John Durham Accidentally Debunked Trump's Russiagate Theory

[Nevilledog]

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Donald Trump and William Barr have spent years alleging that the Russia investigation was a criminal plot by the FBI. The Department of Justice’s inspector general found the Russia investigation was adequately predicated, but Barr disagreed. So he selected a prosecutor, John Durham, who would supposedly uncover this scheme and begin frog-marching its perpetrators to justice.

By 2020, Barr was conceding that Durham might not reach all the way up to Barack Obama but would bring down his accomplices. “As to President Obama and Vice-President Biden,” he said that spring, “whatever their level of involvement, based on the information I have today, I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.” By the fall, Barr was reportedly “communicating that Durham is taking his investigation extremely seriously and is focused on winning prosecutions.”

However focused he may be, Durham is not winning prosecutions, or even a prosecution. His investigation has produced one indictment, of a target who was not even working in government: Michael Sussmann, a lawyer working for Hillary Clinton, whom Durham tried to convict on a single perjury charge. And the case turns out to have been so pathetically threadbare that it resulted in a rapid acquittal.

Sussmann went to the FBI in 2016 with evidence compiled by computer researchers that the Trump campaign was coordinating with Russia through a server run by the Russian bank Alfabank. The scientists were not sure if the server was a communications link between Trump and Russia and wanted the FBI to investigate. The link was never proven, and the FBI quickly decided not to pursue the thread, though Dexter Filkins has argued in detail that the case remains uncertain.

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[exboyfil]

1. Is there anyway to pursue the thread now

It still seems that it can be viewed as a security risk so would it be justified to use our intelligence resources to continue its pursuit.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. "Russia, if you're listening ...." was all the hiding-in-plain-sight proof needed to convince me /nt

[Midnight Writer]

3. Bill Barr was just on FOX claiming Sussman was guilty of ...sedition.

[Cha]

4. Bill Barr is a Fucking Gaslit Idiot.

[kentuck]

7. Sounds like someone offered him immunity...

Now he can say what he really thinks?

[underpants]

5. 👀

Reading later thanks

[underpants]

6. The reason Sussmann was afraid Trump posed a security threat to the United States is that Trump pose

The reason Sussmann was afraid Trump posed a security threat to the United States is that Trump posed a security threat to the United States.


Last line of the article. There were several investigations going on. Some were informal just discussions but Trump was such an obvious red flag that everyone was aware of how compromised and a threat he was/is.