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Durham Report Destroys ‘Russiagate’, Offers No Consequences — This will happen again
FrontPageMag ^ | Daniel Greenfield | May 16, 2023

Posted on 05/16/2023 8:09:53 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

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Durham offers little that’s new. Who was pulling the strings above the level of some top FBI people? Does Durham seriously expect us to believe that the likes of Strzok or McCabe initiated all of this on their own because they hated Trump? What were the interfaces between the Clinton-Obama camps and the DOJ people? These are the really significant questions and, unsurprisingly, the report punts. Its goal is to clean up the FBI rather than to hold the political operatives behind the scenes accountable.

And there, much as I predicted over the years, it ends.

Durham will have his closing lap, appearing before House committees, and then he and everyone will move on. The unfortunately precedent of Watergate x 1000 has been set. And genies don’t go back in the bottle once you let them out. Democrats have mainly moved on from the Russia hoax to another manufactured scandals and investigations. And, if anything, the next time they use the DOJ to go after a presidential candidate, they’ll be even better at it.

Durham wasn’t going to fix anything. Neither is the rest of the system. The Trump administration had the ability to declassify most of the materials of the original investigation and it failed to do so. The Durham report largely follows up on the work of a few courageous administration people and journalists who have spent years putting all of this together.

Accountability is fundamentally lacking, but considering that Durham had to bring and try cases in D.C., with disastrous results, that’s not surprising.

So in the end we’re back to “some people did something”.

Unless a conservative administration actually changes the rules, aggressively declassifies documents, and tears away the facades, this will happen again.

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1 posted on 05/16/2023 8:09:53 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

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I said, years ago, the deal was - the Principals would be protected.

I think it’s happening again now.

It’s the same FBi group that raided Mar-a-Lago

Trump is going to be Indicted.


2 posted on 05/16/2023 8:13:25 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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Durham had to bring and try cases in D.C.

Entire urban areas are filled with hateful people who have no moral or ethical boundaries.

3 posted on 05/16/2023 8:13:42 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I’m starting to agree with the anarchists, it may be time to burn the whole thing down and start over.


4 posted on 05/16/2023 8:15:50 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (The soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

It’s happening now with “Patriot Front” marches.


5 posted on 05/16/2023 8:16:23 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mr. Mojo

With the DOJ so thoroughly ingrained with lefties and ideologues, I doubt Durham could have prosecuted anyone successfully, even if he wanted to!!!. DOJ, FBI and CIA no longer exist for the good of the people, but rather pay homage to the POTUS.


6 posted on 05/16/2023 8:20:12 AM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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To: Mr. Mojo

BTTT


7 posted on 05/16/2023 8:23:03 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Mr. Mojo
Democrats have mainly moved on from the Russia hoax to another manufactured scandals and investigations

OMG!!!

"Democrats" again!!!

The people to take this apart and to wreck the Deep State that created it so that this could never happen again were named: 1) Mitch McConnell; 2) Paul Ryan; 3) Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions; 4) Michael Pence.

I don't want to hear one more word about "Democrats". The fact that this scandal persisted and worsened after January 20, 2017 is a 100% Republican insurrection against a man to whom they Republican Party and its officials had a duty of loyalty and a responsibility to roll up their sleeves, get down in the gutter with the people who did this, crucify Hillary Clinton and her campaign, and clean out the FBI/CIA/NSA/Five Eyes infrastructure.

What did they do instead? They insisted on eth Mueller Investigation and threatened THEIR OWN PRESIDENT with removal if he exercised his undisputed Constitutional Article II power to run the Executive Branch.

"Democrats" my ass! After Inauguration Day, this was a 100% GOP production, all they way.

8 posted on 05/16/2023 8:23:07 AM PDT by Jim Noble (It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government)
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All just a bunch of Kabuki Theater.


9 posted on 05/16/2023 8:24:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Durham Report Destroys ‘Russiagate’, Offers No Consequences — This will happen again

Barr's Durham documents the wrong doing and then does nothing about it.

That's the half-a$$ed, fat-a$$ed Bill Barr approach.

Barr "lacks the ability to deliver". He's "the last person" who can deliver justice.

"Chaos" is the result.

10 posted on 05/16/2023 8:26:34 AM PDT by FreeReign
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What are the statutes of limitations on possible crimes? Did Durham drag his lazy ass to make sure they passed?


11 posted on 05/16/2023 8:52:31 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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Durham is SCUM and the OTHERS are TREASONOUS COUP PLOTTERS! PRISON AT LEAST!


12 posted on 05/16/2023 9:06:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

WTF didn;t that SCUM, Durham ask for a CHANGE OF VENUE??


13 posted on 05/16/2023 9:07:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

There are no consequences to bad behavior.


14 posted on 05/16/2023 9:12:15 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Mr. Mojo

There are no consequences to bad behavior.


15 posted on 05/16/2023 9:12:19 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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"This will happen again "

The fraud continues with impunity: From stealing elections to international money laundering, from insider trading to the Biden crime family, from the scamdemic to the January 6th prisoners, from the Afghanistan withdrawal, and loss of American Marines to an open southern border, from raiding President Trump's home, to E. Jean Carroll and the rest of the legal fraud being perpetrated against Trump and his family. It hasn't stopped once.

16 posted on 05/16/2023 9:40:09 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Jim Noble

Jim...Congressional Republicans have been useless for at least the last 50 years. It didn’t start on January 20, 2017. They serve themselves, not us.


17 posted on 05/16/2023 9:42:48 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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I hope Durham will send recommendations to the DOJ to prosecute, but even so they will go after that with the same enthusiasm they have gone after Hunter Biden.

It really is up to congress. They must stop all funding to the FBI, the DOJ and the CIA and simply starve them out.

Regardless to all of the crybabies that say the end of those agencies will be the end of our national security, etc., there are alternatives to of all of the above.


18 posted on 05/16/2023 10:56:09 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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Which is why Brandon, or whoever is the rat nominee, will “win” in 2024.

They’ll view it as vindication of their policies.

Post-election in 2025, The Party will come down on opponents like we can’t imagine. The J6 trials are warmups for a nationwide cleansing.


19 posted on 05/16/2023 3:29:53 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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