Durham humiliated, Danchenko acquitted. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/politics/durham-investigation-igor-danchenko-trial/index.html Three years of tax dollars, and one probation sentence. I suppose the pricetag is worth it to get on the record that there was indeed no misdeeds in the Russia Interference investigation. Thanks John Durham for proving that. I am sorry you gave up your reputation for the pony show.
Not Guilty on all counts really damages the investigations legacy. I do think it's important to have oversight. It's also important to not go chasing fairytales
So what Durham has showed was that while the FBI isn’t perfect there was very little that was criminal or even unprofessional happening at the FBI. That there was reason to investigate potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign and it wasn’t done out of unfounded political bias.
Haven't caught up on this thread at all, but many of these things could be true at the same time: Durham has always been a straight shooter. Durham was not a fan of the Trump craziness. The investigation into the Trump dossier had inappropriate actions, but not necessarily illegal actions (save for one for sure). Durham went crazy trying to prove a ton of illegality when there was little, as most of the investigation was proper.
Analyst Igor Danchenko's acquittal is another blow to special counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI's investigation into alleged ties between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. A federal jury acquitted Russian analyst Igor Danchenko on Tuesday on four counts of lying to the FBI in what is expected to be the final case stemming from special counsel John Durham’s three-year probe into the origins of the agency’s investigation into alleged ties between former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. The jury deliberated for more than 10 hours before reaching a verdict. Prosecutors alleged Danchenko provided false information to the FBI in 2017 when the agency was trying to verify information in a dossier detailing Trump’s alleged ties to Russia that was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. The largely unsubstantiated dossier was used by the FBI to support its surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Danchenko’s attorney, Stuart Sears, said in remarks outside the courthouse that "we’ve known all along that Mr. Danchenko was innocent, we’re happy now that the American public knows that as well. And we thank these jurors for their hard work and deliberation and reaching the right result."
I haven't really followed Durham's career but it seems like he's generally well respected. It sounds like he was under a lot of pressure from certain circles to find a lot of wrongdoing and while he did take an aggressive approach in prosecution it doesn't seem like he exceeded his purview like Ken Starr did.
Another nothing sandwich perpetuated by trump and team, man they have to be tired of losing every time they go to court to fight some bogus conspiracy theory
Bring On the Durham Report The special counsel can now tell the story of the Fbi and the Russia collusion probe. John Durham lost again in court on Tuesday as a jury acquitted Igor Danchenko of lying to the FBI. But the special counsel has already won the larger battle to expose the dirty political machinations behind the FBI’s Russia collusion probe of the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. Mr. Durham’s investigation uncovered that Mr. Danchenko was the primary source for the infamous Christopher Steele dossier that the FBI based much of its probe on, and his claims were false. But the jury may not have believed the FBI was a victim when Mr. Durham also exposed the bureau’s own disgraceful behavior. To wit, the FBI’s decision to hide the dossier’s political provenance (paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign), its deceptions to the secret court that approved its surveillance applications, and its refusal to publicly acknowledge that the dossier and the collusion accusations were false. The jury can be forgiven for doubting the FBI was duped. Mr. Durham may be winding down his investigation, but he is still obliged to produce a report to the Attorney General that sums up his efforts and what he learned. He can knit together the information he’s been relaying piecemeal through court filings. Please bring it on, and don’t spare the details or any of the participants. His report should be devoted to educating the public about what really happened, and why. No doubt some of those participants will lobby Attorney General Merrick Garland to keep a report confidential. Obama-era Justice Department flack Matthew Miller is already suggesting Mr. Durham shouldn’t be “the person that gets to have the final word on the Russia investigation.” Really? Former Attorney General Bill Barr made special counsel Robert Mueller’s report public, though it failed to disclose the dirty details that Mr. Durham found. Mr. Mueller, current FBI director Christopher Wray, and dozens of other DOJ officials would prefer that the public be kept in the dark about one of the worst abuses in FBI history. Mr. Durham, who was appointed by Mr. Barr, is the only reason America has had a glimpse of the FBI abuses. Any attempt to squelch his report would compound the scandal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bring-...-trump-11666216170?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s
Hmm this is odd. I was told no convictions means no evidence and therefore nothing is there. That's what I was taught about the Mueller report.
We don't need stories. We needed facts and we got them. Everyone knew what this was, and despite the extraordinary waste of taxpayer dollars, its reassuring to know, with finality, that no wrong doing took place in the investigation. The Russia Interference investigation was justified in starting, and exposed a number of criminal activities and indictments. Its shone a light on weaknesses of our system in whether a criminal sitting president can / should be charged. The narrative that this was all some big hoax has been completely debunked. You lose. Your narrative loses. Your interpretation of reality loses. Why don't you try and be a reasonable and rational human being and recognize that your belief system was a giant pack of propaganda nonsense. Grow, learn, be better. Escape your cult. Or just blame it on the deep state, biased DC juries, or whatever the next stage of delusional is going to be.
I was glancing back across some of the earlier pages of this thread and came across this gem: https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/who-is-john-durham.307285/page-14#post-13166747 @Nook Here's one more you can add.
