US attorney John Durham has been reviewing origins of Russia probe 'for weeks': source

Fox News ^ | May 14, 2019 | Brooke Singman

[jazusamo]

The U.S. attorney appointed to examine the origins of the Russia investigation has been working on his review “for weeks,” a person familiar with the process told Fox News on Tuesday.

Fox News reported on Monday that Attorney General Bill Barr had assigned John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to conduct the inquiry into alleged misconduct and alleged improper government surveillance on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, as well as whether Democrats were the ones who improperly colluded with foreign actors.

Durham, known as a “hard-charging, bulldog” prosecutor, according to a source, will focus on the period before Nov. 7, 2016—including the use and assignments of FBI informants, as well as alleged improper issuance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants.

Barr first announced that he was reviewing the “conduct” of the FBI’s original Russia investigation during the summer of 2016 last month, following calls from Republicans, and President Trump, to investigate the origins of the probe.

“I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted in the summer of 2016,” Barr testified on April 9.

That same day, Fox News learned that Barr had assembled a “team” to investigate the origins of the investigation. A source told Fox News Tuesday that Durham has been working on the investigation “for weeks,” but it is unclear if he was part of the original team assembled by Barr last month.

[butlerweave]

Dems start attacking Durham in 3,,,,, 2,,,,,,

[fireman15]

Uh oh, will there be some accountability for those who have made “Watergate” look like child’s play?

[Red Badger]

Then start with the indictments already!..................

[hardspunned]

He interviewed James Baker sometime in 2018 as part of a “DOJ leak investigation”. I wonder who else? I wonder if a grand jury was involved?

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds good!

Barr needs more bulldogs like himself to follow up on this bs.

[Hojczyk]

The dam will break now....Some of the group will become rats to save themselves

[Ancient Man]

Questions: How many hundreds of dumpster-diving lawyers have the DNC and Marxist media dispatched to uncover and advance false allegations that are designed to smear and destroy John Durham? Has Vegas established an Over/Under bet yet?

[jazusamo]

Only a guess but I have a hunch from AG Barr’s actions since he took over that he’s going to have slam dunk cases when indictments start coming.

[richardtavor]

This announcement was made to coincide with Fitzgerald’s report. The IG was the investigative phase and Durham will be the Prosecutor all phase. He might have been active the week Barry was confirmed and now will use the IG report to start the indictments.

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[hoosiermama]

We will soon know

My guess is they are going to overwhelm the democrat “system”. They have already eliminated some of their better lawyers by appointing them to the Mueller Investigation. Now they cannot serve without “conflict of interest.”

Lots and lots of indictments, arrests, trials, plea bargains-giving up information, on the horizon.

[wastoute]

Never gonna happen. If Barr or anyone lights that fuse it burns right straight to Hillary and 0bama. “We don’t do that (prosecute former officials).” “We have the reputation of the FBI and DOJ (and CIA and NSA and, etc. etc.) to consider!” “If we do that the lefties will burn every city center to the ground! (Righties never do that)”. They have a million reasons to let the coup conspirators off and not one to put them in prison. If you just want to support a winning team vote Democrat. If you want to have “principles” enjoy them while you can still afford them.

[Red Badger]

Never underestimate the power of the Deep State to manipulate, coerce and threaten people into submission.....................

[jazusamo]

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[bboop]

oooh, ‘bulldog prosecutor’ jumped out at me.

[Liz]

Time for a reckoning for Obama-era handmaidens......US government officials who, with malice aforethought, deliberately undermined the safety and security of Americans w/ what they knew was a wild goose chase. They knew it was bogus because they masterminded the plot from the getgo:

<><>former FBI Director James Comey,
<><>former CIA Director John Brennan,
<><> former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper,
<><>former Attorney General Loretta Lynch,
<><> Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates,
<><>former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe,
<><>former FBI agent Peter Strzok,
<><> former FBI lawyer Lisa Page,
<><>Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr,
<><> mastermind of the plot, Barack Obama,
<><> Obama's security advisor Susan Rice.

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Obama’s Government Legacy:
<><>keeping all his lies straight,
<><>framing opponents,
<><>knocking off whistle-blowers,
<><>leaking propaganda pieces to favored media puppets,
<><>paying phony witnesses for unfavorable testimony,
<><>fleecing taxpayers,
<><>squashing sexual harassment scandals,
<><>feigning moral outrage,
<><>pretending to have morals,
<><>acting like money and power is the last thing on his mind.

THE ROT GOES RIGHT TO THE TOP—the criminal legacy of the Halfrican’s misbegotten sojourn in DC. The Mueller investigation has its ultimate roots in the eavesdropping carried out by the Obama admin using the Steele dossier as evidence....by dubious and unverified claims made in the dossier.........

Bigtime Criminal stuff:
<><> the fake Steele dossier was worthless in a conventional legal challenge of the election outcome;
<><> it launched a very different brand of “legal challenge,” one typically seen in banana republics;
<><> Obama’s Third World police state abused govt powers to target the political opposition;
<><> Our FBI and DOJ thugs-—corrupted under Obama——willingly played along to go full banana republic.

=======================================

Trump, the Republican party, AND we the people, free citizens, were standing in the Halfrican’s way and needed to be removed.

Obama's brazen plot against Trump Obama's FBI and DOJ continues, enabled by a complicit media.

[milagro]

I think you meant Horowitz and Barr.

[dead]

Has this guy been the quiet replacement for Huber, who seems to have forgotten he had a job? Any change in his status?

I just saw Clapper on CNN saying how he's against this new appointment, and thought that Barr should just let Huber finish his work.

Huber appears to have been a fern.

[ameribbean expat]

This little nugget showed up on WSJ Kimberly Strassel’s Twitter feed last night:

https://twitter.com/jrsands/status/1128113323407339520