Posted on 04/23/2020 3:08:01 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
I like John Solomon. He’s one of the few real journalists still working in the national media today, and did yeoman’s work on the whole Ukraine scam the Democrats mounted last year.
But, on the subject of Spygate and the investigation of the investigators being conducted by U.S. Attorney John Durham, Solomon has become basically the boy who cried wolf. He, along with Greg Jarrett and Sara Carter, have made so many predictions about indictments coming soon on Sean Hannity’s radio show and tick-tock TV hour that I finally had to quit listening and watching.
Embeded in this story at The Conservative Treehouse you will see a video in which Solomon repeats a claim he made last Friday that Durham is finally on the verge of issuing some indictments out of his investigation. You’ll note that Solomon doesn’t claim, as Hannity, Carter and Jarrett have done on so many occasions, to have some sort of inside information to support his claim. Rather, he points to indications on the public record that lead him to believe that something is imminent.
Ok, fine. Take that for what it’s worth.
Meanwhile, there was some real, actual news on Thursday related to the Durham investigation that is in fact very interesting. That came in the form of a Washington Examiner report about Durham expanding his staff to include new personnel, at least one of whom would indicate that the scope of his investigation is also expanding.
From the Examiner’s report:
U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded his team as his review of the Trump-Russia investigators ramps up during the coronavirus pandemic, which has gripped the country and swept the globe.
The top federal prosecutor for Connecticut selected additional team members for his investigative effort in recent weeks, adding agents from the FBI, as well as the chief of the violent crimes and narcotics trafficking section for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., Anthony Scarpelli, according to sources cited by CNN. Durham, who has been running the operation out of Connecticut and D.C., drove down to Washington a few weeks ago to keep the investigation moving even as the COVID-19 virus hampered many law enforcement efforts nationwide.
The CNN report said Durham requested witness information in March and April…
Scarpelli has spent the last two years leading the office in charge of the fight against murder and the drug trade in D.C. Before that, he was the deputy chief of that office, according to his LinkedIn profile. Scarpelli also spent a year as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 14 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in D.C., and eight years as an assistant prosecutor for Middlesex County in New Jersey.
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You can just hear that narrator for The Curse of Oak Island posing the questions: “The chief of the violent crimes and narcotics trafficking section? Now working on the Durham investigation? What could this mean about the nature of the evident the Durham team has been uncovering on Spygate Island?”
It could mean nothing, but you have to admit that, if nothing else, Mr. Scarpelli would not be the first guy you’d expect Durham and AG William Barr to pick to add to this particular investigative/prosecutorial team. Perhaps he has some element in his background that neither the Examiner nor CNN have uncovered that would make him a likely choice to domestic espionage-related charges, or perhaps Durham and his team have come across some unexpected evidence during the course of their long and apparently wide-ranging investigation.
In any event, it was a pleasant surprise to see some real evidence that Durham is making progress in the midst of all the rumor-mongering had has surrounded his efforts over the last year. Who knows? Maybe someday one of the Hannity-Tick-Tock-Hour predictions of indictments coming soon will actually turn out to be right.
We can only hope.
That is all.
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Nobody gives a shit about this anymore. Too little, too LATE.
It’s now April and Durham is expanding his investigation? How long has this investigation been in progress? There is an election in November.
Tick-effin-tock, indeed.
Just have to find the most sincere pumpkin patch and the Great Pumpkin will appear..........
Unless they are preparing to charge Brennan with ordering the murder of Seth Rich, probably not much.
Speak for yourself...I CARE TREMENDOUSLY! Our country will NOT survive if these COUP PLOTTERS are NOT BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!
Brennan’s maid.
Maybe Durham and his team are doing a LUCY on Charlie Brown Solomon and Joe DiGenova!! He BETTER NOT BE DOING THAT!
That’s part of the reason the “pandemic” has been hyped to the stratosphere.
The democrats are worried that a bunch of them are gonna be going to jail in Trump’s second term. Gotta stop that from happening.
I am with you. Nothing, I mean absolutely nothing will stop Federal Government from doing it again if these jokers get away with it. Nixon didn’t do anything compared to what Obama and his administration committed. Either we face that as a country now and deal with it, or deal with the inevitable death toll that comes sooner or later after.
Barr needs to get off the bag pipes and make certain the job is done.
By nobody, if you mean yourself, fine, but don't think you are speaking for everybody.
Oh, ye of little faith.
I haven't thrown in the towel.
The fight is still on going and I won't give up until it is truly over.
I haven't heard the fat lady sing.
You are exactly right. If they get away with this, there will be a next time and next time will make this time seem like child’s play. Next time they will go full Stalin-Hitler on our asses.
Agreed. If there is no accountability here, then the United States of America is officially a banana republic.
(To be clear, it will be the finest of banana republics, but at the end of the day, it will be nothing more than that.)
Agreed. Slow walked into irrelevance.
What makes you think the country is surviving now? Its dead Jim! No justice! No financial restrant! No rule of law!
Limbaugh did an excellent job of describing the monumental effort required to meticulously gather evidence in order to ensure convictions of the people at and near the top of the DOJ/FBI food chain.
Gathering evidence to indict is far easier than gathering the evidence needed to convict DC Swamp Creatures that high up the food chain. It requires meticulous levels of data and backup material required for “proof beyond a shadow of a doubt” and thus, convictions.
If you really believe that, then you may as well pack your bags, lower the flag, and turn out the lights.
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