Durham report sharply criticizes FBI's 2016 probe of Trump campaign

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This report is a complete joke

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/15/durham-special-counsel-trump-report/

Special counsel John Durham has issued a long-awaited report that sharply criticizes the FBI for investigating the 2016 Trump campaign based on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” — a conclusion that may fuel rather than end partisan debate about politicization within the Justice Department and FBI.

Durham was appointed in 2019 by President Donald Trump’s attorney general, William P. Barr, to re-examine how government agents hunted for possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the presidential election. The report, coming almost four years to the day since Durham’s assignment began, will likely be derided by Democrats as the end of a partisan boondoggle, while Republicans will have to wrestle with a much-touted investigation that didn’t send a single person to jail......

While Trump once predicted that Durham would uncover the “crime of the century," Durham’s four-year probe produced paltry results in court. Two people he charged with crimes were found not guilty, while a former FBI lawyer pleaded guilty to altering an email used to help a colleague prepare a court application for surveillance of a Trump adviser.....

Durham’s report comes against a backdrop of two failed prosecutions. Igor Danchenko — a private researcher who was a primary source for a dossier of allegations about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia — was acquitted in October of lying to the FBI about where he got his information. Durham personally argued much of the government’s case in that trial, in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.

[Walleye]

1. A sharply critical report. Ooooh. Please no strongly worded letters🙏🏻

[everyonematters]

2. First of all, nobody cares anymore.

So Durham criticizes them for using raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence. If that was the criteria for investigating anyone, no one would ever be investigated and then indicted for a a crime. If you have any information that a crime was committed, you investigate it. If you obtain more information, then maybe you indicte.

[themaguffin]

3. It's really disgusting that The Post pushed his BS headline. FFS.