Igor Danchenko was a well-known fabricator of (dis)information long before the FBI made the purposeful decision to enlist him in their Trump targeting efforts. Specifically because Danchenko had no moral compass to the truth he was particularly useful for the FBI effort. This was the big problem for John Durham in prosecuting Danchenko for material lies the FBI knew from the outset were false.
How does the same DOJ who used the lies for their political purposes, then prosecute the liar for the false information? That was always the structural flaw in any case brought by Durham. As a result, the trial was not so much about the lying Danchenko as it was about the lying FBI and their use of Danchenko.
A jury found Igor Danchenko not guilty on four counts of lying to the FBI, on four occasions. (1) Danchenko told FBI agents he received a phone call in late July 2016 Sergei Millian. However, Danchenko knew he had never received a call from Millian. (2) Danchenko gave a false statement to FBI agents that he “was under the impression” that the late July 2016 call was from Millian. (3) Danchenko falsely stated to FBI agents that he believed he spoke to Millian on the phone on more than one occasion. And (4) Danchenko lied that he “believed he has spoken to [Millian] on the telephone,” when Danchenko well knew he had never spoken to Millian.
The FBI didn’t care about the details of the lies that were told to them; the lies served a purpose. The FBI purpose was to use the Steele Dossier as the foundation for a fraudulent all-encompassing search warrant against the Trump campaign and presidency, using Carter Page. That construct was always the motive of the DOJ/FBI use of Danchenko, Chris Steele and the infamous dossier that gave the DOJ the patina they needed for the FISA application.
The trial itself showed how corrupt the FBI and DOJ were in this scheme by: A) offering Chris Steele $1 million for proof of the dossier content. B) By making Danchenko a confidential human source for two years to shield him, “sources and methods”, from investigative inquiry. C) By paying Danchenko $200,000 for his time as a useful tool and confidential human source.
As noted in the summary of the trial by Technofog:
[…] “What is more important is that which informs our understanding of the Trump/Russia investigation and the FBI/DOJ/Mueller misconduct that sparked Crossfire Hurricane and continued through the Mueller investigation. That information was revelatory. The institutions were on trial alongside Danchenko, with Durham recognizing in closing arguments that “the FBI mishandled the investigation at issue.” And the institutions rightly suffered. Danchenko might have been spared, but is there any reasonable doubt as to the FBI’s incompetence – and guilt? (read more)
As CTH has stated from the outset of the entire scheme, the problem is institutional corruption. The personnel, administration, leadership and participants, within the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI are corrupt.
Institutions do not become corrupt by themselves. People within the institutions are the cause of the corruption, and every person attached to the Trump-Russia investigation – including Robert Mueller, are corrupt. It was a scheme in 2016, which became a coverup operation in 2017, which became an explosive institutional problem in 2019 which Bill Barr was trying to manage.
Institutional Preservation – Bill Barr applied the Bondo to the rusted framework of the DOJ and FBI, and John Durham applied the spray paint by not targeting anyone inside the justice department.
John Durham only focused, perhaps because he was only allowed to focus, on the external participants to the originating schemes. One thing is clear, John Durham never once mentioned the corrupt nature of the Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann coverup operation.
Danchenko was represented by the same lawyers representing Hillary Clinton because at the heart of Danchenko’s intent was an effort to support Hillary Clinton in the 2016 October surprise they were constructing using fabricated claims of Trump colluding with Russia to win the election.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A jury has found Russian national Igor Danchenko not guilty on four false statements charges, declining to convict him for the allegations that the main source of British ex-spy Christopher Steele had lied to the FBI about his sourcing for the discredited anti-Trump dossier.
The jury reached their decision on Tuesday after less than two days of deliberations, delivering John Durham another defeat in his long-running investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators, after the special counsel lost another false statements case against a Clinton campaign lawyer in May. (more)
Washington DC protects itself.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1582473205431738369
Igor Danchenko found not guilty on all counts.
No shock – it's hard to win a false statements case when the FBI and Mueller were uninterested in pursuing the truth.
Here are the most important highlights from the trial – https://t.co/fs9nWgry9c
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 18, 2022
The FBI/DOJ now is nothing more then a fake/unelected regimes jackbooted foot soldier terrorist and lawfare squad attacking anyone who fights back or deemed a threat to their corrupt enterprise.
The entire government is run by anti American terrorists.
Pentagon: ‘Pro-Lifers Are More Dangerous Than Al Qaeda’https://newspunch.com/pentagon-pro-lifers-are-more-dangerous-than-al-qaeda/
…PRC, Qatar, and Iran-funded anti-American terrorists. The surprise isn’t that the DC swamp terrorists are foreign funded–the surprise is how cheaply they can be bought!
Totally concur.
Give me a stasi -regime-terrorist -effing break!
We are no longer a republic.
Hello, Malloch.
It’s hard to disagree with your assessment.
“We need a Frank Church Committee” Frank Church led one of the most important oversight investigations ever undertaken by Congress into covert operations by the U.S. intelligence community … https://www.levin-center.org/frank-church-and-the-church-committee/
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/moral-durham-trials-jurors-wont-convict-sources-if-fbi
D.C. should be barred from jury service.
If a Tree falls in the Beltway…whether it is reported or not…depends on whose Tree, where it falls, and who was crushed under it…
The Mueller/Weissmann sham ‘convictions’ staged in the biased Beltway Courts produced a ‘speaking indictment’ of Trump; it was driven by Fake News.
Durham’s similar sham ‘acquittals’ in the same biased court system is a ‘speaking indictment’ of the FBI that will neither be heard or be discussed by Fake News. So it is for us to say…In the beginning…
‘’Twas Jim Comey who took the tarmac political football from Loretta Lynch, calling it a ‘matter.’”
‘‘Twas Jim Comey who said ‘no prosecutor would…’”
‘‘Twas Jim Comey who said ‘I sent two guys…’”
‘’Twas Jim Comey who said he waited months to brief Congress ‘because of the sensitivity of the matter…’”
“Twas Jim Comey who signed a FISA Warrant and sat upon the highest branch of the FBI Tree Durham has felled, felled without consequence to anyone at the top or at that height or altitude…”
Remember also when Comey was in front of the Congressional Oversight committee I think chaired by Haircut Gowdy (where Comey boasted about always giving a “Hard Stare” [Blue Steel-style) at things) and in sober and serious tones said that it is reallllllly hard to get a FISA warrant authorized by the FISA Court…..
….yet just months later, the success rate of getting a warrant approved was 99% (and the one that did not get passed was the first draft of the Page warrant, ironically).
Is that considered perjury???
Change of venue should be a no brainer.
Federal article 3 courts should be closed up and any cases arising within the district should be randomly sent to other districts within 100 miles of the cesspool.
If I hear one more RINO say the ‘…there are some fine people in the FBI…’ garbage, I will puke! Disband the FBI!!!
Tonight on InsHannity – 99% of the FBI ….
“And next, we’ll hear from our good friend Lindsay Graham who is Tic Toc close to exposing the truth about Hunter/Ukraine matter”
“Did I tell you about my latest Krav Maga exploits…. or about my mom the jail guard… or being a roofer?”
I thought it was a bartender or a drywall installer?
I do think it would be funny if SH tried to buy some credibility and started saying 98% or even 90 % of the FBLie. Still a fail though.
Almost never watched the Sh!t Hed even 20 yes ago, never now.
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes, or for that matter even contemplates, a national police force. The FBI has morphed into a national police force. It is unconstitutional on its face.
Inherently unconstitutional, historically corrupt and political, now often treasonous making war on the bedrock.
We must demand all of these agencies are abolished
An E.O. issued by Theodore Roosevelt.
Sean Hannity, join The View.
😆
Disband all 3 letter agencies
All work to erode the USA
How many eff bee eye sheeple that took a knee at a blm protest,
got career promotion$?
What happened to those that stayed standing?
I do not know
[ some whistleblowers know … and are whistling …}
It would be interesting to see the jury selection records and the judge’s instructions to the jury, considering how all that potentially influenced this outcome.
“Nothing to see here; please move along…”
I guess they succeeded in getting a jury of liars’ peers.
So DISGUSTING.
The fact that nobody was held accountable for the below allowed them to go bigger with stealing a Presidential election .
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.
Yes, that was Zero’s third term, he’s now in his fourth.
Because of the lack of accountability it will come full circle in 24 with Hilldog being the D nominee for President.
Durham does not get a pass out of this…he knew darn well this would be the outcome…he knew darm well the levels of corruption involved between the DoJ, FBI and the Mueller Gang.
He had a choice … resign or apply the paint job to Bondo Barr’s handy work.
He is counting his cash on the way to the bank, after tossing the paint cans in the trash.
He knew damn well.
It’s hard to imagine that there is any sort of silver lining in this dark cloud over American justice. It will indeed take a decades long march to undo the damage done by Democrats and complicit Republicans on our justice system. Our last hope might well have been placed not on Durham but on our jury system. “12 men good and true.” We can see now, after numerous cases involving Trump associates and Jan6 protesters, that there is no jury pool (or judge) drawn from the DC environs capable of giving a fair and impartial hearing to “Conservative” defendants. Operating within the narrow lane granted to Durham, he accomplished virtually nothing. The guilty Democrats and Government officials continue to go unpunished. Perhaps the response to the two-tier justice system will begin on November 8. Let Freedom Ring!
Fat chance…corrupt and ineffective Republicans replace corrupt and ineffective Democratic Socialists and the collapse of the Rule of Law continues.
I quibble with one point. The democrats are VERY effective. They never lose and when God finally steps in, we won’t care what happens to them anymore. We will be too terrified of God’s wrath that will be inflicted on all of us to worry about the democrats or republicans.
That is because the Republicans help them.
Sergei Millian has an open and shut case for defamation, and probably his choice of venues in which to bring the case. He can sue not only Danchenko but also Auten, and Dolan and probably a few others. Too late for a judge or the DOJ to scuttle such a case on national security grounds. The clear FBI cover up should extend the statute of limitatations. The truth is out.
And that is the other silver lining. The truth is out, on the record, admitted and proven in open court. Danchenko lied, Dolan lied, the FIBs were well aware of the lies, the Clintons paid for it all, even a million dollars offered to Steele couldn’t get him to locate corroboration of the lies Steele collated into the dossier.
The pee dossier is well and truly, put a stake in it level, dead.
That shifts the battleground. People are awake to the complete rot that infects the FBI and the DOJ and the CIA. More every day. People begin to understand the constitutional flaw that is the District of Columbia in its current state as a free zone in which crimes can be ignored while the innocent can be persecuted.
These are important developments. We got four years of breathing room from the first Trump term. The midterm elections can give us more.
But it is breathing room, not victory. To gain victory will take time and resolute focus on deep reforms, including abolishing the seat of government in its current form. That will probably take a constitutional amendment so that no judicial functions, with the exception of SCOTUS, are allowed within the federal city, wherever that might end up being located.
As for the city of DC itself, it ought to become the equivalent of Auschwitz- an abandoned destination that we visit to remember the horrors inflicted by the people who ran it. At 8,000 excess deaths per week of non Covid causes, we certainly have the dead to be commemorated. And we should. There should be a vast wall with the pictures of everyone who died and will die from the death jabs.
Rotten to the core….Hillary’s campaign started the lie, the FBI knew that it was a lie and could not verify anything in the dossier, but they lied about it anyway, the DOJ lied to the FISA Court…..everyone knows they lied, they know that everyone knows they lied….. and the two low echelon actors that were charged both WALK…. AND now EVERYONE WALKS as the statute of limitations runs out on lying!!! John Durham is either the most stupid attorney in history or the verdict was exactly what he was going for….To call this investigation an investigation is as dumb as calling the DOJ the Justice Department. This show was as big a waste of time and resources as the “Jan. 6 Committee”.
This was the DOJ equivalent of a Congressional Investigate to Exonerate dog and pony show.
We knew it would go nowhere, and it would be of little significance if it did, the actor at issue being a paid pawn playing a role that deceived no one profiting an untouchable none dare cross.
Exactly.
He shined a minor light for history and applied salve for some lawyers…
I also think he advanced the probability of nuclear armagedon as more of the world sees DC as totally hopeless.
And if I survive, I won’t miss DC…
I began investigating Russian/Eurasian organized crime in the 199o’s. If the FBI is that stupid, they should be shut down and pensions eliminated. The FBI almost certainly requested the dossier contents, many of which which aligned with prior WSJ articles Glenn Simpson had written years earlier about FBI targets. The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol presciently knew who would be in the “dossier”. Danchenko did not write anything: he phoned in his reports to British agent Steele, who typed them up in falsified Russian accents and forwarded them to Simpson. Christopher Wray was the US attorney for Rosneft, allegedly offering Carter Page $9 Billion for influence: Hunter Biden, not Carter Page, was the other party in the actual transaction. I knew it was false. Their analysts, who never bothered asking Wray, were concerned.
They paid over $200k to Danchenko, and had him wipe his electronics; Mueller claimed that the “Russians” spent $100k on influencing the 2016 election. But then, Mueller’s team also wiped their electronics.
Sundance nailed the final outcome from the day that Bury It Barr was appointed AG. Meanwhile the “Internet Sleuths”, until recently, still had belief, beyond reason, in the US justice system.
“Sundance nailed the final outcome from the day that Bury It Barr was appointed AG.”
Yep. And everyone should have known this would be the outcome when it was Barr who appointed Durham.
There’s only on way to fix this.
So how many still believe you can out vote this?
You definitely cannot vote this out because the intelligence communities do everything in their power to help the election theft . They got “The Hammer” and many other methods .
Did Joe Biden Use THE HAMMER to Steal the Election?
https://newswithviews.com/did-joe-biden-use-the-hammer-to-steal-the-election/
Sooo, you’re staying in mommies basement on Election Day?
I do, if the election fraud can eliminated. A new app called VOTIFY NOW is available to report election fraud in real time when you see it. Make sure you document it as best you can.
Precinctstrategy.com has a very informative 1 minute video. Apparently there are 200 thousand of the 400 thousand of the Republican party precinct committeemen positions that are yet to be filled. Get off of your couch and take these positions. The bottom up grassroots movement can change everything.
“I do, if the election fraud can eliminated.”
LOL! IF? Just how are you going to do that when DOJ, FBI, FEC, and most of the state election officials are in the pocket of the people who stole the last election? No, I think we’re past this solution. It’s time to get real.
So you clowns are telling people to not vote?
I texted photos of fraudulently addressed ballots sent to my parents’ house to an FBI agent friend of mine in October 2020. They never arrived, as I was notified over a year later by T-Mobile. A friend has previously sent copies of those arriving at her house for former renters and a deceased person who had lived with her, all removed from the voting rolls in previous years but getting ballots in October, 2020. None were removed prior to the election, but the counties, states and feds were notified.
There is an election in November, are you going to vote?
The DOJ, the federal judiciary, and the DC jury pool all take lying to the government seriously.
Just ask Flynn, Stone, Manafort, etc.
Peter Strock, all by himself, has done far more damage to the country than all those who are held over J6.
But at this point, what difference does it make.
When the jury is also paid employees of the swamp creature community there will never be a fair or lawful decision
I thought that a far left jury would have more hatred for the ruskies than for Trump. TDS wins again!
Does this set a precedent that its OK to lie to the FBlie? Or is that just for we the serfs?
It’s OK to lie **for** the FBLie, and its owners
This was tried in the DC area. Our Federal Constitution says that crimes needs to be tried in the district that they are alleged to have been committed. We know all of this hullabaloo (only challengers to the swamp go to prison) will continue as the swamp and it’s inhabitants protects itself.
What we need is to have the US Court districts changed by Congress (a little gerrymandering!) so that D.C. is part of a district that includes some or all of West Virginia (with only the smallest part of VA included as necessary). Then maybe some things will change (different jury pool).
Or we go Peppermint on the whole DC system.
Craig. Please explain. Often I am slow.
When Hillary Clinton goes to jail, that will be the signal that the tide is turning.
I don’t expect that any time soon.
My “go Galt” lecture, many moons ago, still stands, in my mind. “Irish Democracy” still stands. Every once in awhile I hear a positive thing about Justice prevailing, but the overall direction is dark. I still think it’s better to lay low, develop an “underground network” of like minded people, and as Sundance has said, throw as much sand in the machinery as possible.
My two cents.
I totally agree with you! Read Atlas Shrugged myself. Lay low, watch and wait. The time will come. These “elites” really think they are the Chosen Ones. We shall see about that. PS: already threw a little sand! And it worked just the way you’d expect!!
Well … If you are a Dem-Marxist traitor, make any prosecution is done by corrupt juries in DC & Virginia and you will nothing to be concerned about because – JUST LIKE ELECTION 2020 – the fix is in!
Like I said yesterday, the Mueller scam was to generate bogus “indictments” and convictions on process crimes in order to make Trump look guilty. Durham’s scam is to lose prosecutions in order to make the FBI look innocent.
Just like how the media refuses to admit the country is in a recession, they will pretend not to know that the reason Danchenko and Sussman were found innocent of “lying to the FBI” is that the FBI knew exactly who they were, exactly the lies they were peddling, because the FBI was in charge of the coup d’etat.
Bill Barr apparently helped stonewall the Pike Committee and Church Committee back in the 1970s. Now add Russia Gate to his list of coverups.
Bill Barr gives other belugas a bad name.
Poor belugas. 🐳
They need to disown him —
and his cheeseburger 🍔 bagpipe breath,too!
… and so it goes. We are no longer a Constitutional Republic. We live under the tyranny of the bureaucracy as guided by the globalist corporate/banking cabal.
Real freedom is dead.
We haven’t lived in a Constitutional Republic for decades. The CIA and the swamp got away with assassinating one US President before many of us were even born.
The truth hasn’t changed. It is just being revealed.
You can’t change reality if you choose to live in safe deep dreams inside the Matrix.
Welcome to reality.
It sucks.
What will we do to fight the demons now that we can see them?
If there was no hope . . . You never would have seen the demons.
You see them. That’s the start.
For one thing, in the venue where the trials are occurring, you could have evidence of murder committed by the defendant and the jury would let them walk.
Secondly, AG garland will not allow Durham to prosecute high level fib officials. So the only thing we are seeing here is the presentation of the preponderance of evidence by the fib and dojo. So when and of Republicans retake the senate and house, MAYBE we can have real investigations instead of these prime time lost in space episodes. 🤨
Justice won’t come as long as the dojo and courts are in the pocket of the ccp. Money and sex talks.
You can rest well with the assurance that the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is ready, willing, and able to issue strongly worded letters at once.
Durham surely knew he could not win this case and knew the FBI crimes would be exposed during the trial. Maybe he is not as bad as most think.
All of DC is rogue.
States need to step up and reclaim their own power.
The Federal Aristocracy/Bureaucracy is totally compromised, communist, criminals.
kudos Sundance. You were 100% accurate about Barr and Durham. It is incredibly disappointing to see Danchenko skate along with the other deep-staters and to know that ‘I caught them all’ is just nothing more than feel-good bravado. I have noticed that after years of exposing the Russian Hoax, Bongino and others have lately been silent on this matter. It now looks like Schumer was speaking the truth during his ‘Six Ways To Sunday’screed.
How many years has this been?
Gee what a surprise! I’ve been waiting all this time for the moment when justice is served. I always knew Durham was corrupt. I really didn’t believe he even existed. They will go to any extreme to gaslight us.
Who were the pro bono (Department of injustice) Shysters who represented him ?
Or were they Shysters from the C_A firm that paid for “Whistleblowers” during PDJT ?
These days anybody with enough money can pay a brace of mendacious lawyers to say anything about anything or anybody. The well-paid counselor twists precedent and a greasy judge uses cleverly argued “precendents” to cook the goose of any offhand jamoke who gets himself crosswise with the law and its lawyers. These days FEDGOV bureaucrats at DOJ and every other Exec Dept are the enemies of liberty, this republic and the American Way of Life. These days, the law and the people who run it truly are an ass.
But Durham did his real job, protecting the corrupt Swamp.
“The institutions were on trial alongside Danchenko, And the institutions rightly suffered.”
I read Technofog from time to time but the man is hopelessly naive. The “institutions” suffered absolutely NOTHING!
They already know that we know they are corrupt, seditious liars and they don’t care a wit. Durham has accomplished nothing. He could have prosecuted FBI/DOJ managers but he chose to be a coward to no ones surprise. To hell with him.
Riddle me this: If a foreign spy agency (M16) conspired with domestic traitors (Auten, Dolan, Clinton) to affect the outcome of a US presidential election, is that not an act of war? Of treason, in fact?
This isn’t over.
And no future recourse “Double Jeopardy” and all. The corrupt FBI DOJ only purpose in during trials of democrat operatives is to form a protective shield for future incase they don’t have control.
The FBI/CIA/DOJ leadership need to be fired all the way down. Non associated hardcore should be brought in to lead with basic knowledge and given a group of previous retired that have not had association with any in last 20yrs (with ability to drop replace at his discretion left with lead).
The corruption is so deep only a start over would even have a chance of bringing it back to something resembling foundation.
All the laws that merged CIA/DOJ/FBI so they could fight terrorist on the domestic field will have to be eliminated also. CIA and its tools should never be used against US gen pop and sadly they proved that edge couldn’t be in house reserved for external threats working in country.
Sadly I see NO leadership talking about the drastic action required to get our nation back to its people bidding interest. The only way to do what is required is by loudly campaigning on it so their election proves the mandate for the drastic action required. Trump campaigned on such controversial issues and the whole of the deep state was forced to reveal itself to stop him. Myself and I am sure millions of others were shown just how deep the corruption has penetrated. Now we need a candidate to campaign on the actions needed to destroy the deepstate.
-Mass Firings
-Full Gov Audit and open public disclosure down to penny
-Full Audit and open public disclosure for all elected officials financials during time in office and 20yrs after
-Matching Audit for all elected family 3 hands away.
-Every line item, program, department of fed budget should have to be voted on by every new congress. This with audit disclosure will help shed non illegal but still wasteful useless trash or departments that run foul of gen pop.
-push for Term Limits gov is big if mil can live with up or out so can our politicks
-Moral Turpitude should be added to elected officials and such violations should be punished with immediate special election.
-Corruption should be considered high treason penalty life imprison or death no pleading allowed required trail by constituents via vote by gen pop after open disclosure, during the immediate special election, and regardless result them and their children’s banning from all gov top down related participation.
-All Bills should be itemized and simplified full disclosed publicly min month before vote and if abused can be fought ended in biannual reapproval.
A simplified quick easy fix Federal gov should really be taken back to constitution.
Federal gov only duties
-Military
-Ambassadors
-Foreign trade/relations
-NO domestic funding, intervention. Only internal cross border infrastructure, travel, communication, commerce.
States
-Basically everything domestic ONLY no Foreign relations any kind.
Going back to basics States Rights basically would end most problems and solve the pressing themselves. Local voting pushes power to people with skin in game and allows more freedom of experimentation, success breads replication, failure breeds looking for what works elsewhere or at least limits to a don’t do example.
Politics as a career choice must be destroyed eitherway.
Also put in a rule that if you speak at a CSPAN presser more than once a month, you have to appear in your underwear.
Also, each Congressman must pass a test to show that he or she read the ENTIRE BILL before it is voted on. (it will put an end to 1000 page “bills” with added pork stuffing.
I lay this directly at the feet of Jeff Sessions.
He was the only DC person that had the integrity to clean out the DOJ.
Instead he played nice like a Republicant does and here we are. But he sure showed em how to take the high road.
Unfortunately we needed a junk yard dog, with scabies, rabies, and a serious case of pissed off.
The hell with Jeff Sessions.
So Durham is done now?
Another nothing 🍔.
We are done now.
Done with the federal aristocracy atrocity.
States need to stand up.
Time to face reality, then.
No more hopium, ticktock, etc.
This from Shipwreckedcrew back in 2020: I added the “weasel bit”
Weasel attorney Andrew Weissmann in his autobiographical book:
“But the limitations of our report were underscored on the night of March 24, 2019, as I stood in the doorway of my apartment in Washington, reading Barr’s four-page letter on my iPad. Just two days after Mueller had handed in our final report—the product of 22 months of intensive work by 59 prosecutors, agents and analysts—Barr issued a letter purporting to summarize our report.
Barr’s letter was a shot across the bow, signaling that the checking function Mueller provided on the actions of the president had come to an abrupt end.”
Weissmann “gives away the game” without even realizing the evil in his presumption.
Where in the Special Counsel regulations does it say that such an appointment by the Attorney General is to serve as a “checking function” on the “actions of the President”?
The Mueller SCO aggrandized that unauthorized function to themselves, to the detriment of Donald Trump and the Office of the Presidency. Who made a collection of unelected and unaccountable Democrat partisan attorneys the “checking function” on the Office of the Presidency? They did themselves, cheered on by a complicit media to whom they fed leaks of innuendo and misinformation.
THAT, in my view, is what Bill Barr wants to know more about. And he wants to know because the Democrat partisans used his long-time friend, and that friend’s reputation, as both a “sword” and “shield” for their dirty work. They were able to do that because his friend’s cognitive abilities had declined in recent years and he was not fully aware of what was being done in his name.
An about turnaround happened in Durham’s investigation after interviewing FBI agent Barnett.
Barnett unloaded on CH being there early on during Manafort and Flynn’s investigations…
BARNETT said working with the SCO was a very unique environment for him. Typically investigators push for legal process and have to explain the need for the request to the attorneys. BARNETT said the SCO attorneys were pushing for legal process and just wanted investigators to sign affidavits they prepared. Everything was “green-lighted” by the SCO, i.e., you could get whatever legal process you wanted. BARNETT did not see the investigator/attorney relationship as 50/50. At the SCO, BARNETT believed the investigators were looked at as a “speed bump” to the attorneys who were leading the investigation. BARNETT said the investigators assigned to the [REDACTED] and RAZOR investigations were doing what they were assigned to do.
I don’t understand why so many people in the comments are upset with this verdict. I would have been upset if it had gone the OTHER way.
In order to find this dude guilty, the jury would basically be saying that he MISLED the FBI and others by “lying” to them. But we know full well that FBI/DOJ wasn’t “misled” in the least. They knew what was truth and what was lies from the very start. I guess it depends on the definition of “lying”. If it requires the receiver of those lies to be deceived by, or even remotely confused by the “lies”, then in this case that clearly didn’t happen.
So yeah, I know it’s unlikely anything will come of this, but I still feel it’s a MUCH better outcome than if they would have found him guilty. Because THAT would have been like saying “If the FBI made any mistakes, it was only because they were lied to and deceived by Danchenko.” I don’t know about anyone else, but that’s the last thing I wanted.
Hey jello333. One reason this doesn’t sit well with me is how it will be used. “Not guilty” will be used to imply that what he gave to fbi was accurate. I know that’s a ridiculous conclusion, but you’ll hear it if you haven’t already.
Russia Russia Russia was/ is a lie.
Good article.
And good analysis.
Forgive me if I’m still optimistic.
Meaning I hope the folks vote right Nov 3 in historic numbers.
If that happens I hope the folks keep voting in record numbers for every single election that they are allowed by right of our laws.
Vote Vote Vote!!
And if you do not get to vote on November 3rd, make sure, if you are voting for the Repub ticket, you do THAT on November 8th.
😉
I am going to play devil’s advocate. How do you convict someone for lying to the FBI when the FBI knew that that someone was already lying? The FBI, Mueller and his henchmen, covered up and protected Danchenko’s participation. I would think the jury understood this and that the FBI agents who were running this hitjob were going to do what they wanted to do regardless of who was the liar and what the lie was. The Facilitate Biden Installment corporation had a job to do, and no one was going to stop them from completing their mission.
I don’t like this verdict any more than most who want to see a justice served on those who committed the most grotesque political hitjob of the 21st century: so far. I am not one to wish ill on anyone, but I sure do hope everyone of the instigator’s big or small have nightmares. I hope they wake up in the middle of the night with their sheets soaked.
I have lost all faith and have accepted that our United States of America’s Senate, House and Judiciary have basically allowed themselves to become irrelevant in regard to oversite of the intelligence agencies.
Yes, blame the left, but also blame the Bushie legal establishment… They did their share to protect and cover up the role they played in the massive corruption used to destroy President Trump….
I bet Fiona Hill is having a good time tonight……
I recall conversation btw. the two lovers that the President ( Obama) wanted to know everything.
Who approved Chris Steele $1 million tax payer funded bonus for “ proof” ?
Who approved paying Danchenko $200,000 for his time as a useful tool and confidential human source?
Like I keep saying … none of you should be thinking the courts, elections, or the media are going to fix this country.
We are past that being possible.
Only one thing *might* fix it … and that will take Founders’ level will and commitment to do it.
Just saying …
Maybe after the next fake selection some will get it.
The ties to Clinton (and Obama) have been exposed and are on record.
Not everything happens quickly.
The $1.2 M approvals need to be investigated.
Chaff and countermeasures…
Have y’all seen the 0’Bama propaganda Frontline hit piece on Christianity, nationalism, and Mike Flynn?
Time to seriously consider BOYCOTTING all travel and trade with Washington, DC by patriots. Let the Demizens of that stupid town that WE pay for have a huge economic collapse. Maybe they will flee…… and then we move in and take over things.
How could he be lying to the FBI when they were both colluding in the lie? So yeah, technically he didn’t have to lie to them because they were both selling the same lie. No duh.
This. It is now in sunlight.
Spin it all you want. It’s still a fail, and further evidence nothing will ever happen to the perpetrators of the Russian collusion fraud.
In other words, same ‘ol same ‘ol.
I think that we will always have a two tiered justice system as long as there are the two NY city courts, Southern and Eastern Districts, and the Maryland, Virginia and D.C.courts. I dont see that there is accountability for rogue judiciary.
On the Law enforcement side there was a personnel and information sharing agreement (MOU) between CIA/DHS (FBI) 2004. I included a link that everyone that is interested in this thread should be sure and take a few minutes to read.
Sundance has also pointed out another MOU between these two agencies in 2012. This is the one that ultimately created so much of the FISA abuse by sharing FBI NSA access.
The end result is the war on terror and 911 has created a backdoor for the CIA to infiltrate the FBI (domestic operations) in an overt and COVERT way
Also note the Joint Terror Task Force combined with the 70+ Fusion Centers has created militarized state and local police as the FBI and CIA have infiltrated these ranks.
Top it off with instructions coming from the City of London through the Council on Foreign Relations to the D.C. Federal government and you have a culture of division and political cognitive dissonance.
The above is a recipe for legislative, apparatchik socialism and the intel community replacing the executive branch
If the bankers put in their own digital currency i will be moving to Costa Rica, We must fix these problems now!
Willie T Hulon
Assistant Director of FBI Counter Terrorism
Circa 2004
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/facilitating-an-enhanced-information-sharing-network
It’s all very depressing snd demoralizing.
As was intended from the beginning by Barr and Durham.
Federal trials in Demonrat venues are pure show trials. If I’m ever called for jury duty I’ll know how to get out of serving–just truthfully tell the court, with all due respect, I wouldn’t believe anything a fed said or got someone to say.
I sat next to an attorney’s wife while being interviewed to be seated on a jury. She told the case attorneys what her husband told her to say.
” I can always tell if someone is guilty or not by how his Adam’s Apple moves.”
Lo and behold, I got seated…they let her go after round one.
Actually you should gladly volunteer in order to force the Jury pool to be honest. Walking away from jury duty when you have a chance to force “honesty” is cowardice or apathy or pessimism. None honorable.
That’s a bit like playing against a football team that doesn’t abide by the rules with the aid of the ref while your hands are tied behind your back because you are playing by the rules.
The only true honesty here is to admit that there are no rules anymore. Jury nullification is the only response.
I was called to jury duty once and they dismissed me very early in the process.
The case was a squater living on private property and we own a ranch near by where this squater had refused to move on.
I probably would have been evasive answering any probing questions and wanted to sit on the jury just to bring the landowner’s point of view to the others.
The other problem I had with the squater was his flagrant display of a Bible, as if that would help his case. Not with me a very conservative Christian, I believe that trying to take over another’s property is stealing.
Pay me more than $8 a day to work as a Juror then or I’ll keep tossing the requests in the garbage. It might be ignorance or maybe apathy, I don’t know and I don’t care. I never apologize for skipping Jury Duty, I’m sorry, I just won’t…(some brilliant sarcasm for the comment readers)
I hope I never have to swear an oath again – because I’ll have to tell them I refuse because I have contempt for our Government + leading institutions + it does not deserve my oaths. Why should I pledge to tell the truth to institutions – including Courts – that routinely lie to the world often leading to deadly consequences?
You are not honoring the Gov……Your Oath honors Truth.
You pledge to tell the truth to the world not to an institution. How else will the innocent be cleared or the guilty be punished?
In this case, Durham either lacks the courage to go after the DS or is under threat not to, but he seems determined to get some of the truth on the official record.
Just putting enough out there to appease “us.”
That’s what I think too. Just enough to say that he tried to obtain justice. To think I used to pray for this guy and Barr. A few years back when all of this FBI/DOJ crime was breaking and laying in plain sight I wrote my Republican congressman demanding a just investigation. This was about the time Barr was appointed AG. My congressman’s top aide called me…which really impressed me…and told me to watch Barr and Durham, they were going to get to the truth and there would be justice. He asked me to relax and let the justice system run its course. Well now I’ve seen it and it makes me want to throw up.
I would have also voted to aquit Danchenko. It’s called Jury Nullification and Patriots had better learn it well.
If Durham was unwilling to hold the Corrupt Ferals accountable, then screw you and the entirity of your Sham Trial.
So if Durham was only trying to expose Feral Corruption without Prosecuting it; What’s the Point? A Durham Report???
Stick it where the sun don’t shine, this facade and pretense of a USA is going to collapse in it’s own footprint as fast as those 3 buildings in NYC over a decade ago. There is nothing worth saving in DC or it’s Feral Tenacles.
Agree, agree, agree.