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?
I’m not going to hold my breath.
Crap!
So does this mean there is an actual Special Counsel similar to the whole Mueller one and that Durham’s resignation is just a formality and now technically he is outside the government to fulfill that requirement for a Special Counsel?
Will we get to know the size of the budget he gets, the number of people, even their names, of who is staffing this and doing their investigating thing?
How long do you think it will be for us to know if this is just another head fake or for real?
The White House told all of the US Attorneys to tender their resignations a week or two ago.
Check out James Comey’s appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald as Special Counsel in Dec, 2003.
It’s a similar situation because Fitz was already working as a Federal Prosecutor in the Office of Special Counsel (that’s a different kind of special counsel office).
No surprise…headfake from the start…
Correct. Another winning move by the Swamp.
If you wanted to write a Comedy of Terrors, this would be a possible scenario! Truly amazing! Who got to Durham? Jensen? What’s the deal?
All these guys have either got skeletons or they and their families have been threatened. I mean who wants the antifa/BML mob, you know, Obama’s army, on their front lawn?
I raise you one Huber and a Aldenbury! LOL
I’ll take “…with nothing coming from it” for $100.00
I’ll take: It was a fake investigation for a 100 myself.
I’m going with Option C… he’s found and compiled all the evidence and is having a bonfire cookout at his house this weekend.
I’ll take “optical pantomime” for $100, Alex.
Looks like Barr did what he wanted to do. Take the heat off of President Trump and at the same time make sure that no DoJ conspirators get prosecuted for any crimes that could damage the reputation of the DoJ. Barr forgot that, as Attorney General, Bar himself is the face of the DoJ. He has pissed off everyone in this country who wanted to see some of these conspirators put on trial. We are left with confirmation that the DoJ was involved in the debunked Russia collusion. Barr is a fool, in addition to being a tool.
You forgot, criminal conspirator.
What a swell, upstanding, straightforward, well-doing public servant John Durham turned out to be. There are millions more just like him taking paychecks & perks from the government of We The People.
And so the corrupt actors of the coup d’etat are all safe at home, because the umpire really is blind!
The coup actors have a blackmail gun to the head of the umpire.
They always knew they would be safe at home because they owned the umpire.
John, fine looking family you have there.
Did you see what happened to Governor Kemp’s daughter’s boyfriend?
Tragedy.
Well, John, glad we talked, hope you keep our conversation in mind during your investigation.
What can’t they do?
They have no repercussions.
What umpire? There’s never been an umpire during this entire sad, corrupt episode. The actors have been following an unspoken, unwritten plan, the objective of which was long ago understood by all, and has now largely been achieved.
Smoke and mirrors to keep the guilty from being held accountable.
Same old crap.
A strongly worded letter forthwith to the deep state.
I’m voting it’s the latter. A big waste of time and money!
Will there be a strongly worded letter to follow.
Flaccid.
How does someone from outside the government get access to files when no longer with DOJ? Mueller at least had the entire swamp at his disposal! I vote another cover-up operation paid for by US taxpayers once again. Got to give the swamp credit, they know how to screw the American voter and use taxpayer funds to do it. FUBAR!
The man who was never there.
That describes it perfectly. Just a commie ghost
offcourse:
We’ve talked so much for years about the deep state or the swamp, without fully believing it.
Believe it.
Joe Biden’s fake election is intended to pound home the redundancy, the irrelevance of the elected politicians. Donald Trump’s crime, at his first impeachment, was his failure to obey the State.
Be it McConnell or AOC, they are well-paid actors. The alliance of China and our billionaires now rule us, through their vassals in the State.
Donald Trump will not be allowed to run in 2024. The notion is laughable. The risk and vexation to the corporatist State now outweighs the tranquilizing and soothing effect on the hoi polloi. McConnell says he’ll support him? Sure, what the hell…
Concluded with NOTHING coming from it. Hell I almost forgot he was aledgedly investigating anything.
The Swamp has run out the clock as usual, and once again protected all the corrupt crooked politicians. They are now free to continue their grift and destruction of the Middle class while working dutifully towards their goal of the “New World Order” and “One World Government”, enriching themselves and their families and friends in the process.
Screw them all.
He wasn’t investigating anything, he was collecting a check and covering up the evidence so nobody will ever see it
YUP!
So his job was to run out the clock, just like Bagpipe Bill Barr. Got it.
It’s all been a dog and pony show. Now it will fade away into the sunset without another word being said about the years of investigative work that may or may not have been done.
How did Bugs Bunny say it? “That’s all folks”
… with a bunch of dog-faced lying pony soldiers running the show.
Huber 2.0
Robert Johnson strikes again!
“No Details of Special Counsel Role Continuing”
Whadda you think?
So Mr. smoke and mirror Jr. is quitting. Just another socialist making sure he doesn’t join the rest of us at sandy ocasio’s re-education camps.
The announcement says: “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.” So, at the time of appointment he was not outside of government.
Sundance’s question of: Or is this all just an optical pantomime and the entire Durham investigation is concluded with nothing coming from it?..is a rhetorical question.
Biden ordered ALL of the US Attorneys to resign by the end of Feb. 2/28 at midnight is the literal end of Feb.
Patrick Fitzgerald was also appointed as Special Counsel from inside government.
Durham was an idea….
Put this on his tombstone.
His job was to do nothing
And at that, he was a great success
I believe Biden requested the resignation of all US attorneys installed by Trump by 2/28. It could be that simple. It is too bad Trump didn’t clean house at the start of his administration. I remember reading all the RINOs advising him not too. Democrats play by different rules.
Newt Gingrich urged President Trump to fire them all on first day of taking office.
So did Jeff Sessions. He even said to fire Comey on Day One!
Correct. By the end of Feb.
To quote joseph stolen, its a cultural norm
“Joseph Stolen!” Now there’s a nickname for Biden that should have legs.
Durham as Special council = a drop of water in a hot skillet, or passing gas in a strong wind.
Didn’t mueller hire 13 or 17 Democrat supporting attorneys to his staff? How many has attorneys has Durham hired to his SC staff since he was appointed SC, and what are their names? 0 is my guess.
This “Durham investigation” was a farce from the get-go.
And to think of all the uniparty members during the Merrick Garland hearing asking questions about Durham probably knew all along about this!
Durham was to keep us under control as was Barr
Durham and Barr – men without chests.
No. Without cahones
He’s just continued running an “investigation” that committee Senators can hide behind instead of doing their jobs.
2 weeks. Trust Sessions.
Follow The Plan.?
trust sessions
It used to be that I would be shocked when a corrupt individual or enterprise would be exposed. Now I’m truly shocked and amazed when someone or something isn’t corrupt.
John Durham was a ruse. He never investigated anything. Their was no investigation into anything to do with Crossfire Hurricane. He made a deal with Clinesmith to charge him some slap on the wrist just to show he did something. WE ARE NOT PART OF THE CLUB. Another defeat for the good guys. Dear God please help us.
Another government pension payment I have to fund. Money for nothing.
He was never going to do anything about anything. Just another Huber.
Didnt you already mention it was not a legal special council since he was still working for the government.?
F—- John Durham.
Trust Sessions. Trust the plan. Any day now. Tick tock…
😛
It was all a set-up and ruse to run out the clock on President Trump, just like the other US Attorney appointed by Jeff Sessions – John Huber. President Trump was repeatedly warned about this “running out the clock” by Devin Nunes and Sidney Powell (among others), but President Trump did not act. Similar to Kash Patel’s story from yesterday regarding the Russiagate document declassification. Will we ever get to the bottom of this? Will there ever be justice and accountability for one of the greatest political crimes in US history (before the 2020 election)? At this point, it is in God’s hands.
I heard a John Solomon interview yesterday. He reported that we will we know within 2 weeks if Durham will file any indictments. If not, the only thing that will come of his 2 year investigation is a slap on the wrist probation of one mid level government attorney…
300+ charged, 280+ arrested from the Jan 6 event. When the DoJ wants to target people, they can do it in lightning speed.
When they want to hide evidence, they can drag the investigation on for years.
They have to hide the Antifa agent provocateurs by arresting as many harmless trespassers as possible–if you can call somebody a trespasser who was invited into the building by complicit elements of the Capitol Police.
Then to be given a D.C. Hangin’ Jury and sentenced for the crime Pelosi committed.
Freedom of Assembly ist now Verbotten.
Are we finally getting the drift regarding how totally and putridly corrupt the FIB and DOIJ are? It took us long enough! Now the only question is, WHAT ARE “WE THE PEOPLE” GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?. Up to now, we grossly naive so-called Conservatives, have been fighting an all out WAR where the SCUM Traitors have done everything including MURDERING A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, and we pathetically passive dumb bastards have been fighting using Marquess Of Queensbury rules!
Time to spit on our hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats!
When Curious Cat won’t do, you need Angry Cat.
This picture says it all thank you
One possibility is that Durham hasn’t accepted the appointment yet, or has, but effective March 1.
The other possibility is similar in effect to the anal swab offered by the CCP to our diplomats, only it’s our Deep State DOJ/FBI offering the same thing to we the people.
The good news is, we can still use that photo of him to illustrate articles about some guy named John Durham.
John who?
“John Durham–Because These Deep State Crimes Are Not Going To Not Going To Investigate Themselves!”
Beat it, toady.
Just had one of the biggest laughs in a long time. Thanks John for nothing!
And how much did that cost the taxpayers?
A nation.
I was inclined to see it like that at first. But if you wanted to do an honest job in Washington DC, what chance to you have? I assume this is crossing the minds of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito now as well? (and other honest patriots, what few there are) Life should have more meaning than participating in a fraudulent Kabuki Show.
After what I have seen over the last 4 years, thanks to Sundance, there is no way I would take a job at the FBI/CIA/DOJ or any other government agency. Durham may have gotten “red pilled” like the rest of us, especially after Clinesmith’s probation and community service.
So, I will wait a bit to get more information and see how this breaks.
IMHO
If they take the job but then shrug their shoulders cause “da bad guys wouldn’t let me fix it” but still take the money for the time, then what different are they from the other bad guys there? Only in government can you go to an office for years, never produce a single thing, get paid the entire time, then retire and demand you get paid for the rest of your life…..and no one bats an eye.