{"id":1953308,"date":"2023-06-21T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-rules-should-change-so-heads-could-roll-at-fbi\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:43:38","slug":"durham-rules-should-change-so-heads-could-roll-at-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-rules-should-change-so-heads-could-roll-at-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham: FBI Rules Need Changing for Accountability"},"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\">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%2Fdurham-rules-should-change-so-heads-could-roll-at-fbi%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=1953308&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0621\/67844318-9a67-461d-bcba-5fb919ba60c4\/audio.mp3?length=3549933&#038;duration=296\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>DOJ Rules Should Change to Hold FBI Agents Accountable for Misusing Spying Powers, Suggests Special Counsel John Durham<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) rules should change so that FBI agents lose their jobs when they lie to misuse the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-says-fbi-needs-spying-powers-to-fight-the-chinese\/\" title=\"Garland Says FBI Needs Spying Powers to \u2018Fight the Chinese\u2019\">spying powers<\/a> in sensitive investigations, Special Counsel John Durham suggested to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Durham, who recently released a report on his review of the FBI\u2019s handling of the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation, acknowledged that he found conduct that was wrong or \u201cprobably criminal,\u201d but would have been difficult to prosecute in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real difficulty, in my view, is trying to figure out how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congress must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">hold people accountable<\/a> for their conduct. It\u2019s not a simple problem to solve,\u201d he said, testifying to the House Judiciary Committee on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-rules-should-change-so-heads-could-roll-at-fbi\/\" title=\"Durham: FBI Rules Need Changing for Accountability\">report documented extensive misconduct<\/a>, including repeated use of false, debunked, and unverified information, dismissing exculpatory information, failure to interview key witnesses\u2014all pushing forward an investigation of supposed collusion between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The misconduct, among other ills, resulted in illegal surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FBI snooped through Page\u2019s electronic communications based on a FISA warrant prepared using fabricated allegations pushed into the FBI by operatives financed by the campaign of Trump\u2019s opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were identified, documented, significant failures of a highly sensitive, unique investigation that was undertaken by the FBI,\u201d Durham testified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the investigation clearly reveals that decisions that were made were made in one direction. If there was something that was inconsistent with the notion that Trump was involved in a \u2018well-coordinated conspiracy\u2019 with the Russians and whatnot, that information was largely discarded or ignored and I think, unfortunately, that\u2019s what the facts bear out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as both Republicans and Democrats on the committee pointed out, Durham didn\u2019t pursue charges against the main actors in the Russia investigation, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned on that point, Durham said he was following the DOJ guidelines that say a prosecutor should only bring charges if he\u2019s confident he could prove them beyond reasonable doubt, secure a conviction on trial, and have it upheld on appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s conduct that was probably criminal, but you couldn\u2019t prove it. And that\u2019s true here. It appears in other instances as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) drilled down on that point:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou well may have found, and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOJ rules need to be revised, according to Special Counsel John Durham, who proposed that FBI agents be terminated if they misuse government surveillance powers by lying in sensitive investigations. Durham, who recently published a report on the FBI&#8217;s handling of the 2016 Trump-Russia probe, admitted that changes are necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":1953310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[8049,3805,11773,5591,3807],"class_list":["post-1953308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-accountability","tag-changing","tag-durham","tag-fbi","tag-rules"],"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\/1953308","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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}