Special Counsel John Durham previously submitted his 306-page report on Matters Related to the Intelligence Community Efforts in the 2016 Election [pdf HERE]. There is also a 48-page classified appendix available to cleared members of Congress.
On Tuesday June 20th, Durham will deliver a classified briefing to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI); the following day, Wednesday June 21st, Durham will testify in a public setting before the House Judiciary Committee.
WASHINGTON DC – Special Counsel John Durham will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee about his report in June, a source has told Fox News on Friday.
The hearing will happen on Wednesday, June 21. The day before, Durham will appear before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door briefing.
Durham has found that the Department of Justice and FBI “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law” when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation. (read more)
We have a little less than a month to assemble questions for both the classified (HPSCI) briefing, and the public (HJC) hearing.
If you have traveled the deep weeds and have a specific line of questioning you think might be pertinent to either committee 😉, I am including the Republican names of both the HPSCI and HJC below. The HPSCI members can ask anything – including questions directly related to classified intelligence. The HJC members will not be limited in their questions but might find a non-answer in return to anything considered classified.
The FISA silo would likely fall into the classified questioning, depending on the specifics of the inquiry. Questions involving the CIA and/or ODNI involvement may also be best explored in the HPSCI briefing.
HPSCI Republicans (classified briefing):
- Michael Turner, Chairman 10th District of Ohio
- Brad Wenstrup, 2nd District of Ohio
- Chris Stewart, 2nd District of Utah
- Rick Crawford, 1st District of Arkansas
- ♦♦Elise Stefanik, 21st District of New York
- Trent Kelly, 1st District of Mississippi
- Darin LaHood, 18th District of Illinois
- Brian Fitzpatrick, 1st District of Pennsylvania
- Mike Gallagher, 8th District of Wisconsin
- Austin Scott, 8th District of Georgia
- French Hill, 2nd District of Arkansas
- Dan Crenshaw, 2nd District of Texas
- Mike Waltz, 6th District of Florida
- ♦♦Mike Garcia, 27th District of California
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House Judiciary Committee Republicans (public briefing):
- Jim Jordan, Chairman Ohio 4th CD
- Darrell Issa, California 48th CD
- Ken Buck, Colorado 4th CD
- ♦♦Matt Gaetz, Florida 1st CD
- ♦♦Mike Johnson, Louisiana 4th CD
- ♦♦Andy Biggs, Arizona 5th CD
- Tom McClintock, California 5th CD
- Thomas Tiffany, Wisconsin 7th CD
- Thomas Massie, Kentucky 4th CD
- Chip Roy, Texas 21st CD
- ♦♦Dan Bishop, North Carolina 8th CD
- Victoria Spartz, Indiana 5th CD
- Scott Fitzgerald, Wisconsin 5th CD
- Cliff Benz, Oregon 2nd CD
- Ben Cline, Virginia 6th CD
- Lance Gooden, Texas 5th CD
- Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey 2nd CD
- Barry Moore, Alabama 2nd CD
- Troy Nehls, Texas 22nd CD
- Russell Fry, South Carolina 7th CD
- ♦♦Harriet Hageman, Wyoming At Large
- Wesley Hunt, Texas 38th CD
- Kevin Kiley, California 3rd CD
- Laurel Lee, Florida 15th CD
- Nathaniel Moran, Texas 1st CD
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♦♦ Gaetz, Johnson, Biggs, Bishop and Hageman are the best chance for solid HJC questions that are pertinent. I strongly suggest you send questions to this group, even if they are outside your CD. However, if your area representative is also on the committee, copy them on your questions.
Unfortunately, we have a weak set on the HPSCI with only Stefanik and maybe Garcia for the targeted questions.
If you have questions, drop them in the comments section. If you are looking for advice on the questions, drop that in the comments section as well. We need to light up these committees with contact from people who understand the background issues.
We have time to submit the questions. Make them as specific as possible, and include the follow-up questions based on anticipated responses. Send them yourself to the members of the committee you want to have ask them. Do not send them to me. I have questions and will review the comments to add to my own list – but make the questions from you to the members.
There are people who prefer to complain about nothing being done. Please understand, we are all in a foxhole right now, ducking, weaving, trying to find tools to push back against this corrupt system. This is an opportunity to put information into the hands of those who may ask the right questions.
They may ask, they may not… but if we don’t try, we know the answer will be not. I get it! I know it is easy to become despondent; believe me, sometimes I feel like I’m out here swinging a machete all alone against this swamp, but I’m not quitting. Suck it up… get focused. Our nation needs your help.
Review the prior CTH articles posted about The Durham Report, and put your thoughts together. We have until mid-June to make a solid case with our representatives.
Do, or do not, there is no “try”.
You are worth it. You really are.
More later…
Love to all,
Sundance
My question: How can we get rid of The Patriot Act?
What of the intelligence gathered, where did it go?
Re the public statements of Maxine Waters that Obama had set up a huge repository of gathered data, was that investigated to see if the data went there?
Was the DNC involved in the procurement, maintenance or management of data in the repository mentioned by Maxine or one like it?
Were Maxine Waters or Obama investigated to find their knowledge of any illegally gathered evidence such a repository might contain?
Mr. Durham: Can you please give us a five minute dissertation of what America means to you? Please include specifics with regard to its founding principles, the sacrifices made to ensure its continuance, why or does the Constitution matter, and your what the oath you swore to uphold and protect the Constitution means to you. Please also briefly address your opinion of whether your “investigation” was or is Constitutional and was its findings/lack of findings or stated corrective actions detrimental to the future of our Republic.
I cannot pretend to understand this well enough to come up with questions, however, would it help for kep people to get (essentially) the same question from different people?
Sundance,
I tried to tell you years ago that James Baker hid an Elephant within Footnote 8 of the Carter Page FISA Warrant Application.
But for that elephant, I never would have believed the FBI/DOJ was so irredeemably corrupt that they would allow a Leftist Democrat Governor like Andrew Cuomo murder tens of thousands of nursing home residents.
Sure enough, I found Executive Order 202.5–PROVING Cuomo murdered them–within one hour.
The ONLY way to resolve this is to reach the Liberals following the Leftists out of habit. They’re all about “identities.” So, I took the dry bitter facts of the FISA scandal, churned them into ice cream, and put the words into the mouth of Rachel Maddow.
https://www.houseofstone76.com/rachel-maddow-show-in-parallel-universe
Spoiler Alert: FOOTNOTE 8 WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MASKED.
The committee MUST get Mueller, the Inspector General, and Durham in the room AT THE SAME TIME, and sandbag them.
More questions for Special Counsel Durham:
How much has Peter Strzok earned from sales of his book?
Page 82, and following, of the Durham report mentions “Clinton plan intelligence” that the Clinton campaign planned to use to damage Donald Trump’s chances of election, and also says that this includes classified information, apparently from Russian intelligence sources. How in the world can you smear your political opponent with classified dirt?
When The Conservative Treehouse blogger Sundance met with William Aldenberg on August 18, 2020, did he give him a copy of the hundreds of pages of information he was attempting to circulate, and if so, did that information affect the outcome of this investigation?
Footnote 1680 of the Durham report support facts in the text by giving a citation for an article at Lawfare blog. The editor-in-chief of the blog, Benjamin Wittes is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Igor Danchenko also worked at the Brookings Institution. Are you aware of any relationship between these two individuals? Wittes has written a Lawfare post on the Durham report that is highly critical of your point that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation should have been opened as an assessment or a preliminary investigation, not a full investigation. Can you provide a brief rebuttal? In that post, Wittes mentions contacting Peter Strzok directly for clarification on a point. A very brief internet search shows that Wittes has had previous cooperative interactions with Strzok, and furthermore that he is a friend of James Comey and Jim Baker. The Durham report contains six citations of the Lawfare blog. Do you consider the Lawfare blog a credible source for factual information?
1) Why is Joe Biden working on destroying the US Energy Sector while working on developing the energy sectors of Ukraine, Russia and China?
2) Why did you not interview the main characters like Strokz, Page, Comey and others.
3) If all this information was already known, why was the Mueller investigation allowed to continue?
4) Did you explore the Whistleblower Eric Ciaramella and Vindman’s ties to any of the Ukrainian dealings outlined on the Computer?
5) Why were there no indictments?
6) Most of the information detailed in the report was widely known and detailed in “Plot Against the President,” if all this information was known, why didn’t the FBI and CIA investigate the perpetrator?
7) Who was the decision makers that stopped the Hunter and Clinton Foundation Investigations? Has the IRA Audited their tax returns?
8) Has the IRS Audited Biden’s Tax Returns?
9) Do the 51 Intel Officers still hold a security clearance, if yes, why?
10) Want and When did Obama know?
11) Did Joe Biden suggest using the Hatch Act against Flynn?
12) Why haven’t the Bidens been charged with FARA Violations like Manifort and others?
13) Just what evidence did Schiff have, and if none, why did everyone remain silent?
14) If Trump was a Russian Puppet, knowing that Trump was being framed, why didn’t Russia set up to save their Puppet?? They had all the exculpatory evidence and yet remained silent?
15) What evidence do they have that the DNC Server was “Hacked.” In reality, didn’t Seth Rich steal the data on a flash drive? Russia had nothing to do with it.
16) Russia and China have plenty of Hunter and Biden and yet they remain silent. Why aren’t China and Russia exploding what they now about the Bidens? Hunter admits the Russians took his Laptop.
17) Why so many dogs that didn’t bark? Obama, China, Clinton, Russia, everyone worked to protect Clinton and undermine Trump. So many things should have happened if Trump was guilty, yet none spoke up. No one ran to help Trump.
18) Fiona Hill claimed in the impeachment hearings that Russia thought Fracking was Russia’s greatest threat, why then si Biden working to destroy Fracking?
Here are some of my questions.
Why didn’t Durham investigate the DNC hack?Why didn’t Barr order the review of the DNC hack investigation?
Why didn’t Durham request permission from Barr to do so?
President Obama and Vice President Biden were briefed by CIA Director Brennan on July 28, 2016, regarding the Clinton Plan to frame the Trump Campaign with the Russia allegations.
What did Obama and Biden do with that information?
To whom did they leak that intelligence (if anyone) and how did it inform their next steps?