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Durham Target Kevin Clinesmith Wasn’t Working for Who You Think When He Forged That Email to Spy on Carter Page
Posted at 9:00 pm on August 14, 2020 by Michael Thau
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One important fact getting overlooked in all the discussion of whether FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea represents the sacrifice of a minor criminal so the ringleaders can escape justice or the beginning of the end for those who were running the show is exactly whose show Clinesmith was a part of when the crime he’s admitted committing occurred.
You see, Clinesmith wasn’t working for James Comey on June 19, 2017, the date he altered that CIA email inconveniently identifying Trump’s onetime foreign policy advisor Carter Page as a trusted source.
By that point in time, Clinesmith was part of Robert Mueller’s Independent Counsel investigation.
And it was Mueller’s crew who made use of the illegitimately obtained renewal of the FISA warrant to spy on Page that Clinesmith’s willingness to commit forgery enabled.
On the recommendation of acting Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, Trump had fired Comey on May 9, 2017. As a consequence, Comey’s second-in-command, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe automatically took over as acting director until Trump appointed Christopher Wray on June 7. (Wray was interim Director until his Senate confirmation on July 20.)
McCabe was in charge for less than a month. But within just 8 days he’d started a second investigation of Trump in addition to the still ongoing Crossfire Hurricane probe of his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Despite Trump’s having fired Comey at Rosenstein’s urging and the president’s authority to terminate the director of the FBI for any reason he pleases, McCabe wasted no time in using his boss’s dismissal as a pretext to investigate Trump for obstructing Crossfire Hurricane.
McCabe had also helped tip over the very first domino that ultimately led to Robert Mueller’s appointment as independent counsel.
Though it hasn’t received nearly enough attention, McCabe played a substantial role in ginning up the phony controversy over whether Jeff Sessions lied to Congress about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during his confirmation hearing.
Sessions takes a lot of heat for enabling the Mueller probe by recusing himself. But though there’s no question he made a huge unforced error, most people aren’t aware of the stuff going on in the background that almost seems like it could have been designed to make Sessions step aside and put Rosenstein in control.
A few months before starting that second investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice by taking Rosenstein’s advice, Andrew “Itchy Finger” McCabe had triggered another criminal investigation of Sessions for lying about his contacts with Kislyak at the request of Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy and Al Franken.
The fuss about Sessions’ contacts with Kislyak quickly died down and Mueller closed the investigation in January 2018. But the ginned-up controversy did force Sessions to recuse himself; which put Rosenstein in a position to urge Trump to fire Comey; which then put McCabe in the position to start a second investigation of Trump for obstruction of justice for taking Rosenstein’s advice.
Within a matter of days, Rosenstein appointed Mueller Independent Counsel to take over both Crossfire Hurricane and McCabe’s second obstruction of justice investigation, which, being only a day or two old, never got baptized with a cool-sounding name.
Funny how things work out sometimes. If you didn’t know better, you might think making Mueller Independent Counsel was the result of some kind of plan.
Rosenstein later justified increasing the scope and power of both investigations by appointing Mueller to take them over as Independent Counsel by claiming he was “concerned that the public would not have confidence in the investigation and that the acting FBI director [McCabe] was not the right person to lead it.”
The event that would be at the center of Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference, however, was Russia’s alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee’s computer network which supposedly netted the DNC emails WikiLeaks started publishing on July 22, 2016.
If the Russians really did hack the DNC, it was an unprecedented act of foreign espionage. But, on the other hand, if the skepticism Trump has occasionally expressed is on target, then the Russians never stole any DNC files at all.
The whole story would turn out to be a ruse to discredit WikiLeaks’ damaging revelations about Hillary Clinton and stop Trump from using them against her. So, instead of foreign espionage tantamount to an act of war, we’d be talking about one of the biggest domestic political crimes in American history.
The DNC’s tech firm CrowdStrike were the only ones allowed to examine any of their supposedly infected hardware, as everyone knows since Trump mentioned CrowdStrike in his now-famous phone call to Ukrainian president Zelensky.
Both the FBI and Mueller’s probe consented to the very strange arrangement of accepting forensic evidence from a private contractor hired by the alleged victim of the crime they were investigating in lieu of collecting their own.
And the concern Rosenstein professed about whether the public would have confidence in McCabe might have applied even more to Mueller had it ever become widely known that CrowdStrike president, Shawn Henry, prior to joining the firm, was promoted to FBI head of cyber operations by none other than Robert Mueller when the latter ran the FBI.
Good thing we know that none of this could have possibly been planned.
Moreover, we learned something in May that might have struck another blow to the public’s confidence in Shawn Henry’s mentor. Thanks to acting Director of National Security, Richard Grenell, Adam Schiff was forced to release testimony Henry gave to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017.
CrowdStrike’s president admitted that the claim we’ve been assured of for four years now that his firm had discovered proof that the Russians had stolen files from the DNC was – not to put too fine a point on it – a baldfaced lie.
There wasn’t even any evidence, let alone proof.
Henry testified that CrowdStrike only found evidence that files were “staged for exfiltration” but explicitly admitted that “[t]here’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated” at least five separate times.
In fact, there seems to be very good evidence they weren’t.
Henry says that CrowdStrike first detected Russian malware on the DNC system in early May 2016 and waited till June 10 to remove it. We know from CrowdStrike’s founder Dmitri Alperovitch that CrowdStrike was monitoring the Russian’s presence using their premiere software Falcon that entire time.
In any event, it’s bizarre enough that Henry and Alperovitch allowed the Russians to remain on the DNC network for such a long period of time given that, when asked, Henry testified that the system had been vulnerable to their malware the entire 6 weeks.
So CrowdStrike must have at least been monitoring what the Russians were doing from the beginning of May when they first detected their malware through June 10, when they finally removed it. Otherwise, it’s not even clear what the DNC could have even been paying them for.
Mueller’s report, however, says the DNC emails WikiLeaks published were stolen by the Russians between May 25 and June 1. And, independent analysis has confirmed that’s within a couple of days of when the files were first copied by whoever the culprit was. Indeed, more than half of the emails were dated after CrowdStrike installed Falcon and, hence, couldn’t have been hacked before they were on the job.
So how could the Russians have stolen over 44,000 emails with almost 18,000 attached files while CrowdStrike was monitoring their presence on the DNC system?
How could anyone have stolen that much data over the internet from some remote location without Falcon having any record of the files exiting the DNC’s system?
Makes you wonder if maybe Julian Assange might have been telling the truth when he said the DNC files were leaked by an insider and not hacked over the internet by the Russians or anyone else.
Or why Mueller made no attempt to question Assange given that he’s the only known person in the world with firsthand knowledge of where those DNC emails he published came from.
Seems like sort of a big omission for someone investigating a crime to not even bother trying to contact the only witness.
Even if Mueller thought Assange would just lie, that would give him even more reason to try to arrange an interview given how aggressive he was about inventing lies that General Flynn never even told in order to crush him.
Speaking of which, the public’s confidence in Mueller might have been even further eroded if it was widely known that General Flynn had been adamant that the Russian hack was a ruse.
As had Paul Manafort.
As had Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate of Manafort’s who Mueller also indicted.
And Roger Stone, as well.
Funny how Shawn Henry’s old boss at the FBI, Rober Mueller, wound up doing everything in his power to destroy the three most prominent men pushing the idea that the Russian DNC hack we now know his firm, CrowdStrike, never had any evidence even occurred and, indeed, must have known beyond a shadow of doubt hadn‘t was a hoax as well as those most in a position to keep pushing Trump to make sure it was investigated.
One of the strangest things about congressional Republicans’ reaction to the many abuses of power perpetrated against Donald Trump, his associates, his campaign, and his presidency is the difference between the way they seem to view Crossfire Hurricane and Mueller’s probe.
Everyone in the GOP establishment seems to more or less accept that the FBI investigation was completely corrupt and that Comey and all his underlings committed serious crimes and ought to be punished.
Yet Mueller’s probe, which was merely the new, more powerful, identity Crossfire Hurricane took on after it faked its own death, isn’t treated with the same skepticism.
These very different attitudes are even more puzzling given that Mueller was forced to get rid of three members of his team who’d also been part of Crossfire Hurricane when text messages they’d sent indicating an incredible antipathy towards Donald Trump emerged.
The first two were, as everyone knows, FBI lovebirds, Peter Stzrok and Lisa Page. Fewer are aware that Kevin Clinesmith was the third.
Given that the FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page that was renewed as a result of Clinesmith’s admitted criminal activity was used by Robert Mueller and not his protege James Comey, hopefully, congressional Republicans will start taking the same dim view of Mueller’s probity that they already have of Comey’s.
And, hopefully, John Durham is already taking a hard look at Mueller’s corruption.
I’ve just started a series of columns on the blatant lies Mueller’s report contains concerning that alleged Russian hack of the DNC. And believe me, there’s plenty for him to find.
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Posted at 9:00 pm on August 14, 2020 by Michael Thau
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)One important fact getting overlooked in all the discussion of whether FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea represents the sacrifice of a minor criminal so the ringleaders can escape justice or the beginning of the end for those who were running the show is exactly whose show Clinesmith was a part of when the crime he’s admitted committing occurred.
You see, Clinesmith wasn’t working for James Comey on June 19, 2017, the date he altered that CIA email inconveniently identifying Trump’s onetime foreign policy advisor Carter Page as a trusted source.
By that point in time, Clinesmith was part of Robert Mueller’s Independent Counsel investigation.
And it was Mueller’s crew who made use of the illegitimately obtained renewal of the FISA warrant to spy on Page that Clinesmith’s willingness to commit forgery enabled.
On the recommendation of acting Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, Trump had fired Comey on May 9, 2017. As a consequence, Comey’s second-in-command, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe automatically took over as acting director until Trump appointed Christopher Wray on June 7. (Wray was interim Director until his Senate confirmation on July 20.)
McCabe was in charge for less than a month. But within just 8 days he’d started a second investigation of Trump in addition to the still ongoing Crossfire Hurricane probe of his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Despite Trump’s having fired Comey at Rosenstein’s urging and the president’s authority to terminate the director of the FBI for any reason he pleases, McCabe wasted no time in using his boss’s dismissal as a pretext to investigate Trump for obstructing Crossfire Hurricane.
McCabe had also helped tip over the very first domino that ultimately led to Robert Mueller’s appointment as independent counsel.
Though it hasn’t received nearly enough attention, McCabe played a substantial role in ginning up the phony controversy over whether Jeff Sessions lied to Congress about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during his confirmation hearing.
Sessions takes a lot of heat for enabling the Mueller probe by recusing himself. But though there’s no question he made a huge unforced error, most people aren’t aware of the stuff going on in the background that almost seems like it could have been designed to make Sessions step aside and put Rosenstein in control.
A few months before starting that second investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice by taking Rosenstein’s advice, Andrew “Itchy Finger” McCabe had triggered another criminal investigation of Sessions for lying about his contacts with Kislyak at the request of Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy and Al Franken.
The fuss about Sessions’ contacts with Kislyak quickly died down and Mueller closed the investigation in January 2018. But the ginned-up controversy did force Sessions to recuse himself; which put Rosenstein in a position to urge Trump to fire Comey; which then put McCabe in the position to start a second investigation of Trump for obstruction of justice for taking Rosenstein’s advice.
Within a matter of days, Rosenstein appointed Mueller Independent Counsel to take over both Crossfire Hurricane and McCabe’s second obstruction of justice investigation, which, being only a day or two old, never got baptized with a cool-sounding name.
Funny how things work out sometimes. If you didn’t know better, you might think making Mueller Independent Counsel was the result of some kind of plan.
Rosenstein later justified increasing the scope and power of both investigations by appointing Mueller to take them over as Independent Counsel by claiming he was “concerned that the public would not have confidence in the investigation and that the acting FBI director [McCabe] was not the right person to lead it.”
The event that would be at the center of Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference, however, was Russia’s alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee’s computer network which supposedly netted the DNC emails WikiLeaks started publishing on July 22, 2016.
If the Russians really did hack the DNC, it was an unprecedented act of foreign espionage. But, on the other hand, if the skepticism Trump has occasionally expressed is on target, then the Russians never stole any DNC files at all.
The whole story would turn out to be a ruse to discredit WikiLeaks’ damaging revelations about Hillary Clinton and stop Trump from using them against her. So, instead of foreign espionage tantamount to an act of war, we’d be talking about one of the biggest domestic political crimes in American history.
The DNC’s tech firm CrowdStrike were the only ones allowed to examine any of their supposedly infected hardware, as everyone knows since Trump mentioned CrowdStrike in his now-famous phone call to Ukrainian president Zelensky.
Both the FBI and Mueller’s probe consented to the very strange arrangement of accepting forensic evidence from a private contractor hired by the alleged victim of the crime they were investigating in lieu of collecting their own.
And the concern Rosenstein professed about whether the public would have confidence in McCabe might have applied even more to Mueller had it ever become widely known that CrowdStrike president, Shawn Henry, prior to joining the firm, was promoted to FBI head of cyber operations by none other than Robert Mueller when the latter ran the FBI.
Good thing we know that none of this could have possibly been planned.
Moreover, we learned something in May that might have struck another blow to the public’s confidence in Shawn Henry’s mentor. Thanks to acting Director of National Security, Richard Grenell, Adam Schiff was forced to release testimony Henry gave to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017.
CrowdStrike’s president admitted that the claim we’ve been assured of for four years now that his firm had discovered proof that the Russians had stolen files from the DNC was – not to put too fine a point on it – a baldfaced lie.
There wasn’t even any evidence, let alone proof.
Henry testified that CrowdStrike only found evidence that files were “staged for exfiltration” but explicitly admitted that “[t]here’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated” at least five separate times.
In fact, there seems to be very good evidence they weren’t.
Henry says that CrowdStrike first detected Russian malware on the DNC system in early May 2016 and waited till June 10 to remove it. We know from CrowdStrike’s founder Dmitri Alperovitch that CrowdStrike was monitoring the Russian’s presence using their premiere software Falcon that entire time.
In any event, it’s bizarre enough that Henry and Alperovitch allowed the Russians to remain on the DNC network for such a long period of time given that, when asked, Henry testified that the system had been vulnerable to their malware the entire 6 weeks.
So CrowdStrike must have at least been monitoring what the Russians were doing from the beginning of May when they first detected their malware through June 10, when they finally removed it. Otherwise, it’s not even clear what the DNC could have even been paying them for.
Mueller’s report, however, says the DNC emails WikiLeaks published were stolen by the Russians between May 25 and June 1. And, independent analysis has confirmed that’s within a couple of days of when the files were first copied by whoever the culprit was. Indeed, more than half of the emails were dated after CrowdStrike installed Falcon and, hence, couldn’t have been hacked before they were on the job.
So how could the Russians have stolen over 44,000 emails with almost 18,000 attached files while CrowdStrike was monitoring their presence on the DNC system?
How could anyone have stolen that much data over the internet from some remote location without Falcon having any record of the files exiting the DNC’s system?
Makes you wonder if maybe Julian Assange might have been telling the truth when he said the DNC files were leaked by an insider and not hacked over the internet by the Russians or anyone else.
Or why Mueller made no attempt to question Assange given that he’s the only known person in the world with firsthand knowledge of where those DNC emails he published came from.
Seems like sort of a big omission for someone investigating a crime to not even bother trying to contact the only witness.
Even if Mueller thought Assange would just lie, that would give him even more reason to try to arrange an interview given how aggressive he was about inventing lies that General Flynn never even told in order to crush him.
Speaking of which, the public’s confidence in Mueller might have been even further eroded if it was widely known that General Flynn had been adamant that the Russian hack was a ruse.
As had Paul Manafort.
As had Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate of Manafort’s who Mueller also indicted.
And Roger Stone, as well.
Funny how Shawn Henry’s old boss at the FBI, Rober Mueller, wound up doing everything in his power to destroy the three most prominent men pushing the idea that the Russian DNC hack we now know his firm, CrowdStrike, never had any evidence even occurred and, indeed, must have known beyond a shadow of doubt hadn‘t was a hoax as well as those most in a position to keep pushing Trump to make sure it was investigated.
One of the strangest things about congressional Republicans’ reaction to the many abuses of power perpetrated against Donald Trump, his associates, his campaign, and his presidency is the difference between the way they seem to view Crossfire Hurricane and Mueller’s probe.
Everyone in the GOP establishment seems to more or less accept that the FBI investigation was completely corrupt and that Comey and all his underlings committed serious crimes and ought to be punished.
Yet Mueller’s probe, which was merely the new, more powerful, identity Crossfire Hurricane took on after it faked its own death, isn’t treated with the same skepticism.
These very different attitudes are even more puzzling given that Mueller was forced to get rid of three members of his team who’d also been part of Crossfire Hurricane when text messages they’d sent indicating an incredible antipathy towards Donald Trump emerged.
The first two were, as everyone knows, FBI lovebirds, Peter Stzrok and Lisa Page. Fewer are aware that Kevin Clinesmith was the third.
Given that the FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page that was renewed as a result of Clinesmith’s admitted criminal activity was used by Robert Mueller and not his protege James Comey, hopefully, congressional Republicans will start taking the same dim view of Mueller’s probity that they already have of Comey’s.
And, hopefully, John Durham is already taking a hard look at Mueller’s corruption.
I’ve just started a series of columns on the blatant lies Mueller’s report contains concerning that alleged Russian hack of the DNC. And believe me, there’s plenty for him to find.
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Cover-Up: Robert Mueller’s Corrupt Team ‘Accidentally’ Wiped Dozens of Phones Before Records Were Logged
Posted at 5:15 pm on September 10, 2020 by Bonchie
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller listens to committee members give their opening remarks before he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
I’m sure this is all just one big coincidence, right?
A new FOIA release has revealed that Robert Mueller’s cesspool of a team of corrupt figures wiped 31 different phones before records could be logged from them for transparency. This came under the guise of several different excuses, from claims of lost passwords to assertions that phones wiped out their own data without input.
Here’s another source, with Sean Davis breaking down some of the information. There are also more screenshots of the documents to look over.
The sheer scale of this is too much to ignore. Dozens of phones all being wiped, many claimed by “accident?” Come on. No one can honestly believe this is a coincidence. Especially when the Senate has begun to dig into the investigation itself. Don’t expect Lindsey Graham to make a fuss about it, though.
It also shouldn’t be missed that Andrew Weissman, the corrupt “pit-bull” who made a career abusing the law and who is now a rabid partisan on MSNBC, is right in the middle of this. While Mueller holds ultimate responsibility for his team’s actions, there’s no doubt that Weissman was the real one in charge. Mueller could barely keep from drooling at times, much less lead a team of Democrat donors going after Donald Trump.
The tendency of Republicans is to just let stuff like this go. They shouldn’t let this go and GOP voters should not let them let it go. People need to be held accountable. AG Bill Barr also needs to get off his duff and put the pressure on here. One slam dunk prosecution from the Durham investigation so far is an absolute joke. It’s obvious how much foul play went on here and feet need to be held to the fire.
In the end, this is yet another example of how right many of us were when we called out the Mueller investigation early on. It still amazes me how many on the right bent the knee, insisting that any questioning of Mueller was akin to setting the Constitution on fire. Like all men, he was flawed and his investigation was highly improper. Scalps need to be taken.
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Posted at 5:15 pm on September 10, 2020 by Bonchie
Former special counsel Robert Mueller listens to committee members give their opening remarks before he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
I’m sure this is all just one big coincidence, right?
A new FOIA release has revealed that Robert Mueller’s cesspool of a team of corrupt figures wiped 31 different phones before records could be logged from them for transparency. This came under the guise of several different excuses, from claims of lost passwords to assertions that phones wiped out their own data without input.
NEWS: At least 27 phones used by the Mueller team were wiped before they could be checked for records.
Some phones just wiped themselves, in other cases there was mass password amnesia that required resets.
Source ppg. 49-52: https://t.co/DUjvvVd8Ke
— Ivan Pentchoukov (@IvanPentchoukov) September 10, 2020
As Pentchoukov asks in his tweet citing the source, have you ever just accidentally wiped your phone? That’s really not a thing that happens. It’s certainly not a thing supposedly highly trained professionals with backgrounds at DOJ do. You know who enters their password too many times causing their phone to be wiped? Pre-teens who don’t know any better, not lawyers and law enforcement officials.UPDATE: Counting the phones which were "reassigned," the Special Counsel's Office wiped 31 phones before they could be checked for records.
— Ivan Pentchoukov (@IvanPentchoukov) September 10, 2020
Here’s another source, with Sean Davis breaking down some of the information. There are also more screenshots of the documents to look over.
Federal records show that Mueller deputy Andrew Weismann claims to have "accidentally" wiped, via wrong passwords at least 2 phones detailing his activity during the anti-Trump probe. James Quarles' phone "wiped itself." Greg Andre also made the same wrong password claim…
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 10, 2020
The newly released DOJ records from the OIG investigation of corruption during the Mueller probe shows that a key tactic used by the Mueller team was to put the phones in airplane mode, lock them, and then claim they didn't have the password. pic.twitter.com/KrRx99OU4u
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 10, 2020
The sheer scale of this is too much to ignore. Dozens of phones all being wiped, many claimed by “accident?” Come on. No one can honestly believe this is a coincidence. Especially when the Senate has begun to dig into the investigation itself. Don’t expect Lindsey Graham to make a fuss about it, though.
It also shouldn’t be missed that Andrew Weissman, the corrupt “pit-bull” who made a career abusing the law and who is now a rabid partisan on MSNBC, is right in the middle of this. While Mueller holds ultimate responsibility for his team’s actions, there’s no doubt that Weissman was the real one in charge. Mueller could barely keep from drooling at times, much less lead a team of Democrat donors going after Donald Trump.
The tendency of Republicans is to just let stuff like this go. They shouldn’t let this go and GOP voters should not let them let it go. People need to be held accountable. AG Bill Barr also needs to get off his duff and put the pressure on here. One slam dunk prosecution from the Durham investigation so far is an absolute joke. It’s obvious how much foul play went on here and feet need to be held to the fire.
In the end, this is yet another example of how right many of us were when we called out the Mueller investigation early on. It still amazes me how many on the right bent the knee, insisting that any questioning of Mueller was akin to setting the Constitution on fire. Like all men, he was flawed and his investigation was highly improper. Scalps need to be taken.
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Lock the Traitors up, then give them what all traitors deserve!!
Posted: 6:56 PM - Sep 11, 2020
John Durham Aide Resigns, Reportedly Because Of Pressure To Complete Trump-Russia Probe
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A top prosecutor in the office of U.S. Attorney John Durham submitted her resignation on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has confirmed.
The Hartford Courant reported that Nora Dannehy resigned because of political pressure from Justice Department headquarters regarding Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
According to the Courant, associates of Dannehy’s said that she was concerned that Barr is pressuring Durham’s team to release a report on the investigation before the probe is finished.
The story notes that Dannehy is not a supporter of President Trump.
“We can confirm that she resigned (effective today), and have no further comment or background to provide,” Thomas Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Barr tapped Durham in April 2019 to investigate FBI and CIA activities related to Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Dannehy has worked with Durham for decades, according to the Courant. She left her job for a brief stint in 2019 to work in the defense industry, but Durham recruited her to work with him again after Barr appointed him to oversee the probe. (RELATED: Barr Expects ‘Significant’ Developments In Durham Probe)
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Attorney General William Barr at an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on August 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Democrats have criticized the investigation, claiming that Barr is directing it to provide political cover for President Trump. Despite intense scrutiny on Durham’s inquiry, few details of the probe have leaked into public view.
Durham has obtained one guilty plea so far in the investigation. Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI attorney, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 to altering an email from a CIA analyst in June 2017 regarding former Trump aide Carter Page.
Clinesmith’s email was described in a Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump team. The report blasted the FBI for multiple errors and omissions in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Carter Page.
Barr said in an interview with NBC News this week that more prosecutions could be coming in the Durham probe.
Barr has also said that Durham is investigating the possibility that Russian intelligence operatives fed disinformation to Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier that the FBI used to obtain FISA warrants against Page.
According to the Courant, Durham associates expect the investigation to be shut down if Trump loses the election in November.
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
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A top prosecutor in the office of U.S. Attorney John Durham submitted her resignation on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has confirmed.
The Hartford Courant reported that Nora Dannehy resigned because of political pressure from Justice Department headquarters regarding Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
According to the Courant, associates of Dannehy’s said that she was concerned that Barr is pressuring Durham’s team to release a report on the investigation before the probe is finished.
The story notes that Dannehy is not a supporter of President Trump.
“We can confirm that she resigned (effective today), and have no further comment or background to provide,” Thomas Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Barr tapped Durham in April 2019 to investigate FBI and CIA activities related to Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Dannehy has worked with Durham for decades, according to the Courant. She left her job for a brief stint in 2019 to work in the defense industry, but Durham recruited her to work with him again after Barr appointed him to oversee the probe. (RELATED: Barr Expects ‘Significant’ Developments In Durham Probe)
Attorney General William Barr at an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on August 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Democrats have criticized the investigation, claiming that Barr is directing it to provide political cover for President Trump. Despite intense scrutiny on Durham’s inquiry, few details of the probe have leaked into public view.
Durham has obtained one guilty plea so far in the investigation. Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI attorney, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 to altering an email from a CIA analyst in June 2017 regarding former Trump aide Carter Page.
Clinesmith’s email was described in a Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump team. The report blasted the FBI for multiple errors and omissions in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Carter Page.
Barr said in an interview with NBC News this week that more prosecutions could be coming in the Durham probe.
Barr has also said that Durham is investigating the possibility that Russian intelligence operatives fed disinformation to Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier that the FBI used to obtain FISA warrants against Page.
According to the Courant, Durham associates expect the investigation to be shut down if Trump loses the election in November.
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
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Posted: 8:46 AM - Sep 12, 2020
Is Today the Day? Many Indications Durham Probe May Be Dropping Indictments – TODAY
By Joe Hoft
Published September 12, 2020 at 6:24am
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This is a glimmer of hope that the bad guys might finally have their day – and that day is today.
We’ve heard it before again and again – John Durham is about to indict the many crooks surrounded the spying, set up and attempted coup of candidate and then President Donald J. Trump. Everyone who has studied this event – arguable the most corrupt event in modern US politics and perhaps US history – has waited patiently. Numerous crimes are known in the public arena alone. When will the Obama Administration crooks finally see their day? There are some indications, today is that day.
Below are some reasons to believe the Durham investigation is to a point that it is ready to drop indictments:
1. We heard the Durham investigation would be completed according to Justice Department policy and would not interfere with the upcoming elections.
We reported on August 10 from a report by Paul Sperry:
2. The resignation of Durham’s trusted servant Nora Dannehy was announced yesterday
Yesterday it was reported that Nora Dannehy, a former career federal prosecutor who was asked by her old boss U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham to return to government service to work on the probe of the Trump-Russia hoax investigation abuses by the Obama administration and the Deep State, had resigned.
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Initial reports coming out of Connecticut claimed she reportedly resigned over concerns the investigation is facing pressure over the upcoming presidential election from Attorney General William Barr.
Dannehy’s resignation was reported by the Hartford Courant. The Courant reported colleagues of Dannehy said she is not a supporter of President Trump.
3. AG Barr continues to be quiet about when indictments will occur, but did indicate Wednesday there would be more indictments.
Barr spoke about the Durham probe in an interview with NBC news reporter Pete Williams on Wednesday, saying there “could be” more indictments beyond the one guilty plea so far by former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith. Barr repeatedly declined to comment on the timing of the Durham investigation and whether a report or interim report would be released before the November election. (YouTube video cued to Durham Q and A):
4. One reporter who hasn’t said this before claims today is the day.
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By Joe Hoft
Published September 12, 2020 at 6:24am
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This is a glimmer of hope that the bad guys might finally have their day – and that day is today.
We’ve heard it before again and again – John Durham is about to indict the many crooks surrounded the spying, set up and attempted coup of candidate and then President Donald J. Trump. Everyone who has studied this event – arguable the most corrupt event in modern US politics and perhaps US history – has waited patiently. Numerous crimes are known in the public arena alone. When will the Obama Administration crooks finally see their day? There are some indications, today is that day.
Below are some reasons to believe the Durham investigation is to a point that it is ready to drop indictments:
1. We heard the Durham investigation would be completed according to Justice Department policy and would not interfere with the upcoming elections.
We reported on August 10 from a report by Paul Sperry:
Sperry continued:While much speculation inside the Beltway says U.S. Attorney John Durham will punt the results of his so-called Spygate investigation past the election to avoid charges of political interference, sources who have worked with Durham on past public corruption cases doubt he’ll bend to political pressure — and they expect him to drop bombshells before Labor Day.
Durham’s boss, Attorney General Bill Barr, also pushed back on the notion his hand-picked investigator would defer action. Under Democratic questioning on Capitol Hill last week, he refused to rule out a pre-election release.
“Under oath, do you commit to not releasing any report by Mr. Durham before the November election?” Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) asked Barr, citing longstanding Justice Department policy not to announce new developments in politically sensitive cases before an election.
“No,” the attorney general curtly replied.
Justice Department policy prohibits prosecutors from taking overt steps in politically charged cases typically within 60 days of an election. Accordingly, Durham would have to make a move by the Friday before Labor Day, or Sept. 4.
Then Durham’s associate Swecker notes:“I would find it hard to believe that he punts under any circumstances,” said former assistant FBI director Chris Swecker, who knows Durham personally and has worked with the hard-nosed prosecutor on prior investigations.
He pointed out that Durham would risk throwing away 16 months of investigative work if he delayed action beyond the election.
But AG Barr has said publicly that he did not envision investigations into former President Obama and Vice President Biden, who is currently running for President. Therefore, Barr may believe that any indictments of former Obama officials do not interfere with the upcoming election and the sooner the report is issued, the better.Swecker, who’s also a former prosecutor, anticipates Durham will deliver criminal charges, a written report or some combination of the two around the first week in September, if not sooner. “He must get his work done and out to the public by Labor Day,” he said. “That way he avoids any accusations that he was trying to impact the election.”
2. The resignation of Durham’s trusted servant Nora Dannehy was announced yesterday
Yesterday it was reported that Nora Dannehy, a former career federal prosecutor who was asked by her old boss U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham to return to government service to work on the probe of the Trump-Russia hoax investigation abuses by the Obama administration and the Deep State, had resigned.
Initial reports coming out of Connecticut claimed she reportedly resigned over concerns the investigation is facing pressure over the upcoming presidential election from Attorney General William Barr.
Dannehy’s resignation was reported by the Hartford Courant. The Courant reported colleagues of Dannehy said she is not a supporter of President Trump.
Of course, NBC News and the rest of the media confirmed Dannehy’s resignation with the DOJ, and repeated the unverified accusation that Dannehy resigned over Barr’s actions in the case:Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned from the U.S. Justice Department probe – at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said.
Dannehy, a highly regarded prosecutor who has worked with or for Durham for decades, informed colleagues in the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Haven of her resignation from the Department of Justice by email Thursday evening. The short email was a brief farewell message and said nothing about political pressure, her work for Durham or what the Durham team has produced, according to people who received it…
…Dannehy is a career prosecutor who worked closely with Durham before leaving the U.S. Attorney’s office about a decade ago for a corporate position in the defense industry. Durham persuaded her to return to the justice department and, within weeks, join his team in Washington in the spring of 2019.
Colleagues said Dannehy is not a supporter of President Donald J. Trump and has been concerned in recent weeks by what she believed was pressure from Barr – who appointed Durham – to produce results before the election. They said she has been considering resignation for weeks, conflicted by loyalty to Durham and concern about politics…
But last night it was reported that there is no information that Dannehy resigned over concerns the investigation is facing pressure over the upcoming presidential election from Attorney General William Barr.NBC News: A spokesperson confirms that Nora Dannehy has resigned from the Justice Department, but did not provide a reason for her departure.
The Hartford Courant reports that she resigned because she felt pressure from AG William Barr for results in the Durham investigation.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) September 11, 2020
There was no information in Dennehy’s note that indicated she resigned out of disagreements with AG Barr – only a short note thanking her associates and noting her resignation:Ignore the anonymous spin.
Durham is wrapping up.
She came back to work with him on this investigation. Now that it’s done, she’s leaving.https://t.co/kl3qLd6AlN
— Who’s Gonna Be Lucky Indicted #2? – Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 11, 2020
It is very likely Dennehy is resigning because her work is done.Article says, “The short email was a brief farewell message and said nothing about political pressure, her work for Durham or what the Durham team has produced, according to people who received it.”
— Snitty Deplorable – Reclaiming my time (@polodojo) September 11, 2020
3. AG Barr continues to be quiet about when indictments will occur, but did indicate Wednesday there would be more indictments.
Barr spoke about the Durham probe in an interview with NBC news reporter Pete Williams on Wednesday, saying there “could be” more indictments beyond the one guilty plea so far by former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith. Barr repeatedly declined to comment on the timing of the Durham investigation and whether a report or interim report would be released before the November election. (YouTube video cued to Durham Q and A):
4. One reporter who hasn’t said this before claims today is the day.
We’ll see if Corke’s tweet has any merit in a few hours. Is it finally time to make the popcorn and enjoy the show?Remember when I said, wake me when there are indictments and or arrests? Well, a solid DOJ source just told me to “set my alarm clock.”
I said, I’ll believe it when I see it.#DurhamReport
— Kevin Corke (@kevincorke) September 11, 2020
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