The DOJ's Russiagate Probe Just Turned Into A Criminal Investigation
25
October, 2019
Update:
Check out Clapper stutter his way through an interview 20 mins after he finds out he’s under criminal investigation
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What
began as an administrative review by the Justice Department into the
origins of Russiagate has "shifted" to a criminal
inquiry,
according to the New
York Times,
citing two people familiar with the matter.
The
move will allow prosecutor John H Durham the
power to subpoena documents and witnesses, to impanel a grand jury,
and to file
criminal charges.
Durham's
progress has been closely monitored by Attorney General William Barr,
who appointed the veteran investigator in
May,
tasking him with looking into FBI and CIA intelligence gathering
operations surrounding the 2016 US election.
Little is known about Durham’s activities so far in the investigation. The Times report said it is unclear when the investigation took on a criminal element, or what specific crime Durham is investigating.
Durham accompanied Barr to Italy late in September as part of an inquiry into U.S. intelligence agents’ activities there during the 2016 campaign. They also inquired about Joseph Mifsud, a mysterious Maltese professor who established contact with Trump aide George Papadopoulos in 2016. -Daily Caller
Just
over three
weeks ago,
the Times also
reported that President Trump asked the Australian Prime Minister to
help Barr uncover the origins of "Russiagate," a move which
Justice Department officials said "would be neither illegal nor
untoward for Trump to ask."
And
according to NBC
News, Durham
has set his sights on former CIA Director John Brennan and former
national intelligence director James Clapper
Durham's
investigation has been running parallel to a probe by Justice
Department Inspector General (and registered Democrat) Michael
Horowitz, who told Congress on Thursday that he expects his report to
be "lengthy," but able to be made mostly available to the
public.
The Durham probe is similar to a Justice Department inspector general’s investigation into the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, told Congress on Thursday that the report of that investigation is “lengthy” and that he anticipates most of it will be made public.
Horowitz has been investigating whether the FBI misled the foreign surveillance court in spy applications against Page. Investigators relied heavily on the Steele dossier in the applications, though information in that document was largely unverified. Unlike Durham, Horowitz has not had subpoena power, and cannot use a grand jury as part of his investigation. -Daily Caller
And
of course, with Durham's administrative review turning into
a criminal
probe,
the Times has
already given away the predictable response from the left; Barr is
investigating the Obama intelligence community to help Trump win in
2020. Nothing to see here folks, right?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/get-your-popcorn-ready-four-different-reports-released-last-night-indicate-the-days-ahead-will-be-devastating-to-the-deep-state/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/larry-c-johnson-bill-barr-has-pulled-the-trigger-and-altered-the-landscape-the-deep-state-does-not-truly-understand-the-peril-they-now-face/
Meanwhile, from CNN...
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/14/politics/john-durham-barr-russia-probe/index.html
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