The Long Awaited Report: Durham Torches the FBI

 

Evidence That Demands A Trial: Durham's Report Blames FBI Arrogance

Once upon a time, not long ago, I was very optimistic about the particulars of the Durham Report.

 Finally, the plot by the FBI to overthrow a President would be exposed. Justice would finally be done. Crooked officials would be held to account. The plotters who cooked this up would be hoisted on their own petard. Everyone could at long last make some sense of Trump’s anger toward Comey, McCabe, Strzok and even Sessions. I don’t believe anyone will actually be held to account for this. Certainly they won’t be tossed into jail and denied a proper defense like the January 6^th folks. But at least the report is forcing some conversations about the behavior of the FBI.

I didn’t read the whole report but I’ve read all the news accounts and they’re all in agreement as to what it contains, sort of. If your information is a little rusty on this Trump Russia stuff I’ll give you a brief history. During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton cooked up some opposition research with the help of a former British spy, Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS. They put a dossier together with lies about Trump colluding with Russia. The FBI used this to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. They knew it was lies. They knew it was illegal. There was never any evidence of the Trump campaign’s illegality.

They were essentially working for the Clinton campaign and the White House was helping them. My biggest problem with the whole charade, reports, investigations, dossiers and depositions of this sordid story is the lack of a genuine penalty for such an obvious crime. That lack of a penalty is the reason the fake investigation went so far. The FBI knew they had a backstop in place, Trump called this backstop the “deep state”.

 In spots, Durham’s language in the report is worded to make the FBI seem like a sloppy crew instead of the gangsters they really are. Essentially he says they did a poor job. But the point was to overwhelm Trump and keep him from looking into Clinton’s illegalities. By that measure they did an amazing job. Durham isn’t stupid.

The report implies mishandling and bias, even breaks from tradition like letting Trump’s people know they’re being surveilled. I know you aren’t supposed to assign motive when writing these things, but common. Everyone can read between the lines. Someone who breaks down a door and steals jewelry isn’t “Failing to let the owners know of their arrival”. They are “crooks” because their actions are criminal and everyone can see it.

The sheer number of ‘mistakes’ from the FBI is a signal that “Crossfire Hurricane” wasn’t a good faith investigation. Especially since the mistakes always fall against Trump.

Crossfire Hurricane launched just days after they got their hands on the Steele Dossier. The dossier was a load of sensational nonsense, salacious enough (Russian hookers peeing) that the media would be guaranteed to pick it up. But starting the investigation right after getting the dossier? That’s as close to proof as you can get that they weren’t interested in corroborating the story. They were on team Clinton. They didn’t need to corroborate anything. Steele used a guy named Igor Danchenko to ‘investigate’ Trump in Russia. He made up a dirty story and the FBI ran with it. They even told Christopher Steele they would pay him up to a million if he could verify the claims in the dossier. He couldn’t. Even the feds didn’t think there was anything to it.

I knew this whole Durham Report business was in trouble when he couldn’t get a conviction on some very clear charges against MichaelSussman. He’s the lawyer from Perkins Coie that lied to the FBI about his involvement with the Clinton campaign. Igor Danchenko was also acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI. Yes, these are low level charges. But if you can’t get convictions the rest of your case dries up. It’s tough to catch big fish when all you can manage is seaweed along the river bank. I’m also not sure how much John Durham wanted to get convictions. He tried the cases in front of Washington DC juries. They’re notoriously sympathetic to the Democrat party. Most likely he compiled the report with enough information to implicate half of the Justice Department. 

At the very least, the report is another red pill for Americans who still think the FBI is full of dedicated law and order types. Their lawless behavior is proof that they didn’t fear prosecution. I’m sure we’ll get Senate hearings in the coming months and we might get a few good one liners from Cruz and Hawley. But real prosecution? naw brah.  

It’s been said you should never assign malice to that which can be explained by incompetence. With the FBI it’s time to invert that. Perhaps this time will be different; nothing changes until the American people demand it though.