John Durham continues to testify about corruption in U.S. law enforcement agencies. What can our elected officials do in response?
From Washington Examiner. John Durham defended his “sobering” report on wrongdoing committed during the Trump–Russia investigation, telling Congress that the problems he unearthed could pose “significant national security risks” if left unaddressed at the FBI.
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Durham, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee during his first public testimony on the report on Wednesday, argued that “the findings set forth in this report are serious and deserve attention from the American public and its elected representatives.”
Durham’s report in May revealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wrongdoing related to the FBI’s reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited and Democratic-funded dossier to obtain flawed FISA surveillance against Trump campaign associate Carter Page during and after the 2016 election.
“Many of the most significant issues documented in the report that we have written — including those related to lack of investigative discipline, failure to take logical investigative steps, and bias — are relevant to national security interests that this committee and the American people are concerned about,” Durham said. …
Durham’s lengthy report concluded the FBI had no proper basis to launch the controversial 2016 election inquiry, which soon transformed into special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation.
The report also revealed that evidence of Trump-Russia collusion never materialized and that Steele’s dossier was linked to Russian sources.
While Durham’s yearslong investigation provided substantial evidence that many of the biggest Trump-Russia collusion claims could be traced back to the Clinton campaign and Democratic operatives, his new report also repeatedly raised the possibility that the dossier at the heart of the collusion claims contained Russian disinformation. …
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the committee, claimed that “seven years” after the 2016 campaign, “nothing has changed, and frankly they’re never going to stop.” He contended that “seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough, but what is more frightening is that any one of us could be next.”
Jordan said of Durham’s testimony that “hopefully it will help change things at the Department of Justice, but regardless of what the Biden administration and the Biden Justice Department does, I know what Republicans in the House are committed to doing — we will work to dramatically change the FISA law, and we will do everything we can in the appropriations process to stop the federal government from going after the American people.” …
The Durham report also concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign played an outsize role in pushing such collusion claims to the media and the FBI.
Durham’s report revealed that then-Vice President Joe Biden was briefed in the summer of 2016 by former CIA Director John Brennan about an alleged plan by Clinton to tie former President Donald Trump to Russia to distract from her own use of an illicit private email server while secretary of state. …
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(Excerpt from Washington Examiner. Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)