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The Durham report and our carousel of corruption
The Blaze ^
| May 17, 2023
| Auron MacIntyre
Posted on 05/17/2023 11:07:53 AM PDT by Heartlander
The Durham report and our carousel of corruption
The report from special counsel John Durham has been released, confirming what anyone with eyes to see already knew: The justice system in the United States is rotten to its core. The report documents the corruption that rests deep at the heart of critical federal agencies like the FBI and their willingness to interfere with elections by attacking political enemies.
According to the report, the FBI was fully aware that the “Russia collusion” narrative was manufactured and advanced by the Hilary Clinton campaign in an attempt to smear the opposing presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Under the leadership of Barrack Obama and then Vice President Joe Biden, the FBI and DOJ actively participated in a conspiracy to surveil a rival political candidate and conduct an investigation that would impact the election.
The origin of the Russia collusion narrative was known, the motivation of the parties involved was known, but the FBI pushed on anyway for one very obvious reason: to hurt Donald Trump. The most shocking part of the report should be its conclusion that no major charges are warranted against those who knowingly participated in this wildly corrupt endeavor, but sadly this is not shocking at all. Federal law enforcement and the wider American security state have been completely politicized. These agencies are de facto arms of the Democratic Party, and no one expects to be held accountable.
Durham’s 305-page report shows that the FBI was well aware of the inadequate nature of the information it was using to justify its investigation and of the fact that the investigation worked to further the Clinton campaign’s goal of using the Russian collusion narrative to distract and mislead the public. CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama, Biden, and several top administration officials including the attorney general and the FBI director as to the origin of the Russian collusion narrative. Despite knowing that this narrative was concocted by the Clinton campaign for the candidate's political benefit, or more likely because of that fact, all parties involved chose to move forward without hesitation.
Usually, a law enforcement agency seeking to maintain its reputation as a neutral entity would tread rather lightly when considering an investigation that could directly impact the outcome of an election, but in this case the lack of substantial evidence and the political nature of the narrative’s origin did not seem to warrant even a light tapping of the brakes. Apparently, the FBI only decided to end the investigation because one of its longtime confidential informants made a possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity.
Far from holding the Obama White House, DOJ, FBI, or CIA accountable for their naked partisanship and intentional election interference, the media dutifully aided in the effort as if they had been paid handsomely by the Clinton campaign itself. I am not, of course, suggesting that Hillary Clinton compensated the media for their role, because the media are more than happy to do it for free. Outlets like CNN and MSNBC hate America, see conservatives as a roadblock to a glorious social revolution, and despise Trump on a level that can scarcely be put into words. Anchors and pundits leaped into the fray with reckless abandon, consuming and creating increasingly absurd fictions about Trump’s scandalous relationship with the Russian government at every opportunity. The idea that the fourth estate would hold the formal government accountable really does seem quaint in retrospect.
The Russian collusion narrative would continue to haunt Trump throughout his presidency, derailing the administration and making it difficult to advance significant parts of his agenda. Democrat politicians and the media were able hijack the term of a duly elected president because the FBI lent credibility to a narrative generated by the Clinton campaign for its own political benefit. Trump advisers like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos had their reputations destroyed while they were portrayed as traitors and forced to spend an egregious amount of time and money on a politically motivated witch hunt. Trump supporters felt like they were robbed of a presidency, and they were right. Donald Trump was undermined by the deep state at every step of his presidency, in many cases by people who knew they were peddling a political narrative with no substantial evidence.
While all of this is deeply disturbing, the most concerning aspect of these revelations is how little is expected to come from them. New bombshells seem to drop about the corruption surrounding Hunter Biden, the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, and the Clinton industrial complex, yet nothing ever comes of them. Despite open evidence of wrongdoing, deeply disturbing instances of political bias, and brazen violations of law, no consequences seem to follow for those who operate the progressive administrative state.
Many are now asserting that the Durham report is damning and will deeply damage the reputation of the FBI. Jake Tapper of CNN was forced to admit that the report looked very bad for the agency while mostly exonerating Trump. While the FBI might feign contrition for a moment, it seems very unlikely that any lesson of significance will have been learned. Despite repeated damage to its reputation due to naked political action, the agency has not hesitated to arrest pro-life protesters, target traditional Catholic masses for surveillance, and threaten parents who protested the indoctrination of their children at school board meetings.
The FBI also enthusiastically raided the home of Donald Trump, the primary political opponent of the bureau's current boss, right before a midterm election. It did so while alleging that Trump possessed dangerous classified documents, possibly pertaining to nuclear secrets. Amazingly, nothing was ever heard about these documents again after the election. Apparently, the real purpose of the raid had already been achieved.
The FBI is a dangerously compromised organization that now exists to punish the enemies of the progressive movement. At some level leftists understand that they have expended the credibility of America’s institutions and shattered the illusion of neutrality. That is why progressives have focused a lot of energy on purging the military and consolidating their hold on agencies like the FBI, CIA, and IRS. The ability of the left to use soft power and propaganda to reliably engineer the desired electoral outcome is waning, and the shock that someone like Donald Trump was able to make it through the mechanisms of control jolted the deep state into action.
Some conservatives have started to notice these very disturbing development and are calling for a complete dismantling of the FBI. Establishment Republicans will say this is hyperbolic, but it is important to understand what is at stake. The U.S. security apparatus now regularly interferes with elections and does so without shame or hesitation. If the next Republican president does not clear out the deep state root and branch, he is likely to be the last Republican to even have the option.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; coup; hillaryclinton; obamascandals; weimerica
To: Heartlander
“those who knowingly participated in this wildly corrupt endeavor”......
No......it’s call a COUP....treason.....called it what you may.
To: Heartlander
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posted on
05/17/2023 11:22:14 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
To: Heartlander
People ask why I find it difficult to write about the Durham report empirically confirming everything we previously outlined in the past five years. Here’s my answer.
Eventually, after the shock & awe of the Durham confirmations wear off, I am hopeful that people will stand back and realize the bigger question that covers all of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy nonsense. This was a United States government operation to conduct full-throated surveillance on a U.S. presidential candidate, and then remove that candidate from the office of the presidency after his victory in the 2016 election.
With John Durham outlining in granular details how the FBI, DOJ and larger intelligence apparatus acted politically to weaponize government on behalf of an allied presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton, a bigger question remains. There never was any merit to the Trump-Russia nonsense, so what exactly were Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann doing for two years?
Using the silo defense as a method of obfuscation, John Durham noted in his report [page #2] as below, never delved into that obvious question. Durham specifically, and with great intent, says he did not look at what Mueller and Weissmann were doing; even though, Durham destroyed any predication that might have given merit to the intention of their special counsel existence.
Durham writes a 316-page report, meticulously detailing the false construct of the Trump-Russia narrative. Yet for some reason, the Mueller/Weissmann investigation, an entire special counsel investigation that was predicated and justified by that false Trump-Russia narrative, never found the same evidence?
Durham never looked at it. Why? Because he knew Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann were installed to cover up the original fabrications by the CIA, FBI, DOJ and U.S. intelligence apparatus. Mueller’s probe existed in material fact to hide the Obama weaponization to target Donald Trump. Durham knew this; that’s why he never touched it.
Stop pretending. Once you stop pretending, you realize just how rotten this system is.
John Durham intentionally and with specific foresight, did not want to reveal the criminal conduct of the Mueller/Weissmann special counsel.
He knew exactly what they were doing; his investigation paralleled what their investigation would have done if Mueller was not established to hide the originating schemes.
Everything Durham found, Mueller could have easily found, and stated, and ended the nonsense.
This reality, and Durham’s intentional decision to avoid confronting the Mueller fraud, is why no one should defend any part of what John Durham was doing, nor the report he delivers in conclusion. Durham is just as dirty as Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann. If he wasn’t, he would have outlined the purpose of Mueller and left them naked to the consequences. But that’s not what a good little silo maintainer does.
Instead, John Durham simply acts as if Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann didn’t exist to try and destroy President Trump. Durham ignores the cleanup operation entirely.
Everyone in Washington DC knew that Trump-Russia was a manufactured lie created by Hillary Clinton, promoted and supported by President Obama and fully weaponized by the Obama era justice department. Nobody in Washington DC did not know this. Everyone knew.
Everyone in Washington DC also knew that Robert Mueller was installed to cover up the 2016 targeting operation. Nobody in Washington DC did not know this. Everyone knew, including John Durham.
We really need to stop pretending and start asking the obvious questions. If Durham can destroy the predicate of the Trump-Russia nonsense, then what the hell were Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann doing for two years?
We know the answer.
The investigators know the answer.
Washington DC knows the answer.
Republicans know the answer.
They all know that we know the answer, and yet that BIGGER question just sits there….
…because everyone keeps pretending!
A reminder from the MUELLER REPORT:
You might remember, Robert Mueller was in front of congress in July 2019, answering questions about Chris Steele, the dossier and the Steele sources therein. Mueller was able to deflect and dodge answering questions about it because AG Bill Barr put John Durham into place in May 2019.
When Robert Mueller is saying there’s another group in the DOJ looking specifically at the Chris Steele, Dossier, Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson aspect to the fraudulent 2016/2017 claims about Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election, he is talking about the John Durham investigation.
Mueller was citing Durham as the reason why his purview, and subsequent report as released, did not include the Steele dossier, Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson information.
Mueller was saying that stuff is the responsibility of “the other internal investigative unit,” ie. John Durham.
When you stand back and remind yourself of the Bill Barr statements and affirmations about the ‘integrity’ and ‘honor’ of Robert Mueller, one can only accept that AG Bill Barr put John Durham into place in May 2019, immediately following Robert Mueller’s completed investigation, April 2019, so that Mueller would have a shield for why the origin of the Trump-Russia is outside his purview.
This is how they use silos as weapons and shields. Not in my purview is the same as not in my silo.
Mueller was citing Durham as the reason his team did not expand their probe to fully investigate Chris Steele et al. Mueller’s special counsel has an escape hatch for why they did nothing with their own investigative findings…. That was John Durham’s job. This is the outrage trap.
AG Bill Barr established John Durham’s probe (silo) so that Robert Mueller’s probe (silo) would have cover.
If John Durham’s investigative inquiry did not exist prior to that July 2019 testimony by Robert Mueller, then Mueller would have lied to congress.
AG Bill Barr put Durham into place, essentially constructed another silo, to protect his ‘good friend’ Robert Mueller….
….The DC two-step was achieved.
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posted on
05/17/2023 11:30:16 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Heartlander
FBI and CIA are guilty of Treason.
Not once does the FBI or CIA do anything that helps Republicans. Never.
They are simply treasonous militarized secret intelligence police owned by apparently the DNC, Biden, Clinton and Obama.
To: Heartlander
Now that the Durham report is out, are there still those who doubt that the 2020 election was rigged?
Will the DR have any affect on Broomhilda or will she go Scott free to pull another Benghazi disaster?
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posted on
05/17/2023 12:59:01 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
To: Heartlander
The Impeachment was a coup d’tat by the Democrats. In time this will be views as the crime it was, treason!
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posted on
05/17/2023 1:11:39 PM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
To: Heartlander
To: Heartlander
<>The U.S. security apparatus now regularly interferes with elections and does so without shame or hesitation.<>
Just keep voting my FRiends. Pretend it matters.
Act surprised in 2025 when the lawfare hammer comes down even harder. The treatment of the thousand or so J6 political prisoners is practice; it’s a warmup for the main event.
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posted on
05/17/2023 1:48:26 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: Heartlander
So?
No one...NO ONE...is going to do a damn thing about it.
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posted on
05/17/2023 1:49:58 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
To: Heartlander
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posted on
05/17/2023 4:36:07 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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