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….
“…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.”
yeah but its ok for the corrupt govt continue to abuse and oppress the people they are supposed to serve. burn it with fire and all its cokcsukcers.
It’s as though they’re completely unaware that it is far more damaging to the “framework of our government” for the public to be aware of these crimes and to see absolutely nothing done to punish those who committed them.
“Too damaging to the framework of our government?” The framework is built on frickin corruption and relies on it now…which means; to hell with the framework of the government! The corruption is so massive, so extensive that its time to tear the frickin thing down! Bringing a few critters down does nothing! The system itself is beyond repair, beyond working with. It MUST BE TORN DOWN AND REPLACED. And the government apparatus that has assumed control as our tyrant leaders must be defunded, destroyed and done away with. They have gone rogue, are no longer American and do not serve the people. This IS war…have been saying it forma very long time now, and finally some are waking up to this. FOLKS…it will never be the normal that you were comfortable in…again. That’s gone and gone forever! They have made their move and the time is now. No turning back. It’s us…or them! And they….are they enemy
Oh, but watching the corrupt gov do whatever it wants and never paying a price is NOT “damaging to the framework of our government”? Geesh. It’s the corrupto-crats in gov destroying confidence in gov, not those pointing it out/trying to do something about it.
Quite frankly, these were treasonous acts. They all deserve to hang, including the big Zero himself.
I hope your list of those who deserve to hang includes Bill Barr. He is absolutely treasonous as far as I’m concerned. He has 2 faces andn no scruples.
What they did was bad enough that their families deserve to hang with them.
No. The shame would be punishment enough.
“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….”
would not justice be served if, say, one of the perps walked out into traffic and was flattened by a bus?
Oh goody. So DOJ & FBI have already corrected the issues! Really. I guess that’s why they interfered with the IRS whistleblowers in the House investigation. Nothing to see here, just move along. Just like the border, nothing to see here.
Worth revisiting per Kitty’s question re: “silos” – ICYMI – July 4, 2021 by Sundance
“Will someone please explain what is meant by ‘silo’ in this context. Thank you.”
Marygrace Powers
May 16, 2023 7:25 am
Reply to Kitty Myers
Preview, The Fourth Branch of Government July 4, 2021 | Sundance | 392 Comments
“After many years of granular research about the intelligence apparatus inside our government, in the summer of 2020 I visited Washington DC to ask specific questions.
My goal was to go where the influence agents within government actually operate, and discover the people deep inside the institutions no-one pays any attention to.
It was during this process when I discovered how information is purposefully put into containment silos; essentially a formal process to block the flow of information between agencies, and between the original branches. While frustrating to discover, the silo effect was important to understand because comprehension of communication networks leads to our ability to reconcile conflict between what we perceive and what’s actually taking place.
In the next few days I am going to explain how the Intelligence Branch works: (1) to control every other branch of government; (2) how it functions as an entirely independent branch of government with no oversight; (3) how and why it was created to be independent from oversight; (4) what is the current mission of the IC Branch, and most importantly (5) who operates it.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/04/preview-the-fourth-branch-of-government/
thanks!
Creating silos was done to prevent classified information from being leaked and make it harder for foreign intelligence organizations to get classified information. In theory the information is protected but still available to the decision makers who need it, “need to know”. However there is serious problems with this method. The author points out one, it makes oversite very very difficult. There are several others. It allows political figures to avoid responsibility and gives them cover for illegal activities. Compartmentalization of data also inhibits proper analysis of intelligence. The two classic examples of this is Pearl Harbor and 9-11 both of which were costly in terms of lost of life.
Oversight of intelligence operations has always been problematic. The need for secrecy is paramount and the legal system in order to work properly needs to bring all relevant facts out in the open. In the past oversight was done internally and depended on the patriotism and honesty of the leadership of the organization. Punishment could range from censorship to exclusion from operations to “unfortunate accidents”. Unfortunately the moral rot that seized the democrat party has spread to all politicians and to the civil service which was supposed to be above politics. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“… Meaning, just because you can show criminal activity in Washington DC, that doesn’t mean anyone has a responsibility to investigate it…”
Isn’t this just the end result of any and all “investigations” in DC?
There are criminals running loose all over the place up there and nobody can, or will, do a damn thing about it
THIS is the most frustrating part about it
Our government has become almost 100% a crime syndicate. Soon it will be 100%. All they need is one more crooked election to put Puppet Joe back in the WH & he will finish the destruction of our Constitutional Republic. They are very busy trying to accomplish that goal ahead of the 2024 election in case, just in case, their planned election fraud doesn’t succeed. At this rate their won’t be much to mop up. Thanks to the planned complete mismanagement of our economy, the US is about to default on our loans, which means the stock market and value of the dollar will collapse. Biden should have been impeached long ago along with “Border Czar” Harris but Kevin McFailure-By-Design has refused to allow the Articles to move forward. And now this fake Durham report attached to ZERO consequences is a kick in the face of all Americans. You can imagine Durham, Comey, Wray, Garland, Barr and the rest of their Cabal all making themselves sick as they laugh at us…”Those fools still think we have elections in this country. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Here Barack have another glass of champagne. This is a toast to you! We did it! Here’s to 4 more years of Joe. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Just make sure the fox is in charge of protecting the hen house and the farmer is one of the foxes!
Folks there was never been any doubt about the criminal acts of the swamp, specifically, from the time our Great American President Donald J Trump & First Lady Melania came down the escalator, especially the folks on (CTH) these boards.
It reminds me of the Sentinels in The Matrix which go into protect mode, when the Matrix/hive is threatened or the Architect commands it. Right or wrong has nothing to do with it, like rabid dogs they just attack, attack, attack, up and until you put it down.
The swamp rats have become rabid dogs who are now flailing around in their silos and in their desperation are being exposed with sloppy, criminal and even dangerous activity.
The Durham Report is further confirmation of the glaring fact our government is a captured operation and is now a direct enemy of the USA and We The People!
since he did his job by investigating and issuing his final report,
whose job is it to indict those involved?
I suspect plan A would be the criminals themselves which
ain’t happening for obvious reasons.
Who is Plan B?
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U.S.Government under Obama & Biden the biggest crime syndicate in history. Makes the mafia look like amatuers.
It would be interesting to know if there are possible civil case possibilities against individuals who continued to lie and defame outside government confines. I’m sure General Flynn and others would be interested in recouping their life savings. Think about it. Gen. Flynn was persecuted for lying to the FBI but the FBI was lying to the courts and public and nothing happens. The involved Judges were/are part and parcel of the government crimes. FISA and DC circuit courts must be dismantled and abolished.
At this time my frustration level knows no bounds. I can’t even imagine how President Trump feels and he continues to be persecuted for rightfully attempting to prove his own innocence. If you can’t prosecute them, bankrupt em’
Indeed there are possibilities in civil court, as NYC just proved against DJT. “Preponderance of evidence” is a whole lot easier to get past a jury than “beyond reasonable doubt”. As I just wrote in an earlier comment, do as the democrats do. And damn the torpedoes.
“When we break the law, we go to jail.
When the government breaks the law,
the government changes the law.”
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Whitewashing the Offence”
“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little”
Consequences………
The impact of these facts and Comey “sending a couple of guys over” to screw Flynn/Trump will be felt by FBI/DOJ for a long, long time.
Loretta Lynch once said we have the right people in place. Guess this is what she meant.
Before Obama, if the FBI reached out to me I would done anything to assist them. Now, I am not answering a question until my lawyer is present, even if not having to do with me/my actions.
Congress should shut down the current special prosecutor against PDJT now, because it is continuing the same corruption! So if changes were made at FBI as Wray claims why did we have continued corruption with no Biden investigation, 51 spies who lied that the FBI knew were lying and did not say anything as they had the laptop from hell in their possession, raid on Mar-a-Lago for his presidential records with an illegal general warrant; and yet another special prosecutor for baseless claims! Shut it all down! No money for special prosecutors. Both, as you know the one on Biden will do nothing! Shut it all down! Thus report can be used as justification for continued abuse of power! Start with what they are doing right now, get the general warrant released, then ask how is this behavior not still continuing? Shut it down! They are continuing to interfere in our elections!
“Congress should shut down the current special prosecutor against PDJT now, because it is continuing the same corruption!”
Maria makes an excellent point. Crossfire Hurricane was meant to ‘get Trump.’ Special prosecutor Jack Smith’s current investigation is intended to ‘get Trump.’
These sham investigations are connected by DOJ personnel such as deputy AG Lisa Monaco, and FBI personnel as well.
The Swamp is dirty. ‘Attorney General’ Meritless Beria Garland intends to keep it that way.
House needs to subpoena Wray, Garland and others involved. Hold them on contempt and place them under House arrest. Maybe Epstein’s misfortune will follow them while in the House jail.
So we have a bunch of corrupt sniveling snickering treasonous pieces of shit spread throughout Government that undermined the 2020 election with their actions including providing false testimony to obtain a warrant before a federal judge and that judge is not pissed off and demanding those that lied in his or her court to be held in contempt.
Of course that’s not damaging to the government
Welcome to the WASHINGTON DC impacted Asshole Of America in need of an enema of biblical proportions
Wasn’t the FISA judge part of it, as well? No clean hands available– everyone’s dirty. “When in the course of human events,” indeed!
It is foolish to expect anyone in DC to police themselves.
I laid awake a good portion of the night last night fretting about how this really is just an epitath to the republic. Its gone. The duly elected President was removed and an illegitimate one was installed. All of us already knew that, this was just a final FU. Our color revolution is complete.
So, in another forum I participate in on occasion a lefty posted this about the report:
“The only fact that comes out of this that is worth paying any attention to is that the Durham investigation and report, as commissioned by Barr at the behest of the darkest forces amongst us is no more than one piece in the larger culture of extreme r-wing disinformation.”
There is no way the brainwashing can be overcome. I am without hope.
It’s like Nunez said, the minds of the american people have been poisoned. There is no way to undo that. There is no one left who wants to see justice done but the conservatives and they/we are being persecuted or threatened.
I am from farm country and cleaned out a few silos in my time. They stink like a sewer at the bottom just like the US government. A good cleaning is needed and until it is done the republic is dead.
Same here, good analogy. The stink at the bottom is a fungus/rot that can take down anything/anyone it comes into contact with.
Come sit.
Let me tell you a tale of a thirsty tree…
“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.”
Why should this be holding back prosecutors? Using the January 6th standard, there’s more than enough evidence to lock up pretty much the entirety of the FBI’s top brass indefinitely.
It’s gubermint speak for lawfare.
This is definitely another case where it’s justifiable to do as the democrats do; Impeach/Indict/Try in a courtroom, even if they know they’ll lose. Trials of the guilty would (hopefully) bring more sunshine onto the DOJ/FBI’s criminal actions and intentions.
Because if you attempt to shine light on it, a corrupt bought and paid for Judge will dismiss the case before any evidence can be revealed. This is exactly what happened with the stolen election in my opinion.
My comment was intended as much as anything else to highlight that Conservatives need to be far less shy about actually trying to do something real. I know it’s fruitless to hope for any sort of illumination that would actually accomplish something. Chronic utter frustration drove me to ‘say’ it anyway.
Depositions are a powerful tool.
Sorry for the inconveniece Hellava…I’ve restored the last four comments you made.
Waiting for the state AG’s to do just that…the people of their states are being sold out by the cabal in D.C. that installed this fake president on us all….since we can’t take them on individually and we need protection, what better way to put the 10th amendment back in full force the way the founders intended?
So if I understand you correctly, the entire series of fake investigations into Trump constituted a form of unrestricted warfare against the American people who voted for Trump and against Trump and his political allies. The goal, according to what you wrote, was to protect themselves from being investigated by the Trump administration and from criminal charges being filed against them. In addition, they hoped to paralyze the Trump administration from being effective in making political and economic changes that would benefit the American people.
It is possible that when they saw just how effective Trump was in turning around the economy and in his America First policies, they used a flu-like virus, and called it a pandemic on the basis of 80 people in China, if anyone can believe any numbers given by China. They used a PCR test, which cannot diagnose any disease (according to the inventor of it) at such high cycle thresholds that 95% of positives were actually false positives, in order to gin up hysteria and panic. The government then hyped the disease as if it were the bubonic plague.
Pfizer manufactured over 25 million vials of the military countermeasure called “vaccines” before any so-called “clinical study” was even done. There is no way to sue Pfizer or any so called vaccine manufacturer because these agents are not technically called vaccines or drugs, but military countermeasures ordered by the DOD.
This was all part of the plan to take down America First President Donald Trump, and take down all of those who believe in national sovereignty. The Great Reset used a largely harmless virus to justify mass injections of a substance that has caused mass injuries and deaths by stroke, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolus, myocarditis in young men, more severe cases of COVID than in those who did not receive the injection, and has also caused serious illness and seizures in babies who are breast fed from mothers who had the injection, as well as miscarriages and sterility.
The plan was in place and not even hidden: it was published and is easily available to read. The countries that stand in the way of the globalists: the US under Donald Trump, Hungary, Israel, Georgia, and Russia under Putin are under extreme pressure by the globalists using the US military to either bring down their governments or destroy their governments politically.
The Durham report will go down in history as an example of how the US system of justice has been so hollowed out and destroyed that justice is given to criminals and injustice is given to law abiding citizens and people that love America.
When everything in a country is upside down, you know for a fact that those in power are perverse and have perverse motives.
The original dossier was authored by Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal in 2015. Blumenthal is a master sleaze in my opinion. Obama forbade Hillary from involving him in his administration, which I believe is an original reason for the home server.
Blumenthal tried to pedal his dossier as rumors to the media. No media would touch it, nor would Kerry as it waspushed through Chris Hines and Devon Archer. Hence fusion and Steele. I also believe that this was an operation to make it ok to go after Putin and Trump was a bonus. See the over the top reaction to Helsinki. Especially Ambassador McPhail.
No mention of Bill Browder or the Chalupa sisters. No mention of Pompeo’s role, nor the fact that everyone knew.
The FBI’s response is just like a CYA I tried in grade school when I told my teacher that my dog ate my homework. I hope some actual journalist (maybe Sundance?) speak to FBI rank-and-file about the assertion that “current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions”. Or publish the process on how these “corrective actions” were implemented. I’ll believe when I see it! This is the FBI’s CYA moment to continue the obfuscation of this whole gambit. I’ll also wait for DOJ’s response, since it was part and parcel of this whole crapshow. Tear it all down!
The underlying problem, still, is that the Trump-Haters are so OCD in their hate that it’s driven them completely off the road and out of control, and this includes the media as well as far too many RINOs (e.g. a handful of writers at TWT and others). So this report will accomplish absolutely nothing worthwhile. The Haters will just shout all the louder, literally and metaphorically, such that nothing within DOJ/FBI will change on whit.
Durham obviously wimped out when it comes to indictments. He could not deny the facts when the freight train of reality ran right over him but he could refuse to take legal action.
Since Durham was never a “top dog” in the DOJ, I think it is safer to assume he was given orders from above at the outset that his work would result in NO prosecutions of key people within certain protected institutions. He was probably given or told of a list of names or positions that were deemed “untouchable unless evidence was overwhelming AND impossible to obscure or refute.”
Seems pretty overwhelming to most of us watching…is there really any plausible deniability when the FBI itself says the problems have been taken care of , thereby confesssing that yes, there were/are problems? Of course, any of us who told the FBI, upon being investigated to just run along, as we’ve already taken steps to resolve the matter would be in the D.C. dungeon before they had a chance to think twice…
That which is “too big to fail” has already fallen.
Special Counsel Durham is not prosecuting anyone for their corrupt conduct outlined within the report.
Well I’m not surprised. Any trial would take place in D.C. No chance for a change of venue.
Corrupt liberal judges, and corrupt juries as we have seen in all of the J6 trials.
FBI says all is fixed so the whitewash is complete. Let’s move on to the next grift.
They say as they terminate the lead IRS whistleblower and investigators from the Hunter Biden tax fraud case. Yep, all fixed up.
The FBI assigned extra sensitivity training.
It will be interesting to see how far this revelation goes and what effect it has on the voting public. I am pessimistic that the induced apathy on our ignorant public will conform to the whims of the agencies who designed this fraud.
The understated nature of this report belies any effort toward accountability.
“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.”
True.
“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.”
Astounding!
Thank you, Sundance for your, as always excellent encapsulation. I’ve been following CTH since President Trump’s election in 2016. As most everyone on this site already knew, this report is not surprising. But this whole Russia Russia Russia SCAM HOAX is a massive and treasonous betrayal of President Trump, the American people, The Constitution, and the Rule of Law at the highest levels of government. Yet, it’s ok, “we’re the government, and we’re here to help!” Bull***t! Only President Trump and the hand of our Almighty God can help us now!
But,but,but – Obama said to do everything ‘by the book’.
They did everything by their book! It’s Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals book!
dedicated to lucifer…
Where are we………..Constitutional crisis or Constitutional rot? I vote for the former
PDJT should sue everyone involved for Civil Rights violations, defamation, and actual and punitive damages in the BILLIONS (plural) of Dollars. Bankrupt them all.
We sit here in almost mid 2023. Scumbags like McCabe and Strzok still appear on the propaganda networks virtue signaling and profiting. Brennan still working against Trump on the Hunter Biden Russian Disinformation operation. Jake the Snake Sullivan currently holding a high government office. Several operations still ongoing against Trump.
2024 ? Trump ? DeSantis? Elections ? is any of it relevant ?
The RNC and the Republican Party should be loudly screaming, and doing other more effective things, about what happened to their candidate and President.
But, of course, that is a dream. Tyranny is the reality. Oppression the future.
Will Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney apologize to PDJT? I doubt it – they have NO integrity.
None of them will ever apologize and nor will they stop accusing Trump of more made up crimes or bashing Trump voters. People need to get that in their heads and stop falling for the false hype and hope. The legacy media, the DNC, and the GOPe still hates Trump and they still hate us. If anything, this will make them all hate Trump and us even more but they will never apologize for their lies.
Those lost in their dreams will say, “yes, but now the MSM has to report on it since it’s an “official” report. This will wake people up!” Yeah, maybe a few but watch and see – their approach will soon turn to “well, Durham was appointed by Whittaker, who is Session’s crony/employee so can we trust what HE says??? And there are no charges so….” He was interim AG between 11/17 and 2/18, before the traitor, Barr was appointed and was the one who technically appointed Durham. BTW, anyone else want to hear from Sessions right now???
Here, hold my beer. On second thought, you’re not gonna hold MY beer!
This is all just too little too late and is going to do nothing to help right the multiple wrongs and it’s not gonna punish Hagzilla or Obozo or biden and they’re the ones who need to be jailed. This is clearly criminal action that would jail almost ANY republican – so why are the current republicans standing around with their thumbs up their noses?? They are also endangering national security with all this crap.
I’m just done with politics. The whole of WADC needs to be cleaned out, bulldozed down and never rebuilt. We’d all be better off to just let everything reset itself. There is no such thing as gubmint “help”. Absurd.
I’m am puzzling with this question: Why release this now?
Chaff and countermeasures for something else going on they are trying to cover up. Maybe like the FBI terminating the IRS whistleblower and associated IRS investigators that have the goods on the Hunter Biden Tax fraud case. Possibly a criminal act. Go Figure.
Look at the report’s “bott0m line” – NO CRIMINALITY; NO PROSECUTIONS. That’s perfect fodder for the anti-Trump forces to continue their attacks.
This report – as far as the media and anti-Trump mob will conclude – completely undermines President Trump’s, Sundance’s, and others’ well-supported assertions of law breaking and lying to Congress by government employees and elected officials, as well the complicity of the media in its 6+ year campaign of lies and false assertions about the origins of the (false) accusations against candidate DJT (and campaign personnel) / President DJT, and the breadth of collusion that occurred within the IC & its contractors to conceal and mislead any and all investigations into the veracity of the allegations from these origins. (apologies for the run-on sentence)
The anti-Trump mob will use this to assert that PDJT has continued to over-state and even falsify facts with his assertions of a “politically motivated witch hunt” by the FBI, DOJ, etc. They will use that to reinforce their continued attacks against him saying that his denials and counter-accusations are exaggerated and just as wildly inaccurate as what he has (rightfully) claimed in every fake scandal-based investigation into his life since 2015.
Most importantly, they will use these claims of his “unsupported” claims of being attacked with witch hunts s further proof that the current and future garbage accusations against him (to remove him from the 2024 presidential campaign) are legitimate and his denials and counter claims are as “exaggerated and unsupported” as the ones he made about the Russia collusion investigations.
Maybe it’s time for Peppermint to penetrate those silos. The corruption is absolutely unbelievable.
I just hate to be reminded about all of the crap associated with Crossfire Hurricane at this late date. It has all been another bunch of Clinton Clap Trap.
So the summary defined Reason, Intent, and Probable Cause criminal actions, but then declined prosecution. It details not only individual, but organized and conspiratorial crimes.
Millions of citizens votes and Constitutional protected representation was impacted –
Tell me there isn’t a class action suit that we citizens can’t file??? RICCO action??, Good lord, even a tar and feather party …
Nothing will happen. Because everyone on all sides has already known all this for years.
The problem is not, nor has it ever been, lack of damning evidence.
The problem is that damning evidence no longer matters now that tyrants are in control.
It was here at TCThouse, more than once, going back several years, where I stated “No one is going to jail“.
Anyone who is pissed off that there will be no penalties, wake up. I ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, and I knew this.
To quote George Carlin: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it”.
We are doomed and unfortunately we do not have a general returning with his troops to cross our Rubicon to try and regain our country.
Can Trump sue government employees for lying about him for years and sending the law against him?
He might have a case for all the expenses of the impeachment and other things. I am not sure if the government employee be held accountable, but one of the actions from the lawsuit could be used against the employee as settlement to act.
Durham vindicates Trump but fails to hold FBI responsible. Nothing to stop FBI from mistreating Trump campaign again in 2024 – Durham report suggests
https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-nothing-to-stop-fbi-from-mistreating-trump-campaign-again-in-2024-durham-report-suggests_5269883.html
So, now the stack of evidence that started building in about 2015 includes:
About 2015 – The Due Process Review of FISA Queries sent to the FISC by Admiral Rogers that found a massive number of rights violations and illegal searches of NSA Signals Data bases by democrat political operatives Hired as CONTRACTORS by Obama’s FBI.
The evidence within the body of at least 2 x FBI IG Reports 2016 and 2018, which outlines allot of the same evidence as contained in the “Bull” Durham Report.
Multiple acts of documented perjury by Obama INTEL and FBI officials before Congress 2017-2018.
The crowd sourced materials and conclusions from here on CTH, wrapped up in a nice package and delivered by Sundance to the multiple investigators.
Leaked FISA applications that stated the predicate was the discredited Russia Russia dossier published by Clinton hired opratives and UK MI-6.
Now the “Bull” Durham report that repeats and validates all the above.
From 2017 to 2020, two TV Rock Star AG’s … AG Bagpipe Barr and AG “I don’t see nottin” Whittacker as well as Rottin’ Rod Rosenstien had this evidence in hand and did nothing but now …. Billie Bag Pipes and Whittacker are wringing thier hands at all the foul deeds committed.
This is another show of force by Swamp … they can publicly declare … yep we did it … so what and we will still get a guilty verdict when needed.
Reminder … The Presidential Election cannot be separated from the rest of the items on the 2012, 2016 and 2020 ballots. Local elections to national level, bond issues and local-state “constitutional and charter issues” are ALL part of the same ballot and at risk if the Presidential election outcome challenge prevails. This is the “government structure” poison pill buried in the deal between the RNC and DNC factions working for the Puppet Masters. Undo one election and the entire structure of government potentially collapses … local to national.
As for Durham’s acknowledgement that he
“did not investigate every public report” of illegal weaponization of government against dis-favored candidates, part of what he is referring to must be his failure to start at the beginning.
On the Papadopolous affair, Durham limits his criticism to the lack of any direct evidence in support of the vague hearsay from the Australians, leaving unopened the deeper can of worms that would come from looking into Halper’s planting of the “Russia has Hillary’s emails” fabrication on the Trump-connected Papadopolous in the first place, along with subsequent efforts to retrieve that information from him, to where the Australians could report it.
That was almost certainly a CIA operation, together with British intelligence, and maybe the Italians. Thus a truly vast conspiracy to block the electoral will of the American people (the definition of violation of our Article IV section 4 guarantee of a republican form of government), was reduced to a mere failure of the FBI to follow proper investigatory procedures.