Thread by @KingMakerFT

Yesterday I outlined how Durham’s strategy appears to be the following: Take down a pre-election conspiracy of Clinton acolytes, lawyers, investigative firms, and other private persons, then move to the post-election phase, targeting those inside the govt who either joined the

original conspiracy or formed a second one to take down the president and/or coverup what had gone on before. I explained that no prosecutor worth his salt would let the criminal FISA abuse go unpunished, but the key date would be post-election, when the second renewal of the

Carter Page warrant was obtained- after the FBI interviewed Danchenko and learned the dossier was nothing bu rumors and bar talk. The coverup of what they learned from Danchenko, notwithstanding his lies, extended well into 2018, during the Mueller investigation. @zerohedge has

a piece out today about that coverup, necessary to Andrew Weissmann’s team of prosecutors because of the risk to their investigation as fruit of the poisoned tree. The article focuses on the the July 2018 letter to the FISC, describing Danchenko as having been “truthful and

cooperative” in his FBI interview, without telling the court that the “truthful” Mr Danchenko had described the dossier as based on rumor, speculation and bar talk. Two renewals of the Page warrant were fraudulently obtained after the FBI knew this, but nevertheless relied on

dossier claims about Carter Page’s involvement in a conspiracy with Russia. In other words, the coverup was still going on into 2018, with the help of the Mueller team.

Here is the DOJ’s July 12, 2018, letter to Judge Collyer of the FISC. The Steele reporting begins on page 6, and they get to Danchenko on page 8: judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

@AndrewCMcCarthy has a piece out in the National Review, disagreeing with my take. He believes the tea leaves show Durham will stop at the first step outlined above: crimes committed by Clinton followers to seed federal agencies and LE with the false collusion narrative. By

alleging that these false statements and fabricated evidence duped the FBI is a hint that Durham will leave govt actors alone. I agree with him for conduct occurring before the election. But I don’t think there’s enough in the indictments so far to rule out the probability that

govt actors- employees at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and even the Mueller team- are at serious risk of prosecution for engaging in a conspiracy to take down Trump and to cover up the Clinton conspiracy during the campaign. I begin with the premise that the FISA Court has

concluded that the last two renewals were illegal. There’s evidence that others besides Clinesmith knew that at the time, yet acted deliberately to defraud the court. Starting with that premise, it’s hard to imagine other participants in the scheme, having nothing to do with

FISA yet actively promoting false narratives by leaking classified information, misleading Congress, etc., will not face prosecution. The indictments so far don’t suggest that Durham will be satisfied with a report rather than more indictments.