I just came across a good interview on Fox with Solomon "Sol" Wisenberg, who's a very knowledgeable prosecutor in the field of corruption and fraud. He was Deputy Independent Counsel under Ken Starr, so he learned by investigating pros. I find his comments very pithy and to the point. No news, but I think you'll enjoy it. My transcript shortens or omits some of the questions:
October 1, 2019, re the Ukraine Hoax phone call:
Q: Where do you think we are right now in trying to understand the story?
Sol Wisenberg: Well, to me the big part of the story is, I see this as an effort from the beginning really to shut down John Durham's investigation of how the intelligence agencies were used against candidate Trump in the 2016 election.
Sol Wisenberg: I can't prove it, but there's been a concerted effort to go against Barr, particularly since he said he thought it was a 'big deal'--remember his comment! 'It's a big deal when the party in power uses intelligence agencies to spy on the candidate of the opposing party.' He's got an impeccable prosecutor he has hired who's respected by both sides of the aisle to investigate this, and I think they're scared to death, certain elements of the intelligence community and the Democratic party about what he is going to find. That doesn't mean that President Trump's phone call wasn't foolish, but I think this is what it's all about, and they were simply waiting for an opportunity to pounce.
Q: They can't shut down a prosecutor who acts on his own authority.
Sol Wisenberg: Well, they don't have the authority--he [Durham] works for Bill Barr--but they can try to smear him, and they smear him by smearing Barr.
