President Joe Biden’s Justice Department under Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland braces for a controversial report by former U.S. Atty., currently Special Counsel John Durham (R-Conn.), tasked by former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr of looking into former FBI Director James Comey’s counterintelligence investigation into former President Donald Trump. Not one Democrat and no one in the press complained about Comey’s illegal coutnerintelligence investigation into Trump and his 2016 campaign, hoping to prevent him from becoming president, but, once president, to remove him from office. Comey thought nothing of going to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, both of whom have been completely cleared of any wrongdoing, despite intrusive and criminal government spying.
Former National Security Agency Atty. Susan Hennessey has been promoted in Biden’s Justice Department expressed openly extreme prejudice against Barr and Durham’s investigation. Hennessey had no problem at all with Comey’s counterintelligence investigation into Trump and the 2016 presidential campaign, believing Trump’s ties to the Russia warranted the counterintelligence investigation. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) both demanded an answer from Garland that Durham’s report, once it surfaced, will be given all the benefit of the doubt without Hennessey discrediting the report. Durham already indicted former Justice Department Atty. Kevin Clinesmith for altering a document Comey used for the FISA Court. Clinesmith pled guilty to one count of document tampering, resulting in the FISA court getting duped.
Democrats and the press are dreading Durham’s report because it could shed light on egregious abuses inside the Obama Justice Department. Obama was present at Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting with all the president’s men looking to investigate Trump and his campaign staff. Durham’s report could indict Comey for lying to the FISA Court to get warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. No one knows how far up the chain-of-command Durham’s report can go, including implicating former President Barack Obama and former Vice President now President Joe Biden. Both actively participated in a Jan. 5, 2017 meeting with former CIA Director John Brennan, Comey, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates, former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, etc., all to set up former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in a perjury trap.
Durham was tasked by Barr as Special Counsel to turn the tables on the now defunct Mueller investigation that spent $40 million and 22-months investigating Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin. Mueller knew, like all others alleging Trump’s Russian collusion, that the allegations made in former Secretary of State Hilary Rodham’s Clinton’s “Steele dossier” were completely bogus, yet Comey used the fake data to dupe the FISA Court to get warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. Not one Democrat or their friends in the press questioned the dossier, knowing full-well that the allegations made by Steele were completely fake. When push-came-to-shove, and Steele was asked under oath in Court to produce his underlying sources to the allegations, he told the court April 24, 2020, that he destroyed all the sources and sub-sources, meaning nothing verified the wild allegations against Trump.
Grassley and Johnson want a reassurance from Garland that Hennessey will not attempt to discredit the Durham Report consistent with her stated bias. Durham’s report could include indictments of Comey and Brennan for their involvement in exploiting the FISA Court to secure warrants under false premises to wiretap Trump campaign officials. When Clinesmith deleted Carter Page’s work for the CIA, it fooled the FISA Court into granting Comey’s request as FBI Director for permission to wiretap. “Durham has made abundantly clear that in a year and a half, he hasn’t come up with anything. I guess this kind of partisan silliness become characteristic of Barr’s legacy. But unclear to me why Durham would want to go along with it,” Hennessey tweeted in Dec. 2020. Garland should remove Hennessey from any involvement in the Durham probe and eventual report.
Hennessey should question why the CIA and FBI were so committed to investigating Trump when they knew Hillary’s Steele dossier was completely fabricated. Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), a bitter enemy of Trump’s, hand delivered the Steele dossier to Comey, hoping to give him probable cause to launch a counterintelligence investigation. What’s most ironic is that after Trump fired Comey May 9, 2017 for rampant leaking fake stories to the press, the press went wild charging Trump with “obstruction of justice.” How ironic that the press hounded the DOJ to appoint a Special Counsel, pressuring former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint Mueller May 17, 2017 Special Counsel when Rosenstein knew that Hillary’s Steele dossier was totally fake. Hennessey’s cynical manipulation of the facts does everything to protect corrupt Democrats and their surrogates in the press.