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Explosive allegations protect Durham probe from being shut down
Washington Times ^ | Feb 16,2022 | By Jeff Mordock

Posted on 02/16/2022 9:52:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Special counsel John Durham‘s explosive court filing has complicated any attempt by the Biden administration to shut down his investigation of the FBI‘s Russian election interference probe due to the political firestorm it would ignite.

Mr. Durham alleged in the case against Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann that people affiliated with Hilary Clinton’s 2016 campaign exploited access to former President Donald Trump’s internet data to link him to Russia.

The revelation puts the Biden administration in the hot seat because several top Clinton campaign officials have made their way to the White House. One of them is National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, a foreign policy adviser for the campaign.

“The first thing I wondered when I read the filing is the closer this thing zeroes in on Jake Sullivan or the inner workings of the Clinton campaign, how concerned is the Biden administration going to be?” said Robert W. Ray. who succeeded Kenneth Starr as independent counsel for the investigations of President Bill Clinton. “How long before [Attorney General] Merrick Garland yanks the reins?”

Andrew Leipold, a law professor at the University of Illinois who served as a consultant in Mr. Starr’s investigation, said the unusual circumstances of Mr. Durham‘s filing appear to show an effort by the special counsel to protect himself.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2020election; biden; doj; durham; election2016; election2020; fbi; hillary; jakesullivan; michaelsussmann; russiagate; sullivan; sussmann; trump
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1 posted on 02/16/2022 9:52:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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I fear Durham is going to have a fatal reaction to his jab.


2 posted on 02/16/2022 9:54:06 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Jim Robinson

Yep, Saturday night massacre territory...


3 posted on 02/16/2022 9:54:38 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Jim Robinson

It is because the top echelons of the FBI and DOJ as well as the Republican party were in on it that this will go nowhere.


4 posted on 02/16/2022 9:55:26 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bookmark


5 posted on 02/16/2022 9:57:52 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Rebelbase

I would be laughing on the floor hysterically at this piece if it were not likely that if true Durham would just end up at Fort Macy park.

Pointless anyway as I posted earlier, Garland would have no problem whatsoever dismissing Durham of he thought it was an issue and the media would cover it all up.

All this is a total nothing burger. No one will be convicted in a DC court!

The punditry class needs to get a clue, this level of naivety is embarrassing.


6 posted on 02/16/2022 9:59:07 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Lurkinanloomin
this will go nowhere.

2 days ago it was, "The MSM will completely ignore this".

7 posted on 02/16/2022 9:59:18 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Rebelbase

Durham is probably aware of that and is treading so as to avoid implicating the Bidens at all. If Biden is implicated in it in a public manner then Durham’s life is over. If Biden can maintain some smoke screen that makes him uninvolved then Biden can maintain his power, such as it is, and verbally order the DOJ to not pursue the issue just like he did with Hunter’s laptop full of incriminating pictures.


8 posted on 02/16/2022 10:00:48 AM PST by NicoDon
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To: Magnum44

I debated this in another FR thread, we will know if Durham is really closing in on the truth when the Democrats start calling for him to be fired, after they plant stories in the MSM accusing him of violating something.


9 posted on 02/16/2022 10:00:58 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
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“Top people in the Biden Administration were involved”

They still don’t get it. The key is that someone kept on paying the IT company to ‘bug’ Donald Trump AFTER Hillary lost the election. The indictment says it wasn’t Hillary....IT WAS JOE BIDEN.

Let that sink in......it isn’t Biden people, IT WAS JOE BIDEN.


10 posted on 02/16/2022 10:01:24 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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It is because the top echelons of the FBI and DOJ as well as the Republican party were in on it that this will go nowhere.

I agree they hate what's happening, and will obstruct, and slow-walk it - but how can the appalling waxworks Merrick Garland shut-it down?

The DOJ is the political brain and nerve center of Fed.gov. Its has all the functions (and more and more of the methods) of the Soviet KGB.

11 posted on 02/16/2022 10:01:59 AM PST by PGR88
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Fantasy ... the Dems don't play like the Pubes. If this gets too hot, they will shut it down, claim it was entirely politically motivated, and the MSM will run interference for them.

If Clinton isn't already in jail for having an email server in her bathroom she will never go.

12 posted on 02/16/2022 10:02:08 AM PST by dartuser
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Don’t forget CIA and White House...even members of Congress.


13 posted on 02/16/2022 10:03:10 AM PST by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: dragnet2

You’re right it’s being covered about everywhere now

But many old media orgs are trying to explain it away as a rogue tech company or something to that effect

Durham I’m sure didn’t release what he did without a lot more to come to back that up


14 posted on 02/16/2022 10:05:11 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever was a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“..It is because the top echelons of the FBI and DOJ as well as the Republican party were in on it that this will go nowhere....”

It’s called the UniParty.
GOPe = DNC = DS = UniParty = Communists

Sure, they all wear different hats and tell different lies to their unwashed constituencies, but they ALL have the same goals and agenda...and it sure as heck isn’t to MAGA.
It’s one big, fat, merry, happy party...and “We, the People” ain’t in it.


15 posted on 02/16/2022 10:05:22 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Mariner

You are correct, the CIA, too
And many members of Congress, of both parties.


16 posted on 02/16/2022 10:07:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Skwor

Fort Marcy Park: http://allanfavish.com/index.php/vincent-foster


17 posted on 02/16/2022 10:07:30 AM PST by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bkmrk


18 posted on 02/16/2022 10:07:36 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Jim Robinson

Bttt.

5.56mm


19 posted on 02/16/2022 10:08:46 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: dartuser

This new story is interesting and has some relevance to the actual “wiretapping” that was done of Trump, but should not be confused with that.

It’s more like a squirrel designed to take our eyes off the Steele dossier and all the (15+) criminal referrals that the House and Senate Judiciary committees put together, that most everyone thought Durham was going to be investigating, instead.


20 posted on 02/16/2022 10:08:51 AM PST by Golden Eagle ( What's in YOUR injection? You really have no way of knowing.)
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