Senate Dems Threaten “Hard Look” at Durham Inquiry

Many years later, special counsel was still in existence. John Durham‘s so-called “investigation of the investigators,” Senate Democrats are preparing to add another leg to the Trump-Russia debacle.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) signaled the onset of a new investigation in response to what his press team claimed was “alleged misconduct” outlined in a New York Times report published last week about Durham’s endeavor.

“These reports about abuses in Special Counsel Durham’s investigation — so outrageous that even his longtime colleagues quit in protest — are but one of many instances where former President Trump and his allies weaponized the Justice Department,” Durbin Monday statement.

“The Justice Department should work on behalf of the American people, not for the personal benefit of any president,” Durbin was also mentioned. “As we wait for the results of ongoing internal reviews, the Senate Judiciary Committee will do its part and take a hard look at these repeated episodes, and the regulations and policies that enabled them, to ensure such abuses of power cannot happen again.”

In May 2019, shortly after special counsel Robert Mueller released his report, Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to investigate the origins and conduct of the FBI inquiry into alleged ties between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.

The Biden administration is not far behind, Durham’s investigation has been cheered by Trump and his allies as a means to unravel a suspected “Russiagate” Democrats and others have criticised the plot against President Obama, calling it a politically corrupt endeavor to discredit Mueller as well as top FBI officials.

Last week’s report by the New York Times gave fuel to Durham’s detractors as it divulged episodes that were said to show how the inquiry “became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes,” The circumstances behind the departures of several prosecutors are also included. Durham claimed that he once extended his investigation to include an investigation into “suspicious financial dealings” Trump was involved, but the report stated that the details of the investigation are not clear and did not lead to Durham being charged.

Some people were skeptical about the story. The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland These are six reasons Why she believes that the New York Times is right “launched a preemptive assault” in anticipation of Durham’s special counsel report. Chuck Ross, investigative reporter at The Washington Free Beacon. The assumption was that “flimsy” New York Times Story will give Democrats the opportunity to award Attorney General Merrick Garland an Award “excuse to block Durham’s report, or frame it negatively for the media if it’s released.”

Durham has so far secured one guilty plea. That of Kevin Clinesmith, an ex-FBI lawyer, who was accused falsifying a document to renew FISA surveillance powers on Carter Page, Trump’s former foreign policy advisor. Clinesmith was released from prison and could face a one-year bar suspension. This year, Durham endured setbacks when prosecutions against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, ended in acquittal in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, respectively.

Whenever Durham’s report is complete, Garland has spoken He would “like as much as possible to be made public,” However, he stressed that Privacy Act concerns will need to be addressed and that classification is something to consider.