Posted on 10/19/2019 5:00:23 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
A review launched by Attorney General William Barr into the origins of the Russia investigation has expanded significantly amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis, multiple current and former officials told NBC News.
The prosecutor conducting the review, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, has expressed his intent to interview a number of current and former intelligence officials involved in examining Russias effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, Brennan told NBC News.
Durham has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russias activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers, according to three former CIA officials familiar with the matter. And there is tension between the CIA and the Justice Department over what classified documents Durham can examine, two people familiar with the matter said.
With Barrs approval, Durham has expanded his staff and the timeframe under scrutiny, according to a law enforcement official directly familiar with the matter.
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This is the 4th fake news article today, apparently the DNC got the talking points memo out this morning.
all articles basically have “concerns” about how this is playing into Trumps hands
Then we'll start ANOTHER round of INQUIRIES, etc, etc.
"Welcome My Friends to the Show that Never Ends".. and NEVER results in INDICTMENTS or PROSECUTIONS.
Load of crap. Why in the hell does it take these idiots 3 years, whenfor the cost of Amazon prime, Barr could sit down with a plate of cheeseburgers and download 40 ebooks that all tell these morons who did what, when and how! Barr will cover it up.
Seems to me that today’s rash of articles about the investigations being conducted by Barr and Durham is proof that the Deep State knows it is about to get buried under some DEEP STUFF!
Do they mean like WMDs in Iraq?
-PJ
That's not their f-ing business -- it's up to TRUMP alone
The WaPo headline today called it "controversial"
But of course there's no collusion in the media, right?
Negative thinkers are always right........... or pleasantly surprised.
Now I seem to remember that President Trump delegated authority to declassify anything to Barr. That should complete resolve any "tension".
“mysterious” to NBC viewers, who haven’t been told anything factual about Spygate and the ClintonRussiaHoax.
Awww. To bad; so sad! Hope he and Durham are more aggressive than Horowitz. He’s maddening -— comes up with all kinds of crimes, then refuses to recommend prosecution. He’s just poking us in the eye.
Too late for “Katy Barr the door”.
What?
Turns out the probe into Trump/Russia had absolutely no legal or factual basis. Wouldn't it be nice to know how it got started? Perhaps it was a coup attempt, but NBC doesn't want you to know that.
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The only mysterious thing is WHEN the sh*ts will get their due punishment.
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Strange little noises coming from the guilty parties.
Bring on those investigations, please.
Yeah it sure is “mysterious” to have an AG investigate criminal wrong doing by the Democrats. Does he know who they are? How dare he!
Durham wont ask anyone any questions until he is sure of the answers.
All talking points originate with the NYT.
AG Barr’s investigation will grow SO big it will it will take AT LEAST another 5 years....and employ THOUSANDS of DC lawyers....and finally peter out after the 2024 inaugural.
You heard it here first
Definitely. This line of pure, panicked BS from the article shows they're really worried about what might come of the investigation of how, by whom, and whether "the Russians hacked the DBC server":
But Durham has been busy on other fronts. He traveled with Barr to the United Kingdom and Italy in an effort to examine the contributions of foreign countries to the Russia probe. A Justice Department spokeswoman said the list of countries being examined includes Ukraine, but she declined to say whether Durham is investigating corruption related to the DNC server, as Mulvaney put it in his Thursday news conference.
Mulvaney appeared to be referencing a conspiracy theory, mentioned by President Trump in his July phone call with the Ukrainian president, that a Democratic National Committee computer server hacked by Russian intelligence agents is actually in Ukraine.
Under that discredited theory, Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the Democrats in 2016. To believe that, one would have to doubt the unanimous assessment of the intelligence community and the findings of Congressional intelligence committees who have examined the classified evidence, including Republican Trump supporters.
A freakout out like that is dead sure evidence the "conspiracy" theories are dead on right, just like the "conspiracy theories" about Hillary's bad health were proven dead right on 9/11/16 when she collapsed and had to be thrown into her Scooby van like the rotten sack of pig shit she is.
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