her resignation. Sometimes people do what is be$t for them.
Ms. Dannehy departed the U.S. Attorney’s Office in December 2010 when she was appointed Deputy Attorney General for the State of Connecticut. From October 2013 to March 2019, she was employed by United Technologies Corporation as Associate General Counsel for Global Ethics and Compliance.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/nora-r-dannehy-returns-us-attorneys-office
Her previous employment by the DoJ had terminated once before she joined the Durham investigation.
Some (including some of us) are reading too much into her leaving now.
Can someone please tell me one positive development from the Barr-zini/Durham Investigation?
Barr-zini crippled the investigation when he eliminated political figures as subjects. Then he laid his own set of rules for evidence, ” non use of evidence emanating from the political silo. ” Does that cancel out the great work Nunes has done so far? Mueller and his band of traitors interviewed 500 witnesses in a sham investigation. The question no one asks Barr-zini is how many people have you interviewed? When he did interview Brennan and Mifsud , Sundance came to the conclusion it was half a$$ and left a lot to be desired.
So far the only two people Barr-zini has indicted are in unrelated cases, Maxwell and Steve Bannon. Oh, I almost forgot he put away the dangerous parents in the college entrance exam scandal.
Sundance confirms my outsider opinion of the situation, again. Barr AND Durham have both slow walked this to protect themselves and their families. If DJT wins we may, may have some justice but they are in preservation mode.
What I find absolutely abhorrent is this “bubble” mentality. The world is literally burning down around them and they are unmoved. Blindly devoted to some sense of process and duty to the office. Change will come, and the longer it is delayed the worse the retribution is going to be and it will be far reaching.
Pi$$ poor if you ask me.Start building the gallows in the middle of Washington.NOTHING LESS will suffice.
My experience is that people quit their boss rather than quit the job.
“Sundance gets it.”
Absolutely. And to simplify it to the basic truth: the system will not self-correct itself if it is not in its own interest to do so. Period. There are WAY too many disincentives for people within it to do so. Even those with good intentions working within it see what happens to those who stick their necks out in an effort to correct it and recognize the hopeless cause.
You say, “self-correct” like it’s an option. It isn’t. Until law enforcement from somewhere pulls apart the group that are holding this criminal enterprise together and puts them through a court system that cares about the law it will stay a criminal enterprise. Now once the group is pulled out into the sunlight and dealt with as the vampires they are, the whole thing self-corrects. As I pray for complete systemic failure of this operation, I keep seeing pure evil.
My heart tells me there is an earthly operation at work to do just that and i feel a heavenly operation working as well. To all things there is a time and a season. It is the season for healing. It is the time for the truth.
All hail the power of Jesus name let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal diadem and crown him Lord of all.
Thank you Sundance for answering the call.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?”
Isaiah 6:8
I read Sundance’s entire article. I always do. And I al$o read your very a$tute comment.
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Can anyone hear my sigh of relief if no one is around to hear it? Sundance, thank you for your exceptional insights.
It appears Mueller’s investigation has too many connections. That does not take away it’s inherent damage, evil nor its role in taking down a President. As in all civilizations — “secret combinations” take down the society. Mueller’s investigation consisted of a “secret combination”. It cannot be allowed to exist in our government.
Dannehy is a good Irish name.
So is Kennedy.
Presentation of evidence and indictments by Durham will render Ms. Dannehy forgotten.
That’s her goal.
“It’s simply a functionary making a decision to exit and retain private sector access to the same system.”
Has the Trump Administration changed the status of Dannehy’s clearance status now that she is out of government?
WSB,
Technically there are two things needed for access.
1) Is the security level equal to or higher than the material being looked at.
2) Need to Know.
Practically, the second item is not always rigorously enforced.
Unless of you are a poor, low life individual than the book is thrown at you.
Or access. So many questions! And yes, just for the few, her brother and father who are judges!!!!
Or,
She has become a necessary witness.
Regardless, people with first hand knowledge of the grand scheme and/or its subparts will eventually have to decide which side of the case they want to take. The news about cell phone wipes and others will trigger some with personal knowledge of that process seriously to seriously weigh the risk-benefits of standing pat or crossing over to the light.
May God convict their hearts before the courts do.
Nora Dannehy stated no reason for her departure, at least publicly. Anonymous “colleagues” are the source of claims she left over pressure from Barr, to, you know, DO something. That means anything could be the real reason, from personal, to political, to her job is complete.
So who is/are the anonymous “colleagues.” 1) Nora Dannehy herself on background; 2) Democrat journalists; 3) actual current co-workers; or, 4) being that she is a Democrat — partisan Democrat hacks doing what they do best: filling a vacuum with fake news. Or some mix of 2 ,3 & 4.
Chewbarkah,
Probably a mix of 2, 3, & 4 with a sprinkling of 1.
Just repeat the famous quote: “Some People Did Something” “Some People Did Something” “Some People Did Something”
Russia, Russia, Russia. Testing, Testing, Testing………
Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous
They are know trying to link eveything to Q too. I am guessing that Q is a setup by them, too.
Please Stay focused. Question is if TIP is a head fake or really. Event 2021 was a per cursor to the Plandemic. Is TIP to the election?
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
Sounds like she had two options:
Stay and investigate the trough = expose and lose your friends and networking access, lose your backdoor pay and any future trough-feeding. Never get invited to those delicious dinner parties by trough-feeders.
OR
Leave and go back to trough-feeding = Make $$$, get invited to parties, keep your friends, continue to believe Orange-Man-Bad. Laugh, sing, dance and hope the disinfecting sunlight of transparency and accountability never reaches you.
I wonder if Barr had found out maybe she was stonewalling or passive-aggressively gaming the investigation. Maybe she was given a choice of quit or get fired. The headlines of course, spin to say, “resigns amid concern about pressure'”, even though she said nothing, and the body of the article *speculates* that Barr pressured, but the headline states it as fact. Anyway, how weak of a lawyer do you have to be to quit based on “concern about pressure”? GTFO Uni-beotch
Who was the D.C. insider who approached Dannehy with the expected lucrative here’s-my-job-offer-nudge-nudge-wink-wink-ya-know-whaddi-mean-nudge-nudge-wink-wink?
Dannehy could have asked to be transferred back to Connecticut if she was uncomfortable with her job assignment, after all.
Dannehy did have other choices.
Conversely, Durham may have suspected Dannehy as not a loyal team player from the start and transferred her to D.C. to see just how she would react to the expected incoming job offer. It’s how D.C. works, after all.
We are all better off now Dannehy’s gone.
Wait, she is a Democrat? Like, a living, breathing Democrat? Maybe even voted for Crooked Hillary? For real?
Anyone wonder why Durham hired a Democrat to investigate Democrats’ treasonous activities?
SC “investigating” Trump—Russia did not hire a single Republican. Only “angry Democrats.”
I don’t believe for one second in the “impartial attitude” when it comes to the Demodenizens of the DC Swamp, gimme a break.
Just how many Democrats are in the Durham team? Should we wait until someone else leaves to find out? Maybe that’s the reason we don’t have any high profile indictments in this endless investigation that is widely expected to be scrapped if Biden cheats his way into the White House.
The more I watch the more I become convinced that Durham investigation is a sham. No one is going to be prosecuted before Nov 3 because the swampers need to see who wins. If Biden wins, the investigation is dead but some valuable blackmail material survives. If Trump wins, the investigation continues until everything is covered up but some valuable blackmail material survives.
Valuable blackmail material always survives and miraculously finds its way into the Clintons Archives.
Summer… suggest you go to the Shipwreckedcrew linked article. It certainly ‘educated’ me.
This was former Fox reporter Adam Housley s take on the situation, as well. No diehard Dem insider who wants to maintain their social status in DC wants anything to do with this Durham stuff. The ? is about to hit the fan. In other words, her departure is ackshually a good sign. ?
Durham began the festivities with a guilty plea. He certainly bargained the plea, getting the counts down in exchange for his deposition naming the perps up the ladder. And that strange exchange where he says he did it on his own is cover for Durham, who wants the next targets in the dark.
The guilty plea changed the trajectory for the next rung of perps. Before, they reasoned that there was a chance they wouldn’t be charged at all, and if they were charged, they would deal with an indictment that might never see prosecution. Now, their counsel recently has been busy finding out what Durham really has now, and determining whether their clients have anything they can give up in exchange for a lighter sentence.
Should read “…Clinesmith guilty plea.”
It seems very important to these people that they protect obviously corrupt institutions, senators, bureaucracies, judges, foreign allies, and corporations. And yet, they have no qualms about trying to destroy and unseat a president. Why?
This piece really gets to the nub of it. These people behave like King John’s servants when presented with the Magna Carta. They’re desperate to protect the institution of the royal elite because that’s all they know how to serve. They haven’t a clue how they’ll get by when the old royalist system falls and the people wrest back control of the state from the usurpers.
PMadison… Great post! Thanks.
Shipwreckedcrew hypothesizes that Nora Dannehy resigned due to pension issues, and that she potentially led the “filter team”. Sundance has written about the filter team a few years ago.
The filter team closing shop would mean indictments ready to drop.
https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/09/12/speculation-on-why-durhams-chief-deputy-resigned-today-requires-inside-knowledge/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
And a snarky rejoinder.
https://twitter.com/TransWaif/status/1304856322375065600?s=20
Trans Waif.. From what we have recently seen, ALL of your mentioned ‘accidents’ are possible.
Perot… Thanks very much for that link… very educational, and possibly a caution for many here who are impatient regarding the real punishments we hope are still to come.
@Perot Conservative…Agreed. With Garrity issues out of the way, indictments and plea bargaining can commence.
Sturmudgeon & Richard, I’m not an attorney, just a fly on the wall.
If a few dozen aren’t Indicted, I’m at a loss… have we become corrupt Rome?
BTW, never got very deep on the JFK assassination. The main theory I’ve heard is the CIA wanted him out. Why? Was his brother delving into their black budgets?
Imagine you were legal counsel for a higher-rung perp. You tell your client, “there is a chance you won’t be charged, and if you are charged, we re-strategize.”
Then Clinesmith pleads guilty. This scrambles the strategies. Clinesmith was liable for a couple of counts that we all knew about. But was charged with one. Perp counsel has to think that the other counts were dropped for testimony against higher perps. So now counsel has got to go back, try to find out what the prosecution has. THEN he can advise his client, apprise the client of the possibilities which have changed post-guilty plea. There will be more plea deals. More trips back to the prosecutor. Then more revised strategies.
So be patient. Gitmo will not be filled in one day.
Sorry,but this has been going on for over 4 years and we have got what??????????
NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for these great links. What it leaves me with after reading is this… If it’s SO HARD to get there (if one follows all the DOJ cautioins) as shipwreckcrew very carefully breaks down for us, HOW on earth did the Special Counsel charge the all the wrong people so easily? With no accountability at all and let so many crooks go Scott free. Well, the latter part is easy, you simply do not look into them (thinking of Podesta for instance, let alone Hillary). And when I look at the depressing truth the former is too as they just chose all the courts that would do their bidding. What a mess corruption is when it takes root in a countries systems. What a …. stinking swamp
Ahhh here is the answer I was looking for! Sits nicely in all this
Are Mrs. Barr & Mrs. Mueller back to attending Bible study together?
Mr. Durham reportedly a staunch Catholic. I hope he recalls Christ chased the money changers out of the temple with a whip.
It is more than a bit ironic that a president (Nixon) was run out of office for a few minutes gap in his office recordings while today, destruction of evidence is routinely performed with impunity. I suspect we’ll be told that the wiping of the SC team’s phones is OK, much like grand jury deliberations are confidential. What amazes me is how Christopher Wray remains FBI Director no matter how outrageous his agency’s revealed behavior appears to the citizenry. I have to assume that Durham was aware that the SC phones had been wiped clean so I don’t want to assume that this affects the outcome of his investigation.
It’s a weird inside the bubble dynamic. Any review of the individual elements within the bubble brings out a certain level of defensive angst from every element inside the bubble. The system protects itself. Any slight defect or investigative penetration of the membrane is considered a risk. [Think: ‘first rule of fight club‘ etc.]
Like how Andy McCarthy reacts?
The giant pyramid.
Sundance hits this one pretty much dead on!! The Durham assistant, Nora D…….. she resigned 2 reasons…..her pension eligibility is secured (20yrs), and she did not agree with a prosecution angle Durham team was taking on one individual…..so she’s def doing a political stance and she’s now doing the right thing and leaving. Take it for what it’s worth.
A suggestive piece in Redstate that Dannehy’s role in the investigation was completed; that she led the part of the investigation that had to filter out inadmissible evidence (Garrity material .. similar to Miranda warnings). The story makes clear how complicated a business it is when investigating police misconduct. Check it out:
https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/09/12/speculation-on-why-durhams-chief-deputy-resigned-today-requires-inside-knowledge/