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Friday, May 1, 2020

What I'm Sayin'

Fox is reporting:

Flynn bombshell puts renewed attention on Durham probe, source says Barr talking to him ‘every day’Flynn bombshell puts renewed attention on Durham probe, source says Barr talking to him ‘every day’

I understand the need for good, catchy, headlines, but for goodness sake! Renewed attention? Who thinks Durham and Barr haven't been following the Flynn case like a pair of hawks from the moment they took their present positions? Of course Durham has reviewed all the files--the Flynn case is central to the conspiracy case Durham is trying to make.

“Durham has seen all of this already,” one source told Fox News, adding that they “could be sufficient for some charges against agents.”

Agents? Who thinks Durham isn't looking at the prosecutors, too, who had most of the same information that the agents had? The only real difference might be the Priestap notes, but the substance of that was available in other ways, such as that closing EC that we've been focused on.

Another source also told Fox News that the files have been reviewed by Durham and Jeff Jensen, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the Justice Department in February to review the Flynn case specifically.
“They’re building a very serious case,” the second source told Fox News in reference to Durham's team. 
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The source added that it is “disturbing to Durham” that “there weren’t any whistleblowers” that came forward in the FBI and Justice Department at the onset of the Russia probe.

Have you ever noticed that whenever the FBI goes out of its way to frame someone, it's always a Republican? Why is that? It's because the FBI has basically been run by former prosecutors for the past two decades. Those prosecutors are overwhelmingly liberal, and overwhelmingly desirous of advancing a liberal agenda through any means at their disposal. That's part of why the integrity of the FBI has crumbled to the point that it would participate in a lawfare style coup.

The solution is obvious. Exclude anyone with any hint of a liberal attitude from employment at the FBI. You think I'm joking? That just shows how intractable the nation's political and constitutional crisis is. Durham is disturbed? As well he should be, but nothing will change until the people are changed. They'll lie low until the country elects another Dem, and then the takeover will resume in real earnest.

“Barr talks to Durham every day,” a source told Fox News. “The president has been briefed that the case is being pursued, and it’s serious.”

Who doubted that? This is the biggest scandal, the biggest crime, in American history. You bet your ass they talk every day.

The source added: “They’ve asked the president to say nothing about it and not screw it up. He is laying back for a change.”

That's reasonable enough.

“They would prefer that [Flynn] be exonerated [rather than pardoned] because then it’s an exoneration by judicial process and not a pardon from a friend, or a coconspirator as some would allege,” the source said. “It would have more value from a public policy standpoint if the courts do it.”

Absolutely. It's an indictment of our Judicial Branch that the persecution of Flynn, Stone, and others has been allowed. The corruption is deep. But there's hope:

Multiple sources have also told Fox News that Durham is expected to wrap up his investigation by the end of the summer. 
One source suggested the investigation could end as soon as July, while another said it could be closer to September, based on Durham's progress, which could be hindered by the coronavirus pandemic rocking the nation and the globe. 
“If they don’t have it, they’re not going to bring it,” another source told Fox News. “But they think they’ve got it.”

15 comments:

  1. And just like that, my comment on your Strassel piece is passe`.

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  2. I wrote in comments several months ago that what ever comes of the Barr/Durham mucking of the DoJ/FBI stable it had to be clear, concise and easy to understand for the American people. Not because America is too dense to understand but because this is all so very large and at odds of the public's perception to their gov't going back at least to FDR.

    Some are clamoring now for immediate arrests and cynically insinuating that Barr/Durham are going to let the real miscreants slide and nothing meaningful will come of this. I can't guarantee that they won't (I don't personally know them); however, I think they are doing precisely the right thing at this juncture.
    The American people still have not (can not) get their heads around the idea that the Deep State is as corrupt and malignant as it is proving to be.
    The Flynn case is precisely what they need to begin putting their denial to rest. It is relatively uncomplicated, easily described and doesn't require a law degree to understand, while at the same time deeply egregious to the American sense of fairplay. This particular seabag needs to be unpacked completely, one dirty set of whites at a time, and laid in the sunlight of public scrutiny, before we start the floggings. When it's all scrubbed, rinsed and stopped to the focs'le haul then the crew will, perhaps, be ready to process the more complex facts concerning those who've been pilfering the rum rations and their watch shirking accomplices.

    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/30/poll-majority-of-american-voters-still-believe-fake-news-that-steele-pee-dossier-is-accurate/

    Tom S.

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    1. I guess that poll explains exactly why we are where we are as a nation.

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  3. Question for MW:

    Can we draw any meaningful conclusions about the "ripeness" of Durham's investigations/potential prosecutions based on the fact that he is speaking with the AG on a daily basis?

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    1. Not the ripeness so much as that the investigation must be very active and making progress. Neither of those guys strike me as the sort to waste time sitting around shooting the sh*t with nothing particular to say.

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  4. Parse this very carefully:

    >> “The source added that it is “disturbing to Durham” that “there weren’t any whistleblowers” that came forward in the FBI and Justice Department at the onset of the Russia probe” <<

    If there were no whistleblowers at all, Durham would not need to include the dependent phrase "... in the FBI and Justice Department..."

    The grammatical construction of the sentence carries the implication there WERE WHISTLEBLOWERS, but not inside FBI/DOJ in the early phases of the Russian Hoax.

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    1. Mike Rogers would, I suppose, be one. But that sure tells you a lot about the institutional culture at DoJ/FBI--and conceivably worse at other IC outfits. It's unspeakably discouraging.

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  5. Forget to mention the temporal dependency in that sentence: it implies there have been whistelblowers inside FBI/DOJ at some point later on.

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    1. More likely they were able to flip some people. Priestap may have been one of the earlier ones who may not have come forward but, when approached, spilled the beans.

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    2. John Solomon has reported somebody high up in FBI came to him in the 2017(?) time frame and told him he was concerned that the Flynn case had been handled improperly.

      He also has told the story of the two IC officials sitting parked at the end of his driveway at 11PM one night in Spring 2017, and he went out to see who it was, and ended up having what must have been a two hour discussion with them about their knowledge of bad things that had been done with IC tools regarding the Russian Collusion Hoax, and encouraged Solomon to "peel the onion" and get to the bottom of it, so that the guilty could be held to account.

      Those sorts of people may not have felt it safe to come forward initially to internal government watchdogs, but I expect once Durham was appointed, they have come out of the woodwork.

      I also agree Durham has likely flipped some people (according to DiGenova, James Baker, former FBI GC, being one.)

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  6. I think General Flynn would make an excellent replacement for Wray.


    Rob S

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    1. No need for fireworks July 4th. Just watch heads explode in DC if that were to happen...

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  7. Intelligence and LE are very different animals. FBI is fundamentally a law enforcement agency. Flynn himself would likely encourage you to find somebody qualified.

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    1. Actually they are one and the same. I think you meant foreign intelligence versus domestic law enforcement, but the FBI’s two top missions per their website deal with foreign intelligence.

      - TexasDude

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  8. About the headline: I don’t necessarily read it to imply the renewed interest is from Barr/Durham but instead from the public, unless I misunderstood your point. As a headline writer myself, I am aware of the difficulty of getting an inclusive, attention grabbing analysis in few words without distorting meaning.

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