Barr-Durham Criminal Investigation into the Russia Hoax

And look, now at approximately 11 pm on "Good Friday" April 10th 2020 CBS news is on it....... conveniently as their own version of a footnote.....

Footnotes in watchdog report indicate FBI knew of risk of Russian disinformation in Steele dossier
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/footnotes-in-watchdog-report-indicate-fbi-knew-of-risk-of-russian-disinformation-in-the-steele-dossier/#

The FBI was warned sections of the controversial Steele dossier could have been part of a "Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations," according to newly declassified footnotes from a government watchdog report.

The December report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz examined the FBI's investigation into alleged coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia as well as the FBI's four surveillance warrants for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

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Speaking to Fox News earlier this week before the declassified footnotes were public, Attorney General William Barr said of the Durham investigation, "...It takes some time to build a, to build the case. So he is diligently pursuing it. My own view is that the evidence shows that we're not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness, there's something far more troubling here, and we're going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted."

It took an historic event to make this possibly true. We are in what they consider a "RESET". You can already uncheck best economy ever from that list based on a single event. Up to that point, normal circumstance, likely best economy in half a century.

Here's something that's NOT an op-ed piece...

Republican-Led Review Backs Intelligence Findings on Russian Interference

WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials’ determination that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to assist Donald J. Trump’s candidacy was fundamentally sound and untainted by politics, according to a key Republican-led Senate review released on Tuesday. The findings undercut longstanding allegations by Mr. Trump and his allies that the officials were biased against him.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, which conducted the three-year study, had already given the work of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. an interim stamp of approval, but the 158-page report on Tuesday presented new detail about the government’s attempts in 2016 and 2017 to make sense of Russia’s attacks. Much of the report’s contents about the so-called Intelligence Community Assessment were considered highly sensitive and blacked out by the Trump administration.

“The I.C.A. reflects strong tradecraft, sound analytical reasoning and proper justification of disagreement in the one analytical line where it occurred,” said Senator Richard M. Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the panel’s chairman. “The committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusions.”

The endorsement by Mr. Burr’s committee comes at a key moment for the intelligence agencies. The Trump administration has stepped up its scrutiny of both the agencies’ examination of Russian interference in 2016 and the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation around the same time. Mr. Trump’s conservative allies have long painted the bureau’s inquiry as hopelessly tainted by politics even as independent reviews debunked the notion of an anti-Trump plot. {more)

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-led-review-backs-intelligence-findings-on-russian-interference/ar-BB12ZvC2

Granted what were talking about is more opinion than fact, but that's what we're left with...the conclusions of an unbiased inquiry into the facts. The conclusion was as you quoted, that the  "American intelligence officials’ determination that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to assist Donald J. Trump’s candidacy was fundamentally sound and untainted by politics."

In my "opinion"...."fundamentally sound and untainted by politics" means that the "longstanding allegations by Mr. Trump and his allies that the officials were biased against him" is just complete bullshit and always was. He was investigated in good faith on what was considered good information. He likes to portray himself as a victim of the "deep state' and he has useful idiots in the media and elsewhere who believe him.

Luca,

Don't waste your keyboard strokes. There's no point trying to reason with this guy on this--or almost any other issue. His knowledge of this case is based on Wikipedia and headlines about heavily redacted classified reports from media outlets that are hysterically hostile to Donald Trump.

What's remarkable about the "Trump colluded with Russia" wingnuts is this: not one single person even associated with the Trump campaign ever met with a single Russian official to work together in any way with the 2016 Presidential campaign. You can look at every sentence of every report and document in this entire case. Never happened.

You are correct--the story is not over yet. Barr and Durham know exactly what the Deep State actors did--which is precisely why this smokescreen of a Senate report is coming out at this time. Richard Burr (R) and the late John McCain were every bit a part of the attempt to smear Trump as were the Democrats. The Swamp knows no party.

Your relationship with "reason" is dubious at best.



I'll take Wikipedia over Twitter any day.