{"id":1956080,"date":"2023-06-24T11:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gop-reps-torch-durham-over-mystery-man-missing-from-his-russian-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:18:40","slug":"watch-gop-reps-torch-durham-over-mystery-man-missing-from-his-russian-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gop-reps-torch-durham-over-mystery-man-missing-from-his-russian-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP reps criticize Durham for omitting &#8216;mystery man&#8217; from Russian investigation."},"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\">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%2Fwatch-gop-reps-torch-durham-over-mystery-man-missing-from-his-russian-investigation%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=1956080&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--><h2>Deep State Cover-Up: The Mystery of Joseph Mifsud<\/h2>\n<p>During Wednesday\u2019s testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Special Counsel John Durham struggled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-oppose-biden-nominee-who-worked-for-chinese-tech-company\/\" title=\"Senate Republicans Oppose Biden Nominee Who Worked For Chinese Tech Company\">answer direct questions<\/a> about why a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sanctions-pushed-iran-to-brink-of-bankruptcy\/\" title=\"US Sanctions Pushed Iran to Brink of Bankruptcy\">key source<\/a> does not appear in his report on the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI investigation better known as the Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky posted a video of Durham\u2019s testimony and noted the glaring omission: \u201cJoseph Mifsud is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/21-movies-you-havent-watched-yet-on-netflix-but-should\/\" title=\"21 Movies You Haven\u2019t Watched Yet On Netflix (But Should)\">mystery man<\/a> who started the Russia hoax. He\u2019s mentioned 89 times in the Mueller report, but, strangely, not once in Durham\u2019s. @RepMattGaetz and I want to know if Mifsud is associated with a Western intelligence agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joseph Mifsud is the mystery man who started the Russia hoax. He\u2019s mentioned 89 times in the Mueller report, but, strangely, not once in Durham\u2019s. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz?\">@RepMattGaetz<\/a> and I want to know if Mifsud is associated with a Western intelligence agency. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KZtl6PL6Sp\">pic.twitter.com\/KZtl6PL6Sp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1672239762428633088?\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to Massie\u2019s question about whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mike-huckabee-good-bad-ugly-durham-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durham<\/a> ever interviewed the \u201cmystery man\u201d Mifsud, Durham said his investigators made contact with Mifsud\u2019s attorney in Europe, but never tracked down Mifsud himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think he\u2019s a Western source? Is he associated with Western intelligence?\u201d Massie asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say who Mr. Mifsud was associated with,\u201d Durham answered.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/matt-gaetz-sends-scathing-letter-merrick-garland-list-3-demands-ag-weeks-comply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Gaetz<\/a> responded in disbelief. \u201cHard to say who Mifsud is? He\u2019s the guy who started the whole thing. We\u2019ve known it for years,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz then played a clip of Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio questioning Special Counsel Robert Mueller in July 2019. Each time Jordan asked Mueller about Mifsud, Mueller replied, \u201cCan\u2019t get into that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan then told Mueller that Attorney General Bill Barr and Special Counsel John Durham would be looking into Mifsud\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, it appears that Durham did not put much effort into locating Mifsud<\/p>\n<p>Now that Barr has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fried-rehabilitation-william-barr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposed<\/a> as a tool of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trump-indicted-deep-state-tries-taking-45th-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep State<\/a>, one wonders if Durham also might be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gop-reps-torch-durham-over-mystery-man-missing-from-his-russian-investigation\/\" title=\"GOP reps criticize Durham for omitting 'mystery man' from Russian investigation.\">shielding guilty parties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just hard to, like, pretend as though this was a sincere effort when you don\u2019t get to the fundamental thing that started the whole deal,\u201d Gaetz told Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Durham assured Gaetz that his investigators tried to find Mifsud in Europe, but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like you weren\u2019t really trying to expose the true core of the corruption \u2014 that you were trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/crossfire-hurricane-lawyer-gets-slap-wrist-doctoring-evidence-obtain-fisa-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go at it another way<\/a>,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s halfhearted effort to locate Mifsud, coupled with Mueller\u2019s evasive \u201cCan\u2019t get into that\u201d responses to all Mifsud-related questions from Jordan in 2019, fuels skepticism about the investigators\u2019 true purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are part of the cover-up, Mr. Durham, then it makes our job harder,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz went as far as to compare Durham to the Washington Generals, the basketball team that got paid to show up and lose to the legendary Harlem Globetrotters.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that Durham failed to track down a central figure in the Russia collusion hoax. Had Durham offered Massie and Gaetz a better explanation for this failure \u2014 had he given the impression that Mifsud was someone he really wanted to find \u2014 perhaps he could be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Durham\u2019s evasiveness on all Mifsud-related questions mirrored that of Mueller four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Americans who have paid attention to the shameful and criminal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/adam-schiff-finally-made-answer-years-pushing-trump-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia collusion hoax<\/a> cannot be surprised by any lack of candor on the part of those connected to it.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-gop-reps-torch-durham-mystery-man-missing-russian-investigation\/\">Watch: GOP Reps Torch Durham Over &#8216;Mystery Man&#8217; Missing from His Russian Investigation<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the House Judiciary Committee testimony, Special Counsel John Durham faced difficulty answering why a crucial source was omitted from his report on Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI&#8217;s investigation into the Deep State. This raises concerns about the Deep State&#8217;s tendency to protect its members, as they shield one another from scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1956081,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1956080","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}