Posted on 05/14/2019 9:20:58 AM PDT by billorites
The man who nailed the FBI agents who helped mobster Whitey Bulger is heading the investigation of the origin of Obama's unconstitutional spying on Donald John Trump.
The New York Times reported, "Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter, a move that President Trump has long called for but that could anger law enforcement officials who insist that scrutiny of the Trump campaign was lawful. John H. Durham, the United States attorney in Connecticut, has a history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among national security officials, including the F.B.I.’s ties to a crime boss in Boston and accusations of C.I.A. abuses of detainees."
Time magazine lauded him (and rightly so) on August 26, 2009.
It reported, "In 1999 he was selected by Attorney General Janet Reno to probe law-enforcement corruption in Boston. Last year he was named by Attorney General Michael Mukasey to head the ongoing investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes. Colleagues say Durham is thorough and cautious in deciding whether a case deserves to be prosecuted. But once he fixes on a target, the veteran lawyer usually catches his prey."
Indeed, Durham in 2000 got the 1968 murder convictions of Enrico Tameleo, Joseph Salvati, Peter J. Limone and Louis Greco vacated because because they had been framed by the FBI.
Two years later, a judge gave retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. 10 years in prison for helping Bulger by warning him in 1995 of a pending indictment.
Durham also helped secure a $101.7 million civil judgment against the government on behalf of the framed men and their families.
The New York Times also reported, "The department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is separately examining investigators’ use of wiretap applications and informants and whether any political bias against Mr. Trump influenced investigative decisions. And John W. Huber, the United States attorney in Utah, has been reviewing aspects of the Russia investigation. His findings have not been announced."
Patience. Adults are in charge now. The exorcism has begun.
I am assuming that the spying started in 2016. Five years is the statue of limitations. Figure a year to do the investigation. So charges in 2020 ish?? Cutting it a little close.
Damn. It would have been much better if he had nailed Mueller too, who was in charge of them and aggressively compounded the problem.
“could anger law enforcement officials who insist that scrutiny of the Trump campaign was lawful.“
If it was lawful they have nothing to worry about. In fact they should welcome it with open arms.
But they won’t.
L
“...assigned by Janet Reno to root out corruption...”. Wow. Now we’re serious.
Espionage Statute of Limitations
Although federal statute USC 3282 provides for a five-year statute of limitation for the vast majority of federal crimes, this statute of limitations does not necessarily stand in the case of espionage prosecution. It is generally agreed by legal scholars that acts of espionage can be prosecuted for at least ten years after the alleged act. Certain executive acts and extenuating factors may provide for prosecution after an even longer period of time.
https://www.federalcharges.com/espionage-laws-charges/
Spies? no such thing! /s
Espionage Crimes & Charges
Statutes provide for a wide variety of different espionage crimes and charges depending upon the specific type of information that was disseminated or withheld and the security value of that information, as determined by competent authorities. Key charges include:
Harboring or concealing any individual, whether domestic or foreign in origin, whom the concealing party has reason to believe has committed or is about to commit an offense under federal espionage laws.
Gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information, including the gathering of information on bases, stations, vehicles, aircraft, and a wide variety of other national security assets, which may be injurious to the United States.
Gathering or delivering such information as provided above to any foreign government or foreign agent. This can include the sale or other transfer of such information as provided above, or the sale or transfer of photographs, drawings, or other representations.
Photographing or sketching any defense installation, or using aircraft to photograph any such installation, which can be compounded by charges of publishing or selling such representations.
Disclosing classified information, including classified information to which a person had rightful legal access to at the time when they became aware of that information. This has been the basis of most modern espionage prosecutions.
The sooner the better.
It’s starting to look to me like Trump’s first term is going to be 2 years of liberal retardation followed by 2 years of “not liberal” (for lack of a better term) retardation. We will literally make any excuse to avoid realizing it’s over. Really, truly, over. Because once we admit we realize that everything changes. If a guy who worked for Janet Reno couldn’t find corruption outside a bunch of actual Italians who were actual mafiosi what makes anyone think he can find his ass with either hand?
Spying started in 2009, and continued until the 2017 inauguration.
Statutes provide for a wide variety of different espionage crimes and charges depending upon the specific type of information that was disseminated or withheld and the security value of that information, as determined by competent authorities. Key charges include:
Harboring or concealing any individual, whether domestic or foreign in origin, whom the concealing party has reason to believe has committed or is about to commit an offense under federal espionage laws.
Gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information, including the gathering of information on bases, stations, vehicles, aircraft, and a wide variety of other national security assets, which may be injurious to the United States.
Gathering or delivering such information as provided above to any foreign government or foreign agent. This can include the sale or other transfer of such information as provided above, or the sale or transfer of photographs, drawings, or other representations.
Photographing or sketching any defense installation, or using aircraft to photograph any such installation, which can be compounded by charges of publishing or selling such representations.
Disclosing classified information, including classified information to which a person had rightful legal access to at the time when they became aware of that information. This has been the basis of most modern espionage prosecutions.
Espionage Statute of Limitations
Although federal statute USC 3282 provides for a five-year statute of limitation for the vast majority of federal crimes, this statute of limitations does not necessarily stand in the case of espionage prosecution.
It is generally agreed by legal scholars that acts of espionage can be prosecuted for at least ten years after the alleged act. Certain executive acts and extenuating factors may provide for prosecution after an even longer period of time.
https://www.federalcharges.com/espionage-laws-charges/
“The exorcism has begun”
Now that’d make a great meme, with Trump, Barr and/or Durham as priests, restraining and exorcising a demon with a body revealing its possessed faces of all the known SpyGate culprits.
If that is the case, the President Trump should appoint a special prosecutor for Hillary’s classified email screw up.
Why didn’t he get Mueller in the Bulger probe? Wasn’t he dirty?
They started but they didn’t end in 2016.
My biggest fear remains that you will never get a D.C. jury to convict any of them.
Someone else suggested that Congress would begin trying to change the laws to retroactively permit the crimes.
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