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?
Screwed again!!!!
sure would be nice to get surprised by durham. be nice for the DOJ/FIB to get surprised by him too.
What? No more Barr and Durham tick tock to appease and corral the sheep?
Ill have to find some other unicorn to chase.
Curious response to evidence that the US Govt is swarming with traitors who refuse to protect & defend the Constitution which is all that stands between us and tyranny. How can that possibly be funny to you? It’s heartbreaking to me.
Gallows Humor
Some are saying that Bull Durham is going to stay on as Special Council for the Russia investigation.
IMO he’s going to protect everyone in the intel community, just like Barr did at the just-us department.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/02/26/breaking-john-durham-is-leaving-his-post-as-us-attorney-n2585424
Found in the bin… 🙁
Note: He did NOT resign as Special Counsel.
But if he hadn’t already resigned, he couldn’t be a special counsel. Had to be someone “outside government” to be one.
To me, a befuddling bunch of rig-a-ma-row to help keep documents from being declassified.
nothing surprises me any more.
the aplhabits can all just go to hell.
Absolutely nothing will come from it, just as with the Sessions/Barr circus. If there had been any seriousness at all about any of it, they would have brought it forward years ago.
I think we all know the answer to the article ending question.
Knew it! I joked here a few days ago that he’d be offered a position with GOOGLE as Assistant General Counsel at $750,00 a year. A position that he never even applied for! LOL.
Well, as to your closing questions, I’m going to go with door #3.
The department of NoJusticeEver now in the hands of professional criminals, legally.
They’ll be focusing on hunting down Trump supporters for posting “dangerous” memes about JoeBama’s advanced dementia on some obscure right wing website and declare martial law until every last one of us is shot dead or imprisoned.
Ah, but it’s all about those billable hours.
And to think our corrupt FBI is investigating the kidnapping of Lady Gaga’s bull dogs. Possibly politically motivated because she sang at JoeBama’s inauguration. And yet the American people get nothing from our own government that we pay for!
Look at how quickly the DOJ can arrest people who were at the capital on Jan 6. These FISA “investigations” have been going on for over 3 years and just like that nothing happens!
So the fbi will look into her dog-knapping, but not into why she appears in the background in a few videos off the Hunter Biden laptop where he’s seen to be with at least one very young female. At this point there is no “fixing” this government and the insanely massive corruption happening in each alphabet agency and congress…the “big reset” needs to happen for sure, but not the way it’s going now. It needs to happen at the government level, not the citizens level.
On the radio this morning ( an AM station), it was reported that 300 had been charged for the January 6th “riot.”
It looks like they are going after anyone who was there, whether they went into the buildings or not. If they can get headlines that scream “Over 300 TRUMP supporters have been arrested so far…” they will ride that as much as possible. Hell, they are using phone company records to see who was even in the area… this is beyond Big Brother at this point and is right in line with CCP. Didn’t even take JoeBama two whole months to get us here.
So what’s to happen with all the well documented crimes before the “”investigation”” took place?
What documents? What you talkin’ bout Willis?
In the biden vault next to the redacted docs Kash Patel was discussing the other day.
I’ll take “optical pantomime” for $600, Sundance.
Toolnut, your bid should be higher.
John Warren Durham.
Fake from the jump.
Love the picture of the two conniving crooks.Says it all,a picture is worth zillion words.
Incredulous news, but knowing President Trump
I firmly believe we are witnessing the the GREATEST
STING OPERATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
If that is sarcasm i will refrain from calling BS.
Put down the Q pipe….
I sure hope and pray you are right, Marygrace.
It is very painful to witness so much evil and treachery by the US Govt. And, its so overt, so “in your face” … obstruction of justice BY the Dept of Justice of the United States of America.
I always believed PDJT had orchestrated THE most brilliant Sting Op in US History to finally restore the “rule of law,” “equal justice” and return power to the people… as the US Constitution dictates… to SAVE America, literally. In 2016, I didn’t think we had much more time. In 2021, we have no more time… and those drunk on their power are brazen, everywhere.
I always believed President Trump would not fail to do his most important job– protect the nation from all enemies foreign & domestic. Nothing more important to the survival of the USA as a free Constitutional nation than to drain this maniacal treasonous swamp in DC. It is far worse than I realized… maybe than President Trump realized too.
It’s not surprising that the US Govt would turn into a dictatorship IF given great power but no restraints imposed upon it, no requirement to live by its own laws. Those in power CAN, and do, commit any criminal act, including treason, including even the most demonic cruelty to innocent children… and no one stops them. I have struggled just to comprehend such evil. Its scary.
No nation can survive the treachery, corruption and evil at the highest eshelons of power… for long… and neither will we.
I keep thinking about the 100s of 1000s of American soldiers, sailors, airmen who gave their lives and limbs, over the centuries, to preserve our freedom.
So, I pray you are right, Marygrace!
You’re absolutely right. President Trump declared the US would never be a socialist country. He was absolutely correct, we went directly to totalitarian Democommunism.
As far as I’m concerned, Barr showed his true colors by declaring there was not enough fraud to effect the outcome of the election without even bothering to investigate it first. Anything involving Barr is doomed to failure (by design).
My optimism tank is empty.
Collect your check from soros, john, and slither away to never be heard from again….or maybe there’s a tell all book deal to be released in 2030?
Something is going on. I don’t know what. I believe everything has been meticulously planned.
It seems that all the planning was by the people who would sell out our country, and there was no counter plans to combat it by those elected to do so.
That being the case, as always, it falls to the people to rectify things.
Giuliani admitted in an interview that while they knew there would be fraud, they had no idea just how much there would be. Either you believe this Q stuff that Trump has always had a plan, or Trump was not sufficiently prepared for just how much and how many ways the fraud would happen.
“I CAUGHT THE SWAMP, I CAUGHT THEM ALL,
NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS BUT ME,
I CAUGHT ALL OF THIS CORRUPTION GOING ON.” PTrump
Yeah, they got caught, no doubt, but dirty cops and paid off ‘prosecuters’.
The truth is out.
We know.
But the Judges are Supremely Corrupt Court.
The fight continues…
It’s too bad that they don’t give a badge and a gun to the President of the United States!
Catching and having culprits be prosecuted are vastly different things as we’ve learned over the past 5 years.
The SC also doesn’t give a rip about rights and the sanctity of our country aside from Supreme Court Justice Thomas with an occasional assist from Justices Alito and Gorsuch, in that order.
Our inJustice Dept. has sold out to the radicals. Justice is not blind, she’s now got her foot on our necks if you’re even remotely conservative.
If, on the other hand, you’re a rioter, looter aka democrat then Justice smiles, kicks you out of jail and says well done. We’ll see ya next week and have a stimulus check for your troubles.
I think we need to understand precisely President Trump’s definition of “caught” in context of this oft repeated statement. I’ll admit …I don’t.
I have thought about the words PDJT said many times and I am back to square one! Why would he even utter those words, and to whom, what purpose? Nothing happend, I love that man, however at this point he should have not said anything. I remember him saying that on his way to Marine One, his main SS guy was standing close by, just looking at the President. I was happy to tell hubby,his reply to me was “he talks to much, actions are a lot better” We are both Canadian, love and respect PDJT. May God Bless him and Patriots world wide.
Planned by who? If whoever has some sort of plan, they should have executed it somewhere around last year… before the election. Trump has no pull anywhere in DC or Washington. Who exactly is going to descend on DC with Trump and do… anything?
It is a devine plan. It is perfect. The timing will be perfect. When it happens, the whole world will see the truth. When it happens, people will be in awe of the enormous complexity and sheer elegance of how beautifully it has been executed. We are all very fortunate to be alive in this time and place to witness it. Have faith.
Could not agree with you more. Trust the plan is BS language for “Let’s sit on our butts and wait for someone to rescue us because we are never going to take action ourselves.”
Sure. It’s all been planned by our enemies, meticulously.
All we have had is PDJT. And even he couldn’t fix this traitorous mess.
Something is definitely going on. And it ain’t good.
Amazing, they got away with it. A clean sweep… At the next DNC Convention, Barr and Durham should get a lifetime achievement award…
This will be relevant.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/osc/documents/2006_03_17_exhibits_a_d.pdf
Apparently Special Counsels can be appointed outside the framework of 28 cfr 600. When James Comey appointed Patrick Fitzgerald (after Ashcroft’s recusal, imagine that) in 2003, Fitzgerald was already a Federal Prosecutor.
My guess is that Durham resigned as USA CT, because “Biden” ordered all USAs to resign by the end of Feb.
He’s still Special Counsel, regardless of where he came from.
Not surprised. He’s done warming the chair.
I hope President Trump brings this up when he talks at CPAC. How is it a government can be structured to work against it’s own taxpayers and a duly elected President. His silence on this has been confusing.
Stupid and Deceitful are two different attributes.
Now, I know that you found those two after looking up the definition of today’s Liberal.
”However, there is no information about his prior appointment as special counsel to review the DOJ and FBI conduct in the Trump investigation.”
… don’t hold your breath!
Lolz, y’all still waiting
Damn I am going to miss ‘Ole John. I can’t see how I am going to live without him. He had become a such a huge part of my everyday life….oh well, all good things come to pass.
My first thought – Durham accidentally stumbled onto something so egregious that he dared to suggest that it probably should be followed through on and that certain privileged Swamp Critters should actually be held accountable…at which point he was IMMEDIATELY told that his services were no longer needed and that if he did not IMMEDIATELY submit a resignation letter and forget everything he had seen, neither he, nor his family, would live long OR prosper!
…”accidentally stumbled on”
Hahahaha…Helen Keller could have ‘stumbled’ onto what’s been going on.
The guilty parties know that they’re untouchable. That’s why they’re so bold.
They know that absolutely nothing will happen to them. Pretty sad.
Vikingmom: you had me all the way up until here ‘My first thought – Durham accidentally’
Sorry – that was actually intended as pure sarcasm because we all know that Durham was hired to kick the can down the road just like Bondo Barr did right up until the end…that was why I thought that maybe, just maybe, Durham was shuffling papers like he has been doing for months and then actually bothered to look down at one of them and thought, “Oh CRAP – this really BAD! Maybe I should mention this?”
\Many Treepers know what I called Barr from day 1 “debela guzica” aka fat a.. in the serbian language, I will have to think of a name for bald head (no disrespect to anyone that is bald, hubby is getting there, Perhaps the best thing for him would be” what’s his face”
I’m think this was Barr’s plan from beginning.
Our entire system is a f#$king farse
They own it lock-stock-and barrel.
It’s a big #$%^^&& club, and you ain’t in it……….George Carlin
One point… Congressional Republicans need to make clear, that when we take over in 2022, there will be public hearings on this. With supeonas and testimony under oath…
With an FBI and DOJ so filled with swamp creatures and fake khabuki theater with Mrs. Graham and others laughing in our faces.
Who is the “we” that will be taking over exactly? Looks to me like we have watched a blatant, broad-based coup engineered and supported by both sides of the Uniparty. After using Dominion to install a Potato as President, and getting away with it, what elections will be won and by whom exactly going forward?
In 2022, lots of people simply won’t bother to vote, or will focus on third party candidates (raises hand). I’m done with the same ole, same ole. Might support a local Republican candidate or two (though here in the NW, the Republicans would pass for Democrats in lots of places elsewhere). The GOP is dead to me. With or without Pres. Trump. Enough of trying to kick the ball, only to have it pulled away again.
Charles, hearings, you mean like the absolution hearing Gowdy held for Hillary on Benghazi and Graham held for Rosenstein and Yates. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
Depends on who counts the votes in 2022. The dems want the same crooked process.
Making propaganda legal in 2012 didn’t help too much either.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5
People need to stop and think before they post all these defeatist comments saying Durham is nothing.
Durham will continue as Special Counsel. His requested resignation as US Attorney, says literally nothing about resigning as SC or an end to the investigation.
Based on the track record, why exactly should we expect to see justice in his Special Counsel role? Because he hasn’t given it up yet? Maybe they aren’t done burying the evidence, and need him there until it’s completed.
Surrounded, if there is a report, what difference would it make now? We already know most of what these people did.
I think his resignation letter would have mentioned that!
Well, they did deliver the report that was promised before the election. Wait….. they failed to deliver the report before the election.
How long has it been since the election?
I don’t like to see folks set themselves up for disappointment.
If I’m wrong, and Durham actually produces anything, fine… I’ll eat my crow, gladly, I’ll enjoy it.
But I won’t be eating any crow. Durham is simply a political construct designed to blockade us from truth and discovery.
They’ll keep up the illusion for a bit longer, run up some more bills, then reveal they didn’t find anything significant to bi-partisan golf-clap applause.
I’m embarrassed at how conditioned we are to accept this sh!t. How much is too much?
Oh well…
He was there.
And then he wasn’t..
He got paid but I’m not sure what for.
He is staying in his Special Counsel role, according to several news outlets. What does this mean???
Psyop by Bagpipe Barr.
It means that some of us can pretend for a few more years
Continuing to receive the payoff.
You can almost hear the sound of Hillary’s cackling in the background.
With apologies to Mozart …
O my! Did I not see this coming? Screwed again!
Beep! Beep! – Roadrunner
“capture and kill”…simple as that.
collect all the damning evidence and then spike it.
Do I really need to research Boyle to find what I am likely to already assume?
GOD BLESS AMERICA
stage 3 advances
gap narrows
stay frosty
any future special investigation and court case about any corruptor will NOW be subject to DOJ rules that will never permit any investigation, and data, and certainly any witnesses who testified to be allowed to be part of any future action. You can GUARANTEE most of it has been classified under the highest levels and ALSO locked up by many layers of legal insulation.
but hey, at least they got that one guy in connecticut who made A Damned Schifface nervous on social media right?
Whew…thank goodness THAT guy is off the street. /s
the legacy of DOJ Durham: mini-bar, just doing JUST US….
I think the entire Mueller > Barr > Durham thing is an ongoing, giant rescue operation for the DOJ. I think the purpose of the Durham special counsel, is the same purpose of the Mueller special counsel, and that is to bury all of the evidence of the spying operation to make sure it never sees the light of day.
Let’s get a reaction from Joe diGenova, the 2020 winner of the Dick Morris Award
I most often read the CTH articles word-for-word. This one, I couldn’t get out of the starting gate. The Intelligence and Law enforcement community under President Trump only conjures up feelings of nausea. Good luck, John. Maybe you can investigate the pilfering of change from the remaining parking meters in CT.
Job complete. The investigation stall is done. Now on to greener pastures where his cabalistic reward awaits him.
Is there one person in government who isnt corrupt!
You really don’t expect them to leave it up to us.. do you.
Meanwhile the FBI is sending a team of agents to investigate the dog napping of Lady Gaga’s two French Bulldogs because she sang at Biden’s Inauguration and suspect Trump supporters! Two Black Trump Supporters? LOL. If it wasn’t so pathetic it would be funny!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9302469/FBI-investigate-Lady-Gagas-dognapping-political-sang-Bidens-inauguration.html
He Resigns as US Attorney but REMAINS ON SPECIAL COUNSEL!!
Come On People RESEARCH!!!
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-john-durham-resignation-20210209-20210209-b5fpaekr7ndtnnck2cvz7aer4m-story.html
You’re right… he will continue to draw a paycheck for his job as SC, which will remain busy producing nothing of consequence.
Sundance gave us all enough insight last year to know that it’s a fool’s errand to expect good fruit from this. Not trying to be a Donnie Downer, just keeping it real.
John Durham works with two hands. One he uses to hold up the rug, with the other he sweeps.
Tick Tock!
Is this all just an optical pantomime and the entire Durham investigation is concluded with nothing coming from it?
Answer: point to one thing Durham has accomplished that helped the Merican people?
To my knowledge, nothing.
Certainly not with an FBI Agent in Hartford Connecticut!
We couldn’t keep the Republic. Might as well not keep those that fiddled while she burned as well.