Durham's Protect-The-Establishment Tactic Is Ruining The Country

The left has learned there are no consequences when they abuse the system to attack conservatives

• Special Counsel John Durham continues to ignore the FBI’s malfeasance in the Crossfire Hurricane targeting of Donald Trump
• Since May of 2019, there have been only three criminal prosecutions
• In August of 2020, Durham obtained a conviction of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith
• Durham, who by then had been appointed a special prosecutor, initiated a second prosecution when he indicted former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann with one count of lying to former FBI General Counsel James Baker
• Next month, the third criminal case related to the Russia collusion hoax goes to trial in a federal court in Virginia when Durham seeks to convict Russian-national Igor Danchenko
• The special counsel charged him with lying to the FBI concerning his role as Christopher Steele's primary sub-source, but he has asked the court to dismiss the charges against him
• For a lie to be "material," the falsehood need not actually influence the agency's decision-making process, but merely needs to be 'capable' of doing so

A Once-Defensible Mindset

• Barr's goal appeared to be to return the DOJ and FBI to their proper role, where everything is about the law, and the facts and the substance
• As AG, Barr faced the constant wrath of the corrupt media and congressional Democrats, who falsely portrayed him as Trump’s patsy
• When Mueller failed to redact the Special Counsel report as promised, Barr issued a letter summarizing the conclusions and then ignored the firestorm that ensued
• And when Mueller inexplicably refused to reach a decision on whether obstruction charges against Trump were appropriate, Barr declared prosecution would not be appropriate

Things Got Much Worse

• Crossfire Hurricane looks like child's play compared to the FBI's direct interference in the 2020 election
• The FBI lied to tech giant Facebook, and presumably also Twitter and others, that the about-to-drop Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, causing the "free press" to censor a story damaging to the politically favored Democrat candidate.
• Barr believes the narrative peddled to justify the search and only hopes his successor, Attorney General Merrick Garland, will act prudentially
• Prudence has no place in the calculus, however, because the latest targeting of Trump appears as political as every former get-Trump effort.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/26/special-counsel-durhams-protect-the-establishment-approach-is-destroying-the-country/