George Croner Profile picture
Senior Fellow @fpri; Fmr. principal litigation counsel at National Security Agency; Frequent commentator and lecturer on FISA; Views expressed are mine alone

Sep 10, 2020, 7 tweets

Some who follow me on Twitter have decidedly different views from mine on the current WH inhabitant. I happened to see this link posted in one of their Twitter feeds. I wouldn't ordinarily re-post it, but its absurd commentary is representative of the absurdity of the Far /1

Right, sort of like bogus anti-vax rantings. Here is the link:
americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/w…

Take particular note of the quoted Tweet stating that "Obama CIA Director John Brennan ran a secret task force out of Langley with its own separate budget to investigate Trump campaign and /2

its alleged ties to Russia." Now, a few weeks back even Fox News reported that Durham had met with Brennan for several hours and Durham told Brennan "he was not a subject or a target of [Durham's] criminal investigation."

I have a lot of problems with Durham's investigation, /3

and I've written on those problems here:

justsecurity.org/71647/what-dur…

but I believe Durham is a competent prosecutor who would never give a person "neither subject nor target" assurance if that person had operated an illegal secret task force out of the CIA to investigate the /4

Trump campaign. I mean, actions related to the investigation of the Trump campaign and its alleged ties to Russia is EXACTLY the focus of Durham's investigation. So, if there was a germ of truth to what appears in "American Thinker" (the title has to be an oxymoron), there is /5

absolutely no way that Durham effectively closes off any prosecution of Brennan by assuring him that he is neither a subject nor a target of Durham's investigation.

I think this commentary says all you need to know about "American Thinker," and those who place any credence /6

in what it publishes - at least on this topic. /7

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