since it's likely we will be hearing his name quite a bit this fall, i thought it would be helpful to take a look at his career to date. his wiki bio is here. there's an extensive section on the current investigation, but it's largely speculation about what he might or might not find, and the reaction of other politicians and the media. Until it plays out, that section is immaterial. but his previous record is largely one of investigating law enforcement and/or the government, and although he's a republican, he's worked for both democrat and republican admins: --------- Federal government Following those five years as a state prosecutor, Durham became a federal prosecutor, joining the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut.[8] From 1982 to 1989, he served as an attorney and then supervisor in the New Haven Field Office of the Boston Strike Force in the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. From 1989 to 1994, he served as Chief of the Office's Criminal Division. From 1994 to 2008, he served as the Deputy U.S. Attorney, and served as the U.S. Attorney in an acting and interim capacity in 1997 and 1998.[9][10] In December 2000, Durham revealed secret FBI documents that convinced a judge to vacate the 1968 murder convictions of Enrico Tameleo, Joseph Salvati, Peter J. Limone and Louis Greco because they had been framed by the agency. In 2007, the documents helped Salvati, Limone, and the families of the two other men, who had died in prison, win a $101.7 million civil judgment against the government.[11] Durham also led a series of high-profile prosecutions in Connecticut against the New England Mafia and corrupt politicians, including former governor John G. Rowland.[11] From 2008 to 2012, Durham also served as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.[9] On November 1, 2017, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Attorney for Connecticut.[12] On February 16, 2018, his nomination was confirmed by voice vote of the Senate. He was sworn in on February 22, 2018.[9] Appointments as special investigator Whitey Bulger case Amid allegations that FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted their handlers, US Attorney General Janet Reno named Durham special prosecutor in 1999. He oversaw a task force of FBI agents brought in from other offices to investigate the Boston office's handling of informants.[11] In 2002, Durham helped secure the conviction of retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr., who was sentenced to 10 years in prison on federal racketeering charges for protecting Bulger and Flemmi from prosecution and warning Bulger to flee just before the gangster's 1995 indictment.[11] Durham's task force also gathered evidence against retired FBI agent H. Paul Rico who was indicted in Oklahoma on state charges that he helped Bulger and Flemmi kill a Tulsa businessman in 1981. Rico died in 2004 before the case went to trial.[11] CIA interrogation tapes destruction In 2008, Durham was appointed by Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations.[13][14][15] On November 8, 2010, Durham closed the investigation without recommending any criminal charges be filed.[16] Durham's final report remains secret but was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act filed by The New York Times reporter Charlie Savage. Torture investigation In August 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Durham to lead the Justice Department's investigation of the legality of CIA's use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the torture of detainees.[18] Durham's mandate was to look at only those interrogations that had gone "beyond the officially sanctioned guidelines", with Attorney General Holder saying interrogators who had acted in "good faith" based on the guidance found in the torture memos issued by the Bush Justice Department were not to be prosecuted.[19] Later in 2009, University of Toledo law professor Benjamin G. Davis attended a conference where former officials of the Bush administration had told conference participants shocking stories, and accounts of illegality on the part of more senior Bush officials.[20] Davis wrote an appeal to former Bush officials to take their accounts of illegality directly to Durham. A criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees, Gul Rahman in Afghanistan and Manadel al-Jamadi in Iraq, was opened in 2011. It was closed in 2012 with no charges filed.[21][22]
Go look up Bill Barr's record too. Then try and make a case that he's working in good faith to uphold an equal form of justice for all Americans. Bill Barr wouldn't have picked Durham to lead this political hit job unless he had credibility. If he hired Kris Kobach it wouldn't carry the same weight. However the outcome of the report still will not have any credibility with the American people. We all know that it has been infiltrated by politics, and we know that Bill Barr on behalf of Trump has influenced this report, and influenced it to affect an election. It doesn't matter who Durham is, or who he prosecuted before. His investigation is tainted. You know it too, but you just don't care, and will probably lie about it too.
I won't prejudge the report until it actually comes out but I am pretty sure it will be released and spun for maximum benefit to Trump by Barr. I fully expect Barr to release a highly editorialized and redacted summary like he did with the Mueller report that will draw conclusions that are not necessarily what the report actually says.
Whether there are indictments or not Durham should still report his findings. If there are indictments then those should be put into context through wider findings.
Nora Dannehy, Connecticut prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr. In December 2019, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report into the origins of the Russia investigation. While he found some errors in the probe, the report discredited any allegations that it was an anti-Trump plot. This isn't the first time a prosecutor has resigned from an investigation under William Barr for concerns of political motivation. All four prosecutors resigned from the Roger Stone investigation after Barr became involved. It is very rare for a prosecutor to resign for political reasons. The head prosecutor also resigned from the Michael Flynn investigation after Barr became involved. Everyone knows that William Barr is a political hack and is yet again shoving his fat hand into an investigation looking for phony honey to shove in his fat face. Everyone knows this is a sham. Barr can waddle out and discuss his findings while everyone roles their eyes other than the most die hard of Trumpers who already were planning on voting twice as instructed anyway. The harm that porky has done to the Justice Department is massive. I cannot wait until he is investigated.
He's the 'Everyman' who is so often overlooked by the system... The same system whose rules he followed his whole life only to be dumped on by that same system. I Am JOHN DURHAM!
i would guess the story is less about the clinton foundation itself, and more about how the FBI handled the investigation.
The Clinton Foundation investigation was Trump just being a dick, right? Is Trump mad that his charity got dissolved for breaking the law, while the Clinton Foundation got away clean?
