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Via:  jbb  •  last year  •  18 comments

By:   Brianna Herlihy (Fox News)

Democrats to 'take a hard look' at  Durham's probe into Russia investigation | Fox News
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin announced that the committee will "take a hard look" into a "alleged misconduct" by the Special Counsel John Durham's investigation.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, R-Ill., announced that the committee led by Democrats will "take a hard look" into "alleged misconduct" by Special Counsel John Durham as he conducts an investigation into the origins into the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

In a statement Monday, Durbin referenced a New York Times report that included details about the opening of and actions taken during the investigation led by Durham after he was appointed by former Attorney General Bill Barr, which Durbin framed as "abuses of power."

"These reports about abuses in Special Counsel Durham's investigation—so outrageous that even his longtime colleagues quit in protest—are but one of many instances where former President Trump and his allies weaponized the Justice Department," said Durbin.

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Special Counsel John Durham. (REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson)

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"The Justice Department should work on behalf of the American people, not for the personal benefit of any president, he said.

The New York Times report from last week claimed that there were "strained justifications" for the opening of the probe, which then became "roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes."

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"As we wait for the results of ongoing internal reviews, 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."

It remains unclear if the "hard look" mentioned by Durbin entails hearings or other committee actions.

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Special Counsel John Durham.

Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.


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JBB
Professor Principal
1  seeder  JBB    last year

More bad news for Trump, Barr and Durham!

 
 
 
Greg Jones
Professor Participates
1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  JBB @1    last year

What alleged misconduct are we talking about this time around? The article, as usual, wasn't specific or say much

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
1.1.1  seeder  JBB  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    last year

The article says that Trump's weaponized the Justice Department with Barr and Durham...

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.1.2  Texan1211  replied to  JBB @1.1.1    last year
The article says that Trump's weaponized the Justice Department with Barr and Durham...

Someone's opinion.

Just because someone says something doesn't make it true.

Look at #2.1 as a great example of someone saying something and it STILL not being true.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
2  Texan1211    last year

Yet more left wing whining because their whole Russia, Russia Russia thingy blew up.

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
2.1  seeder  JBB  replied to  Texan1211 @2    last year

Only if you define Trump getting impeached for it as blowing up!

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
2.1.1  Texan1211  replied to  JBB @2.1    last year
Only if you define Trump getting impeached for it as blowing up!

Always amazing that such a Trump-hater can not get even the most BASIC of facts straight.

Since you insist on such shenanigans, please DO link one credible piece of evidence to support your rather bizarre and clearly mistaken claim.

Say, here's a thought---go READ the articles of impeachment and then tell me how Russia is involved!

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
2.1.2  Ronin2  replied to  JBB @2.1    last year

Democrats didn't impeach Trump for Russian collusion or even obstruction of the BS Mueller investigation! WTF!

After weeks of discussions among legislators, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the 45th President,  Donald Trump , for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on December 18, 2019. The vote fell largely along party lines: 230 in favor, 197 against and 1 present.

In September 2019, the public learned of a whistleblower complaint regarding a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The complaint, which was corroborated by the acting Ambassador to Ukraine, stated that Trump had threatened to withhold U.S. foreign aid money until Zelensky promised to investigate Hunter Biden, son of leading Democratic 2020 candidate  Joe Biden , for suspicious dealings in Ukraine.

The White House denied any "quid pro quo." Nonetheless, by late November, it was clear that the Democrats felt confident enough in their case for wrongdoing and obstruction of Congress that they would go through with impeachment. 

After both articles were approved in the House, the case then moved to a Senate trial, which began on January 16, 2020. U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts presided over the trial. On February 5, 2020, in a vote that again fell largely along party lines, the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both charges. 

On January 13, 2021, President Trump was impeached again following the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, becoming the only U.S. president to be impeached twice. Unlike his first impeachment, 10 House Republicans joined Democrats in voting in favor of impeachment. The former president was found not guilty in the Senate trial, though seven Republican senators joined Democrats in voting to convict. 

This is recent damn history! 

TDS shouldn't have rotted leftist brains that much!

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
2.1.3  Texan1211  replied to  Ronin2 @2.1.2    last year

TDS appears to be blinding to those suffering from it.

Might explain in part why they can't even get the damn basic facts right.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
2.1.4  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @2.1.3    last year
Might explain in part why they can't even get the damn basic facts right.

They can't get their basic facts right because that's not what the mothership told them.  God forbid they actually do the research and google "Trump Articles of Impeachment" and read them.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
2.1.5  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.4    last year

It just gets old hearing wild stuff and the authors think we should believe then solely because they typed something.

The basics shouldn't be up for debate amongst reasonable people.

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
3  freepress    last year

Sadly it shouldn't be just Democrats, every elected person should want the truth. But Republicans are always angry because they never wanted to "drain the swamp" they are always angry because they get caught. Really a travesty the way right wing voters turned on Liz Cheney of all people who voted with Trump nearly 100% percent of the time just because she fought for the truth regardless of party. 

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
3.1  Ronin2  replied to  freepress @3    last year
But Republicans are always angry because they never wanted to "drain the swamp"

Really? 

Democrats want to drain the swamp with Pelosi, Schiff, Swalwell, and the Squad in their midst? Democrats are just a big a part of the swamp as Republicans. Pelosi blocked a bipartisan bill from coming to the floor that would outlaw insider trading for Congress. Why would she do that? 

they are always angry because they get caught.

Leftist are in denial thinking Democrats don't get caught. 

Really a travesty the way right wing voters turned on Liz Cheney of all people who voted with Trump nearly 100% percent of the time just because she fought for the truth regardless of party. 

Liz takes after her father. She wanted power; Trump was blocking her path to that power. She wanted Trump gone. Democrats and leftists defending the daughter of their hated nemesis Darth Cheney. She burned her own damn bridges with the party. Don't worry she will soon be a Lincoln project attacking Republicans she once supposedly supported. Liz and the Jan 6th committee weren't concerned about the truth. They wanted to get Trump at all costs and derailed the committee's primary purpose- which was to examine the security failures on Jan 6th- and make sure they never happen again.

Several current and former staffers on the House Jan. 6 committee are angered with Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) influence over the panel’s final report and accuse her of treating the committee as the vehicle for her political future. 

Fifteen people that have worked or are working for the panel spoke to the Washington Post and described Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the committee, and one of only two Republicans on the panel, as pushing to focus the upcoming report primarily on former president Donald Trump.

According to the Washington Post, findings unrelated to Trump, such as ones on the failures of law enforcement and the intelligence community to stop the Jan. 6 riot from happening, information on the financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and on militia groups and extremism, will be excluded from the final report entirely or relegated to the report’s appendix. 

“We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,” one former committee staffer told the Washington Post. “But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign , many of us became discouraged.”

Cheney’s Communications Director and Deputy Chief of Staff Jeremy Adler blamed the “subpar” work of some staff members on the committee for why certain findings will not be included. He also forcefully acknowledged that Cheney is focusing on Trump in the final report so that an event like Jan. 6 “ never happens again.” 

“Donald Trump is the first president in American history to attempt to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power,” Adler told the Washington Post. “So, damn right Liz is ‘prioritizing’ understanding what he did and how he did it and ensuring it never happens again.”

“Some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement, Republicans, and sociological issues outside the scope of the Select Committee’s work. She won’t sign onto any ‘narrative’ that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement, or suggests every American who believes God has blessed America is a white supremacist,” Adler added. 

Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the House Jan. 6 committee , told the Washington Post that “a handful of disgruntled staff who are uninformed about many parts of the committee’s ongoing work” won’t have an effect on the outcome of the probe. 

Staffers argue that the panel’s original mission statement when it was authorized by Congress was to discover what political forces and intelligence and security failures allowed law enforcement to be unprepared and become overwhelmed by the rioters and ensure that it doesn’t happen again. They say that by leaving out information relevant to this mission statement, the final report will lack important lessons for the future. 

Leftists supporting someone they demonize on a regular basis just because she developed terminal TDS. Laughable in the extreme.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
4  Dismayed Patriot    last year
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, R-Ill., announced that the committee led by Democrats will "take a hard look" into "alleged misconduct" by Special Counsel John Durham as he conducts an investigation into the origins into the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Dick Durbin is a Democrat. Seeing that this was a typo from Fox News isn't surprising.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
4.1  Texan1211  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @4    last year

Oh, gee, a typo is a calamity!!!!!

Alert the leftist press that NEVER makes any mistakes!!

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
4.1.1  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1    last year
Alert the leftist press that NEVER makes any mistakes!!

No alert needed, the 'leftist press' isn't infallible and often admits their mistakes.

3 CNN Journalists Resign After Retracted Story on Trump Ally - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

It's a trait that worthless pond scum right wing media takes advantage of regularly. Fox News makes mistakes all the time but they never run corrections, they never fire the journalists that ran the questionable story, (though I guess that would be difficult consider it's a network without any actual journalists) they just run 24/7 coverage of 'leftist news' mistakes or corrections which of course makes their gullible viewers regurgitate their tired rhetoric of the 'left' being so untrustworthy. Rightwing conservative media is nothing but a joke as are those who continue to be swayed by its toxic destructive ideology.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
4.1.2  Texan1211  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @4.1.1    last year

I am always impressed by your use of as many demeaning words you can squeeze into a single sentence while bitching incessantly about Fox.

FFS, TURN IT THE FUCK OFF if it bothers you so, 

 
 
 
afrayedknot
Junior Quiet
4.2  afrayedknot  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @4    last year

They are getting so used to the R’s turning on one another the ‘faux’ pas is understandable. 

 
 

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