trump's cross-over episode, where the main character in the long running comedy (election fraud) joins the cast of the durham investigation sci-fi series and, well, I am afraid the shark-jumping has begun...
My guess is the DOJ lawyers basically told him he had to do this because if he's looking at the current President of the United States, it would be a conflict of interest if he was then seeing and working other cases under the US attorney's office where they report up to the Executive Branch led by the AG and President. When Barr named him special counsel, he should have already had to have resigned at that point. The whole point is as Special Counsel is you are outside of main DOJ even though you still report to the Deputy AG, and have the ability to go to Congress if they deny you authority to indict. I'm also kind of surprised that Merritt Garland said just flat out that he was going to look at the Durham case, and evaluate. He's basically telling the Republicans that they shouldn't be shocked if he shuts it down if it's not legitimate, and then Congress will see the case and work Durham did, and if it looks like a smear campaign, that'll not be a great day for the Republicans who hyped this up.
Republicans have already made up their mind that any shutdown is a cover up. It's taken Durham forever to the point where Trump threw b****tits Billy under the bus and wrecked their happy little crime family. It's a tricky move by Garland that I think Obama would've avoided. With hyper partisan tone in Washington, I don't think people care as much about optics or the feelings of the other side anymore. That is, they know the rumor and spin of the event is multitudes bigger than the event itself.
They have to also know that firing Durham means that he then has the ability to go to Congress and there’s nothing the Republicans love more than distorting reports and lying about what the evidence is or isn’t to their ignorant Fox News viewers.
At this point I don't think it matters what Durham does or what the Biden DOJ does. If Durham is fired of course Republicans will be up in arms but if reports anything that does less than says that Biden personally was involved in undermining Trump through the FBI they will claim the report has been doctored and that the deep state got to Durham. Durham isn't a Congressionally appointed investigator and there is no Independent Counsel anymore. He could go to Congress as a private citizen but it's unlikely Democratic controlled committee's are going to want to call him to testify.
Under that status he is under the DOJ and cannot go to Congress independently or publish his report independently as we saw with Mueller. There is a big difference between "Special Counsel" and "Independent Counsel."
could be, I'm not conversant on the differences. still, it seems unlikely he'd stay on unless he felt there were something to prosecute.
John Durham finally got his man! (maybe / kinda) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/16/special-counsel-john-durham-reportedly-seeking-ind/
assuming the allegations are true, based on this precedence established by the DOJ under Barr, In an extraordinary move, the Justice Department has dropped its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about several conversations he had with the Russian ambassador in 2016. , the DOJ has no leg to stand on
I'm all for cleaning up the FBI. The circumstances behind Clinestmith was beyond the pale for what's considered America's elite law enforcement agency.
Can we know what you know yet? When are we gonna know exactly? Its been a year and one guy got probation, but it looks like we are well on our way to a second....maybe. Just for reference, one year into the Mueller investigation, there had been 20 indictments.
