{"id":1829700,"date":"2023-01-31T08:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829700"},"modified":"2023-01-31T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:13:44","slug":"the-blitzkrieg-on-bill-barr-and-john-durham-is-just-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-blitzkrieg-on-bill-barr-and-john-durham-is-just-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blitzkrieg On Bill Barr And John Durham Is Just Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fthe-blitzkrieg-on-bill-barr-and-john-durham-is-just-beginning%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=1829700&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-->\n<p>The New York Times is afraid of the revelations made by Special Counsel John Durham during his three-year investigation into intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies. The outlet has stopped publishing because of this. \u201cAll the News That\u2019s Fit to Print\u201d To pilot a month-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/durham-trump-russia-barr.html?unlocked_article_code=fQJFid8e5HE-3Mq2t3Qdv-ri1mFGe7vsbMrOg_aIlKfh-cE4timU727wTgtOYjzGGh2xYXICGtU8JjZDJcc9kJ-FxN7uELnuy7Z34vKRJz4Ym2UYfqbK3Eyi0Qn_5Ncv4xQJSYlH5Fbm_aF562FmHpSHLnTp2tXEcsKpSmmTQ0DNGCjQ0AyHk7EBdqxD7W5RKTduFAl9_-u3dbCKYYBMvpTsD1NuyxU3i_imp_Xb8wRNX8IAhBQ1Faw_FhUOsxYsFuPHqTwZ3VfkvWpz0xU6y_nFtKck1QSVZcxdkTdIGvVEtQ8udK3Gq77cWXeC4x3RmVIVKey9Ha60TkGo_bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Probe<\/a> To tarnish Durham, former Attorney General William Barr. Only to follow a few more days later with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/30\/opinion\/william-barr-durham-report.html?unlocked_article_code=miF8ggwTbw71jphkXowUk8rautZQBCqX72817olrsune5zqDZdnL1xBjVvwdfOZl-zPd8cT9THrdqHORNr9oAb80wRnWSC_Jyo-OFNGWbUlifeiSorUWV5w4fwykATUyWxUgHnXKvF8ylsGeU3zsf3pE-67xS5jBOEKXD7HHuPoiM4UT0DywCSjBVfrClppmy9e9Pifi0-r8X_SHlVFslGJ_ehYOkhlF8BJKJ5peAIta7RaJZXOccVsnAQWgNY3FViEs2gFk1QkAev4vYfxJdZyahaxr66rxMPqBQAiCqAj6DHbP7YM6VAQZdZLbiR4ZUjlAQgCmrME_ycSyMUocFKI4QW8&#038;smid=tw-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> You can&#8217;t help but repeat the absurd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first swing at Barr and Durham came on Thursday when The New York Times\u2019 leading Russia-collusion hoaxers, Charlie Savage, Adam Goldman, and Katie Benner, published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/durham-trump-russia-barr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Barr\u2019s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled<\/a>.\u201d As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/30\/6-reasons-the-nyts-hit-job-on-john-durhams-imminent-report-instantly-unravels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Details<\/a> Monday&#8217;s hit piece was composed of \u201cone part chutzpah and two parts mendacity,\u201d with the authors \u2014 among other things \u2014 declaring the special counsel\u2019s investigation a failure even before Durham released his final report, and only then by ignoring the already public evidence of misconduct by members of the Crossfire Hurricane team.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times was clearly planning a double punch. They ran on Monday an editorial board member David Firestone&#8217;s op-ed entitled &#8220;The New York Times&#8221;. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/30\/opinion\/william-barr-durham-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Barr\u2019s Image Rehab Is Kaput<\/a>.\u201d Firestone\u2019s blow failed to land as well, with the former Times reporter and editor merely repeating many of the original misguided attacks on Barr.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Firestone referenced Savage, Goldman, and Benner\u2019s reporting that Barr would regularly meet with Durham to discuss his progress and would advocate \u201con his behalf with intelligence officials,\u201d Firestone declared such involvement illegal \u201cattorneys general are not supposed to interfere in a special counsel\u2019s investigation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Firestone avoided the more comical complaint Savage and his crew presented on Thursday \u2014 that Barr and Durham \u201csometimes dined and sipped Scotch together\u201d \u2014 the premise that Barr acted inappropriately in regularly meeting with Durham to discuss his investigation is fatally flawed for two reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, Barr did not appoint Durham as a special counsel until Oct. 19, 2020, with Durham\u2019s work from May 2019 until then unrelated to the regulations governing special counsel appointments. And the Times\u2019 original reporting noted that those \u201cweekly updates and consultations about his day-to-day work\u201d These were the only ones. \u201cat times\u201d It is likely that this ended well before Barr appointed Durham to be special counsel.<\/p>\n<p> There is no conflict of interest <\/p>\n<p>Even if Barr continued to meet with Durham regularly from Oct. 19, 2020 to the time Barr left as attorney general two month later, what does that mean? Barr did not grant Durham protections as a special counsel due to any conflict of interests that required Barr avoid discussing the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the relevant regulation, 28 C.F.R. \u00a7 600.1, provides for the appointment of a special counsel when the attorney general determines a \u201ccriminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted\u201d The investigation or prosecution \u201cwould present a conflict of interest for the Department,\u201d In the same section, the special counsel can also be named. \u201cother extraordinary circumstances\u201d exist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barr appointed Durham to the position of special counsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Russia-collusion hoax proved, if you repeat accusations often enough, the public will believe they are true.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1829703,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10867,17074,11773,4475],"class_list":["post-1829700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-barr","tag-blitzkrieg","tag-durham","tag-john"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829700","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}