Posted on 10/25/2019 5:15:10 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
And just like that, stuff got real. – That squeaky noise you heard early Thursday evening was the sound of sphincters tightening in unison all over the DC Swamp. That was when news leaked that Attorney General William Barr has authorized U.S. Attorney John Durham to shift gears.
What has to this point been an administrative inquiry into the origins of the Obama-era efforts by the coup cabal to spy on the Trump Campaign and Transition team will now become a full criminal inquiry. As the New York Times reluctantly reported, the move gives Durham and his team of prosecutors and investigators “the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges.”
It’s actually even better than that, enough to make the Deep State toadies at the Times and the rest of the fake news media want to cry. Durham can in fact convene not just one grand jury, but as many grand juries as he wants and needs to convene. Better yet, because Durham is based in Connecticut, his grand juries can be convened there, outside of the 90% Democrat snake pit of Washington, DC.
Naturally, the Times, in its role as the chief propaganda organ for the Deep State, structured its story on the talking points of the Coup Cabal’s prevailing narrative. Here are the key outtakes:
The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. Mr. Trump fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director under whose watch agents opened the Russia inquiry, and has long assailed other top former law enforcement and intelligence officials as partisans who sought to block his election.
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Mr. Trump has made clear that he sees the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. That view factors into the impeachment investigation against him, as does his long obsession with the origins of the Russia inquiry.
This is all the standard nonsense. Trump has upset the DC Swamp way of doing things by being a Republican President who actually fights back when attacked. The Times and their fellow media toadies demand that Republican presidents remain silent and just take it when the DC Swamp and its propaganda machine rises to assault them.
Of course President Trump fired the utterly corrupt James Comey when he found out that Comey had spied on him and was still attempting to entrap him. Of course President Trump has lambasted Comey, Brennan and other former “top law enforcement officials,” since he knows that they were the leaders of Spygate and the neverending coup. Sure, George W. Bush and his Poppy never pushed back when the Swamp attacked – they were part of the Swamp themselves, as was Nixon.
The final 15 or so paragraphs of the slimy Times piece is a point-by-point recital of the coup plotters’ preferred narrative, no doubt dictated personally the lead plotters themselves. If it sounds like a story that was written by the Cabal’s defense lawyers, that’s because it most likely was.
You should read it just to become familiar with what you’re going to hear from Democrat talking heads and fake hosts all over cable television in the coming weeks. They will all recite passages from these paragraphs word-for-word, like the sock puppets they really are.
You can also expect the media/Democrat effort to smear Barr, which has already been underway for months, to now shift into high gear, and expand to also include Durham. The Deep State’s Alinsky-based model always requires the character assassination of anyone who rises as a threat, so that’s a given.
Interestingly, the news about this becoming a criminal investigation came right on the heels of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz telling congress in a letter Thursday afternoon that he is finally, at long last, entering the final phases of getting his report on FISA abuse ready for public release. Horowitz had announced the completion of his report on September 13, and apparently has waited all the time since for the internal DOJ/FBI classification review to be completed.
As reported by the Washington Examiner, “Horowitz said the process is “ongoing” and “consistent with our usual practice when an OIG report involves classified information.” The inspector general said he expects the final report to “be released publicly with few redactions” and does not “anticipate a need to prepare and issue separate classified and public versions of the report.”
Horowitz also said that the report is “lengthy” and “concerns sensitive national security and law enforcement matters,” which could mean a lot of different things. And hey, after taking all this absurd amount of time to complete, the damn thing had better be “lengthy.”
It is also interesting to note that both of these announcements come right on cue, as the Deep State’s favorite fake news organizations have been mounting a furious drive to preach the Coup Cabal’s gospel on a daily basis, as we have detailed this week at the Campaign Update. Obviously, the Brennans and Comeys and Clappers and Strzoks of the world know what’s coming and are doing their best to set their narrative in place before the actual truth starts coming out and indictments start flying.
At least, we hope indictments will ultimately start flying. The wheels of justice do turn slowly when the process is meticulously followed, but man, this has been like waiting for a family of turtles to cross I-10 in Houston during rush hour traffic.
Who knows what it will all ultimately produce, but as of this morning, there’s some reason to hope that at least some of the Coup Cabal plotters will ultimately face justice for their betrayals of this country.
That is all.
When I heard the local NBC affiliate announce it this morning, I could hardly believe my ears.
But they didn’t elaborate too much. The way they stated it, someone with little knowledge could assume that it was becoming a criminal investigation against Trump.
The shfinkter analogy was great! We will see. We will settle for nothing less than the entire house of cards to fall and indictments prosecutions and jail!
If crimes were committed, there must be convictions. We cannot continue to have a two tier justice system.
Too bad he’s not based from here. I’d love to be on that Grand Jury.
#MeToo!
And I thought Seven Days in May was Fiction.
This is just the marathon version.
Twitter’s already freaking out over this.
Beautiful.
And the turtles crossing the road one was hilarious!!
What I am hopeful about, for the first time, is hearing that the grand juries will be seated in Connecticut. Not too much more hope, but at least some. At least they won’t be in DC.
Mr. Trump has made clear that he sees the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies.
If you get my drift...
i.e. leftists projecting.
When I re-read the plot summary to that classic 1964 Movie - 7 Days In May. It sure reads like what is going on today. Only today is much worse.
grand juries/trials only can be used where the crime was committed or part of it-venue-
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22361.pdf
If what you heard about being held in CT, is true, it gives me hope.
DC would be a disaster.
No joke, investigators spanning the globe, the whole deal.
This will put every mini series to shame.
Change "Trump" to "Obama" and then you'd get it right, NYT!
But, of course, you never do...
Credible reports indicate Durham’s shift to a criminal probe is based, in part, on the IG report.
One gets the sense that Horowitz is a little tired of spending months uncovering criminal wrong-doing in the DOJ, recommending prosecution, and (as in the case of McCabe), nothing happens.
No such problem with Durham. He’s not a swamp creature that has personal ties to the suspects, or can be controlled by the D.C. establishment.
Next leak will probably indicate that Durham is presenting evidence to a grand jury, and indictments won’t be far behind. One reason Schiff and Nadler have already launched a preemptive attack on him and AG Barr.
“grand juries/trials only can be used where the crime was committed or part of it-venue-”
The linked paper is specific to prosecutions and trails, not grand juries. It also gives latitude for the location based on the type of crime and where the person is arrested.
From the link: "The Constitution states that those accused of a federal crime shall be tried in the state in which the crime occurred and by a jury selected from the district in which the crime occurred:"
The link makes no mention of grand juries. Therefore, IMHO, Durham could convene the grand jury in Connecticut.
9-11.121 - VENUE LIMITATIONS
A case should not be presented to a grand jury in a district unless venue for the offense lies in that district.
from federal prosecutors manual
https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-11000-grand-jury#9-11.121
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