An announcement today from the U.S. District of Connecticut John Durham is a little perplexing. According to the announcement USAO John Durham is resigning from office effective February 28. However, there is no information about his prior appointment as special counsel to review the DOJ and FBI conduct in the Trump investigation.
Here’s the announcement:
After serving as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut for more than three years, and as a federal prosecutor in Connecticut for more than 38 years, John H. Durham today announced his resignation from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, effective at midnight on February 28.
“My career has been as fulfilling as I could ever have imagined when I graduated from law school way back in 1975,” said U.S. Attorney Durham. “Much of that fulfillment has come from all the people with whom I’ve been blessed to share this workplace, and in our partner law enforcement agencies. My love and respect for this Office and the vitally important work done here have never diminished. It has been a tremendous honor to serve as U.S. Attorney, and as a career prosecutor before that, and I will sorely miss it.”
Prior to his appointment as an interim U.S. Attorney in November 2017 and subsequently as the presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney in February 2018, Mr. Durham served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut for 35 years, prosecuting complex organized crime, violent crime, public corruption and financial fraud matters. From 1978 to 1982, he served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the New Haven State’s Attorney’s Office, and from 1977 to 1978, he served as a Deputy Assistant State’s Attorney in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonard C Boyle will serve as Acting U.S. Attorney upon Mr. Durham’s departure.
“The Office will be in the extraordinarily capable hands of Len and our superb supervisory team who, together, guarantee that the proper administration of justice will continue uninterrupted in our District.”
Mr. Boyle has served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney since June 2018, when he returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office after serving as Deputy Chief State’s Attorney in Connecticut for approximately nine years. He previously served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office from 1986 to 1998, and from 1999 to 2004.
Mr. Boyle is the 53rd U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, an office that was established in 1789.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is charged with enforcing federal criminal laws in Connecticut and representing the federal government in civil litigation. The Office is composed of approximately 68 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and approximately 54 staff members at offices in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport. (LINK)
Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr appointed John Durham as a special counsel on October 19, 2020, and did not tell anyone until after the November election. [LINK]
On December 1, 2020, the Attorney General notified congress in a letter:
However, here’s the issue… under DOJ regulations [28 cfr 600] a special counsel must come from “outside government“; so did John Durham resign his position prior to the appointment, or has Bill Barr just given the appearance of a special counsel appointment while knowing the legal validity of it will collapse upon challenge?
§ 600.3 Qualifications of the Special Counsel.
“(a) An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government. Special Counsels shall agree that their responsibilities as Special Counsel shall take first precedence in their professional lives, and that it may be necessary to devote their full time to the investigation, depending on its complexity and the stage of the investigation.” (link)
Obviously Bill Barr is not stupid, he would know the regulations he cites would require the special counsel to come from “outside the U.S. government”, so what gives?
Did Durham resign to fulfill the statutory requirements of the special counsel? Was everything prior to now just the review and investigative phase, and now that decisions must be made Durham needs to be “outside the United States Government”?
Or is this all just an optical pantomime and the entire Durham investigation is concluded with nothing coming from it?
Calm down folks. I’ve read the secret report and it states and I quote:
“Some people did some things and we caught them all.”
Could be John Durham is guilty of the crime of ” Wrecking ”
See Gulag Archipelago
but they couldn’t find any INTENT !
Durham is resigning? Was he ever there, to begin with?
Sounds like the take by that GD muslim rep…. some people did some things on 9/11
To answer your question, “Or is this all just an optical pantomime and the entire Durham investigation is concluded with nothing coming from it?” the answer is the latter – the Durham Hoax is over and nothing came of the supposed investigation Fantasy. No accountability. Move along, Nothing to see here.
Just like Mueller and just like Huber…..nothing…nada….zilch
It’s all too predictable now which is very sad.
His next job will be on the Board of Boeing.
Boing is being sabotaged
It was all a complete joke from day 1 . As soon as Durham said no information will come out prior to the election i knew right then that it was all a complete joke .
Turns out former AG BARR and Durham are just as corrupt as the rest .
Bill Barr is singularly responsible for the downfall of this nation. He had the power to drain the swamp. Then when he failed to do that, he punted on his responsibility to investigate and overturn this sham of an election. No one will ever be prosecuted for this coup upon our nation and Barr is the one person who could have prevented it all.
Not related but relatable;
His child should be removed from her govt job. Same for Comey we need to end the dynasty traditions within govt. plus it’s good experience to work the private sector.
I have heard that Barr’s three daughters all work for the federal government. They will not be removed from their jobs because he did not disturb the Swamp.
It’s a big club but you’re not in it
Former AG BARR and Durham allowed the below with nobody to be held accountable.
It is now clear that the inner circle of the Obama White House, including the former President himself, were coordinators of the entire Russia hoax from inception through the Mueller inquisition.
A coordinated conspiracy run from the Obama White House
That all elements of the senior departments of the major agencies of the United States Government were illegally weaponized to destroy a political opponent. A coordinated assault on the constitution and the Republic.
To sabotage an incoming President. Overthrow the government of the United States. Abuse their authorities to openly frame, smear and seek the destruction and criminal indictment of a duly elected President using the evidence they themselves fabricated.
Clapper said that everything he and John Brennan had done prior to and during the 2016 election was explicitly on Barack Obama’s orders.
I have learned never to put faith into people that the media describes as a “devout” member of whatever religion. That group includes Durham along with Biden, Pelosi and Barr.
You can add Pontius Pence to that list
And Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett, Kerry….all Catholics note.
So, your point is that all Catholics are untrustworthy?
Denomination is not the determining factor as you well know menagerie. We all are capable of nontrustworthyness
Most of the Dem and GOP senators and Reps who opposed President Trump are Protestants. Ditto for most of the big money people who run globalist corporations. Catholics have seved in our Amed Forces at percentages above their numbers in American society.
Anti-Catholicism is pornography for the inbred.
In truth, the bishops who failed to excommunicate Biden and Pelosi and others who claim Catholicism while pushing for abortion and homosexuality have set horrible examples for the faithful. Much like the bishops of England (except John FIsher, who was executed) sold out the faithful and okayed Henry VIII’s taking over the Church in England and Wales, which led them into the Protestant camp..
Did Billy Graham or other mainline Protestants say Bill Clinton was a bad character or did they go to the DNA stained White House to pray with him?
There is plenty of blame to go around. Adding religious bigotry to the mix accomplishes the globalist agenda of divide and conquer. Those people worship Satan or Mammon.
All of us MAGA people, on the other hand, from Catholic to Protestant to Orthodox to Jewish to agnostic act according to the dictates of our consciences. We see things differently religiously but together believe in a moral and free America, given by God to the people, not the politicians or the elites.
They’re all white, too. So what?
Good point!
This is a Perfect Example of what The US Department of Justice
thinks of the American Citizens !
I say we Drop some Good Old American Justice
on every one of them !
yada yada yada. Didn’t do nuffink, like Barr and the rest of the fakes.
I’m afraid it was always just a fake. Nothing will come of this. We should have seen people indicted a year ago, Feb-Mar 2020, they managed to run out the clock and steal the election.
Absolutely! There should have been arrests starting a year ago and then not stop arrests since. We the people have seen more than enough evidencd. That is why, it was obvious early that Durham was just a fake whitehat!
Thanks for all your help John,you and Barr sure had us fooled.
The swamp slithers with disingenuous deep-state snakes NOT on the side of “We the People of the United States.”
Bill Barr said many things that just were not true. Of all the people involved with DJT these past five years, Barr has been the most disappointing, mostly because of his total disingenuousness. Karma will be waiting to even a score.
So this once great Republic, has a corrupt FBI, CIA, DOJ, State Department, and Supreme Court. Lady Gaga dogs were returned safely and the solving of NASCAR noose case elevates FBI Director Wray to super crime fighter status.
If this asshole shows his face in public he needs to be beaten to a bloody pulp
9/11 commission, JFK Warren Commission (Allen Dulles), Durham Report (Barr), at what point do we finally realize that WE are the idiots in the room, the useful idiots, hoping someday for TRUTH, JUSTICE, and THE AMERICAN WAY? Our biggest mistake, then and now, is never realizing the most important aspect off all these government shenanigans: these swamp creatures first and foremost are sociopaths, they don’t think the way you or I do. They have no conscience and that’s something a normal mind cannot fathom so we continue to let them off to continue to play politician/AG, expecting them to do the right thing; we expect them, the swamp, to police themselves. Our second biggest mistake is we continue to forget that it is the UNIPARTY, they all drink at the same bar every night in Georgetown laughing that the plebes haven’t figured this out, and those that have, can’t do a damn thing about it. An outsider like Trump comes along and the uniparty pulls in closer to out the lone wolf that could upset their $$$$ cart. Shame on us and Trump for ever thinking the Durham report would ever illuminate what we long for; the truth. Easiest solution now and then is to get rid of campaign contribution and every problem in DC which is , the world, goes away over night; stop the money train, stop the corporatocracy and bring back the Republic.
Very true. WE ARE THE IDIOTS. For 30Y we kept thinking, hoping we were making a diff by voting for Republican after Republican and the left, Dems were just so hard to defeat, push back.
Then DJT came about and OPENED ALL THE CURTAINS. And when that curtain pulled back, we SAW ALL the Dems and the Republicans were on the same stage and in the same act. And it WAS THEM that mattered, dang sure NOT US!
And NOW we see what fools and idiots we have been, ‘to think’ we mattered, there would be change, there was a dime’s difference b/w a Dem or a Republican and the almighty UNIPARTY prevailed at everything…
…the drive-by, hype machine, under ethical media was never held accountable for the public pressures they placed on NASA to go ahead with the countdown of Challenger in 1985, on that cold Jan. morning in Fl… [ emboldened, they continue… ]
p.s.
yes, they reported the subsequent disaster (while leaving out their role(s) in building (make-believe) pre-countdown, public pressures…) …
Does the public mis-influencers mis-actions sound familiar?
(anonymous whistleblower hyped ‘evidence’ etc. – without a name …, for months… etc. …
“where’s the hard evidence” mantra – while ignoring election evidence… )
imho
And the Swamp creatures know only hire other Sociopaths. After decades of this, we see that our country is in a “Not Good” place!
The tell was that Clinesmith STILL retains his law license and the DC Bar is somnolent.
He joins Barr in retirement. Our work IS DONE. We safely and respectfully insulated, withheld, protected ALL THE CRIMINALS…..you are welcome. We both see our respective bank accts have received the deposits we expected. You are welcome. Good doing biz with you. Now off to the tropics and enjoy life……Bill and John…..
Likely means Hunter walks, as if there was any chance he wouldn’t. That ends that. Likely why BIden willing to do whatever ‘the cabal’ wants, cause they can always ‘hang Hunter’ over his head. Joe can’t say no to anybody, anything…..there will always be, well, that matter(s) about Hunter…..The Biden’s are white trash, the whitest of white trash, Jill, Joe, Hunter…
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We’d jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends th’ ingredience of our poison’d chalice
To our own lips.
Well now, kindly keep in mind that even if Special Counsel Durham actually investigated anything and actually makes a Report about his investigation, his report goes to soon to be Attorney General Garland to decide what to do with it and whether even redacted parts of it will be given to Congress or made public.
iirc, any report was to be public, as stipulated in his appointment as special counsel. It’s possible he retains special counsel position and leaves the CT US Atty position for a political appointee, as is typical when Dems come in. For republicans, there’s the fake whining that they never get to change the guards, blah blah. Let’s see.
Durham is completely compromised.
Before leaving office Durham made a court filing that was completely opposite from what he filed in March, 2020:
Biden administration withdraws from transgender athlete case
The Trump administration had supported the Connecticut lawsuit, which sought to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ high school sports.”In a filing Tuesday, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham and other department officials withdrew Barr’s statement, saying, “The government has reconsidered the matter.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/biden-administration-withdraws-transgender-athlete-case-n1258723
Original court filing by Durham in March 24,2020 supporting the girls lawsuit:
“Reading Title IX to compel schools to require biological males to compete against biological females in athletic competitions is precisely the type of interpretation that this Court should reject on this ground. ”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1262901/download
“Durham is completely compromised.”
They all are. Here’s why:
“The Government™” isn’t something you can vote for because it is, in reality, the vast unelected administrative state which is present at every level of government and the unelected lobbyists who effectively own the relatively few politicians found at every level of government pretending to be in control.
When claims about malfeasance, like voter fraud or the misuse of federal intelligence and law enforcement assets are submitted, consider that the government agencies responsible for any investigation are effectively being asked to investigate themselves. They are also the ones who chose what to investigate, permanently relegating to the “conspiracy theory” category whatever they chose not to investigate or whatever they only pretend to investigate and, therefore, intentionally fail to confirm.
When an unexpected fluke bypassed the bought-candidate vetting process of the RINO faction of the Uniparty, a candidate no one thought had any chance of winning (if they had, they’d have been as prepared to commit the same amount of fraud as in 2020), and manages to win election, the actual government does everything it can to obstruct him. Then, using the near infinite number of obscure felonies on the books, it microscopically analyses everything he’s done “six ways from Sunday” to destroy, through selective attention to and enforcement of those laws, him and anyone who was his ally. That is the same implied blackmail mechanism used to keep more compliant politicians, meaning the vast majority of them, fully in line. Those who cooperate with the desired, corrupt status quo are given a pass.
So, let’s stop dreaming about our easily manipulated idiocracy suddenly becoming sentient and voting for the required, vast number of honest, unbought and unbuyable politicians who, suddenly and magically appear from nowhere, bypass the Uniparty and mainstream media vetting process, and get elected at every level of government.
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Plumbing the Depths
How the Gears Turn
FRED REED • MARCH 9, 2008
(This first appeared in shorter form in The American Conservative)
https://www.unz.com/freed/plumbing-the-depths-386/
Common delusions notwithstanding, the United States, I submit, is not a democracy—by which is meant a system in which the will of the people prevails. Rather it is a curious mechanism artfully designed to circumvent the will of the people while appearing to be democratic. Several mechanisms accomplish this.
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Here’s that implied blackmail mechanism keeping everyone in line… or else:
Book: Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local [AND federal – W] politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
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Here’s the scientific confirmation of Fred Reed’s point that in anything other than very small town elections, your vote doesn’t mean squat:
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens [Princeton University, 2014]
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Excerpts:
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of the administrative state and lobbyists – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.
Durham sure LOOKED the part, though! Kudos to central casting.
Keeping the faith. Looks like he’s resigning from office USAO, which he needs to do to fulfill statutory requirements of Special Council. My take.
John Durham steps down as U.S. attorney but will remain in charge of Russia probe
John Durham, a decorated career prosecutor, announced Friday he is stepping down at the end of the month as a U.S. attorney in Connecticut but will continue as special prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia collusion probe that dogged the early Trump presidency.
Durham’s announcement, which was widely expected as part of the transition inside the Biden Justice Department, allows him to focus on wrapping up the Russia investigation from Washington DC where the probe has been ongoing since 2019.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/john-durham-steps-down-us-attorney-will-remain-charge-if
I hope that’s true and thanks for sharing. But I’ve lost hope in what John Solomon has to say.
And there it is….TRUST NO ONE!
Who in their right mind ever expected any results? Barr was smoke and mirrors at its best.
Buy a powerball ticket, it will payoff quicker.
John ‘The Phantom’ Durham never existed….You’d think with all the Cellphone cameras that someone, anyone would’ve got a current picture or video of Durham leaving the Court House, Restaurant, Store or anywhere in public…..Yet, there’s nothing….Never appeared in front of a Congressional hearing for questioning even if it was just for Theater…..
John ‘The Phantom’ Durham is a made-up character with a fake investigation that never took place…….That’s also why there was never any ‘Leaks’ …….How else do you explain it???
“Optical pantomime” has my bet, that’s what Barr was all about.
they better hope they have everything they need in place because we will never be tricked again thinking that the DOJ has anything to do with Justice or the Constitution.
With Barr they had their one and only freebie and they decided to go along with the steal. They won’t get another chance like that. They held off protests and lawsuits by that gimmick but we won’t let that happen again. All of FedGov is to be considered Enemies of the Nation until proven other wise with deeds not words. Even tho we were suspicious of Barr (and with good reason) we gave him the benefit of the doubt. Some of that rests with Trump for whatever reason he brought Barr in.
No. More.
Interesting link here: Good grief!
“Bill Barr was recommended to President Trump by Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing. DiGenova stated in a recent email that he was proud of it. Now diGenova is on the Trump Legal Team investigating all the fraud and treason committed in the 2020 election, and our AG says there is none.”
https://rense.com/general96/deep-stater-bill-barr-sells-out-trump-and-america.php
Durham covered up Mueller’s cover-up of Whitey Bulger’s life of crime. Mueller had Bulger silenced
He is not resigning as Special Council!
LOL
Is it “SOON” yet?
Played once again!
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-john-durham-resignation-20210209-20210209-b5fpaekr7ndtnnck2cvz7aer4m-story.html
Remains special prosecutor. This is actually a good sign. Inside DOJ his work would never leave the building.