Posted on 05/17/2023 5:10:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Durham report: Biden was briefed on alleged 'Clinton Plan' to tie Trump to Russia.
Democrats and commentators reacted dismissively to the conclusion this week of a long-awaited investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion inquiry, with some critics of special counsel John Durham citing a 2019 inquiry to claim the matter had already been settled.
The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, did indeed examine FBI conduct in the Russia investigation during the Trump administration. Horowitz’s findings were highly critical of the FBI and came with a list of recommendations for sweeping changes to the bureau, many of which its leaders adopted.
But the media, and even people involved in the Russia investigation itself, have recast the 2019 inspector general report as an exoneration of the FBI in light of the far more aggressive allegations leveled at the bureau by Durham.
Andrew McCabe, then the deputy director of the FBI and now a CNN analyst, pointed to the inspector general report when arguing on Tuesday that Durham’s findings are “an anomaly.”
He claimed the inspector general agreed that former President Donald Trump's suspected Russian ties were “something that had to be investigated."
“That’s the opening of the case that, as I said, the IG and other investigative entities approved of that action in hindsight,” McCabe said on CNN.
Other critics — including Andrew Weissmann, a former top Justice Department official who worked in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s office during the Russia investigation — cited the inspector general report extensively to defend the FBI from Durham’s claim of widespread political bias.
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I am waiting for the cockroaches to flee when a real spotlight is put on them.
When they’re accused of corrupt practices their response is more corrupt practices. It’s going to take more than criticism to change them.
The activities of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden...not so much...
Because there is no mechanism to make sure all Dems and Repubs, if when suspected by anyone in the FBI will be investigated, all of the FBI will have to be dismantled.
The DOJ’s attempt to overthrow the Presidency of Donald Trump is a bigger disgrace that its JaySix Jug****.
Seven MILLION DOLLARS WASTED, and of course NO ACCOUNTABILITY WITH THIS SO CALLED DURHAM REPORT. That song sure is getting old and worn out isn’t it?
Mueller investigation cost $32 million, Justice Department says
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/politics/mueller-report-cost/index.html
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