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.
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Nothing has changed. The FBI is more corrupt now persecuting phantom white supremacy, J6 grandmas and pro life prayer warriors. The FBI is covering up election fraud and Biden family crime. The FBI is a rogue police agency who thinks its mission is to pick presidents. Wray has his agency jet fly him to WEF conferences. Shut it down.
“Don’t Miss The Most Damning Durham Finding” that will lead to nothing being done
“Wray and Garland are certainly corrupted in heart and mind. As are most in their employ”
Yes. But our government has to function despite employing lots of very fallible people who are greedy and only want to enhance their own power.
If we depend on having people of integrity in government, the country will fail. The founders knew that. That’s why the constitution is designed to operate despite fallible, greedy, power hungry humans.
The issue is: Has the national security state escaped permanently from any real checks and balances on their power or actions? A very good argument can be made that they have escaped and that this cannot be fixed given our current institutions.
Trump, being Trump, made them do it.
Clearly these are entities of the government that can’t stay uncorrupted. They need to go, or be broken up with more checks and balances.
My personal belief about the Durham report is that it is just another red pill to wake up the public. Why are there no criminal referrals? It makes people angry. They need to get angry. I think that’s part of it.
So I agree with you. Durham is basically saying this cannot be fixed in the normal way.
Someone should remind Biden that the attempt to link Trump with Russia began when Biden’s boss, Obama was President.
Biden was informed of the plan to link Trump to Russia.
Biden MUST go.
“President Joe Biden was briefed in 2016 about an alleged plan by Hillary Clinton to tie former President Donald Trump to Russia...”
“the answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.”...
That’s true of 90% of laws passed these days.
Democrat scum are destroying our democracy...
As an aside, there's lots of countries in the world that have Constitutions guaranteeing freedom. and citizens rights. But when the people behind those Constitution are corrupt it's just a piece of paper.
In our country Democrats have turned Lady Justice into a drunk whore with democrats stuffing dollar bill up her twat.,.. while she winks and hands them passes. And the FBI? They're her abusive pimp...
Defund without delay.
Nothing will change until heads roll. And with Biden at the top of the food chain, no heads are going to roll. They’re all his capos who put him where he is and defend him. There’s zero chance he’s going to get rid of them because they are corrupt. HE’S CORRUPT.
Yes they are certainly trying.
Or they are afraid of him and are sucking up to him so he and his thugs don’t hurt them.
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Yes, you absolutely could be right.
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