Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durham, 78, (D-Ill) said he would investigate nefarious conduct of 72-year-old Special Counsel John Durham, tasked Oct. 19, 2020 by 72-year-old former Atty. Bill Bill Barr to get to the bottom of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of 76-year-old former President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Durham was given broad authority to look into 62-year-old former FBI Director James Comey who launched a counterintelligence investigation into then Republican nominee Donald Trump in the summer of 2020. New York Times reported ethical lapses in Durham’s probe, after several of Durham’s staff resigned. Times’ investigators found that Barr influence the probe as well as prosecuting Justice Department Atty. Kevin Clinesmith and former Hillary Clinton campaign Atty. Michael Sussmann.
Durham prosecuted Clinesmith for deleting information on an email to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [ACT] court, asking for a warrant to wiretap former Trump campaign official Carter Page. Durham won a conviction Jan 20, 2021 for Clinesmith who doctored an email to prevent the FISA court from knowing that Page worked for the CIA. Former FISA Court Chief Justice Rosemary Collyer said she would have never granted the FBI warrant to wiretap Carter Page. Yet Durbin thinks Durham should be prosecuted because of some of staff quitting or that Barr influenced the investigation. What about the New York Times printing untold stories about Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow, all based on 75-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, insisting Trump was a Russian asset.
Clinesmith’s Jan. 20, 2021 conviction was the tip of the iceberg showing that the FBI conspired in 2016 to sabotage the Trump campaign with the intent of getting Hillary elected president. Durham the went after former Justice Department and Hillary 2016 campaign Atty. Michael Sussmann who told the FBI he did not represent any client in when he told the FBI that Trump had contacts with a Russian bank. Sussmann told FBI General Counsel James Baker that he represented himself, telling Baker that Trump had ties with a Russian Bank. Sussmann at the time worked for Hillary’s campaign, looking for anyway possible way to discredit Trump. Sussman eventually got off May 31, 2022 on a technicality after Durham pled his best case. Democrats and he New York Times were euphoric knowing that Durham hit a dead end on the Sussmann case, making Durham look feeble.
Durbin attacked Durham because he knows that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), 58, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will initiate probes showing that the Justice Department and FBI were weaponized to go after Trump politically in 2016 and during his presidency. “The Justice Department should work on behalf of the American people, no for the personal benefit of any president. As we wait for the results of ongoing internal review, the Senate Judiciary Committee will do its part and take a hard look at these repeated episodes, and the regulations and policies that enabled them, to ensure such abuses of power cannot happen again,” Durbin said. Durbin wants to turn on its head the kind of obvious abuse during the 2016 presidential campaign, where the FBI clearly tried to sabotage Trump’s campaign. Durbin wants, with the help of DOJ, to point fingers at Trump, the subject of an FBI sting.
New York Times and Washington post have spent years covering up years of reporting about Trump’s allege ties with 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation. All the specious stories written about Trump were based on Hillary’s Steele Dossier, pure rubbish that proved in court to be completely bogus. Yet that didn’t stop Comey and his buddy, 67-year-old former CIA Director John Brennan from accusing Trump of Russian conspiracy. Comey and Brennan knew about the conspiracy against Trump because it was part of the FBI’s sting against the former president. Yet no matter how much conspiracy was uncovered at the FBI to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign, Dubin goes Orwellian, accusing Durham of conspiracy to defraud the government. FBI brass under Comey did everything possible to get Hillary elected in 2016.
Whatever conspiracies existed in 2016 at the FBI, they all attempted to sabotage Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Durham couldn’t get enough evidence to prove that former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch asked former CIA Director John Brernnan to contact Comey in summer 2016 to launch a counterintelligence investigation, alleging Trump’s ties to the Kremlin. Democrats like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), insisted even after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared Trump of wrongdoing March 23, 2019, that he had categorical proof of Trump’s Russian ties. Schiff, of course, never produced proof of anything. Whatever Durham and Barr couldn’t find, it was because Comey and his top FBI brass did everything possible to cover up the 2016 conspiracy against Trump’s campaign. Once Sussmann was acquitted May 31, 2022, Democrats and the press used it to discredit Durham.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
