Posted on 05/15/2023 1:02:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A special prosecutor has ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign with withering criticism of the bureau but a meager court record that fell far short of the former president’s prediction he would uncover the “crime of the century.”
The report Monday from special counsel John Durham represents the long-awaited culmination of an investigation that Trump and allies had claimed would expose massive wrongdoing by law enforcement and intelligence officials. Instead, Durham’s investigation delivered underwhelming results, with prosecutors securing a guilty plea from a little-known FBI employee but losing the only two criminal cases they took to trial.
The roughly 300-page report catalogs what Durham says were a series of missteps by the FBI and Justice Department as investigators undertook a politically explosive probe in the heat of the 2016 election into whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to tip the outcome. It criticized the FBI for opening a full-fledged investigation based on “raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence,” saying the speed at which it did so was a departure from the norm. And it said investigators repeatedly relied on “confirmation bias,” ignoring or rationalizing away evidence that undercut their premise of a Trump-Russia conspiracy as they pushed the probe forward.
“Again, the FBI’s failure to critically analyze information that ran counter to the narrative of a Trump/Russia collusive relationship exhibited throughout Crossfire Hurricane is extremely troublesome,” the report said. “Crossfire Hurricane” was the FBI code name for its investigation.
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Of course. One corrupt “law enforcer” protects another corrupt “law enforcer.”
We have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.
for them it's missteps, for anyone else it's crimes.
what a worthless waste of time and taxpayer money
John Durham his own self confirms that he does not exist.
They weren't "missteps" they were crimes.
Draw out the investigation to the point that most Americans
can’t even remember what the infractions were.
The prosecutor was just another government lackey doing what
he was told by the perpetrators and their friends.
_ you John Durham.
The final insult will be the kush job he is now gifted for
being a good little apparatchik.
This establishes for the record they have nothing on Trump and never did.
It provides hard evidence that every second of every day in the life of all elected democrats and most elected republicans was wasted from January 20, 2017 through the current day.
Don’t be hasty in dismissing this. For starters, all anti-Trump commentary, from Twitter to the family Thanksgiving table, is rendered null and void.
Well harsh criticism makes the expense of this charade all worthwhile. Lol
It was a coup, pure and simple.
No surprise here. Remember (1959 to 1963) Elliott Ness in the TV Show “The Untouchables”?
60 odd years later, the Democrats FBI is TRULY Untouchable!
Throw an election, no problem. Let the President and his son accept millions in bribes, no problem. Shoot the finger at Congress contempt citations, no problem. FY to Congressional subpoenas, no problem. Don’t answer Congressional questions in hearings...no problem....just say you can’t talk about “ongoing investigations”. No problem! No problem! No problem!
But, it’s Congress’s problem more than the FBI because The Congress (so called) puts up with it year after year when, if they had any balls, they would shut the FBI down. The FBI has been rotten from the start (July 26, 1908). Remember J Edgar Hoover!? Remember the Kennedy assasination.
Neither do I, even though the former was investigated endlessly for three years whilst the latter was dismissed on technicalities and the perps investigating themselves.
harsh criticism, but no new charges“
The FIB spies on a Presidential campaign to help the opposing one by lying to a FISA court to get warrants and this little deep state rat cannot find any crime
They made stuff up.
Exactly !!
No evidence from POS John Durham,
NO Sheiff Sherlock
What a effing disservice to the presidency as a whole. Someday the Democrats are going to reap what they sow, and they were gonna be crying from here to Kingdom come.
The media probably won’t even report on the Durham findings. They haven’t reported the Biden family receiving 10 million from China et al.
What should be “crimes” - they call “missteps”
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