U.S. Attorney John Durham Beefs Up Investigation Into Russia Probe Origins After Findings
S E E D E D C O N T E N TUnited States Attorney John Durham is expanding his investigation into the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russia and the Trump campaign after his team reportedly made significant discoveries.
Fox News’ Bret Baier reported on Tuesday in a Fox News exclusive that “based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.”
“Attorney General Bill Barr and Durham traveled to Italy recently to talk to law enforcement officials there about the probe and have also had conversations with officials in the U.K. and Australia about the investigation, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings,” Baier added.
Barr’s appointment of Durham to conduct that investigation was revealed this May when the Associated Press reported : “The inquiry will focus on whether the government’s methods to collect intelligence relating to the Trump campaign were lawful and appropriate. Durham has previously investigated law enforcement corruption, the destruction of CIA videotapes and the Boston FBI office’s relationship with mobsters.”
The Trump administration told Fox News in April that Barr had assembled a team to investigate the origins of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign:
Attorney General William Barr has assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, an administration official briefed on the situation told Fox News on Tuesday. …
The FBI’s July 2016 counterintelligence investigation was formally opened by anti-Trump former FBI agent Peter Strzok. Ex-FBI counsel Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was romantically involved, revealed during a closed-door congressional interview that the FBI “knew so little” about whether allegations against the Trump campaign were “true or not true” at the time they opened the probe, noting they had just “a paucity of evidence because we are just starting down the path” of vetting the allegations.
During a congressional hearing in April, Barr said: “I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016.”
Durham has been described as a “hard-charging, bulldog” prosecutor.
“Sources familiar with matter say the focus includes pre-transition period — prior to Nov. 7, 2016 — including the use and initiation of informants, as well as potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses,” Fox News noted in a separate report . “An informant working for U.S. intelligence posed as a Cambridge University research assistant in September 2016 to try to probe George Papadopoulos, then a Trump foreign policy adviser, on the campaign’s possible ties to Russia, it emerged earlier this month. And, Papadopoulos told Fox News, the informant tried to ‘seduce’ him as part of the ‘bizarre’ episode.”
Reuters reported on Tuesday: “Durham’s probe seems to be moving at a more deliberate pace in Washington. While the FBI says it has been cooperating, senior figures involved in the 2016 investigation have not yet heard from Durham’s team, according to sources familiar with the matter. Among them: former FBI general counsel James A. Baker; former CIA Director John Brennan; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; former FBI agent Peter Strzok; and David Laufman, a former senior Justice Department official.”
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The impeachment process in the house is nothing more than a propaganda campaign to minimize the impact of the biggest corruption investigation in US history.
A democrat President ordered our government to spy on the opposition political campaign, then doubled down on the fake investigation post election.
This isn't going to play out well for those involved.
Why are they investigating the investigators who were doing their job?
Because...........
the investigators who are investigating the investigators are doing their jobs.
As Catherine Herridge said yesterday John Durham isn't known to ask for more resources unless he's got something.
Is the Intelligence community concerned?
James Clapper responded with a big YES on CNN yesterday:
CLAPPER: The message I'm getting from all this is, apparently what we were supposed to have done was to ignore the Russian interference, ignore the Russian meddling and the threat that it poses to us, and oh, by the way, blown off what the then commander in chief, President Obama, told us to do , which was to assemble all the reporting that we could that we had available to us --
This guy put away a few of Mueller's buddies during the Whitey Bulger special investigation.
The big reveal here is they have been meeting with the foreign intel agencies the Obama administration used to spy on Trump. Unprecedented corruption.
Not only that, but he was the one that damn near had Mueller held in Contempt of Court for refusing to provide the WITHHELD EVIDENCE that exonerated the men the FBI had gotten convicted who spent 28 years in prison.
Those FBI agents took the places of the men they wrongly convicted.
Nancy and Schiff know what happened, they know that if they don't produce enough smoke and mirror cover for the previous administration with bogus impeachment, this investigation is going to send them packing for a long time.
Even their propaganda machine media are showing signs of panic.
Speaking of panic, this should be good....................
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/8/trey-gowdy-joins-trump-legal-team/
Here's to hoping.
Mega ditto’s! 👏👍🎯🇺🇸
When I saw that clip on the news, I said, "HOT SHIT.... Clapper just threw Obama under the bus to save his own ass."
NOW, I understand why Durham is expanding the investigation and requesting more investigators.
Lol, that's a clear sign they know they can't get away with it.
Oh, if only Hillary had won none of this would be known.
BTW she just conceded the 2016 election last night.
Right out of the gate, Clapper is employing the nazi Nuremberg defense, "I was just following orders".
I only ask for a Nuremburg style trial.
I see the hallucinations are in full flight.
Keep assuring yourself. Clapper is having a difficult time doing just that.
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The truth is slowly being revealed.....and you can't stop it.
I understand that Durham is a pit bull. If the hunt is going nowhere, he drops it, but if it leads to illegalities, he digs in and won't let go until he's satisfied with the results.
When the highest law enforcement official in the Justice department starts traveling abroad personally to meet with the agencies used by the previous administration to spy on the opposition party campaign you can bet there is good reason.
That my man will likely be the understatement of the year.
If you want to call Trump telling him to do it a good reason.
Right. Keep telling yourself that.
As the left keeps repeating, "What is everyone so afraid of if they have nothing to hide?" The intelligence agencies, those involved with getting the FISA warrants issues, and those in the state department that outed Trump campaign officials before the elections should welcome an investigation to prove that they did absolutely nothing wrong.
Doesn't seem that Clapper agrees; but he is just a stooge anyways.
And he can prosecute without regard to how the DOJ feels about prosecuting their own or whether a liberal DC jury would actually convict!
I've had conversations with prosecutors and defense attorneys and to a man (and woman) they all agree that Durham is as they say a "Cops, cop and a Prosecutors, prosecutor". He has utter and complete contempt for bad and corrupt cops and prosecutors and will go after them with a vengeance for disgracing the professions and he doesn't care how high up the ladder he has to go.
The times they be getting very interesting. Very interesting indeed.
Iv'e heard nothing different. He was the right man for the job.
" Man " vs " Swamp Thing" !
" Man " will win in the end.
I'd like to know why Joseph Mifsud, a western intelligence asset, approached Papapdapouls to tell him Russia had "Clinton's emails." And why Mifsud is the only person who lied to Mueller not to be charged with a crime.
That's the million dollar question. The FBI also lost track of him. Something (a little birdie) tells me that Durham has already spoken to Mifsud's lawyer.
Gee, I wonder who Mifsud really was working for?
I have a vision
So apparently it's not some kind of unprecedented, crazy, corrupt, scandalous one-off to get foreign officials to help us with investigating something related to politics in this country. Trump does it and you'd think it never happens. (Although I still think Trump should have stayed out of it and had the AG deal with it)
Sorry if I'm derailing.