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Via:  jbb  •  2 years ago  •  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    2 years ago

More bad news for Trump, Barr and Durham!

 
 
 
Greg Jones
Professor Participates
1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  JBB @1    2 years ago

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    2 years ago

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

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
3  freepress    2 years ago

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    2 years ago
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
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4  Dismayed Patriot    2 years ago
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.

 
 
 
afrayedknot
Senior Quiet
4.2  afrayedknot  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @4    2 years ago

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

 
 

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