Special Counsel John Durham Sends Message to AG Garland

John Durham’s investigation into the  “Trump-Russia collusion” didn’t put Hillary Clinton in cuffs but it was rather significant.

For the first year and a half, Durham went silent which caused many Trump supporters to question if anything was going to come of his investigation.

Durham’s silence on the investigation urged AG Merrick Garland to start planning to shut down the special prosecutor’s office.

But then on February 11th of last year, Durham broke his silence and released several bombshell revelations regarding a “corrupt conspiracy by operatives linked to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”

This discovery by Durham was huge, because without it Biden could have fired Durham as the special prosecutor.

But being Durham found significant evidence to get Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann  indicted, it spoiled Biden’s plans because the “last time a president fired a special prosecutor who was making significant progress, he lost his presidency.”

Durham Sends Major Message To Attorney General Merrick Garland https://t.co/EIQ7mmZ3Oa

— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) January 12, 2023

Durham Sends Major Message To Attorney General Merrick Garland!! his recent filing was designed to have two effects. First, the AG cannot dump him, Its much more difficult now.
Second, Durham has signaled to the American people that his investigation has legs. pic.twitter.com/CCgHRvFVXp

— TJ (@TJ61316074) January 12, 2023

The Conservative Brief shared these details:

An op-ed published by The Hill lays out what makes Special Counsel John Durham’s ongoing investigation into the origins of the “Trump-Russia collusion” investigation significant.

The piece, by Kevin R. Brock, a former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI, an FBI special agent for 24 years, and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center who now serves as a security consultant, begins by noting that for a year and a half, the country did not hear much of out Durham after he was appointed late in former President Trump’s term.

Aside from indictments regarding “peripheral” figures, it looked to many of Trump’s supporters as though not much was going to come of Durham’s probe and “that elites higher up the stack are going to get away with their chicanery,” Brock wrote.

“The problem for Durham is that these perceptions were providing the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) with increasing political top cover to shut down the special prosecutor’s office as an unproductive, politics-driven exercise in futility that is wasting taxpayer dollars,” Brock continued.

“If Durham were to be terminated, the American people might not even push back much since no one had a clue whether his investigation was bearing meaningful fruit,” he wrote.

Brock went on to note that Attorney General Merrick Garland has already moved to undercut Durham by undertaking measures to repair the reputation of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who had been fired during the Trump administration.

But, he added, Durham could not simply hold a press conference and divulge his investigation’s inner workings and findings. So instead, he used a rather “innocuous” court filing on Feb. 11 that actually contained a number of bombshell revelations, tipping his hand to his findings.

Brock Writes:

Tucked inside the court filing, John Durham laid out a good chunk of the case he’s building, and it was stunning. Durham revealed the outlines of a corrupt conspiracy by operatives linked to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The exposed conspiracy allegedly made a contrived, fraudulent, and shocking attempt to entice the FBI and CIA to use their powers against the rival Trump campaign and presidency.

This recent filing by Durham was designed to have two effects. First, and most important, he has now made any decision by the president or attorney general to dump him much more difficult to undertake. The last time a president fired a special prosecutor who was making significant progress, he lost his presidency.

Second, Durham has signaled to the American people that his investigation has legs, despite perceptions of plodding inertia. He has provided hope that accountability in D.C. — rare as a MAGA sticker on a Prius — actually might happen.

Durham’s filing triggered hyperbolic conjecture on the right and nervous silence on the left. Don’t be distracted by reactions driven by politics. Look at the actual words Durham used; they’re troubling enough.

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Brock then honed in on the “Factual Background” portion of the filing in which Durham expounded on information that led to the indictment of Michael Sussmann, an attorney who is linked to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and stands accused of lying to the FBI.