I just saw a report that Dancheko was found not guilty on all counts. I hope Durham appeals.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I hope Durham appeals.

Appeal what? On what grounds? The not guilty verdict?
I am not an attorney, and I see this from time to time, but everything I ever knew (and just researched) says a not guilty verdict cannot be appealed, because of the double jeopardy protection if nothing else.

Oh, yeah. This is the cure for what ails us.

Let's take fucking forever to have a trial, present mountains of damning evidence and then ha ha, it's all just in fun!

The trial was held in Virginia, another bastion of Trump hating Democrats. This is why Trump, if he gets the chance, is planning on gutting the State Dept. Those corrupt to the core democrats will have to find "work" other than for the .gov, and it likely will not be in VA.

another sad ending

We know so much of who lied and set up Donald Trump, but all the bad actors got off. Comey is teaching "Ethics" at a college. What a sick twist.

Strzok is teaching Counterintelligence at Georgetown University.

Barr and Durham turned out to be profound disappointments

Sean Davis:

"Everyone at the FBI was in on the con. Everyone knew everyone else was lying. Heck, the FBI paid Danchenko tons of money to keep feeding them lies. And not a single corrupt FBI apparatchik has gone to jail for it. And we have Barr and Durham to thank for that."

Hans Mahncke:

"While Durham proved beyond any doubt that Comey and Mueller lied about pretty much everything, exposing these facts in two big cases which he ended up losing is a net negative. All that people will remember is that Durham lost, hence the dossier was real. Awful outcome for truth."

I speculate that Durham is playing a long game here. True, he's 0 for 2 in prosecutions, but some very damaging testimony to the FBI has been revealed under oath by called witnesses. Certainly there is something that can be done with that testimony in the future, either by Durham or some politicians with an (R) behind their name.

Either that, or Durham is truly wasting everyone's time and money.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
The trial was held in Virginia, another bastion of Trump hating Democrats.

^^^ Pretty much a massively biased jury pool so it is not a surprise in the results.

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You failed to do so repeatedly and put your own interests about the interests of the organization.

No grammar Nazis at the FBI.

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Originally posted by Tailhook 84:
I speculate that Durham is playing a long game here. True, he's 0 for 2 in prosecutions
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1 for 3. Not that it matters much.

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Originally posted by Tailhook 84:
I speculate that Durham is playing a long game here.

Wrapping it up around the year 2260.

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Originally posted by Tailhook 84:
I speculate that Durham is playing a long game here. True, he's 0 for 2 in prosecutions, but some very damaging testimony to the FBI has been revealed under oath by called witnesses. Certainly there is something that can be done with that testimony in the future, either by Durham or some politicians with an (R) behind their name.

Either that, or Durham is truly wasting everyone's time and money.

We are all being played by this clown.

Look at how he purposefully slow-walked this entire thing prior to the 2020 elections.

He is NOT ON OUR SIDE. Have any of you figured this out yet?

I don't think that's what's going on. It's simply that the deck is stacked so thoroughly as to make it near impossible for justice to prevail.

History provides us an array of answers as to what might happen next in this country.

Nikita might have been right.

...and Lincoln

a not unexpected twist

https://www.washingtonexaminer...-durham-report-pause

Obama DOJ official urges Durham report 'pause,' warns findings may 'unfairly tarnish' FBI officials

Special counsel John Durham should not have the final say in his investigation seeking out misconduct in the FBI's Russia inquiry, says an Obama-era spokesman for the Justice Department.

Matthew Miller, who was director of the Justice Department's public affairs office from 2009 to 2011, argued Attorney General Merrick Garland, or another top official at the agency, should review the report Durham is expected to prepare by the end of the year before making a decision on releasing its findings to the public.

"His cases are over. I think it’s clear that he's not going to bring any more charges in this investigation, but one of the requirements for special counsels under the regulations is that they write a confidential report and submit it to the attorney general, and the attorney general then makes a decision whether to release that report to the public,"

"given what we know about the way that Durham has behaved, some of his inappropriate public statements during this investigation, the poor judgments he has made in bringing these charges — to release a report publicly and let him have the final word I think probably unfairly tarnish some people at the FBI that we know he holds ill will to based on some of the things he said in this most recent trial."


Sussmann and Danchenko should not have been acquitted. The testimony of the FBI agents "tarnished" themselves and fit the pattern of corruption we have seen for the last 6 years

An interesting report. Among other things, I was surprised to learn that “Nunes is now CEO of Donald Trump's media venture, Trump Media and Technology Group, and has taken the lead in boosting the former president's Twitter alternative Truth Social.” Anyway, here it is:

“Reports signaling the demise of John Durham's special counsel investigation are greatly exaggerated, says Devin Nunes, who believes Republicans winning back power in the midterm elections will provide the prosecutor's endeavor a new lease on life.

After two high-profile defeats in court and no other prosecutions in sight, the conventional wisdom among Durham's critics, and even some supporters, was that his yearslong effort to root out misconduct surrounding the FBI's Russia inquiry was a dud and nearing its end. Undergirding this view is the statute of limitations and reporting by the New York Times that said Durham is expected to prepare his final report by the end of the year, before the Justice Department makes a decision on releasing its findings to the public.

Nunes stands out as one of Durham's more unflappable advocates, along with former Attorney General William Barr, who appointed Durham to the task in 2019. After a jury in northern Virginia dealt Durham a blow this month in his case against a leading source for disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele's infamous anti-Trump dossier, Barr suggested the special counsel's report will "leave a very good foundation for pursuing it further on the Hill." Nunes took that idea one step further, with an eye toward the GOP winning back power in Congress next month. …”

https://www.washingtonexaminer...john-durham-lifeline

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Originally posted by PASig:

We are all being played by this clown.

Look at how he purposefully slow-walked this entire thing prior to the 2020 elections.

He is NOT ON OUR SIDE. Have any of you figured this out yet?

I agree with Para. It doesn't matter how much evidence Durham brings in front of the court. A DC Jury will never convict any of these people.

^^^Maybe they should move the trials to Oklahoma, or Kansas, or anywhere the jury pool won't be filled with swamp dwelling partisans then...

Victor Davis Hanson

What will the FBI Not Do ?

https://amgreatness.com/2022/1...will-the-fbi-not-do/


The FBI on Wednesday finally broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included efforts to suppress information and censor political speech.

“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries,” the bureau said in a statement. “As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”

Almost all of the FBI communique is untrue , except the phrase about the bureau’s “engagements which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.”

Future disclosures will no doubt reveal similar FBI subcontracting with other social media concerns of Silicon Valley to stifle free expression and news deemed problematic to the FBI’s agenda.

The FBI did not merely engage in “correspondence” with Twitter to protect the company and its “customers.” Instead, it effectively hired Twitter to suppress the free expression of some of its users, as well as news stories deemed unhelpful to the Biden campaign and administration—to the degree that the bureau’s requests sometimes even exceeded those of Twitter’s own left-wing censors.

The FBI and its helpers on the Left now reboot the same boilerplate about “conspiracy theorists” and “misinformation” smears used against anyone who rejected the FBI-fed Russian collusion hoax and the bureau’s peddling of the “Russian disinformation” lie to suppress accurate pre-election news about the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The FBI is now, tragically, in freefall.

Consider the last four directors, the public faces of the FBI for the last 22 years. Ex-director Robert Mueller testified before Congress that he simply would not or could not talk about the fraudulent Steele dossier. He claimed that it was not the catalyst for his special counsel investigation of Donald Trump’s alleged ties with the Russians when, of course, it was.

Mueller also testified that he was “not familiar” with Fusion GPS, although Glenn Simpson’s opposition research firm subsidized the dossier through various cutouts that led back to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. And the skullduggery in the FBI-subsidized dossier helped force the appointment of Mueller himself.

While under congressional oath, Mueller’s successor James Comey on some 245 occasions claimed that he “could not remember,” “could not recall,” or “did not know” when asked simple questions fundamental to his own involvement with the Russian collusion hoax.

Comey, remember, memorialized a confidential conversation with President Trump on an FBI device and then used a third party to leak it to the New York Times. In his own words, the purpose was to force a special counsel appointment. The gambit worked, and his friend and predecessor Robert Mueller got the job. Twenty months and $40 million later, Mueller’s investigation tore the country apart but could find no evidence that Trump, as Steele alleged, colluded with the Russians to throw the 2016 election.

Comey also seems to have reassured the president that he was not the target of an ongoing FBI investigation, when in fact, Trump was.

Comey was never indicted for either misleading or lying to a congressional committee or leaking a document variously considered either confidential or classified.

While under oath, his interim successor, Andrew McCabe, on a number of occasions flat-out lied to federal investigators

McCabe purportedly believed Trump was working with the Russians as a veritable spy—a false accusation based entirely on the FBI’s paid, incoherent prevaricator Christopher Steele. And so, McCabe discussed with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein methods to have the president’s conversations wiretapped via a Rosenstein-worn stealthy recording device, presumably without a warrant.

Note the FBI ruined the lives of General Michael Flynn and Carter Page with false allegations of criminal conduct or untruthful testimonies. Under current director Christopher Wray, the FBI has surveilled parents at school boards meetings—on the prompt of the National School Boards Association, whose president wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging that bothersome parents upset over critical race indoctrination groups were supposedly violence-prone and veritable terrorists.

Under Wray, the FBI staged the psychodramatic Mar-a-Lago raid on an ex-president’s home. The FBI likely leaked the post facto myths that the seized documents contained “nuclear codes” or “nuclear secrets.”

Under Wray, the FBI perfected the performance-art, humiliating public arrests of former White House officials or Biden Administration opponents, whether it was the nocturnal rousting of Project Veritas muckraker James O’Keefe in his underwear or the arrest—with leg restraints=—of former White House advisor Peter Navarro at Reagan National Airport for misdemeanor contempt of Congress charge or the detention of Trump election lawyer John Eastman at a restaurant with his family and the confiscation of his phone. Neither O’Keefe nor Eastman has yet been charged with any serious crimes.

The FBI arguably interfered in two presidential elections, and a presidential transition, and possibly determinatively so

the FBI had hired as a source the foreign national and political opposition hitman Christopher Steele

It helped Steele to spread among the media his fraudulent dossier and used its unverified and false contents to win FISA warrants against U.S. citizens on the bogus charges of colluding with the Russians to throw the election to Donald Trump. By the FBI’s own admission, it would not have obtained warrants to surveil Trump campaign associates without the use of Steele’s dossier, which it also admittedly either knew was a fraud or could not corroborate.

Again, such allegations in the dossier were false and, apparently, the FBI soon knew they were bogus since one of its own lawyers—the now-convicted felon Kevin Clinesmith—found it necessary also to alter a court-submitted document to feign incriminatory information.

The FBI, on the prompt of lame-duck members of the Obama Justice Department, during a presidential transition, set up an entrapment ambush of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. It was an effort to lure Flynn into admitting to a violation of the Logan Act, a 223-year old-law that has led to only two indictments and zero convictions.

During the 2020 election, the FBI suppressed knowledge of its possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Early on, the bureau knew that the computer and its contents were authentic and yet kept its contents suppressed.

Moreover, the FBI sought to contract out Twitter (at roughly $3.5 million) as a veritable subsidiarity to suppress social media traffic about the laptop and speech the bureau deemed improper.

Again, although the FBI knew the laptop in its possession was likely genuine, it still sought to use Twitter employees to suppress pre-election mention of that reality. At the same time, bureau officials remained mum when 51 former “intelligence officials” misled the country by claiming that the laptop had all the hallmarks of “Russian disinformation.” Polls later revealed that had the public known the truth about the laptop, a significant number likely would have voted differently—perhaps enough to change the outcome of the election.

the FBI-issued phones of agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page, along with members of Robert Mueller’s special counsel “dream team”—all under subpoena—had their data mysteriously wiped clean, purportedly “by accident.”

The current FBI leadership under Christopher Wray, in the tradition of recent FBI directors, has stonewalled congressional overseers about FBI activity during the Trump and Biden administrations

Wray, most recently, cut short his Senate testimony on the pretext of an unspecified engagement, which turned out to be flying out on the FBI Gulfstream jet to his vacation home.

Yet the bureau’s lack of candor, contrition, and cooperation has only further alienated the public, especially traditional and conservative America, characteristically the chief source of support for the FBI.

The FBI’s former embattled, high-ranking administrators who have been fired or forced to leave the agency—Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, James Baker, Lisa Page, and others—will continue to appear on the cable news stations and social media to inveigh against critics of the FBI, despite being all deeply involved in the Russia-collusion hoax.

Merrick Garland will continue to order the FBI to hound perceived enemies through surveillance and performance art arrests. And the people will only grow more convinced the bureau has become Stasi-like and cannot be reformed but must be broken up—even as in extremis a defiant and unapologetic FBI will, as its latest communique shows, attack its critics.

^^^^^^^^
Thank God that the Rs have the house. They ought to be able to hold hearings to enlighten the public that the FBI is now a D asset.