More Kabuki Theater.
Posted on 12/01/2020 12:54:55 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Well, this is something. Minutes after disappointing Trump supporters – and no doubt President Trump himself – by saying that his do-nothing FBI/DOJ has found no evidence of fraud that would be pervasive enough to tilt the outcome of the presidential election, William Barr announced that he is formally converting U.S. Attorney John Durham to a Special Counsel in his investigation of the origins of Spygate and Obamagate.
This conversion will help to ensure that Durham will be able to continue his work in a new Biden/Harris administration, complicating the hell out of China Joe Potato Head Biden since he is without doubt a key person of interest in Durham’s probe. It will also give Durham access to all the budget, staffing and resource privileges that come along with the Special Counsel designation.
From a report at Fox News:
Attorney General Bill Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as special counsel to continue investigating the origins of the Russia probe in the next administration, Fox News has confirmed.
Barr appointed Durham as special counsel on Oct. 19—two weeks prior to Election Day.
Barr notified the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, in a letter dated Dec. 1 obtained by Fox News, that Durham would be special counsel.
“On May 13, 2019, I directed John Durham, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, to investigate certain intelligence and law-enforcement activities surrounding the 2016 presidential election,” Barr wrote. “Although I had expected Mr. Durham to complete his work by the summer of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional information he uncovered, prevented him from doing so.”
“In advance of the presidential election, I decided to appoint Mr. Durham as a Special Counsel to provide him and his team with the assurance that they could complete their work, without regard to the outcome of the election,” Barr wrote, adding that he appointed Durham with “the powers and authority of a Special Counsel” on Oct. 19.
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Law Professor Jonathan Turley had this to say about Barr’s action on Twitter this afternoon:
Thus, as has been the case throughout his term as Attorney General, Barr presents those who support President Trump today with a mixed bag of disappointment about his department’s failure to act on major scandals in real time and hope that the future could still produce some satisfactory results on another front.
The refusal of Barr’s DOJ and the FBI to really get involved in the single largest election fraud in American history will be a stain on Barr’s and Christopher Wray’s reputations for the rest of their days on earth. But his move with Durham today could, if Durham does ultimately produce real prosecutions of the criminals who tried to fix the 2016 elections and execute a coup d’etat on American soil, help to redeem Barr to a large extent.
As always with Barr, you have to take the bad with the good.
That is all.
Why go through all that trouble? Wouldn’t it just be easier to leave Durham a regular US Attorney and just let the Biden team shut down his investigation when they take over? I don’t see how the deception is working, I mean what are they decieving us about now, nobody believes anything from the DoJ or the FBI or the CIA anymore so why bother? If Barr and Durham are deep staters and have the goal of finding nothing in the Durham investigation, I don’t understand why acting this out and creating another diversion (from what I ask) does any good or advance any deep state goal. Start thinking about this stuff with respect to Occams Razor.
More Kabuki Theater.
Laughable. Biden will simply fire him as is his legal right.
The only check on that power, is that the House could impeach him. That’s the House run by Pelosi.
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Biden canning Durham is like Rosie O’Donnell firing the Cake Delivery man
It’s like working welfare, keep 10 Dems employed.
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It is just to generate negative headlines during a Biden administration, but it is ultimately worthless.
It is what they do, trading useless investigations back and forth.
“Like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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The whole thing is stupidly bizarre...
True. Very true.
More of the same. This is all to pacify us the same way they have been doing for over 4 years. Just more of the dog and pony show BS.
Obama nor Biden is a target of the Durham Probe
Joe DiGenova, on Greg Kelly’s show, tonight....seemed very pleased with this move, by Barr, and didn’t have issue with Barr’s statements regarding election fraud investigations.
Joe D said that he knows Barr, and has known Barr for a long time, and that he is rock solid.
Very True
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