Why Merrick Garland Should Fire Special Counsel Durham Now

[Zorro]

John Durham has almost finished his report into Robert Muller’s Russia investigation but he should not be given the chance to complete it.

Attorney General Merrick Garland should fire special counsel John Durham. Durham, a previously well-respected United States Attorney for Connecticut, was assigned in 2019 by Trump’s Attorney General William Barr to review the origins of the so-called Russia probe–Crossfire Hurricane–that became the Mueller special counsel investigation.

As reported by The New York Times, Barr had been “egged on” by the former president to support Trumpworld’s efforts to discredit the Mueller investigation by opening an investigation to investigate the investigators.

At that time, Durham was not made a special counsel–which would have been inappropriate because special counsel are usually drawn from outside the ranks of current Justice Department employees-but simply given an assignment. That is not an uncommon practice in the Justice Department and similar to what Attorney General Garland did in assigning the Chicago U.S. Attorney to conduct a preliminary investigation of classified documents found at President Biden’s private office and residence in Delaware.

But after Trump lost the election, Barr secretly made Durham a special counsel just before the 2020 election to ensure that he could continue his work. Barr worked closely with Durham throughout his tenure as Attorney General, meeting with him on a weekly basis as well as dining and drinking Scotch together—hardly the picture of investigation working independently of DOJ.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shan-wu-on-why-merrick-garland-should-fire-special-counsel-durham-now

[Bev54]

1. I think they are waiting for his final report, to see what he puts in and leaves out

and whether it is truthful about their hunting of unicorns.

[Ray Bruns]

2. The addendum to the report will verify the existence of Bigfoot.

It will include pictures.

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