{"id":1701980,"date":"2022-10-19T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701980"},"modified":"2022-10-19T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:19:05","slug":"obama-doj-official-urges-durham-report-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-doj-official-urges-durham-report-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama DOJ Official Urges Durham Report &#8220;Pause&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-doj-official-urges-durham-report-pause%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Special counsel <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-durham\">John Durham<\/a> should not have the final say in his investigation seeking out misconduct in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\">FBI<\/a>&#8216;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\">Russia<\/a> inquiry, says an Obama-era spokesman for the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\">Justice Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Miller, who was director of the Justice Department&#8217;s public affairs office from 2009 to 2011, argued Attorney General Merrick Garland, or another top official at the agency, should review the final report Durham is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/18\/us\/politics\/igor-danchenko-russia-acquittal-trump.html\">reportedly expected<\/a> to prepare by the end of the year before making a decision on releasing its findings to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge to Garland to take a &#8220;pause&#8221; followed a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, finding Russian national Igor Danchenko <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/john-durham-verdict-steele-dossier-igor-danchenko\">not guilty Tuesday on several false statements charges<\/a> over allegations that the main source of British ex-spy Christopher Steele lied to the FBI about his sourcing for the now-discredited anti-Trump dossier. MSNBC host Alex Wagner asked Miller whether Durham&#8217;s endeavor is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/sean-spicer-rages-john-durham-loses\">&#8216;DOWN THE TUBES&#8217;: SEAN SPICER RAGES AFTER JOHN DURHAM LOSES ANOTHER RUSSIAGATE CASE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His cases are over. I think it\u2019s clear that he&#8217;s not going to bring any more charges in this investigation, but one of the requirements for special counsels under the regulations is that they write a confidential report and submit it to the attorney general, and the attorney general then makes a decision whether to release that report to the public,&#8221; Miller said on Alex Wagner Tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Miller made a comparison to special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia investigation and then-Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s controversial rollout of his report in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Merrick Garland will be under a lot of pressure from Republicans to release that report, but I have to say, this circumstance is very different from the Mueller investigation, where, obviously, the attorney general, Bill Barr, did release that report,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s different because in that case, the subject of that investigation could not be charged, and so it was appropriate for the department to make its findings public, so Congress could decide whether to impeach and convict the then-sitting president,&#8221; Miller added. &#8220;That is not the case here, so to release a report in this instance \u2014 given what we know about the way that Durham has behaved, some of his inappropriate public statements during this investigation, the poor judgments he has made in bringing these charges \u2014 to release a report publicly and let him have the final word I think probably unfairly tarnish some people at the FBI that we know he holds ill will to based on some of the things he said in this most recent trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From left to right: special counsel John Durham and Igor Danchenko. (AP Photos)<\/p>\n<p>Durham&#8217;s investigation began more than three years ago. Although the prosecutor has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-one-year-bar-suspension-guilty-plea-fisa-deception\">secured one conviction so far<\/a>, the only other case he&#8217;s brought, against lawyer Michael Sussmann, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/sussmann-found-not-guilty-in-blow-to-john-durhams-investigation\">ended in acquittal<\/a>. While former President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel John Durham should not have the final say in his investigation seeking out misconduct in the FBI&#8216;s Russia inquiry, says an Obama-era spokesman for the Justice Department. Matthew Miller, who was director of the Justice Department&#8217;s public affairs office from 2009 to 2011, argued Attorney General Merrick Garland, or another top official at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Obama DOJ Official Urges Durham Report \u201cPause\u201d","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Obama DOJ Official Urges Durham Report \u201cPause\u201d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}