he has not requested interviews with any of the FBI or DOJ employees who were directly involved in, or knew about, the opening of the Russia investigation in 2016, according to people familiar with the matter,
Those not contacted include former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok; former FBI general counsel Jim Baker; former chief of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section David Laufman; and former head of DOJ’s National Security Division Mary McCord.
Former attorney general Michael Mukasey, whose son Marc represents the Trump Organization and is a longtime confidant of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, recently speculated in a recent Wall Street Journalthat Durham may be trying to determine whether “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.
“The question Durham and Barr now seem to be asking is, ‘How was this information fed to the bureau in 2016?” said one former FBI official. “That’s distinct from what the IG has been looking at, and seems to indicate that their theory now is the FBI itself was duped by the intelligence community and its overseas partners.”
And seems to be leading back to the Democrats, Biden Clinton, Obama's CIA
Ugh. This also undermines our national security.
The origins of the Russia probe are the thoroughly-documented dealings of the Trump cabal with— wait for it— Russians.
Total F ing nonsense!
It sounds like Putin is using our DOJ to help him find out what Russians talked to Steele.
This in less than three years. What's wrong with us?
I’d like every candidate to be asked if he or she will clean house at TheJusticeDept if elected. No attorney has stood up in public against Bill Barr’s corruption or become a whistleblower. They should all be dismissed. PreetBharara Mimirocah1 BarbMcQuade JillWineBanks
Trump fired the staff that knew how to run justice, they just redact anything trump dont like
By God I hope our intelligence community has links over seas or we’re toast. Barr is a moron.
As it should.
Quite a revelation there.
Barr is seeking foreign info to benefit the trump campaign. How is this legal?
We simply cannot allow our intelligence services to speak with foreigners? Okay...
The investigation/investigators don't care about the facts. They have already reach the conclusion they need/want.
And they won’t cause they are corrupt.
That's not a bug, that's a feature. The last thing Barr wants is inconvenient facts that would interfere with his predetermined conclusion.
Yesterday AG Barr said that DoJ resources are basically being misappropriated. So don’t hold your breath on this investigation or the inauguration investigation or any of the others Mueller referred to DoJ
Boy, are all the guys & gals over at lawfareblog and PreetBharara going to be shocked, SHOCKED that Durham might not be the “straight shooter” or “straight arrow” or “good guy I’ve worked with” that they thought he was. “But he’s ESTABLISHMENT”! ETTD AuthorityBias
That’s bc TheJusticeDept is now just a Trump fixer.
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