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The Durham Report's lingering consequence for Joe Biden, Congress and U.S. allies
justthenews.com ^ | 5/23/2023 | ben whedon and John Solomon

Posted on 05/15/2023 9:08:13 PM PDT by bitt

Current president was briefed in August 2016 about Clinton plan for Russia collusion dirty trick

Special Counsel John Durham’s final report will have lasting consequences far beyond the FBI failures he unmasked in the now-discredited Russia collusion scandal.

President Joe Biden, as he faces a re-election campaign, Congress as it weighs whether to end warrantless spying and U.S. allies often enlisted to help U.S. intelligence all face "sobering" questions from the report’s bombshell revelations.

In the end, Durham’s top line conclusion Monday was hardly unexpected: The FBI had no evidence or intelligence to warrant opening a probe of Donald Trump as the GOP nominee for president in 2016, disregarded its own rules to protect civil liberties, and failed to heed blinking red sirens that the Russia collusion allegations were nothing more than a political dirty trick by Hillary Clinton and her supporters.

But the questions of what to do with those truths and how to impose consequences for the bad behavior highlighted in the 306-page report are hardly settled.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan began the process of resolving those issues – summoning Durham to testify before his panel next week while suggesting Monday night his colleague may use the power of the purse to defund actors who allowed the Russia collusion probe to persist for three years in the absence of any justification or evidence.

Several key players also face new questions about their own behavior.

The current president – already facing harsh questions about whether his allies in the intelligence community played a dirty trick in the 2020 election by falsely portraying the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation – was outed in Durham’s report as having been briefed in summer 2016 about a plan by the Clinton campaign to manufacture the Russia scandal against Trump.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; congressusallies; coupplots; dirtytrick; durham; durhamreport; insurrection; joebiden; noconsequences; russia; russiahoax
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1 posted on 05/15/2023 9:08:13 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/15/2023 9:08:24 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt

Consequence?


3 posted on 05/15/2023 9:08:57 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“That’ll be the day.” - John Wayne


4 posted on 05/15/2023 9:09:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

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They are laughing.

They got $13 Million dollar book deals, and they just removed whistleblowers from a stagnant case where they’re running out the clock on Statutes so Joe and Hunter are free.

Congress lavishes money on them.


5 posted on 05/15/2023 9:15:03 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: bitt
But the questions of what to do with those truths and how to impose consequences for the bad behavior highlighted in the 306-page report are hardly settled.

May I recommend a swift but fair trial and a just sentence for destroying the Republic?


6 posted on 05/15/2023 9:18:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ah, the good ole days...


7 posted on 05/15/2023 9:23:17 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to The Biden Clown Show.)
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To: bitt

The “1%” of FBI agents who are corrupt (as Hannity might say) are doing more damage to this country than any good the “99%” who are just following orders are doing ... because they’re just following orders. On balance the FBI is a malignant growth that needs some serious radiation treatment.


8 posted on 05/15/2023 9:23:54 PM PDT by Tellurian (To the Dems, the middle class is a festering wound. They want it amputated.)
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To: gathersnomoss

Yes. Punishment was swift and sure. Recidivism rates were low.


9 posted on 05/15/2023 9:23:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Never happen.

But I do like your idea and just the thought of it gets me more than a little excited.


10 posted on 05/15/2023 9:28:29 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: bitt

Remember too - Russia-gate helped condition the American public for a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine that the deep-state expected (and hoped) would come in the near future

It served multiple purposes


11 posted on 05/15/2023 9:29:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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They still offer the Russian lies.

They will always attach Trump to Russia. One of the guys that signed the letter on the Laptop said he still thinks there’s something to the Russian stories.

LAST WEEK.

How many Elections did Durham let go by before he said this?

And he choose the timing so it’ll be forgotten by the next Election.


12 posted on 05/15/2023 9:49:42 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: bitt

“The Durham Report’s lingering consequence for Joe Biden, Congress and U.S. allies”

Nothing too serious. Maybe a sacrificial lamb. And they will have to be more careful next time not to document their crimes in texts, emails, FBI forms, warrant applications and the like. Not that there would be serious consequences. But it’s a little bit embarrassing to get caught red handed and a few folks might have to retire early and their pensions wouldn’t be as high as if they stuck around doing more evil.


13 posted on 05/15/2023 10:09:53 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: bitt
Special Counsel John Durham’s final report will have lasting consequences far beyond the FBI failures he unmasked.

Lasting consequences? How long will they last? About 3 seconds?

14 posted on 05/15/2023 10:24:49 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: bitt

Impeach this rotten potato!


15 posted on 05/15/2023 10:24:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: bitt

Some of the bad actors named in the report are squealing like stuck pigs. There is that.


16 posted on 05/15/2023 10:26:49 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: bitt

have been monitoring FakeWorldMSM since the Durham story broke and, hate to say it, but no surprise, I only came across a single mention of the report on CNN, and it emphasised FBI had no “REAL evidence” to start an investigation.

main home page of Murdoch’s news.com.au in Australia, and other main Australian news home pages have nothing, yet they will carry the most trivial anti-Trump non-story on an almost daily basis.

funny how the entire world MSM devoted hours daily to the Trump/Russia “collusion” story for years, yet can’t find time for the Durham report.

BURY the FakeMSM once and for all.


17 posted on 05/15/2023 10:37:40 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: bitt

Meanwhile the J-6 prisoners are being held in squalid conditions with no “quick trial.” I have heard they are getting meals with feces in them. What did they do to get such treatment?

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”


18 posted on 05/15/2023 10:40:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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One thing that gets me about that is that that D.C. jail is known for its horrible conditions and mistreatment of prisoners going on well before the J6 prisoners were put there.

WTH? Our nation’s Capitol has a true life Black Hole of Calcutta and everybody knows it! It sure can’t be news to any politician in D.C.

Disgusting.


19 posted on 05/15/2023 10:50:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Missteps, my ass. It was intentional bid to interfere in an election and insurrection against a sitting president


20 posted on 05/15/2023 10:54:34 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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