Alarm bells rang when the intelligence community became aware that Russian assets where working on the 2016 election’s to influence it…
It was apparent after a while that Donald Trump was the choice for the Russians since Trump had commercial business contacts with several Russian businesses and Hillary Clinton was a avid hardline Russian policy person as Sec of State…
There WHERE worries that an incoming American President might have been compromised…
THAT was the job of the FBI and Intelligence people to investigate…
We also KNOW that Donald Trump leaned on then FBI Director Comey to make any probers of him to go away….
When Comey wouldn’t….
He was gone…
One might be worried that as has been shown?
Attorney General Barr thru Mr. Durham, the United States attorney in Connecticut, is trying to avenge slights an American Intelligence community he does NOT like or feel happy with, does NOT show him ‘loyalty’….Is this a political effort?
Donald Trump seems to be after the cops….
And trying to beat them down in submission…
And?
THERE WHERE RUSSIAN CONTACTS AND INFLUENCE
We’ll see where this goes…..
Revelations so far about Mr. Durham’s investigation have shown that he has focused in his first months on the accusations that Mr. Trump’s conservative allies have made about the origins of the Russia inquiry in their efforts to undermine it. Mr. Durham’s efforts have prompted criticism that he and Mr. Barr are trying to deliver the president a political victory, though investigators would typically run down all aspects of a case to complete a review of it.
Mr. Durham is running the investigation with a trusted aide, Nora R. Dannehy, and a pair of retired F.B.I. agents. Other prosecutors are also assisting, people familiar with the investigation said.
In interviewing more than two dozen former and current F.B.I. and intelligence officials, Mr. Durham’s investigators have asked about any anti-Trump bias among officials who worked on the Russia investigation and about one aspect of the investigation that was at the heart of highly contentious allegations that they abused their powers: the secret application seeking a court order for a wiretap on Mr. Page.
Law enforcement officials suspected Mr. Page was the target of recruitment by the Russian government, which he has denied.
Mr. Durham has also asked whether C.I.A. officials might have somehow tricked the F.B.I. into opening the Russia investigation.
Mr. Durham has indicated he wants to interview former officials who ran the C.I.A. in 2016 but has yet to question either Mr. Brennan or James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence. Mr. Trump has repeatedly attacked them as part of a vast conspiracy by the so-called deep state to stop him from winning the presidency.
Some C.I.A. officials have retained criminal lawyers in anticipation of being interviewed. It was not clear whether Mr. Durham was scrutinizing other former top intelligence officials. Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the former director of the National Security Agency, declined to say whether he had spoken with Mr. Durham’s investigators.
Mr. Durham also has yet to question many of the former F.B.I. officials involved in opening the Russia investigation.
As Mr. Durham’s investigation moves forward, the Justice Department inspector general is wrapping up his own inquiry into aspects of the F.B.I.’s conduct in the early days of the Russia investigation. Among other things, the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is scrutinizing the application for a warrant to wiretap Mr. Page….
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Mr. Barr expressed skepticism of the Russia investigation even before joining the Trump administration. Weeks after being was sworn in this year, he said he intended to scrutinize how it started and used the term “spying” to describe investigators’ surveillance of Trump campaign advisers. But he has been careful to say he wants to determine whether investigators acted lawfully.
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Barr apparently doesn’t “ trust” tyenipartisan Congressional robe that took place.
Or then again he’s just trying to impress his party leader.
Barr is carrying out a mission to deb all the US Gov from checking on his boss ….
That so his boss could maybe go back to trying to get in bed with the Russians?
One could think that Trump is eyeing his business future after leaving office???
Right now?
His brand is going in the toilet