Posted on 09/17/2021 11:01:13 AM PDT by Magnatron
On Thursday we learned that the Durham probe, the investigation into the origins of the FBI's counter-intelligence probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election long touted by Donald Trump and his fellow conservatives as the investigation that would blow the lid off Democratic malfeasance, had got its man.
Was it John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman? Or former FBI Director James Comey? Or Barack Obama?
Um, no.
It was instead a cybersecurity lawyer named Michael Sussmann, who was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI's general counsel about who he was working for. (Sussmann said he wasn't working on behalf of any client but he was allegedly representing Clinton's campaign as well as a tech industry professional). Friday, he pleaded not guilty.
Which, look, isn't good! You shouldn't lie to the FBI's lead lawyer. Especially about who you represent (or don't represent).
But the Sussmann indictment does raise a broader question: Is that the best that Durham's got?
After all, special counsel John Durham has been investigating the genesis of the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling for more than two years now.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
It’s all that Durham is permitted to have.
It’s all we’re going to get.
The other guy already has his law license back.
It was accurately predicted by many on the FR that only a low level scapegoat would be found. And so it is.
This is one of those times that it sucks to be right.
It sure didn’t take long for the Clinton News Network to rush to her defense, did it ?
Wrong question. John Durham really has anything at all?
Outrageous slant by CNN reporter Katelyn Polantz (”Crime and Justice”)
“Sussmann is only the second defendant in the two-and-a-half-year investigation of special counsel John Durham, which previously inspired Donald Trump and his supporters to believe a takedown of the FBI was coming for its actions investigating Trump and Russia.
But that hasn’t materialized. Instead, the cases Durham has brought, both false statement charges, have focused on peripheral characters flubbing details that would not have altered the main focus of the Russia investigation, which ended in the convictions of six Trump advisers and found the Trump campaign had welcomed and exploited Russia’s 2016 election interference.”
She says there could be “some political resonance” but not anything important.
This is what the average American, the ones with intelligence quotients well under triple digits, believes now.
Durham wanted to stay alive.
If cynicism can be ever be channeled as a power source, FR could light NYC for a year.
Amen!
And it ain’t pretty.
So do we.
If all aspects of the government including the system of justice, and you FIB agents reading these posts are all we have, then we have no good legal means remaining. Not a good idea for the Dems. Even the Soviet Union couldn't keep its Stalin style tyranny in power without "Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...."
Durham had to do it now because of the statute of limitations had just about run out.
Maybe more will come down but at this pace Trump will be
back in charge and appoint another SP to go after the lovers
Comey and all the others
Just charge them all with treason because I don’t think
that has any time limits.
They did wrong, but most of them have managed to successfully cover their rear-ends.
If you took money from the DNC for spreading a false story, you might be indicted.
If you were a bureaucrat who decided to investigate a story that had been originally paid for by the DNC but didn't get any money for it yourself, you probably don't have to worry.
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FBi / DoJ and their paid contractors are all protected.
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I was first called "a cynic" by my fourth grade teacher. Decades later a casual girlfriend in college said "That was sad." I never thought about it until then. She was right. Rheumatic fever the year before so I couldn't do anything athletic or take part in any sports. Parents divorced early that year. Father never visited except twice in 35 years. Abusive alcoholic man-hating narcissist mother.
Without my sarcasm (which is a word deriving from "to cut or slice") I would be all out hate and intense vendetta for revenge. It takes a lot of my energy to hold it down.
Cynicism and humor will have to provide outlets for now. Apologies to all the good people here.
Are y’all kidding me? Now you’re going to believe commentary from Chris Cillizza? Are you people nuts? This is as close to a sign as we’re ever going to get that Durham has a lot more coming, if Chris Cillizza is saying this is all he’s got.
I mean Cillizza is proven wrong more than Rachel Maddow, more than the average obama judge too and they’re overturned 85% of the time.
Come on people buck up and stop whining.
Someone had to take the fall, right John?
As much as people are pissed that Durham didn’t unload 957 indictments on other ham sandwiches, he just took a bite out of someone involved with the Clintons, which means unlike other past investigations it aint about Trump. Durham is circling around the Clintons. Aint done yet.
“John Durham really has anything at all?”
John Durham did not look for anything at all.
How silly of us to expect these corrupt bastards to investigate crimes that their friends commit?
Durham was tossed in after Mueller, he of such strong character, came up with nothing.
The investigation was a nothing burger from the beginning.
Millions of dollars were spent,(most of the money was paid to lawyers) and nobody but a low level attorney is charged?
There is no accounting of the money. Why not?
I am sick and tired of this circus. We deserve better for the money we pay!
ACCOUNT FOR THE MONEY SPENT ON THESE INVESTIGATIONS!
Durham had to file as the statute of limitations on this crime runs out in 2 more days on the 19th.
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