Special Counsel John Durham has released a highly anticipated 316-page report outlining corrupt U.S. activity during the targeting of presidential candidate, president elect, and subsequent President, Donald J Trump.
[FULL REPORT pdf HERE]
I have completed my first review of the report, and suffice to say the details within it are not new. The majority of the reaction so far has been centered around how Special Counsel Durham is not prosecuting anyone for their corrupt conduct outlined within the report. However, for the sake of this first review, I will draw attention to a few aspects you will likely not see discussed anywhere else.
Please note this detail found at the bottom of page 3 and top two lines of page #4:
[…] “The Office exercised its judgment regarding what to investigate but did not investigate every public report of an alleged violation of law in connection with the intelligence and law enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns.”
As perhaps the only person who tracked down and subsequently interviewed the investigators on the Durham team, and as a person who subsequently came away with a full understanding of how the silo operation inside this investigation was going to play out, I can reasonably assure you that notation and reference by team Durham is entirely directed to us.
That statement above tells us why none of the DC politicians who engaged in specific violations of law were criminally charged. This is part of the silo effect within government, which I will explain later. As a good friend said, “Yeah great, but we don’t have badges.” So, we went to the badges with the evidence, but the badges did not want to act upon the evidence, because it would have been, in their estimation, too damaging to the framework of our government.
First a positive note about the report. Unlike all other reports of similar internal investigation, I will give the Durham team credit for not using the ‘executive summary’ of the report to cloud, positively shape or disguise the corruption outlined within the body of the report. This is the first such report where the executive summary actually summarizes the scale of the corruption within the details.
Perhaps the parting message was considered, “If you are going to whitewash this s**t [ie entire govt operation], at least be intellectually honest with the American people, and not whitewash the investigation in the ‘executive summary’ of it.” I’m pretty sure that was the exact parting phrase. It was after that conversation [Aug 2020] when CTH then said, do not anticipate anything from Durham. Bill Barr was the bondo, John Durham is the spray paint.
John Durham is a head fake… Soon all will see.
There is no John Durham investigation.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 13, 2020
The “Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns” is a full uncovering of just how politically corrupt the DOJ, FBI and larger Intelligence Community were/are as it relates to the 2016 election.
Team Durham, while not indicting anyone for ancillary crimes – of which there are many – does lay naked the motives and intentions of the people at the top of the FBI, DOJ, CIA and ODNI. The full weight of government was weaponized against Donald Trump and the Durham report lays out all the details.
It is the background of this report that stands as the current motive for those same institutions to remove Donald Trump in 2023. Quite simply, they fear retaliation.
[…] “If this report and the outcome of the Special Counsel’s investigation leave some with the impression that injustices or misconduct have gone unaddressed, it is not because the Office concluded that no such injustices or misconduct occurred. It is, rather, because not every injustice or transgression amounts to a criminal offense, and criminal prosecutors are tasked exclusively with investigating and prosecuting violations of U.S. criminal laws. And even where prosecutors believe a crime occurred based on all of the facts and information they have gathered, it is their duty only to bring criminal charges when the evidence that the government reasonably believes is admissible in court proves the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.” [Page #6]
Durham walks through the missing predicate that initiated the Trump-Russia investigation. Essentially, as the Durham team noted, there was nothing ever to trigger the authority of the FBI to investigate Donald Trump or his campaign in the first place.
The Obama FBI and DOJ justified full physical and electronic surveillance of their political opposition, through false justifications manufactured by the FBI. As Durham notes, “Our findings and conclusions regarding these and related questions are sobering.” Really, “sobering”? Nice choice of understatement.
Everything was predicated on The Big Lie:
[…] As set forth in greater detail in Section IV.A.3 .b, before the initial receipt by FBI Headquarters of information from Australia on July 28, 2016 concerning comments reportedly made in a tavern on May 6, 2016 by George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, the government possessed no verified intelligence reflecting that Trump or the Trump campaign was involved in a conspiracy or collaborative relationship with officials of the Russian government.
Indeed, based on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly federal investigations of these matters, including the instant investigation, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
[…] As set forth in greater detail in Section IV, the record in this matter reflects that upon receipt of unevaluated intelligence information from Australia, the FBI swiftly opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. In particular, at the direction of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane immediately. Strzok, at a minimum, had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump. The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information.
Further, the FBI did so without (i) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (ii) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (iii) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (iv) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence.
Had it done so, again as set out in Sections IV.A.3.b and c, the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject.
In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials.
The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign. [Page 10]
I’ll have more on the substance of the report, as well as share the details of others following their review. However, in the interim, it is important to understand how the investigative silos, created by DC administrators, impact the investigative outcomes as displayed in this report.
Former FBI Director James Comey is a criminal. Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is a criminal. Former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok is a criminal. Current Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, Senator Mark Warner, is a criminal.
Any criminal conduct that is discovered by a person who is not the direct victim of the criminal conduct does not penetrate the DC system. Meaning, just because you can show criminal activity in Washington DC, that doesn’t mean anyone has a responsibility to investigate it.
If the criminal conduct is not identified by the investigators inside the DC system, the criminal conduct essentially does not exist – unless the evidence of criminal conduct in DC, is provided by a specific victim of the crime being reported.
There is a silo effect in place within the DC system that permits the investigative authorities to dismiss claims of institutional or administrative criminal conduct from outside entities, including ‘whistleblowers.’ The DOJ/FBI arbiters of what constitutes crime are the same DOJ/FBI arbiters in charge of protecting the institutional system.
If the DC system is threatened by the conduct of an outside entity, a crime may have been committed. However, if an agent, operator, official or politician representing the DC system is the one threatening, there is no crime. The justice system in DC is designed to protect itself.
Holding DC officials accountable for criminal conduct first requires the deconstruction of the silos that protect them. Deconstructing those silos requires strategy and legislative willpower….
Been waiting on this (your take) with bated breath!
Me too! As soon as I heard the “report” was out, I immediately came here to check out what Sundance had to say and the comments.
Needless to say, thanks to the incomparable SD, none of this is news to us or anyone who has been following CTH for any length of time.
I hope that Sundance takes a victory lap and/or in some way celebrates his magnificent achievement. There is no other journalist out there who proves on a daily basis that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
I would have put the period right after “out there.” 🙂
Right you are, Fionnagh.
Undoubtedly!
Can the MSM ilk be sued? Can President Trump now sue these bastards?
There is a sweet little bit in the comment on the executive summary that tells me sundance did at least leave a mark on this.
Indeed.
Sundance is leaving a mark on the world.
🙂
How do you take a victory lap and pour yourself a drink of good bourbon… while our country dies? I agree with you Seneca the Elder that Sundance seems to be the only group of journalistic integrity – but I am so pissed!
Saying “I told you so” while our beautiful country dies… is just nonsense.
I am in deep mourning and I want war. If our country is going to die… do we do so willingly and peacefully?
I just got a huge raise at work after killing myself there for five years. $12,500… you know what it comes down to? A JUMP in my Obamacare health insurance from $670 / month to $990 /month – and $150 more a week on my check. After the insurance differential, a $12,500 pay increase only realizes a net gain of roughly $4,200 a year. (Obama “shit” care is the only health insurance I can buy and I WANT to provide health insurance for me and my daughter without being bankrupted by medical bills.)
Let that sink in and tell me you don’t want to burn the house down!!!
I am supporting a government that doesn’t represent me and that spends my money on everything against my morality, sensibility, patriotism, and better judgement.
I pray for SD’s protection!
I have been following this BS from DAY ONE, every stinking, freaking detail, nook and cranny long before I ever visited this site and even longer than when I became an active participant (commenter).
For SD (especially) and similarly inclined ‘activists,’ and to lesser degrees, myself and people like me out here similarly interested and invested, there is nothing new here except a long overdue sublimed and non reckoned with vindication. Bitter taste!
I’m going to reserve further commenting on this issue or my own observations until promised follow up by CTH/SD except one, that is and has affected our judicial system for decades:
The use and/or abuse of ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ For the life of me, and having studied in depth this issue with my own real life experience decades ago with this ‘practice,’ I cannot see or understand how this ‘accepted practice’ is allowed or tolerated to exceed Violations of ‘Oaths of Office’ for prosecutors and is overlooked by the Bar with regards to the Canons of Ethics.
I really wish someone could convince me but I think it is an impossible task.
While many here did not expect any criminal referrals, it makes me sick that these criminals will walk free.
Major KUDOS to Sundance for the tireless, determined and highly focused efforts to get the facts to the “badges”. This is a very frightening time in our history…we are watching our country slip away before our eyes.
There is much blame to go around…the first of these traitors to “swing” should be Bill “Bondo” Barr, who actually ushered in the Joebama Junta – the American version of an actual Junta after a successful coup to overthrow a duly elected POTUS. And then after Traitor Barr, the list is very long….
Durham is/was avoiding Arkancide.
The crime, treason
The verdict, bad judgement
The sentence, zilchzipnada
And yet he exposed exactly what happened and who was/is involved. Where’s the bondo, Where’s the paint.
Claude Raines is shocked, shocked!
The virus protects itself.
Political Cancer.
It’s the 15th,
We will get another distraction every 3 days or so until the end of the month
Then use your imagination
already started,mass shooting in new mexico.
If three people dying in New Mexico is a mass shooting, then I guess the daily murders in Chicago and the major weekend murders are nothing more than normal fun.
Somewhere James Wolfe is enjoying a cocktail and laughing his ass off. I’m sure the Bahamian bank account is full.
And the Sun is warm, and the girls are beautiful…what’s not to like for these crooks?
His Swamp wife divorced him.
Here is a window into him, and the look-at-me DC crowd.
Years ago, I found the former real estate listing of the home he shared with his wife in a DC suburb.
The realtor photos showed a custom false wall, kind of like a swiveling Murphy bed or Get Smart trickery, on the bottom floor.
It was propped open, and on the backside were shelves with awards and IC / Senate momentos. Like “look at me, I’m so sleuths & cool.”
Kicker: it looks like his back up residence/ condo was in a Trump condo complex. Ha!
He just proved that there are multiple scales of justice – just like We the People have known for like, forever.
Let’s start the next puppet show.
It’s no fun anymore watching these puppet shows, the strings are exposed!
My attempt to summarize the report would be:
These people are not guilty of sedition because they are the ones that must prosecute sedition.
If anything…This Helps Trump in many ways….
Scam investigations…all of them
Scam politicians – IE adam Schiff and Senator Mark Warner…who live in Smolette lala land – 24/7 for 2 solid years with the BS
The Corrupt Media
His Election coming up
and lastly and most important….He was right…and so was Nunes who was sanctioned
Except the media will just go on lying about him as they call him and us a bunch of liars. This changes nothing that I can see.
don’t be so sure about that….Even Jake Tapper is buckling with the info from this…
They are a complete bunch of liars… and that’s a total fact…
Most normal people will see…if it can happen to him…i can happen to me
Nope…you are framing an outcome in a just world. That no longer exist.
Sorry dude…. but man are you depressing….
Sounds like you gave up… if it no longer exists….what do you have to offer anyone?
Why does he have to offer anyone anything, other than the truth?
Are you his spokesperson? Jesus
If I charge, follow me.
If I retreat, kill me.
If I die, avenge me.
Keep ASSuming Jimbo.
What I refuse to do is hope for an outcome that will never present.
Entire DC cabal colluded in accusing Trump got away with it, stole our election, murder citizens with COVID, then crapped our economy and just collapsed whistle blower investigation of Joe.
To entertain thoughts that Trump will win 2024 is an ice cube chance in hell.
As for what I offer…I’ll leave that to my mentor Sun Tuz.
“ Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Yeah, we all know they’re liars but they’re not all going to apologize and start treating Trump like they treat Joe Biden. Only a damn fool would believe that. There will be more claims against Trump and they will report them as if they’re proven facts instead of some woman making a claim with no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Don’t fool yourself.
WorkkingmanPHD: Full agreement. Changes nothing. A fresh round of smearing PDJT, and then, the “report” fades into oblivion.
The foxes are getting exposed, little by little. At least that’s a helluva lot more than before! Baby steps are better than no steps? The baby can crawl a lot faster than walk! Snakes can slither faster than we can walk!!!
Yeah but while we’re taking baby steps every six months or so, they’re sprinting towards communism 24/7 and nobody with power who’s supposed to be on our side are doing anything to even slow it down, much less stop it. The Republicans are doing nothing for us.
Can President Trump now sue the culprits I wonder?
Yes, and the report is now the key to locking up lots and lots and lots of litigation expense on the part of the conspirators.
Someone with Trump’s means is capable of financing mega lawsuits against lots of teeny critters. In fact, had he success, he may be able to settle with some important ones such that they do depositions delineating all the details necessary for higher level civil and/or criminal prosecutions.
It should definitely be of use in the frivolous lawsuit filed by Strzuk and Page against the Justice Department and FBI.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the bureau and the DOJ ignored these findings and intentionally threw the case so those two love birds could receive multimillion dollars settlements.
Main stream media are not discussing this.
THEY were in on it😏
Yeah, sent to time-out land by then Speaker of the House and current Fox News Board member, Paul Ryan. There’s a special place in hell for you, traitor Ryan. God sees all.
One of those times when I’m just not going to share what I believe about that I so clearly see.
Devin Nunes (American Hero) forced the production of bank records made public in October, 2017 reflecting that Hillary and her (then) DNC apparatus bought and paid for the “Dossier”.
Most of us knew this was shit from the get-go, but anyone who took any of this seriously after that (Five an 1/2 friggin’ years ago) should be ashamed of themselves.
The purpose of the false claim of Russian collusion was to besmirch Trump and interfere with his administrations goals.
THEY were successful and NO one will be liable for their participation.
“They’re not after me, they are after you” That’s been evident ever since.
The lead FBI investigator for Durham was also prominently featured in the Sandy Hoax After School Special. Because some big lies keep getting bigger when nobody is allowed to speak of them in public…
Honestly, I do not believe any Treepers are surprised by this report, nor the fact that Durham explicitly informed the reader that no one would be charged, regardless of the criminality involved.
Protecting The Deep State is what The Deep State does: attacking corruption and criminality with a NERF gun.
Short of a French-fried 1789, we can hope that President Trump is elected (in spite of election fraud against him), and that his administration will prosecute at least the worst criminals involved.
“There is another higher justice!” shouted a member of the anti-Nazi underground group called The White Rose at a Nazi judge.
The young student who dared to resist the Nazis by distributing pamphlets was beheaded.
The judge met his death when the Allies bombed his courtroom.
Yeah, old Roland Freisler got his when the 8th air force dropped the courthouse on his head. Justice served with 500 pound bombs.
Even if he doesn’t prosecute them; taking from them, through nationalist economic policies, the trillions that are at stake, will bring some level of comfort and hopefully put power into the hands of real patriots.
Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein and Bill Barr are also criminals.
Not so sure about Sessions…he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Sessions was the patsy they needed as AG to recuse himself.
Agree.
Former President Barack Obama is a criminal. Former Vice President Biden is a criminal…..
Agree
We have 535 Traytors !
Time to break out some hemp..
Too slow. I feel the need for speed.
“Talk to me, Goose!”
Time to line them all up and give them another booster shot, a real one this time.
Not quite accurate. 535 minus a number of very honest and brave patriots…
…a number you can count on both hands and have fingers left over…
THAT’S IT????
Let me get this straight. NO ONE is held legally accountable and we get a report telling us what we knew TWO years (or more) before the FIVE (almost/about) year investigation started.
Setting aside the issue of election FRAUD still actually pending in at least Arizona and Georgia; when you couple this report with the intel officials lying about Hunter’s laptop, and the funneling of illegal campaign contributions through the names of people who did not actually make them, I fell confident in stating: “the COUP HAS ALREADY HAPPENED”!
Yep…keystrokes….more keystrokes, cause that will fix it.
YES.
The constitutional republic that we knew and loved has been lost. It was lost on January 20, 2021, when Xiden took the oath of office, then signed the pile of executive orders that the regime placed on his desk.
It’s over.
Those States where sanity and integrity still prevail should act immediately to gain (or regain) their independence, to assert their right to self-determination. The Texas Nationalist Movement is leading that effort in Texas.
texitnow org
tnm me
While we all pat ourselves over the back about being confirmed in our suspicions, the nation is being destroyed before our very eyes. It is too late to stop it.
The longer the delay, the worse it will become before we do what needs to be done.
This is worse than any of the talking heads are conveying. This was an attempted & almost successful coup on a duly elected POTUS.
This was an intentionally treasonous act that demands accountability!
If you take into account the 2020 election: it was a complete success.
Well put!
This will be talked about for weeks but the bottom line is that nothing will change because there is no incentive for the bad actors to change their behavior unless it’s their own conscience. People who have sold their souls have no conscience though.
WorkingmanPHD: Weeks? I’d give it five to seven days, tops.
I meant by us. Of course the legacy media scum will simply make excuses for the criminal behavior of the left and then go right back to bashing Trump in a day or so. I have completely given up any hope that we will ever have a fair and honest news media anymore. They have all chosen to work for the uniparty, which a heavy emphasis on the DNC, instead of we the people. Nobody knows that better than I do.
John Durham, the Earl Scheib of Special Prosecutors.
$29.95!!! And worth every penny…
Like all treason from the government trough feeders nothing will ever be done.
The left are treating this as a “NOthing Burger,” according to slimeball lawyer Andrew Weismann.
“Worthless handjob fluffers” a new description of all those in Congress!
Yeah, our side needs to stop falling for this idea that anything that happens is going to change how our DNC media will report the “news”. I knew a year ago that this report would amount to nothing. I’ve been watching this stuff for too long to believe there is any real justice anymore.
Would this be connected to Trump not having to give deposition in Strozk case ? and will it serve to to dismiss the case ?
Be nice to see something good come out of this
“So, we went to the badges with the evidence, but the badges did not want to act upon the evidence, because it would have been, in their estimation, too damaging to the framework of our government.”
This is the single most disturbing and damaging statement…. in American history!
What I am coming away with here is that these are all nuanced violations and that there are no concrete laws on the books to hang these treasonous bastards on in a court of law. Isn’t violating our Constitution repeatedly through violations to the 4th amendment enough to prove treasonous activity?
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that this was an organized coup de’ etat.
Are they really saying here in the Durham report that to criminally try these individuals… upsetting our current seat of Government… is worse than doing nothing because of the worry of destabilization? In the past when we’ve played our games toppling other countries’ governments in the name of faux “democracy”, we left certain bad actors in power because their successors would be worse. That is what is being said here??? Are we serious?
We ARE DESTABILIZED with money leaking out of the American treasury funding absurdities that the legal American citizen would never subscribe to or vote for!
Basically, we are saying F$CK the law. So… we are in chaos-driven anarchy state and if law is not going to apply to them… then it should not apply to any of us.
Great. We need a Mount Saint Helen’s style eruption over government. Burn it all to the ground – maybe in 25 years it will be rebuilt to something resembling a true and honorable Republic. God help us all.
Oh no , woo. There will be more than enough law to go ’round for you , me an the rest of the crew.
“too damaging to the framework of our government.”
Yet damaging our economy, getting people fired, murdering citizen via COVID, gutting the middle class and stealing elections is….um…ok?
Government is in a Cold War with us.
Pretty sure it’s a HOT war, Mike. We just haven’t caught up to reality yet. For none of us, for the life of us… ever thought we would be here. We just wanted to peacefully raise our children, work hard, and live our American dream. The dream has been stolen and given to illegal invaders and sold to “others”.
During the cold war, there was always a rumor that the Soviets had a nuclear weapon sitting in the basement of their embassy in DC, surrounded by lead shielding so it couldn’t be detected. I hope Putin still has the button to that little surprise. I’m beginning to think I wouldn’t mind seeing DC go up in a blinding flash. A lot of problems would be solved.
Dear JWoo,
I posted a similar comment at 10:24pm.
No attempt to steal your comment, I just read it same as you and hadn’t,T read any comments at that point.
Mea Culpa!
No worries at all, Mouse. We are all typing at different speeds and are all white-hot pissed. Every opinion and statement as valid. Just goes to show “great minds think alike” and we all pretty much know how absurd all of this is.
Psa 119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
I was going to send $20 to the Daniel Penny defense fund, but it looks like he is doing ok (money wise) for now. I’m going to send it to Sundance instead.
“Show me the man, and I will show you the crime”
Totally disgusting and it makes me deeply sad and angry.
Thank you, Sundance, for being Steadfast. God Bless you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 MAGA 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸
Much credit to Sundance as the persistent laying out evidence and sunlight right here on CTH over the last six years has made it hard for the investigation to be avoided. Bravo Sundance and thanks for your sunlight, truth and determination.
Can these criminals be sued in civil court, or will they stand behind the shield of Federal employment?
WHERE ARE THE STROK-PAGE TEXTS we were promised?
BIGGEST ASK: give us the unredacted Judge Rosemary Collyer 99-page judicial summary!
Can anyone in any of these criminals’ home counties press Federal charges at the county sheriff’s office?
Appreciate the rapid feedback, Sundance. You were light years ahead the curve on the Russia hoax.
Hillary Clinton’s plan to ‘vilify’ Trump by linking him to Putin was briefed to Obama and Biden before the election in 2016 – while the FBI and DOJ restricted investigations into her campaign, Durham report says
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12086891/Hillarys-plan-link-Trump-Putin-briefed-Obama-Biden-Durham-report.html
The Durham Report In One Meme!!!
F Mr. Durham
F FBI/DOJ
F Deep State
FJB/LGB
Biden is getting all his pardons in order, to be signed as needed. But I doubt he will need any.
“So, we went to the badges with the evidence, but the badges did not want to act upon the evidence, because it would have been, in their estimation, too damaging to the framework of our government.”
Quite the contrary. By not acting upon the overwhelming evidence of unprecedented criminal activity against the peoples elected president, they damaged the government immeasurably by destroying all faith in it and the rule of law. It also encouraged even more criminal conduct as shown during covid. By not upholding the constitution and rule of law they destroyed the country and like the treaty of Versailles, sowed the seeds of future disaster.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
I propose that we do not throw off the whole government, but some of its parts, like the FBI and DOJ. These institutions have betrayed the American people by attempting to undermine and overthrow a duly elected president. In so doing they have sought to reverse the will of the people. They have abused their powers by investigating and prosecuting political enemies, putting thousands of good folk in prison for decades. They have failed to do their duty to investigate and prosecute election fraud of an obvious and rampant nature. They have failed to investigate or prosecute Joe and Hunter Biden for obvious crimes. They have in all things acted lawlessly. Those serving these institutions are thugs and leeches, not fit for citizenship. The institutions cannot be reformed and must cease to exist.
I have been calling for secession here for months. People probably think I’m nuts. Texas would be a good start but they have a wimp running the place. Same for Florida.
Sad to say how right you are. Our “esteemed” Texas GOP chose a communist for House Speaker in Dade Phelan who’s appointed Democrats as Chairs to half the committees in order to curtail/stall important legislation such as border protection, school choice, property tax reduction, and limitations on drag shows for kids. I couldn’t be more disgusted with them as a Texan.
what is the statute limitation on the malfeasances laid bare in the report? how much longer does clock to run?
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For the most part, 5 years.
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Following yesterdays article here “more pretending”. So sick of it all.
Over six years later.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
#Unserviceable
It’s been Gowdy’d. Investigate, assign blame and then move on. The peasants are too stupid to get upset. Benghazi en infinity.
The government might have sovereign immunity, but does the media? Could they be sued, at least for the cost of the governmental “investigation”? They were aiding and abetting.
Durham concludes there was no evidence of Trump collusion with Russia to justify commencing an investigation while claiming he hasn’t got enough evidence himself to prosecute anyone of a crime. So what is the basis for his conclusion? What a clusterf*ck.
The Sgt Schultz defense.
iv. Fusion GPS implicates Sergei Millian
As discussed above, the Office found no evidence that Millian was a source for any of the allegations in the Steele Reports.
Given this fact, the Office endeavored to determine the genesis of Millian’s implication in the Steele Reports.
In particular, what caused Danchenko to first reach out to Millian in late July 2016.
To that end, the Office reviewed, among other things, records obtained from Fusion GPS and the public statements of Fusion GPS principals Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. 1088
Specifically, Fusion GPS records demonstrate that Nellie Ohr first identified Millian as having connections to Trump.
Ohr was a Russian-language contractor employed by Fusion GPS and the wife of Department official Bruce Ohr.
On April 22, 2016, Nellie Ohr prepared a report for Fusion GPS that set forth, in part, Millian’s connections to Trump. 1089
This report was prepared just ten days after Fusion GPS was retained by Perkins Coie to conduct opposition research on Trump, and prior to Steele being retained by Fusion GPS. 1090
Notably, on April 13, 2016 – approximately one week prior to Ohr’ s report – RIA Novosti published an interview with Millian that was conducted by Dimitry Zlodorev. 1091
In that interview, Millian described his alleged real estate connections to Trump and spoke positively about Trump’s candidacy. 1092
Millian was interviewed by RIA Novosti several more times over the course ofthe summer and all of 2016. 1093
On May 7, 2016, Nellie Ohr compiled another report discussing, among other things, Millian. 1094 All told, Ohr prepared at least 12 reports that discussed Sergei Millian. 1095
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(Page 180-181 “The Durham Report”)
Spray Paint!
My thinking is this is the “shiny object” they are holding up to distract from the Title 42 catastrophe since they know their dogs in the Deep State will not do a thing about the contents of the report anyway.
Holding DC officials accountable for criminal conduct first requires the deconstruction of the silos that protect them. Deconstructing those silos requires strategy and legislative willpower….
I would like to suggest, gentle Treeper folk, that our esteemed host has thoughts on the construction and execution of said strategy, and merits as much support as we can manage, financial and otherwise.
Can one deconstruct a silo with a Javelin or a Ryder truck?
Asking for a friend.
Not bloody likely.
It was a coupsurrection.
Why did Wray insist on hiding the Seth Rich files for 60 years? Makes you wonder about a lot of other crimes, especially Vegas and Nashville
What a load of bunk. No crimes? Unreal. He also pussyfooted around with weasel language. I suppose lawyerspeak is to be expected but show a little teeth. It’s not like it wasn’t one of the biggest shams in political history or anything. Cast aspersions on the election AND resulted in an impeachment. WTF?
The one I hold in most contempt is Comey. He could have shut the whole thing down on day one! The bastard!
He covered for HRC quite well, didn’t he?
I don’t comment much; however, it seems we could sum up the Durham investigation:
1) Siloed information allows the FBI to serve as a cut-out for both the legislative and executive branch, especially the SSCI.
2) Durham’s job was to maintain that cut-out.
3) Durham accomplished this by siloing his investigation
Mission accomplished.
4) Kept documents and witness testimony tied up so they couldn’t be released to the public.
Or even discovered by Congress.
Uniparty Tactics:
1. Denigrate to destroy
2. Deny
3. Delay with Durham
4. Dump facts —years later with no intent to prosecute.
Condensed into 4 words.
We got bent over.