Posted on 05/17/2023 6:44:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Special Counsel John Durham declared the DOJ and FBI’s hearts and minds corrupted.
Monday’s special counsel report detailed extensive evidence of Department of Justice and FBI misconduct concerning the launch and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and equally overwhelming proof of partisan motives and double standards. While the facts are critical of both the bureau and the DOJ, more scandalous is John Durham’s conclusion that the inexcusable targeting of a political opponent cannot be prevented absent a curing of the corrupted hearts and minds of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Durham’s 306-page report opened with an executive summary capsulizing the results of the special counsel’s four-year investigation into the intelligence activities and investigations arising out of the 2016 presidential campaigns. While calling the findings “sobering,” and previewing the widespread misconduct on which the body of the report elaborated, Durham’s introductory comments emphasized he “does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies.”
It is here that Durham made his damning indictment of the DOJ and the FBI when he stressed that “the answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.” Ultimately, he continued, justice “comes down to the integrity of the people who take an oath to follow the guidelines.” And “the promulgation of additional rules and regulations to be learned in yet more training sessions would likely prove to be a fruitless exercise if the FBI’s guiding principles of ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’ are not engrained in the hearts and minds of those sworn to meet the FBI’ s mission of ‘Protect[ing] the American People and Uphold[ing] the Constitution of the United States.’”
For the many details that followed — every misstep retraced and every inexplicable and unreasonable action condemned — that conclusion dwarfed them all. From the hurried opening of a full investigation of a presidential campaign based on unanalyzed and uncorroborated information to the fraudulent use of FISA warrants to the disregard of exculpatory evidence, Crossfire Hurricane represented a perfect storm of failures.
But what should terrify the country is not the catalog of malfeasance the special counsel recited — for mistakes and even gross failures can be corrected — but that Durham warned of corrupted hearts and minds, unfaithful to the people and their Constitution.
Telling too was that Durham opened and closed his 300-plus page report on the Russia-collusion hoax with homage to Attorney General Edward H. Levi. Appointed attorney general not long into President Ford’s term, Levi was “credited with restoring order after Watergate.” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would later say of Levi, he “brought the department through its worst years.”
But it was not merely Watergate. As Scalia detailed, “it was a bad time not only because of the disgrace of Watergate, which had affected the department most deeply, but there were also problems at the F.B.I.” At the time, the FBI had been conducting domestic surveillance operations, and under Levi’s leadership, regulations were put into place to limit the bureau’s abuse.
That history makes even more pronounced Durham’s introductory reminder that “the integrity of the people who take an oath to follow the guidelines and policies currently in place, guidelines that date from the time of Attorney General Levi,” is what ensures “the rule of law is upheld.”
Likewise, Levi’s role in reforming the FBI and bringing the DOJ out of the shadow of the Watergate scandal gives profound meaning to Durham’s decision to close the special counsel’s report like this:
‘Nothing,’ former Attorney General Levi warned, ‘can more weaken the quality of life or more imperil the realization of the goals we all hold dear than our failure to make clear by words and deed that our law is not the instrument of partisan purpose.’
For all the misconduct the special counsel exposed, it was Levi’s warning that Durham left us. And that, I fear, is the most significant revelation to come from the investigation: that after four years of inspecting the underbelly of the FBI, Durham saw a creature reminiscent of the one running wild under Nixon.
Sadly, Durham’s words are unlikely to resonate with Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. For they stand idly by while history repeats itself with the favoritism previously shown to Hillary Clinton now being bestowed on Hunter Biden and the Biden family. But the special counsel’s entreat could still succeed from the bottom up if the honorable and faithful men and women of the FBI join the ranks of whistleblowers and revolt against those leaders corrupted in heart and mind.
Seems to me that Durham could have saved a lot of time and taxpayer money by summing up his report to read “America, you’re screwed”. But then, most of us already knew that and didn’t need the mythical ‘Durham report’ to inform us of our situation.
The rea.iry is that it woulda been much worse under him
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FBi has gotten much larger and more Powerful.
The Republicans love Wray and lavish him with money. If you watch hearings, this is abundantly clear.
Lol rea.ity doh, meant reality
“Then how is recommending no charges against higher-ups not a failure to uphold that oath? And how does that not render his report mere handwringing?”
Shhh! You’re not supposed to apply logic, truth and reality to the ongoing theatre we’re being subjected to. Durham plays his part by pretending to have “done something”. He is no better than the ones he is chastising in his “”report””. But we’re not supposed to notice.
Finally someone said it: it cannot be fixed without a change of heart. That means bloodshed.
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Pious James Comey didn’t give a crap about the Law, only that he could lecture others on it.
Before Sessions recused (purely a personal choice) Comey has already directed others to Keep info from Sessions. Sessions was a figurehead (stooge) they all went around him as the policy continued post Comey. That’s insubordination.
The corruption of the Deep State is on record. The passivity of The Good is troubling and the downfall of this country.
They STOLE the election. The United States government actively WORKED against the sitting President. There WAS a coup.
Then how is recommending no charges against higher-ups not a failure to uphold that oath? And how does that not render his report mere handwringing?
I think that condemning Durham for not charging anyone is missing a few important points.
First, I suspect that Durham sees that the entire DOJ and FBI are so corrupt that no one would ever go to jail. It is unlikely that any charges would even get as far as the courtroom.
However, it might be a master stroke for justice releasing this report at this time in language so plain that even the blind can see.
Durham’s report will be discussed, argued over and the anger will build until by the 2024 election it will have strong influence on voters.
Because the cure for the nation is not in the jailhouse, but in the congress. Congress will in 2024 answer to we who have had enough.
General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. For they stand idly by while history repeats itself.
The constitution is under new management new document soon to be released.
Biden orders another ice cream cone
It is here that Durham made his damning indictment of the DOJ and the FBI when he stressed that “the answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.” Ultimately, he continued, justice “comes down to the integrity of the people who take an oath to follow the guidelines.” And “the promulgation of additional rules and regulations to be learned in yet more training sessions would likely prove to be a fruitless exercise if the FBI’s guiding principles of ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’ are not engrained in the hearts and minds of those sworn to meet the FBI’ s mission of ‘Protect[ing] the American People and Uphold[ing] the Constitution of the United States.’”
Trump needs to get back into the White House and then have a “Night of the Long Knives” to get rid of all of the corrupt people in the SES, particularly those in the FBI, DOJ and CIA. Send U.S. Marshals to their offices, fire them, take away all of their security clearances, change passwords and escort them out of the building. Oh, and no pensions for these bastards, either.
From the article, “Durham warned of corrupted hearts and minds.”
Those corrupted minds come in two different categories: one is the enemy who has infiltrated us, and the other is Americans who have been mind-controlled.
Of the latter group, which dwarfs the former by a factor of 100, most will come to our side when they know the uglier truths.
Election fraud is not the ugliest one. Neither is Crossfire Hurricane. But they are sufficient to turn many hearts.
Genocidal intent and satanic child sacrifice routinely practiced by elite globalists and politicians are the ugliest.
is it true Durham never interviewed Comey in this investigation??...how is that possible?
Did these commie pricks break laws?
Will these commie pricks go to prison for it?
Considering that the idea of punishment for crimes acting as a deterrent for others as a means to discourage such crimes, when punishments DON’T happen, they’re actively encouraging more of these crimes to occur.
No consequences for their actions.
There’s a pretty good reason people don’t go into a field wanting to start a fight with a giant adult grizzly bear.
Commie pricks love poking the bear.
I could not agree more. Allowing them to escape exposure and accountability for their malfeasance is inexcusable IMO.
If they’re not impeached, then what is the criteria for impeachment going forward?
Just damn.
Always a good FReeper to keep you between the lines.
5.56mm
I would disagree with him in one respect: certain trials involving grand jury‘s should be allowed to take place outside of the District of Columbia, perhaps, in Virginia, or Maryland. As Durham’s own efforts at convictions proved. No conservative of any striped can get a fair trial within the District of Columbia and that is a big reason why it is pointless to indict some of these bastards, and next to impossible to convict them.
He does martial arts, you know.
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