Posted on 07/13/2020 4:41:47 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
The talking points on Obamagate are changing, and not in a good way. – Congressman Jim Jordan was on with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, expressing his frustration with the lack of any indictments from the John Durham investigation of the investigators. The takeaway from this interview is not at all encouraging.
Here’s a clip:
Note the consistent, repeated expression of “hope” from Jordan. He hopes that there will be indictments; he hopes that something will happen this summer, which is a third of the way over. He hopes Durham will at least issue a report before the election.
Those expressions of “hope” have now replaced the expressions of “confidence” that have characterized Jordan’s talking points about the Durham/Barr effort – or alleged effort – to exact some form of real justice on the perpetrators of a coup d’etat effort on U.S. soil that began in 2016 and still rages today. We are now less than 4 months until Election Day, Durham’s investigation has supposedly been running for at least 17 months, and we still have bupkis to show for it in terms of indictments and prosecutions.
Many readers have expressed great frustration with the slow pace of the Durham/Barr effort, and with my attempts to defend – or at least, explain – the slowness of it. That’s fine: I share your frustration. Having been involved on the defendant side of several major DOJ investigation, I know from experience that they typically take multiple years before anything ends up in court as prosecutors endeavor to make sure every aspect of the case is nailed down before proceeding.
But Durham and Barr may not have years. They must recognize that every U.S. presidential election can go either way, and this one is no exception. There is no question at all that, if this election goes the wrong way, all of their hard work will be immediately discarded on January 20 of next year. That’s just reality.
Barr must at some point recognize that his job in this case has become entirely politicized. Yes, he will be viciously attacked as being a stooge for President Trump if any indictments come before the election, but he should have known that when he accepted the job in the first place.
Given the nature of the crimes that have been committed against this President and his administration by the coup cabal – including Biden and Obama – Barr must also recognize that the failure to move on at least some of the conspirators before the election would in and of itself be a heinously political act, an act of omission that could help tilt the election against his own President.
It appears likely, given the additions to his staff that have been made in recent months, that Durham is working on a RICO-style case in this instance. Such cases are invariably extremely complex and difficult to nail down. If that is indeed what he is working on, then there’s pretty much no chance he would be able to bring it this summer as Barr has repeatedly implied in interviews.
But there is an obvious middle ground available to Barr and Durham here. They are already in possession of multiple cases against former FBI Director James Comey and ex-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that have been nailed down in great detail by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who himself made criminal referrals in his reports. The crimes involved include lying to the FBI, lying to congress while under oath, theft of official FBI/DOJ documents and myriad instances of illegal leaks of classified information by both men.
For reasons that remain an absolute mystery to this day, Barr’s DOJ has chosen not to pursue any of those charges against those two disgraces to American law enforcement. This despite the fact that the DOJ, through the Mueller special counsel effort, was prefectly willing to aggressively pursue such charges against multiple Trump people.
The single most important mission for any Attorney General is to conduct the job in a way that gives ordinary Americans faith in the U.S. justice system. Barr needs to recognize at some point that, because of the blatant double-standard that DOJ continues to apply in these various cases, millions of Americans have lost faith in the country justice system, and he is the only person in government today who has the authority and power to begin to heal that wound.
He could take a big step forward towards that goal by reversing the decisions not to prosecute Comey and McCabe for their myriad crimes. A very public spectacle of Comey and McCabe being marched out of their homes in handcuffs to waiting patrol cars with lights flashing in the wee hours of the morning would be a great way to start restoring faith in the justice system.
Failure to do that or something similar before Election Day would be the worst, most destructive political act Barr and Durham could possibly commit.
That is all.
Trust Barr? Trust Durham?
Durham is a delaying tactic. Prove me wrong.
Barr was confirmed to protect the GOP. A hard charging “Trump” DOJ would cause the GOP all kinds of issues they do not want to take sides on.
This summer is the last window - if Durham holds off then the issue will be resolved to the Deep State's satisfaction.
Trump tweeted something several days ago that made him sound frustrated with the DOJ.
I’ll never understand why PDJT chose Barr. There are so many qualified people who would be 100% supportive of Trump and his mission — yet he chose Barr.
I wonder if McConnell provided him with a list of the only people he would push through for confirmation. This place is so screwed up.
Wasn’t Barr’s coup investigation supposed to be done by now?
Trump said the other day not to expect anything from Barr, so why hasn’t Trump fired his ass?
Correct. And as such, Barr is NOT failing in his mission.
He’s doing the job exactly as he was told to do it.
“Any day now, the Barr/Durham Reports will be out. Any day now....”
“list of the only people he would push through for confirmation”
That is what i believe. This is the entrenched establishment..and while sometimes they can be budged ..it is almost impossible to get them to move. They are never going to go outside their own club..they will put up and “actor” if they have to..but that is about it.
It’s becoming clear to me that former Mayor Giuliani should have been selected as attorney general from the start, as the President’s instincts told him to chose Giuliani.
And why was Barr such a flagrant opponent of the Stone commutation? He could not see the injustice in the case, and he heads the Justice Department.
Swamp has not been drained.
Agree. Trump has now had in football terms two head coaches (Sessions, Barr) and three offensive coordinators (Huber, Whitaker, Durham) and has yet to score a single TD. Heck, they haven’t even gotten in field goal range yet.
But “Trust the plan.”
Damn, who is advising Trump on his hires? I love Trump, but he has put some very crappy people in positions of power, then acts like he’s an innocent bystander who isn’t able to do anything about said persons. Is Trump really this naive?
Ahhh how ordinary a gathering of Trolls to vent their collective narcissistic spleens about why their ideas and opinions are not followed and acted upon as they desire
Got an idea, since all of you are so damned smart run for office and fix it
So tired of people who cannot handle getting their own way and then intimating that Trump and the team are devious
Get over yourselves
I was afraid of that. [Sigh]
In other words, it’s hopeless...?
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