OMFG are you WATCHING #DeadlineWH ??
So the 1st hr she did a great report on the death of #TyreNichols & charges against the cops who killed him. Then she did a segment on #UkraineRussiaWar then a segment on J6 supporter Eastman who was charged w multiple disciplinary counts by CA Bar & likely to lead to disbarment!
2/ok, so back to the main reason for my tweet. I fell asleep accidentally & woke up to THIS…
3/y’all remember that trip that Bill Barr & Durham took to Italy when that investigation was 1st opened? U know, the 1 that was billed to taxpayers, to press Italian officials — while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation —??
4/welp, the Italian official — wait for it…
“unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Trump to certain suspected financial crimes”! Which Bill Barr & Durham THEN opened a SECRET criminal investigation into Trump! OMG! What the outcome??
nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/…
“unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Trump to certain suspected financial crimes”! Which Bill Barr & Durham THEN opened a SECRET criminal investigation into Trump! OMG! What the outcome??
nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/…
4/a leak at the time made the assumption that said “criminal investigation” was linked to the Russia investigation & Durham didn’t correct that presumption — bec it was an on going investigation— 😜 😜 HOWEVER it was related to financial crimes potentially committed by Trump!
5/“Durham never filed charges & it remains unclear what level of an investigation it was, what steps he took, what he learned and whether anyone at the White House ever found out.” By the spring & summer of 2020, w TFG’s reelection campaign in full swing, & Durham investigation’s
6/“failure to deliver scalps in time for the election” began to erode Barr’s relationship with Trump
Durham continued to try to get proof that HRC “campaign conspired to defraud the gov by manu’fg the suspicions that TFG campaign had colluded w 🇷🇺, along w scrutinizing…
Durham continued to try to get proof that HRC “campaign conspired to defraud the gov by manu’fg the suspicions that TFG campaign had colluded w 🇷🇺, along w scrutinizing…
7/what the FBI & intelligence officials knew about the Clinton campaign’s actions.” Barr pushed Durham to do an interim report, which caused an upheaval at the DOJ & a prominent atty who worked for Durham for yrs resigned in protest. No report was prepared tho.
8/Durham wanted to use “memos, whose credibility the intel community doubted, written by Russian intel analysts & discussing purported conversations involving 🇺🇸 victims of 🇷🇺 hacking, according to ppl familiar with the matter."
9/The memos were part of a trove provided to CIA by a Dutch spy agency, that infiltrated servers of its 🇷🇺 counterpart.The memos were said to make demonstrably inconsistent, inaccurate or exaggerated claims& some US analysts believed 🇷🇺 may have deliberately seeded them w disinfo
10/Durham sought to use the memos as justification to get access to the private communications of an 🇺🇸 citizen but was denied an order allowing them to seize info about Benardo’s emails. Leonard Benardo, the executive VP of the Open Society Foundations, a pro-democracy org…
11/whose Hungarian-born founder, Soros, has been vilified by the far-right. The Judge decided that the 🇷🇺 memo was too weak a basis to intrude on Benardo’s privacy. Durham then personally appeared before her & urged her to reconsider, but she again ruled against him.
12/Rather than dropping the idea, Durham sidestepped Howell’s ruling by invoking grand-jury power to demand docs & testimony directly from Soros’ foundation & Benardo abt his emails. Rather than fighting in court, the foundation & Benardo quietly complied.
13/But —interestingly— for Durham, the result appears to have been another dead end.
All around the time of the 2020 election when Barr said he had pressed for the draft to evaluate what a report on preliminary findings wld look like & what evidence would need to be declassified
All around the time of the 2020 election when Barr said he had pressed for the draft to evaluate what a report on preliminary findings wld look like & what evidence would need to be declassified
14/But they insisted that he intended any release to come during the summer or aft Nov. 3 election — not soon bef Election Day. In any case, in late Sept 2020, abt 2 weeks aft Dannehy quit, some1 leaked to a Fox Business personality that Durham wouldn’t issue any interim report,
16/important to note from the article
“… after almost four years — far longer than the Russia investigation itself — Durham’s work is coming to an end without uncovering anything like the deep-state plot alleged by Trump and suspected by Barr.”
“… after almost four years — far longer than the Russia investigation itself — Durham’s work is coming to an end without uncovering anything like the deep-state plot alleged by Trump and suspected by Barr.”
17/"Moreover, a monthslong review by NYT found that the main thrust of the Durham inquiry was marked by some of the very same flaws — incl a strained justification for opening it & its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court —
18/…that Trump allies claim characterized the Russia investigation." #DeadlineWH
After that segment @NicolleDWallace covered the literal treasure trove of the fine print in the January 6 report by Benjamin Wittes. Jeffrey Clark was directed by his atty to cloud his testimony so that no conclusions could be drawn. They had to leave it to DOJ …
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