Epoch Times:
John Durham previously exposed vast conspiracy that led to reforms in FBI’s Confidential Human Source Program.
The U.S. attorney reportedly appointed to investigate whether spying by the FBI on the Trump campaign was legal previously exposed a conspiracy between the bureau’s agents and mobsters to cover up for murders committed by mob informants.
Attorney General William Barr tasked U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in Connecticut to investigate whether spying on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 was adequately predicated, according to Reuters. The Department of Justice didn’t respond to a request to confirm the appointment.
Durham will scrutinize the conduct of several current and former senior FBI officials, including former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. Those officials were involved in obtaining a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign associate Carter Page and deployed at least two spies to target Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Durham may be one of the most uniquely qualified prosecutors for the job. In 2000, he exposed a group of FBI officials who used murderers as informants. The agents covered up a murder committed by a pair of mobster informants by framing four innocent men. The conspiracy to cover up for the murder involved the agents, their supervisors, and the FBI director himself, according to a ruling (pdf) by a judge who awarded the framed men and their estates more than $100 million in 2006. The bureau didn’t appeal the ruling.
Durham’s findings led to a congressional investigation of the FBI’s use of confidential human sources. In 2003, Congress released a scorching 3,500-page report titled “The FBI’s Use of Murderers as Informants.” The report concluded that the FBI’s conduct in the case amounted to “one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement.”
In the wake of the murderer-informant lawsuits and investigation, the FBI overhauled its Confidential Human Source Program. As a result, Durham will be probing the same program, which has been reformed as a result of his prior work.
Notably, Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled the infamous dossier of opposition research on Trump, was a confidential human source on the FBI’s payroll during the 2016 election. The bureau fired Steele after he broke the rules of the Confidential Human Source Program by speaking to the media. Before firing Steele, the bureau used his dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to spy on Carter Page.
In addition to appointing Durham, Barr is also personally working with FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to review intelligence gathering techniques used to investigate Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to sources cited by Reuters, The Associated Press, and Fox News. The DOJ, DNI, and CIA didn’t respond to requests to confirm the reports. The FBI declined to comment.
A probe into the legality of the warrant to spy on Page is already underway by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who is due to release his findings in coming weeks. more here
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I won’t be satisfied until the rats stand for a firing squad.
I’m wondering if anything will actually come from this.
As it stands, I’ll believe it when I see it.
“The conspiracy to cover up for the murder involved the agents, their supervisors, and the FBI director himself…”
What actually happened to these cats (and/or catettes)? The answer to this will give us a clue.
I apologize for being redundant but….. hangings will not commence until the citizenry takes action.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Let’s hope he becomes the living version of “The Punisher”. There’s a couple pictures of him that looks like The Punisher.
He kind of looks like The Punisher here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+john+durham&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=DtI5e0eMIE9RaM:
So far I like him.
Can you even imagine what a selfish, psychopathic, careerist motherfucker you have to be to be in the FBI and frame innocent people for murder just so you can get a fucking promotion by protecting your worthless murdering cocksucker CIs? JFC. What a bunch of cunts. Fuck them all
Remember that smirk/you-can’t-touch-me look from Peter Strzok?:
https://www.sott.net/image/s23/478141/full/strzoksmirk3.jpg
Imagine his face when he has to answer to this:
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/05/John-Durham-Bob-Child-AP-640×335.jpg
I want the picture of Strzok’s face at that very moment plastered all over the internet.
If there is a chance for justice then Barr and Durham are it. We have certainly had plenty of false starts.
I’m very hopeful that something good will finally come out of Connecticut. So far I really like what I’m seeing.
Connecticut? Please…
Dems,,, Progressives… Libs… Stolen Valor… Yankee country. The Deep State runs deep. Does anyone seriously believe anything will come from this?
Durham’s record seems to be impressive, as is A.G. Barr’s. I just wonder if Durham will be able to perform well while wearing the necessary hazmat suit for long periods of time. There just isn’t time to inoculate him against all the deadly diseases the swamp denizens carry.
When do the 3:30a.m. SWAT raids start?
This seems promising, and I hope Joe Digenova was correct last evening when he said Durham’s investigation is much farther along than people realize.
But I won’t get very excited till after I see read reports of the early morning SWAT raids on the homes of the main characters. Such as ; Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, plus a long list of Obama’s & Hillary’s staffers / supporters.