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What U.S. Attorney John Durham has found on Ukraine may be quite different from what the Democrats are looking for, writes Michael B. Mukasey wsj.com/articles/john-… via @WSJ
Much media and political effort has gone into sometimes close and often willful parsing of President Trump’s July 25 conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Little notice has been given, however, to another document lying in plain sight: a Justice Department press release issued the day the conversation transcript became public.
That DOJ statement makes explicit that the president never spoke with AG Barr “about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former VP Biden or his son” or asked him to contact Ukraine “on this or any other matter,” and that the AG has not communicated at all with Ukraine
It also contains the following morsel: “A DOJ team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintel investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election."
"While the Attorney General has yet to contact Ukraine in connection with this investigation, certain Ukrainians who are not members of the government have volunteered information to Mr. Durham, which he is evaluating.”
The number of countries includes the U. K. and Italy, the latter of which was just visited by one William Barr. So what's going on? More from Mukasey:
"The definitive answer to the obvious question—what’s that about?—is known only to Mr. Durham and his colleagues."
"The definitive answer to the obvious question—what’s that about?—is known only to Mr. Durham and his colleagues."
"But publicly available... suggest that during the 2016 campaign the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to get evidence from Ukrainian government officials against Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to pressure him into cooperating against Mr. Trump."
"... it appears that Ukrainian officials who backed Clinton provided info that generated the investigation of Manafort—acts one Ukrainian court has said violated Ukrainian law and “led to interference in the electoral processes of the US in 2016 and harmed" Ukrainian interests.
Reading not so far between the lines here, it's clear that the biggest story of 2019 or maybe 2020 is yet to come — and it won't be impeachment. The Russia Probe is being turned on its head.
