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?
Et tu, Brute? Benidictine Arnold and Judas….all rolled in one. Disgusting!
Like they say in the cleaning business “Like it never happened.”
More money for the FED to print to pay his pension. I have no idea what the taxes I pay cover.
Oh c’mon. There are millions of pages cataloging how tax revenues are spent. It’s you’re own fault if you don’t fully understand how the Republic spends your taxes. And BTW, Biden has committed to be the most transparent president ever, just like Obama before him. /sarc
WEll I can see right throug him.
Our taxes don’t begin to “cover” what our government does. Hence we are $25T in debt and climbing.
Did Barr and Durham mislead or lie to the Merican people, based on this “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”?
Answer: yes
What evidence do we have Durham is corrupt: Barr selected Durham.
What specific evidence do we have Barr was corrupt: EO’s for Biden were being worked on, by the DOJ, months before Biden took office.
If the EO’s were worked on by Barr ” months” in advance, then Barr knew the election was going to be stolen.
I think it may be easier to develop a list of government officials who DIDN’T know the election would be stolen……
bingo!!!!
NOt Laughing
Well Johnny Boy since you were so effective at…what did you do exactly?
Hmmmm.Seems lke the special prosecutor is still at the office, though…
We can dream, can’t we …? Maybe Durham will report that Biden was in on the plot to spy and phony-up FISA warrants from the outset. If the Dems lose the House in 2022, then Biden could be impeached. Of course, he’ll be in a memory care facility by then, but these days they impeach ex-presidents, so somebody will have to tell him while he’s being fed jello.
By 2022 it will be President Harris, who will play the role of sweet and reasonable pacifier centrist until after the midterms. That’s why she was paraded out as the moderate she isn’t when “chosen” as Biden’s running mate. She made such a poor showing in the primaries that she was virtually unknown.
Some of us know her all too well.
Watch – with keen diligence, and pray – asking God to forgive this nation and then to do His will.
Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
John Durham steps down as US Atty in CT. But stays on board as special counsel probing origins of Trump/Russia investigation. Biden Admin asked US attys to resign by end of February
2:59 PM · Feb 26, 2021
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John Durham steps down as US Atty in CT. But stays on board as special counsel probing origins of Trump/Russia investigation. Biden Admin asked US attys to resign by end of February
Well, Ol’ Durham was advertised a few years ago as being a “take no prisoners” type of US Attorney. I guess that was a literal description and code-speak for “take no action.”
LOL!
Yes… “take no prisoners” could be interpreted as “don’t do nuthin’.”
If you actually take prisoners, then you’ve done something. If you take no prisoners, then…. ya done nuthin’.***
He’s earned the title Bull
shitDurham.***Aside from finding the same coffee shop where Sundance happened to drop by at the same time(?). Now that was something, IIRC. How do you like your coffee, “Bull
shit“?They only charged Clinesmith because they had to because the punk left a paper trail which Horowitz found. Clinesmith got probation – not for his actual crimes or the unexplored conspiracy that’s jumps out at us – but because he simply was careless and got caught.
EVERY SINGLE person who had their communications intercepted and viewed by the government off of the Carter Page warrant were INTENTIONALLY deprived of their 4th Amendment rights by Officers of the Court under color of law.
The appropriate charge for Clinesmith et. al. linked below.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
Biggest whitewash in US history being followed now by the effort to flush the biggest crime in our history – the nullification of votes for over 74 million Americans – down the memory hole.
Down right depressing for sure. BUT the worst is yet to come. What can we do? What can we do????
Continue doing what you’re doing, stay apprised of the event contours, check in on friends and family, stay healthy, we’ll need people like that when this is over. Try to focus on positive ideas and solutions, they’ll be needed and what it will take to get there will necessarily be bereft of such focus. God will look over those who will carry the flag forward and be with them.
Topically, not unexpected for Biden to fire out most or all of Trump’s appointees, Durham will IMO continue his memory hole work in OSC though I do wonder what happened to Aldenberg perhaps I missed his disposition. Durham is on the Uniparty team and his masterful performance for them will surely be allowed to continue for political optics, even if it means overlooking specific verbiage in the regs; nothing new there, lawfare rewrites the Constitution daily.
We already have the Mueller investigation as precedent, particularly in the Manafort case.
The special counsel regulations are not considered law, at least to where a defendant can enforce them against the special prosecutor. I think the lawyers messed up in not arguing 28CFR(528?) as making the regulations binding.
Durham is nothing more than a Lucy with a scowl pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. And no, that stink you smell is not Pigpen rounding the corner, its just the rotten DC swamp protecting its own.
So Durham was just another Huber?
I’m shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
Don’t all US Prosecutors resign after elections?
I expect the same from Durham as I got from Barr, Sessions and Rosensteinn, all old boys network.
Plus germ finds all the people he’s worked with as being angels from heaven whereas I see only devils from hell.
Correction: Durham finds….
Occam’s razor: it was always a snowjob.
Isn’t This Obstruction of justice?
Maybe..probably…except rooting out that level of rot would require individuals with actual moral fortitude, integrity and functioning spinal columns. Those things became extinct decades ago.
THANK YOU SIR!
MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?
Another over-paid blood sucker gobmint duffus dipweed gonna Reee Tire.
Bubye Now.
….”guarantee that the proper administration of justice will continue uninterrupted”…thud
ICYMI
The link below : read the 3rd last paragraph.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/08/965654281/justice-dept-to-transition-u-s-attorneys-sparing-2-involved-in-political-probes
Gab link: https://gab.com/wlbeattie/posts/105799923790483147
I am surprised that Sundance has not updated this article. Everyone is saying Durham is still special counsel
Maybe because it doesn’t matter?
Actually it does. He usually puts a red siren light on articles that have critical updates.
The fact Durham is STILL Special Counsel is kinda an important addition to this post
His comment ” I will sorely miss it” sounds to me like he was fired.
That is just politics. Every new administrations fires the US attorneys of the previous administration.
President Trump didn’t and I’m sure he regrets not canning the lot of them!
If nothing else, this has woken a lot of people up to the corruptness of the FBI, DOJ, SC, and Lawfare. And really, it’s time to constantly expose these people over and over. Scream like hell when they, or the current crew, filter back into any other administrations. Assuming we can ever wrest executive power back, anyone connected to Chris Wray from the top down to the janitor needs ousted. I’d go so far as to say they need Mad Maxine Waters’d anytime they poke their heads up outside their enclaves. Don’t assault them, but get an arm length from their faces and get loud. We need decks of cards with these people faces and a brief bio, like we issued to the troops in Iraq.
I’m waiting for the first state to challenge the constitutionality of a supreme court decision, as they have proven a reluctance to honor the constructional challenges to clear election fraud, a coup.
Does Durham now turn something over to someone else? This cant be the conclusion. We’ve already seen reports about John Kerry being a traitor and other various stuff they are now admitting. John Durham should be made to answer to the American people. We do pay his salary after all.
Durham will remain as the special counsel, he just won’t be a US attorney which is a political appointment. IMO, he never ran an investigation and therefore there is nothing to complete – just run the clock out till people forget about it.
When the real Patriots finally take it to the “burbs’ and start taking out scum Governors and all their “elite” followers, this SHIT will keep going on and on and on.
Wake up People.There is no real goverment left. They have flown the coop and the coop is controlled by u know who?
Thank God for Gov DeSantis and Gov Noem.
They need our support more than ever…….and bullets.
Not to sure why Noem went to the fake president’s inauguration. She is not 100% conservative. She also backed the senator that disparaged President Trump. Desantis has my vote now, not Trump who squandered his opportunity. Along the last 4 years Trump hired all of the wrong people, with a few exceptions like Navarro. And he didn’t fire enough aholes to launch any kind of retribution on his enemies.
He looked weak right to the bitter end. Too much talk about antifa, and BLM and no action.
coward.
It has been obvious for some time bull durham was a sham from early on. It is over! It should have been over in september or october with multiple criminals indicted and incarcerated. No it will not happen. He becamer Huber 2.0 a long time ago!!!!
Found in the bin…. 🙁
Not just Papa D, have seen several tweets saying he is STILL Special Counsel
That is what Epoch Times is reporting as well:
John Durham Announces Resignation as US Attorney, Will Continue Role as Special Counsel
https://www.theepochtimes.com/john-durham-announces-resignation-as-us-attorney-for-connecticut_3713073.html
I believe Delusional Joe told them all to resign awhile back. Perhaps this is their way of canceling the “investigations”. Freeze them out with no budget.
This is the really fun part:
“Durham’s office as special counsel was moved to the Main Justice department”
Where justice goes to die…
Yes but how do you explain the directive that the SP shall come from outside the US Govt? Not an insignificant detail.
SPSpecial CounselA lot easier now that he has resigned the DOJ.
Someone please help me understand the insanity of the last 4 years… read the Halper report, the Barnett report and just get ill…. now this… starting to think I know what a prisoner must feel like when he/she realizes the raping isn’t going to end… and no one cares….
Sidney Powell never did get the Flynn 302 case report. I’ll bet the FBI/CIA still have it.
That crooked judge Sullivan is a disgrace.
That letter and the announcement are nothing more than the politicians way of saying
The criminals I’ve been covering for have agreed to hire me.
Of course, the DOJ-NSD guy who quietly snuck out of the DOJ after Adm. Michael Rogers found all the illegal search activity at NSA. Carlin was very quiet. I think Yates had written the 59-page white paper on why his division did not need oversight…and got the secret scoops before the Gang of Ocho did.
Good pick-up!
“Gang of Ocho” – a classic, I gotta remember that one!
Swept under the rug. Fascism is the new rule.
So the rough, tough durham ends his numerous “investigations” and greatly anticipated report with a sigh. Nothing to see here, citizen.
Somebody please open a window; lets get the stink out of here!
at least light a match.
Having experience with reading of certain laws and interpretation of policies I have always been highly suspicious of intentionally vague wording. That is most often intentional on the part of the author(s) to allow the broadest interpretations and the writing of endless policies “explaining” whatever is most convenient as the meaning of the “rules” at a particular time and circumstance. In other words, what I see here is a Barr torpedo to “sink” the Durham prosecution
with no obvious onus on Durham who I think damn well knew how the game was to play out and is now heading for an exit he alone believes is honorable.
Sundance did say Barr is not stupid and wouldnt likely miss the imperative language of the SC coming outside US Gov. I know more than a few highly intelligent people who are lard ass lazy. Could it be Bubba Barr was too lazy to check the statute and just missed that requirement. If I were a demonrat Id make major hay out of that provision if Durham even finds so much as a hangnail.
If the plan was to radicalize conservatives and the middle class, it’s working!
If you expect justice or a non-censored comment,
good luck.
He did what he was hired to do, finish the cover up.
Considering Barr’s track record, I’ll go with a pantomime of an investigation to pacify the natives.
Durham and his team should not receive a single dollar payment until a complete report is produced and published.
I’m going with optical pantomime… since day one.
His career was so fulfilling because who doesn’t want a job where they pay you and no one objects to you not doing anything.
Uniparty bullsiht.
Barr and Durham are traitors to the United States and the Constitution. They know the crimes that happened and they acted to hide them and ensure no indictments and no justice to preserve the rule of law. A curse on both of them for eternity.
Did anyone seriously think he was going to take down the swamp after the election was stolen? LOL
Well another special clownshow ends, the deep state wins again.
Durham a blocker/placeholder like Huber Whitaker and good ole bagpipes barr, the sleazebag.
just a long shot. durham ,apparently couldn’t act against perps ,without resigning first. a strange way to go about things.maybe he is getting ready to help us out. or leave us hang some more.
Biden admon requested his resignation as USA for CT, but kept him on as special counsel.
Many (black pilled) commentators jumping to conclusions. Suggest corroborate intuition before converting to fact else one leaves themselves open to being led down a garden path. If corroborating evidence eludes then wait for more information.
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.
The G . O . P . response to everything …….
We’re gonna ……… we’re gonna …. we’re gonna ……..
Just give us moar money and votes – and hold that football Charlie Brown , we’re gonna get them next time …… !!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOP and the entire so called ” Republican ” wing can pound sand.
YOU need us – WE don’t ‘need’ you.
( Don’t Treepers ever wonder why the same ‘CON-servative’ talkers and ” experts ” are allowed to appear on major MSM radio ? ….. Who OWNS all those stations ?…….. IT’s A RUSE !!!! )
hint
cfrmedia.com
Durham will stay on long enough for Garland to be confirmed and then he’ll close up shop while Garland takes over burying everything from there.
Wake me when this one’s over too.