The Durham Investigation Thread

No mas.

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From the second article

The FBI was undoubtedly biased (and perhaps incompetent) here

They were not incompetent, I agree with the verdict because they weren’t fooled and knew exactly who Sussmann was, they were able to take the Alfa bank claims and dismiss it as nonsense almost immediately. They are quite competent.

Do Americans want their intelligence agencies to be like the FSB? That’s up to them I guess, it’s a democracy if you can keep it.

Spectator is fairly rabid.

Well, gosh, now I’m happy. We learned stuff. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

I think we also found out the FBI protects the protected classes. It’s amazing Epstein was allowed to kill himself. :roll_eyes:

Of course there are bigger things when you think your side is flawless and just.

The acquittal is no surprise. This is a DC jury, after all. In the Roger Stone case, for example, we documented how a juror lied to get on the panel. (That judge didn’t care.) Making matters worse, the Sussmann judge wrongly allowed for a woman to remain on the jury, despite the fact that her daughter and Sussmann’s are on the same high school crew team. One can’t help but think that juror had her own daughter’s interests in mind – the cohesion of the crew team, sparing her of teenage drama, etc. – when she reached a decision.

After the verdict was announced, the jury’s forewoman held court before the media and expressed her displeasure that the Special Counsel prosecute a false statement case: “There are bigger things that affect the nation than a possible lie to the FBI.”

This juror was never impartial - despite her assurance to the judge.

People living in DC must be really brainwashed by the osmosis avalanche of shit that emanates from all the politicians and lobbyists.

They should move the next trial if this same jury ahem dynamic is allowed to sit.

Rural Alabama.

Turns out the firm that represents the Democrats Perkins Coie have thier very own FBI work station and was manned by none other than Michael Sussmann himself.

Seems totally fair in a Democracy to outfit one side with the ability to tap the NSA data base of their opponents. Had it for 10 years too.

“Then you also have to ask yourself why within the last 12 months was the person, on behalf of Perkins Coie, operating that worksite — Michael Sussmann himself — and we heard through this trial…that the FBI believed Michael Sussmann was lying to them in 2017 when he was shoveling false information about Trump into the intelligence process, and now we learn for four years after that lie, Michael Sussmann, was, in fact, operating this ‘secure work environment,'” he continued.

The best way to delegitimize something is to have Matt Gaetz illuminate it. :face_vomiting:

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Right, after reading the FBI response, looks like a nothing burger. Basically a secure way to handle some sealed court pocedings.

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https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ric-grenell-donald-trump-john-durham-michael-sussmann/2022/06/01/id/1072555/

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It can’t be proven in one court at least that Sussmann lied about advancing the Alfa Bank hoax on the behalf of the Clinton campaign, but there’s simply no way the FBI didn’t know who Sussmann was, so what in the holy hell were they doing?

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It’s like there’s a deep state or something.

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In fairness it probably can’t be proven anywhere, it was one guy’s word against another. Not that I think he didn’t lie about it – it seems pretty obvious he did. But I don’t blame the jury, there is reasonable doubt.

And yeah, no idea what the FBI were doing. Then again they screwed Hillary over pretty badly on the “new emails” announcement right before the election, so they might just be incompetent.

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This is why Comey needs to man up, or be served.

Of course they knew, they were getting him to vet press releases for the FBI regarding the DNC hack months ahead of the supposed lie.

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The declassified documents included transcripts of intercepts made by the FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the bureau used to investigate whether Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.

In the end, multiple investigations found there was no such collusion and that the FBI violated rules and misled the FISA court in an effort to keep the probe going.

The documents that Trump declassified never saw the light of day, even though they were lawfully declassified by Trump and the DOJ was instructed by the president though Meadows to expeditiously release them after redacting private information as necessary.

Sadly, this is the kind of shit that’ll help bring the orange man back.

All this time they knew this. What cocks.

Durham persuaded the federal judge in the upcoming trial of Igor Danchenko to unseal a motion revealing that Danchenko, the primary source of the now-discredited Steele dossier, was paid by the FBI as a confidential human source for more than three years until the fall of 2020 when he was terminated for lying to agents.

Danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the bureau during that relationship and faces trial next month in federal court in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.

“In March 2017, the FBI signed the defendant up as a paid confidential human source of the FBI,” Durham’s unsealed court filing disclosed for the first time. “The FBI terminated its source relationship with the defendant in October 2020. As alleged in further detail below, the defendant lied to FBI agents during several of these interviews.”

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Well, that pretty well wraps up in a big nothingburger.

When John H. Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, President Donald J. Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a “deep state” conspiracy including top Obama-era officials had worked to sabotage him.

Now Mr. Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Mr. Trump was seeking. The grand jury that Mr. Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Durham and his team are working to complete a final report by the end of the year, they said, and one of the lead prosecutors on his team is leaving for a job with a prominent law firm.

Over the course of his inquiry, Mr. Durham has developed cases against two people accused of lying to the F.B.I. in relation to outside efforts to investigate purported Trump-Russia ties, but he has not charged any conspiracy or put any high-level officials on trial. The recent developments suggest that the chances of any more indictments are remote.

They uncovered a lot however. The Clinton campaign and the Dems started by deceitfully and undemocratically undermining Bernie, we know that for a fact. I guess one could believe they abandoned their incredible sense of entitlement and became choir boys after. Or we could consider the ample evidence that they went straight ahead to doing the same to a candidate who actually was nominated in a democratic process and then won a democratic election. No better than the stop the steal lunatics, and arguably the entire cause of it.

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