John Durham Investigation Ends

[SunsetBengal]

(05-17-2023, 07:54 PM)GMDino Wrote: Anyone else getting weird vibes that people on the right now want policing reined in because "they might use their power on anyone" because it happened to a guy who has spent the better part of his life in court?  That now "reasonable suspicion" is a bad thing because they were looking into a guy running for President?

You can try and spin this report any which way but loose but in the end in did nothing other than repeat what was already said in earlier reports.

Did the DOJ overstep with Santos?  Or is it just the cult of Trump that gets OUTRAGED that Trump was investigated over "nothing"?  

I think that you're reaching with the "reasonable suspicion" thing, but anyway.

Quote:The FBI didn’t open any inquiry into an alleged Hillary Clinton campaign election interference plan even after the CIA director briefed then-president Barack Obama and other senior administration officials, Special Counsel John Durham’s report noted.


The FBI received Russian intelligence analysis in July 2016 alleging that Clinton’s campaign cooked up a scheme to divert attention away from “her use of a private email server,” the Durham report stated.

The alleged scheme, dubbed the “Clinton Plan,” showed that the Clinton campaign “had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” against Trump “by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” the Durham report reads.

The intelligence community didn’t know the accuracy of the Russian intelligence, but the findings were notable enough for then-CIA Director John Brennan to inform the Obama administration “within days” of learning about it.

Brennan briefed President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey about the Clinton campaign’s plan, the Durham report says.

The findings also prompted the CIA to send “a formal written referral memorandum” to Comey and “the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBl’s Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action.”

In contrast to the speed at which the FBI opened a full investigation into Trump “on raw, uncorroborated information,” the FBI “never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information,” Durham wrote.

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Quote:Durham concluded that Crossfire Hurricane “reflected a noticeable departure” for how the bureau handled cases to Clinton, and said the FBI began their investigation of Trump without appearing “to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement.”

He also found that the FBI had a “predisposition to investigate Trump,” and did not move with “considerable caution,” as it did with cases related to Clinton..

What we had was a highly respected, esteemed and supposedly of the highest integrity agency of the United States showing favoritism and bias toward a preferred candidate while at the same time showing reckless indifference toward another candidate that members of that agency were found to have personal bias against.  Wanna restate where the outrage should be, once more?