Why Durham waited
Most of us have wondered at the snail’s pace of Durham’s Russiagate probe, which was way too slow to affect the all-important 2020 election and very frustrating. Here’s Bill Barr’s explanation, for what it’s worth – and I think it’s worth at least something:
Barr told The Blaze that when he brought Durham on board, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz (D) had yet to finish his investigation of the FBI’s use of FISA court warrants against Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign. Durham wanted to see Horowitz’s report before starting his work, which was finally released in December 2019. Durham was able to access the report for just three months before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down grand juries and delayed his investigation throughout most of 2020.
“His hands were very much tied as to how far he could push things and how much pressure he could bring on people through most of 2020,” said Barr.
I’m not saying it would have changed anything in the 2020 election (and of course it depends on whether fraud was a significant factor in Biden’s win). But it might have done so.
COVID lockdowns hurt the US and the world in so many many ways.
I heard Andy McCarthy the other day talk about how Durham is coming up on all kinds of statutes of limitation problems in the very near future. He seemed to think this current thing might be it for criminal prosecutions then he will write some report that the AG has to approve for release which will be memory holed by the powers that be and along their merry way they will go.
Durham is known for getting a few mid-level scalps to quell the fury, while meticulously keeping the investigation from the obvious paths that lead to the powerful.
Me thinks the foul smell of corruption lingers over the land.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/devin-nunes-more-indictments-to-come-from-durham/
Nunes says “more coming” but going to particulars Nunes names no major players at all, so I believe disappointments are in our future regarding the outcomes of Durham’s prosecutions. More’s the pity in this risibly unserious nation of ours.
Again, you want to fix this, I’ll wager the institutional death of the FBI has to be a component of it, as well as a purge of the corps of federal prosecutors.
Statutes of limitation ought to be suspended by the length of Covid shutdowns. Not a chance, of course. Some say that ongoing conspiracy activities can lengthen the time till the limitation runs out.
Jimmy: They were/have been in many state jurisdictions. I don’t know about the federal level.
Eh. The picture of what and who was involved has been quite obvious for years now. It’s not like the investigation started on a blank canvas.
We don’t know anything about what Durham will do; about what he CAN do (just like we didn’t know anything about Uvalde until the smoke began to clear—the “three-day rule” with a vengeance…and it hasn’t all cleared yet.
(Regarding the latter there was a lot of misdirection and attempted cover up, to go along with the general confusion, certainly….So what else is new…?)
As for Durham, it might make sense for him to go after Danchenko, if he can. Low-hanging fruit. “Keep the flame alive”. Keep Clinton in the “news”—not that the Ultra-Corrupt Media will report about that flicker, but still.
But we can’t know for sure until it happens.
We don’t even know what will happen to Sussmann…even if most of us can probably guess (but it’s still a guess….)
That Nunes is hopeful makes me hopeful.
But we still don’t know how this will play out, not yet—even if we DO KNOW that this is the WORST scandal in American politics.
But we’re dealing with Democrats.
Top-Tier Democrats.
So all bets are off.
Related, from Turley (alas not all that encouraging…):
“Friends with benefits: Sussmann trial is a black eye for the FBI”—
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3504813-friends-with-benefits-sussmann-trial-is-a-black-eye-for-the-fbi/
“(and of course it depends on whether fraud was a significant factor in Biden’s win).”
I think we’re sort of past that “depends” at this point. “Proof” or no proof.
I remember sorrowfully reading the tales of purge-imprisoned communists who were sure that they would be vindicated “if only Comrade Stalin knew…”.
Funny how with all the pro-deep-state actions now promoted by the current administration, you never hear anyone proclaim “if only President Biden knew…” do you?
Is Biden just too senile to know, or too corrupt to care? I suspect that Americans have already embraced the power of “AND” here!
And yet another “AND”: the downward-sloping legitimacy of the Biden presidency, combined with the surging power of the Republicans, and anger of the citizenry with BOTH, seem to portend conflict ahead!
COVID lockdowns were a never-before used tactic, imposed on both gullible and non-gullible Americans by the Democratic Party operatives, including Dopey Joe, and by the MSM. The COVID death rate below age 44 is trivial, barely measurable. But the Party, like the CCP, does not care, and wants to give the very young an mRNA vaccine that causes myocarditis, often irreversible. The mRNA vaccine makers, like Pfizer, have made many billions by jabs to those at trivial risk. Read the book on Fauci, the NIH, the federal government, and Big Pharma by RFK, Jr., an extremely well-documented source. Yes, Bobby Kennedy’s son and a Democrat, showing corruption at the highest levels.
there were other elements, apparently he had minders like eickenrode, who foreclosed other avenues like the mifsud investigation, as well as mahoney, I thought the alpha bank was the thinnest reed, i knew about sussman’s connection with crowdstrike, and perkins and coie, and apparently joffe was involved in that fraud,
durham, alone among money, was willing to unravel the bulger web, and some susbsequent prosecutions like l paul rico, resulted,
“COVID lockdowns were a never-before used tactic, imposed on both gullible and non-gullible Americans by the Democratic Party operatives, including Dopey Joe, and by the MSM. ”
Cher somewhat aptly self-named Cicero,
Didn’t the lockdowns begin under Trump? Didn’t they go on with Trump? Seems to me Trump was nominally “in charge” for the beginning of the lockdown. But perhaps I misremember.
The “flatten the curve” did indeed begin with President Trump, and I recall he tried to lift it around Easter 2020, but was not able to do it.
Millions will die after all if lockdowns and masking and social distancing and ….. are not enforced, at least that’s what “we” were told.
And now it seems that Xi land is screwing its own pooch in a similar fashion? Karma. But really sucks for Xi’s masses.
because the machinery of fear, was put in place, honestly fauci birx and daszak belong in the agonizer, along with the crew from msnbc like feig ling, but it would be like that scene from airplane,
the only to convince a dc jury, seems to be to make sussman the culprit, not the bureau, we”ll see how that works, and whether they’ll just Klinesmith the whole thing, in the end,
those who were subject to ahab (I mean mueller’s witchhunt, should have been reinbursed for the expenses they incurred, but there is no evidence they have been, michael caputo, george papadopoulos carter page (in the last instance, the Supreme Court said tough luck) like the 7th circuit did to Cyndi Archer in the Chisholm inquisition,
I’d have to go back and sift through it all, but I seem to recall Durham had at least one hard lie to the FBI to go after at the time, but he didn’t and I wondered why.
The bird hand-bush utility ratio comes to mind.
because there was no significant fraud. Barr said it. 61 judges to whom Trump brought claims of fraud said it. That Kraken lady said it (remember her defense? folks shouldn’t take things said by politicians seriously – people understand that political speech is full of fabrications and exaggerations). Trump lost by 7 million votes because 7 million fewer citizens voted for him than for Biden.
Barr said it. 61 judges to whom Trump brought claims of fraud said it.
Barr never investigated anything and the 61 judges never assessed a subtantive claim.
Trump lost by 7 million votes because 7 million fewer citizens voted for him than for Biden.
After all the evidence which has emerged of irregularities, bald denial just doesn’t cut it. You need to read something other then Democratic talking point mills.
Paul J:
Voting fraud is almost impossible to detect and prove after the fact. That’s why it’s so important to the left to create laws that make it possible and easier to accomplish fraud.
Barr said that there was no evidence of significant fraud that would change the results of the election.
He said that less than a month after the election. It would be a very stupid group of fraudsters to have left such a trail of evidence that it could have been discovered so quickly, and unless they stamped every fraudulent ballot with the word “fraud” there also would never be a way to know if the election was affected or not, because the ballots once separated from their envelopes were untraceable.
And 61 judges said nothing of the sort. They didn’t look at the evidence. Prior to the election nearly all the judges said the cases were premature. After the election they said they were too late.
“The New Normal Is Failure”—
https://instapundit.com/522941/
Alas; but would it be too much to hope that “The Failure” will fail…?
(To hope for and even more to work for….)
To be sure, the “only” logical problem with this conception is that “Biden” is firmly convinced that “he” is succeeding.
Succeeding, that is, in “his” overarching goal…which, indisputably, “he” is.
Alas….
…such that the author of the above-linked article might well have to go full Orwell and create a compound neologism so as to express the absolute absurdity of the current pathetic predicament in all its nauseating, gory glory….
If it were any help (though it’s probably not) I would propose…”SUCCURE”…for which the ‘Ministry”—i.e., Department (in the US)—would, following in the great man’s superbly succinct inventiveness, likely have to be MiniSucc”…
Not perfect, mind you, but it might just fit.
Paul J is not up to Montage’s level of duplicity but give him time.
“…And 61 judges said nothing of the sort. They didn’t look at the evidence. Prior to the election nearly all the judges said the cases were premature. After the election they said they were too late.”
Nifty little trick, that!…
Related (sort of):
“The Left Dominates the Legal System, and They’re Taking Down GOP Election Attorneys en Masse”—
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2022/05/30/the-left-dominates-the-legal-system-and-theyre-taking-down-gop-election-attorneys-en-masse-n2607956
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+ Bonus (AKA “Success Revisited…Canadian Edition):
‘Liberals Ridiculed After Claiming They’re Making “Life More Affordable For Canadians”’—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/05/31/liberals-ridiculed-after-claiming-theyre-making-life-more-affordable-for-canadians/
Key grafs:
“…The day after the 2020 presidential election, I predicted the left was going to target any attorney who dared to get involved challenging election fraud. They’d already started successfully targeting conservative attorneys, it just hadn’t gotten much attention yet. …
“… The left has developed a powerfully coordinated legal election effort under the leadership of left-wing lawyer Marc Elias. In recent years, he has successfully brought together a coalition of left-wing nonprofit groups to work in conjunction with each other on elections….”
Wherin the charming, incredible Marc Elias raises his criminal-soaked head yet again….
Oops. In the previous post, the “Key grafs” should go under the first link.
Also, forgot to add: H/T Blazingcatfur blog (for both links).