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Durham Has Come. And Gone.

He submitted a 306-page report to Merrick Garland, who I'm sure is determined to punish the wrongdoers in the FBI.

Few have read the whole thing yet, but we're getting bits of it.

Greg Price
@greg_price11

BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.

He points out that "Fusion Nat" Bertrand once called the Alfa Bank story a case of being obviously true on its face.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the FBI agents who received the false Trump/Alpha Bank story from Michael Sussman determined they were lies but it was "FBI leadership" that ordered them to open a full case into it anyway.

The false claim that Trump was connected to a Russian bank were also given to the media with full coordination between Hillary Clinton's campaign, Fusion GPS, Sussman and Marc Elias.


Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

DURHAM REPORT: Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting. Nor was Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration

DURHAM REPORT: According to his handwritten notes, CIA Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services."

DURHAM REPORT: The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign.

John Daniel Davidson
@johnddavidson

The Durham report is damning. It shows the FBI operating as a disinformation shop for the Clinton campaign, ignoring its own rules, and blatantly & maliciously interfering in a presidential election. The Steele dossier was fake, and FBI knew it all along.


Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker

The Durham report makes the compelling case that there was: 1) insufficient predicate intelligence to open an investigation; 2) the intelligence was not properly analyzed; and 3) the FBI agents had a biased predisposition to open an investigation against Trump.


FoxNews:

Special Counsel John Durham found that the Department of Justice and FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation.

...

"Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report," the report said.


Durham said his investigation also revealed that "senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically-affiliated persons and entities."

"This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller's investigation," the report said. "In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents."

"The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence," the report said.

Durham is referring to past FBI leadership in his report -- specifically former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.


Durham said there is a "continuing need for the FBI and the Department to recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willigness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or restraint in pursuing allegations of collusion or conspiracy between a U.S. political campaign and a foreign power."

"Although recognizing that in hindsight much is clearer, much of this also seems to have been clear at the time," Durham's report said. "We therefore believe it is important to examine past conduct to identify shortcomings and improve how the government carries out its most sensitive functions."

jamescomeybeard.jpg

Here's Durham's big conclusion:


Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out."

Useless.


Sean Davis
@seanmdav

BREAKING: Special prosecutor John Durham concluded that "neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

MORE from Durham's 306-page report, which @FDRLST has obtained: "FBI records prepared by [Peter] Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials."

@ChuckRossDC 2h

It's a 320-page report. One quick thing that catches my eye: FBI ended one aspect of its investigation after "a longtime and valuable confidential human source" made an "improper and possibly illegal campaign contribution" to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a "foreign entity."

Thank to weft-cut loop

Even Perez, one of the Four Horsemen of the Steele Dossier (along with Jake Tapper, Carl Bernstein, and Jim Sciutto) who conspired with Comey and Clapper to present the dossier as a real intelligence assessment:

Remember, Even Perez was Glenn Simpson's former partner at the WSJ. Perez carried his old partner's fake dossier to CNN and got the entire media to pretend it was real:

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck

CNN has Evan Perez reporting on the Durham report about the Trump-Russia probe.

Remember, Perez used to work with FusionGPS co-founders Glenn Simpson, Tom Catan, and Peter Fritsch, the men whose firm cooked up the Steele Dossier

Flashback: CNN's Undisclosed Ties to FusionGPS.

Niccole Wallace and Andrew Weismann claim victory:

Posted by: Ace at 05:04 PM




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1 Did anyone expect anything different?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2023 05:04 PM (ncXxy)

2 "There will never be a 'Durham Report', only prosecutions! Lots of prosecutions!"

Of this, I was assured.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 15, 2023 05:05 PM (JtGov)

3 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2023 05:06 PM (Gpu6T)

4 Sternly worded letters are tight.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2023 05:06 PM (7R+co)

5 Deep State protects it's own.

Posted by: Bosk at May 15, 2023 05:07 PM (VMFAF)

6 As I commented in the last thread:

Um, well, that does a lot of good now. Turn it over to the bastards in Justice who commited the crimes so they can decide who to persecute.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:07 PM (ynpvh)

7 FBI comments via disclosetv are just what you'd imagine. Oh, that? We've already made adjustments here at FBI HQ so it's all good.

Posted by: micky at May 15, 2023 05:07 PM (3byMq)

8 And this story will disappear never to surface again.

Posted by: Inogame at May 15, 2023 05:07 PM (53oGX)

9 Scum. All of them

Posted by: ExGOP 100% Faux Nooz free at May 15, 2023 05:08 PM (dVly/)

10 (SPIT, HACK, SPIT)
They didn't do anything really *wrong* it just usurped the authority of an duly elected president.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 15, 2023 05:08 PM (fS6mE)

11 Shorter Durham: "Sure the FIB fucked up, but hey, lets not change the rules, the rules are JUST FINE."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

12 They don't even have to lie and blame it on rogue agents in the Cincinnati office.

It's, "yeah, this came from the top, everyone knew it was a lie--fuxk you, it worked. And we ain't doing shit* about it"

* 7 curse words short of qualifying for a Miller Comedian Scrip.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2023 05:09 PM (bXSbe)

13 The FBI is totally corrupt, determined an election, but no changes will be made and all the perps walk. Another day in Soviet America.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 15, 2023 05:09 PM (oWBc3)

14 who runs bartertown?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 15, 2023 05:09 PM (w0NJk)

15 Well Durham came... And he didn't even breath hard

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:09 PM (bs+z0)

16 The best thing about the report will be to see how the corporate media spin it.

Posted by: Caliban at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (iC8vi)

17 Here's the thing: we already knew for a fact that the report was blatant politically driven nonsense. So "to a degree it exonerates Donald Trump" is ridiculous, WE ALREADY KNEW the Russiaquiddick file was trash.

"Although recognizing that in hindsight much is clearer, much of this also seems to have been clear at the time"

Which is bullcrapese for "you knew this was a lie and endorsed it anyway" but no action will be taken regarding it and in 6 months, the media will be trawling it up again as if true and never was repudiated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (0hOvj)

18 eh, just confirms the entire government is corrupt. and nothing will happen because they got their desired outcome.

where's patrick henry, sam adams, and george washington et al when you need them...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (Mkvkw)

19 Every time I read anything Durham says seems to be a anti-Trump guy

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (xhxe8)

20 The Durham report , "we're saved, oh thank God , we're saved"....oh shit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (lRky4)

21 There never would have been a Russia probe without Republican cooperation and collaboration.

Looking at you, Trey Gowdy

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (bXSbe)

22 @7

Actual terminology is 'corrective actions'.

Posted by: micky at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (3byMq)

23 There will be a new powerpoint training for certain employees of the Cincinnati office.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (llON8)

24 Greg Price @greg_price11
🚨BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.

https://tinyurl.com/davcss87
[JPGs of report quotes]
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Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 27m
TAPPER: Durham report is "devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump."
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
WOW! After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe! In other words, the American Public was scammed, just as it is being scammed right now by those who don’t want to see GREATNESS for AMERICA!
https://tinyurl.com/5n6kjfb2
[Truth Social; link to Fox report on it.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (Vwz3I)

25 I've got over 40,000 sealed indictments ready, Boss!

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (7fqKs)

26 10 (SPIT, HACK, SPIT)
They didn't do anything really *wrong* it just usurped the authority of an duly elected president.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 15, 2023 05:08 PM (fS6mE)

Illegal spying.
Alteration of information submitted to Judges under penalty of perjury.
Purposefullly leaving out infomation.
Purposfully pushing false narratives.
Falsly arresting people on known false information.
Taking phones, computers, and other stuff on subpoenas issues under false premises,
...

Nah, brah, just tiny issues. Nothing to fix here.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (ynpvh)

27 The FBI was eyebrows deep in Russian collusion!?!?

I simply shan't believe it.

It never would have happened if Trump wasn't such a lying, racist, sexist, Russian stooge!

-The Media

Posted by: Just Lily at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (YG/rA)

28 I wonder how the smoothbrains over at DU are reacting to this ... that is, if they're allowed to.

Posted by: spindrift at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (ivvNA)

29 >>Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out."



He went Full Cuckold.

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (cTv4+)

30 Pretty much the perfect CODA to this monstrosity.

Durham can ride off into the sunset, take long windy walks on the beach with Lois Lerner and hikes in the woods with Jim Comey and write a book about his time as a G-Man.

F**K that guy in particular.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (up/3i)

31 15 Well Durham came... And he didn't even breath hard

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:09 PM (bs+z0)

Just guess who Durham came on!...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (ynpvh)

32 Um, well, that does a lot of good now. Turn it over to the bastards in Justice who commited the crimes so they can decide who to persecute.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:07 PM (ynpvh)
---
They'll continue to both persecute and prosecute Trump, regardless of the Durham report....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (YIVH2)

33 The fact that someone puts Weisman on TV to comment on this is amazing.

Posted by: Inogame at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (53oGX)

34 All of the bad guys in the Russiagate thing are more well off now.

You know, Strzok even taught a course in Ethics in Government at Georgetown.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (pwExq)

35 "yeah, this came from the top, everyone knew it was a lie--fuxk you, it worked. And we ain't doing shit* about it"

Basically. I mean it didn't work -- Trump won the election so badly they had to literally halt counting so they could produce and deliver more fake ballots -- but yeah, they are like Weissman just grinning and saying the opposite of truth and knowing nothing will happen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (0hOvj)

36 Meanwhile, four Russian aircraft downed over Russia. Wonder who could do that kind of shit? Praying people should pray, Joey is loose.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (oWBc3)

37 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's all I see here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (i9ffA)

38 Willowed:

NOOD Durham.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

That coulda been "NOOD BULL Durham" too.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (fS6mE)

39 How much did this Snowjob Cost?

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (cTv4+)

40 Durham: "I found the FBI, IC in general and the DOJ that I work for completely lawless - meh, what can you do?"

Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (+Cgut)

41 Shorter Durham: Fixes? The place is totally corrupt!

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (G0vdT)

42 Well, Andy McCarthy and David French have assured me the FBI is full of good hearted patriots. So, I will ignore this story.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (i7Q7S)

43 22 @7

Actual terminology is 'corrective actions'.

Posted by: micky at May 15, 2023 05:10 PM (3byMq)

Corrective actions in hanging them up by their dicks, cutting off their balls, and choking them to death on them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

44 STEINER IS COMING !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (S+j2h)

45 Even if he had recommended indictments they would have never been convicted.... It's less aggravating waiting for justice that would never happen

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (bs+z0)

46 If Kislyak was in on it, wouldn't that mean that the IC report that Russia wanted Trump to win was, err, bullshit?

Oh, wait, we already knew that.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (pwExq)

47 Jake Tapper is such a lying, dishonest, mendacious, 7-11bottom-guy for Slupees, man-fellating, weak-ass, spaghetti-armed, piece of shit it's maddening.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (wgAtL)

48 41 Shorter Durham: Fixes? The place is totally corrupt!

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (G0vdT)

The rules took care of it. The fix was alreadyin.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

49 Weissmann and Strokz are particularly execrable…. And I can’t believe I’m commenting on a Durham report thread because I’ve long known that it was all a big kabuki exercise….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (hu7fu)

50
John Durham is scum. Trumprussia did stuff.

BeerCo stands with Democracy against Trumprussia. Kill all Trumprussians. Chop your dick off. Drink cold beer like a real American with no dick.

Posted by: BeerCo at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (a0MRn)

51 Well, at least Durham was super timely.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - two more weeks till two more weeks at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (KFhLj)

52 Uh Oh, does this mean there are no sealed indictments?

Posted by: ExGOP 100% Faux Nooz free at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (dVly/)

53 The only thing that could make this popcorn fart of a report possibly less significant is that it's a stale popcorn fart.

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (5FPX4)

54 You know, I was told that the only problem with Durham's investigation was that HE WASN'T WORKING TO MY SCHEDULE.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (pwExq)

55 All them ham and eggers are resigning any minute - so they can get a cool Comey beard!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (oWBc3)

56 Shorter Durham: Be Better, Intel. Be Better.

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (cTv4+)

57 Hold on a sec....ok, here we go. Had T-shirts made for everyone on the thread, reading:

"WHAT ABOUT THIS SURPRISES US?"


Posted by: Prime Sister at May 15, 2023 05:14 PM (tQL7r)

58 So, the "by the book" memo was weeks after Obama, Biden and Rice were fully briefed that it was all false?

But they then held another fake meeting where they all pretend to hear about it for the 1st time and take it very seriously and by the book.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (bXSbe)

59 Since it got willow'd: I don't give half a shit about it, personally. His job was to slow-walk that shit and run out the clock. Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.

Every jackass what said any of his timewasting was worthwhile can fuck right the hell off.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (OUMaO)

60 I might add that Comey has raised "punchable face" to an art form.

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (5FPX4)

61 Off Topic:

Who's the guy at MSNBC with the dark hair and black-framed glasses who is interviewing E. Jean Carroll tonight at 9:00???

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (Vwz3I)

62 According to the Durham Report, the FBI agents who received the false Trump/Alpha Bank story from Michael Sussman determined they were lies but it was "FBI leadership" that ordered them to open a full case into it anyway.
---
What is a "cut-out", Alex?

I'll take Deep State Bullshit for 100 dollars.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

63 Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out."
-----------

Those changes were Trump firing Comey.

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (G0vdT)

64 >>Durham: "I found the FBI, IC in general and the DOJ that I work for completely lawless - meh, what can you do?"

And Obama. And Biden.

BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (1VMoy)

65 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 27m
TAPPER: Durham report is "devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump."

Ie: "I saw what CCN execs did to Oliver and man, I don't want to pull my panties down for the paddling!"

Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (+Cgut)

66 Bottom line. They colluded to produce a political outcome, manufactured evidence, lied, subverted the justice system and proceeded based not on facts but bias.

Penalty? They are very, naughty people. Shame on them.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (wgAtL)

67 BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (1VMoy)

So where are the indictments ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (bs+z0)

68 Too big to jail.

Posted by: crasey at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (IKX5a)

69 64 >>Durham: "I found the FBI, IC in general and the DOJ that I work for completely lawless - meh, what can you do?"

And Obama. And Biden.

BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (1VMoy)

And nobody guilty will go to jail. Ever.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

70 309 pages of house-dick written gibberish to say there will be no redress. So a Monday, in 2023.

Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (2bFN5)

71 I might add that Comey has raised "punchable face" to an art form.
Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (5FPX4)
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The guy knows so much about honor, he was trying to catch his perspective boss in a lie.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (krQz2)

72 I wonder how the smoothbrains over at DU are reacting to this

Patch will drop Tuesday with their new dialog, they are waiting on it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (0hOvj)

73 70 309 pages of house-dick written gibberish to say there will be no redress. So a Monday, in 2023.

Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (2bFN5)

Hey, that's AUTHENTIC DC gibberish.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (ynpvh)

74 So will they be paying Trump's legal fees ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (bs+z0)

75 The election wasn't stolen.
The American people were conned. Big difference.

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (5FPX4)

76 Breaking: Durham fully exonerated the FBI and Hillary Clinton and says Trump was 100% butt buddies with Putin

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (/6ckN)

77 @ChuckRossDC 2h
It's a 320-page report. One quick thing that catches my eye: FBI ended one aspect of its investigation after "a longtime and valuable confidential human source" made an "improper and possibly illegal campaign contribution" to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a "foreign entity."

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (jzzG8)

78 BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (1VMoy)


There's gotta be a pony in here somewhere!

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (pwExq)

79 So the Durham gang drinks Bud Light.

I am not shocked.

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (6Tc2R)

80 "TAPPER: Durham report is "devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump."

Now do the stolen election, dick juggler.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (wgAtL)

81 Bottom line. They colluded to produce a political outcome, manufactured evidence, lied, subverted the justice system and proceeded based not on facts but bias.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (wgAtL)
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Yeah, but other than that, what you got?!

Posted by: Demedia at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (krQz2)

82 Maybe it's just me, but this doesn't seem like it was worth waiting #Two Weeks.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (bNf8H)

83 Those changes were Trump firing Comey.
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (G0vdT)

Then Trump hired Chrissy Wray, FOR THE WIN! About those changes? ? Voot Harder.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (hKmvK)

84 And this story will disappear never to surface again.
Posted by: Inogame


I think that's about it. The news cycle on this will be about 1 day, max. Maybe 12 hours. There will be some talk, and then forgotten. Down the memory hole.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (vcOmj)

85 The Russians are dead, dead I tell you.

The Wagner Group has now turned on the Kremlin, Russian planes are dropping from the skies like birds near a wind turbine, the Belarusian President is dying of stage 19 cancer, and Putin is in an underground bunker with his oncologist treating his 17th round of cancer, a former Trump campaigner and a portly trans-woman named Helda Cokinfist waiting on the official word from the Washington Post to bite down on his cyanide capsule!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (5K27I)

86 36 Meanwhile, four Russian aircraft downed over Russia. Wonder who could do that kind of shit? Praying people should pray, Joey is loose.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 15, 2023 05:12 PM (oWBc3)

one of the more interesting theories is that one of the Russian air defense crews flipped the wrong switch (or however that works) on their equipment and didn't realize that they had it set to shoot anything that moves, no matter whose it was. It would explain why they were all shot down well inside Russian territory, and all within seconds of each other.

another fun fact - Russia lost two Mi-8 helicopters in this incident, which according to one report means that in a single day, they lost 10% of all of the operational Mi-8 helicopters they had left.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (i9ffA)

87 The election wasn't stolen.
The American people were conned. Big difference.
Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (5FPX4)

Nah, they were connect AND the election was stolen.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2023 05:18 PM (asFox)

88 #7 As per micky:

Disclose.tv @disclosetv
UPDATE - FBI releases statement on Durham report:

https://tinyurl.com/2smpzs8c

In a statement issued in response to the report, FBI officials said, "The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (Vwz3I)

89 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 27m
TAPPER: Durham report is "devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump."
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TAPPER: "As for CNN? You f*cked up. You trusted us."

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (G0vdT)

90
Old & Busted: Gone in 60 Seconds.
New Hotness: Come in 60 Seconds.

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (rY/ZL)

91 306 pages to deliver a report on information available to the IG 6 years ago.

Not one subpoena he issued, not one document he produced wasn't there right from the beginning.

But we had to pretend this was a real investigation for years.

"He's a bulldog that never let's go" we were told. Until, of course now, when it's too late.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (bXSbe)

92 Too big to jail.

Posted by: crasey at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (IKX5a)
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It's the cankles.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (krQz2)

93 I remember when I got yelled at and berated by certain people for saying Durham was going submit a report.

He's not doing a report!!! This is for realsies this time!

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (BXxcV)

94 >>And nobody guilty will go to jail. Ever.

Since it would be up to the DOJ which is now run by Garland to even allow charges probably not.

But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam used the power of the government to try and take down a sitting President of the United States after trying to rig an election based on made up bullshit.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

95 Of course Durham do anything, any more than Barr or whomever. If anyone expected any different, he's dumb as a stump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (oINRc)

96 Oh well. We'll get 'em next time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (CZBWZ)

97
Durham, unlike Steiner, DID come.

It''s unlikely, given the current conditions, that there will be any repercussions from the FBI conduct.

Unless somebody has the balls to push hard and unrelenting, not being stopped in that push.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (KATBx)

98 Like always, kabuki.

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (Uv0D2)

99 I'm not even sure how we're supposed to feel about this. Numb exasperation I guess.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (plJoc)

100 I might add that Comey has raised "punchable face" to an art form.
Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (5FPX4)
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The guy knows so much about honor, he was trying to catch his perspective boss in a lie.
Posted by: Axeman

He's so shy and modest. always hiding behind the curtain.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (vcOmj)

101 FBI's response

Statement on Report by Special Counsel John Durham
The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (jzzG8)

102 >>There's gotta be a pony in here somewhere!
Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:17 PM (pwExq)

Durham will never come, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

103 @87
I forgot to slather "irony" quotes on it enough.
Yes both. And extremely so.

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (5FPX4)

104 67 BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:15 PM (1VMoy)

So where are the indictments ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:16 PM (bs+z0)


They knew. They all knew. We knew they all knew. They knew we knew.

Now they are rubbing our noses in it.

And if we don't pipe down about we'll see indictments all right. Trump and everyone one of his followers will be indicted. Or maybe they won't even bother with indictments.

What are we gonna do? Call Ghostbusters?

Posted by: Just Lily at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (YG/rA)

105 60 I might add that Comey has raised "punchable face" to an art form.
Posted by: Zek



Oh, he has stiff competition. Justin Castro up in Canada for one. I would name some congresscritters but there is a limit to how long my posts are here.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (sAmhv)

106 In a statement issued in response to the report, FBI officials said, "The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 15, 2023 05:19 PM (Vwz3I)
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LOL.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (krQz2)

107 Special Counsel John Durham found that the Department of Justice and FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law"
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That's gonna leave a mark. Like dropping a jellybean into a volcano.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (BXxcV)

108 Then Trump hired Chrissy Wray, FOR THE WIN! About those changes? ? Voot Harder.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD.

Narcissism>Wisdom

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (dzZCL)

109 But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam used the power of the government to try and take down a sitting President of the United States after trying to rig an election based on made up bullshit.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)


I doubt it will get much coverage

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (bs+z0)

110 If Durham says he doesn't recommend any changes, then yeah it's a big nothing. He stepped on his own dick.

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (OalnH)

111 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 27m
TAPPER: Durham report is "devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump."

Heh, Tapper is unemployable a media guy in the industry outside of CNN and he knows it - how nice. Talk about your Oliver about face for Trump - what a professional embarrassment are people of Jake's ilk - totally unworkable at the management level - ignorant to a fault. Craven, slobbering, sycophantic and lazy to boot - wow, so much to recommend this turd.

Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2023 05:21 PM (+Cgut)

112 Oh, that. Everybody has already forgotten all about it, whatever it was.

Posted by: huerfano at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (uE10U)

113 94 >>And nobody guilty will go to jail. Ever.

Since it would be up to the DOJ which is now run by Garland to even allow charges probably not.

But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam used the power of the government to try and take down a sitting President of the United States after trying to rig an election based on made up bullshit.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

Which will be buried by the next "Look! Squirrel!" news moment.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (ynpvh)

114 Every single bastard or bastardess who was involved in this mess, needs to be found dangling from a streetlight on Constitution Avenue.

They've now had about all the Due Process that a Nation can bear. They played the tune, now it's time for the dance.

So, we've got the Durham Report. Fine. But now we need the Pinochet Solution. Finer, still.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (e6UQI)

115 Durham will never come, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)


I'm just joshing with you.

You were totally right!

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (pwExq)

116 But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam used the power of the government to try and take down a sitting President of the United States after trying to rig an election based on made up bullshit.
Posted by: JackStraw


But it's not the whole, entire world that knows this. Most people will go "Huh?" when asked. The Narrative was set years ago, and Donald Trump won the '16 election because the Russians helped him.

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

117 Could we give the Russia shit a rest in this important U.S. domestic thread?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (Vwz3I)

118 Willowed from the previous thread:

I can understand why Durham phoned it in. Why bother, especially after the Clinesmith trial, to indict individuals and then have them tried in a DC Court in front of a DC jury. The FBI might pay attenion to details if their agents were indicted and tried in Cody, Wyoming.
Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (rj6Yv)

Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 05:22 PM (rj6Yv)

119 98 Like always, kabuki.

Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (Uv0D2)

Well, Durham came, so more like Bukaki.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (ynpvh)

120 So what's with the photo of Russ Tamblyn in a cheesy green T-shirt?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (ZSK0i)

121 Durham will never come, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

He came, he said "hey how ya doin? Hope you like the food here, well gotta run. Bye!"

and just like that - whooosh! he was gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (i9ffA)

122 It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Harry Reid at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (BXxcV)

123 And the FBI is like- this is old news. We fixed all that. They don't even give a shit.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (wgAtL)

124 I have buffalo chicken sausages simmering in a pan. Fantastic local butcher. I will give a report after dinner.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (CZBWZ)

125 Shorter FBE response: We fixed it, swearsies, until, um, the next time we have to get a republican.

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (G0vdT)

126 The only thing of greater fecklessness was Jeff Sessions

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (dzZCL)

127 101 FBI's response

Statement on Report by Special Counsel John Durham
The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (jzzG

Short version: The FIB has changed rules so they can hide it better. If you can't prove it, it didn't happen.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:23 PM (ynpvh)

128
Anyone else notice cnn has a special lighted sign for their "department of justice" fake "reporting," indicating that cnn is part of the DOJ??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at May 15, 2023 05:24 PM (Glq7j)

129 Maybe Durham will investigate Hunter Biden next. In 2027 l issue a 700 page report saying "watchagonadoo, mistakes were made".

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:24 PM (OalnH)

130 you have to hand to the DOJ/FBI

this was one slick coverup

Durham doesn't want to get the core problem which is

the reason the government does this shit is cuz they control DC

From the judges to the jurors

they must feel like Putin when he grabs a journalist

"I call the shots", so fuck you"

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:24 PM (us2H3)

131 Let someone else said.. Durham came... All over us...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:24 PM (bs+z0)

132 At the end of Durham’s report he recommends doubling McCabe’s pension.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:24 PM (MNhXM)

133 I've said it before , the next Republican president should get all of the undercovers and informants to safety and then dump the entire FBI database onto the web. Nuke it from orbit, so to speak

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (lRky4)

134 The FBI can ass-f*ck the Republic at high noon on the Washington Mall, but HEAVEN FORFEND someone accuses DJT of getting handsy with her dusty cooter thirty years ago, while the two were consensually "trying on lingerie."

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (5FPX4)

135 >>But it's not the whole, entire world that knows this. Most people will go "Huh?" when asked. The Narrative was set years ago, and Donald Trump won the '16 election because the Russians helped him.

Well no, not yet. It was released like 5 minutes ago.

I have a feeling a certain Orange Man Bad will make sure it gets covered a little bit.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (1VMoy)

136 So Hillary personally approved the fake oppo campaign.

Obama Comey Brennan and Biden were briefed in July 2016.

Makes their Jan. 2017 actions seem pretty self-serving and evil. They KNEW what they were doing.

"Country > Party, right?"

Nobody ever asked Obama about this. Biden just lied.

Posted by: Harun at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (Cg63x)

137 116 But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam.

The entire world knows that they did it, they got away with it, and they're still laughing abou tit. This makes Obama et al STRONGER, not weaker. The "world" knows that they can do anything they want and there ain't anybody here tjhat'll do shit about it besides cry in our beer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (i9ffA)

138 It's 2 fucking thousand 20 fucking 3. There have been 20 operations since Russia, and many are still ongoing. Many we are yet to even find out about.

Durham's "come" can't even be measured in micrograms.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM (BXxcV)

139 >>Durham will never come, right?


Two. Pump. Chump.

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM (cTv4+)

140 Yeah, this all owes to oversites...

Yeah, not top-down fucking corruption at every level!

Idiots! That's why all the cut-out had to do is walk through the door to deliver the lie that the agent knew was a lie, because the brass made them open an investigation on what they knew was a lie.

Corruption at the TOP! Idiots.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM (krQz2)

141 Well no, not yet. It was released like 5 minutes ago.

I have a feeling a certain Orange Man Bad will make sure it gets covered a little bit.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (1VMoy)

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By Wednesday this story will be memory holed, never to be seen again. And on Thursday, ask 100 Democrats at random did Trump collude with Russia, 100 will say of course he did.

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM (OalnH)

142 It's all horseshit.

So.... anyway

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

143 BTW - I am pretty sure that you can find me in the comments here saying that the mission of a Special Counsel is to provide a confidential report to the Attorney General.

The report was delivered Friday, and had it had anything damaging to the Dems in it, we would never have read it.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM (pwExq)

144 Member when Barr said this report would be out in spring of 2020? I member.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (u73oe)

145 Have we not come to see the light

DC is it's own province in which they call the shots and we pay for them

DC is the #1 enemy in the world

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (us2H3)

146 It never would have happened if Trump wasn't such a lying, racist, sexist, Russian stooge!

-The Media
Posted by: Just Lily at May 15, 2023 05:11 PM (YG/rA)

I believe the exact language reads, and I quote, "If Trump wasn't such a poopy head, none of this would have ever happened."

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (Zvtjl)

147 some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect."


Oh. Mis-steps. Lack of candor.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (/6ckN)

148 Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (1VMoy)

I wish I had your optimism

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (bs+z0)

149 A new unit of insignificance is born: the Durham.
As in "My God that's a small penis. It's almost a Durham."

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (5FPX4)

150 This was a 306 page long Epitaph for America. So long, you had a good rrun, but it's over. You ain't coming back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (i9ffA)

151 The entire world knows that they did it, they got away with it, and they're still laughing abou tit. This makes Obama et al STRONGER, not weaker. The "world" knows that they can do anything they want and there ain't anybody here tjhat'll do shit about it besides cry in our beer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (i9ffA)


This.

They are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (pwExq)

152 #4years

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (NpAcC)

153 I'm sure Durham is right, there are no rules to change. There are plenty of rules in place, they were just broken by and illegitimate and lawless government.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (cMXNt)

154 BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.
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Trump is going to be all over this.

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (G0vdT)

155 The report is flaccid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (CZBWZ)

156 They knew this was coming, and still they are launching another, all out, illegal, politically motivated, and coordinated attack on Trump, the electoral process, and our First Amendment using all the institutions of our government to coordinate their scheme.

Anyone care to guess why?

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (wgAtL)

157 148 Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:25 PM (1VMoy)

I wish I had your optimism
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (bs+z0)

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Delusion is the word you're looking for.

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (OalnH)

158 I took down my porch flag the day they indicted Trump, and haven't felt like putting it back up since.

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (5FPX4)

159 149 A new unit of insignificance is born: the Durham.
As in "My God that's a small penis. It's almost a Durham."

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (5FPX4)

Look up Planck length.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:29 PM (ynpvh)

160 Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out."

Does it recommend how to ensure that those guidelines and policies are followed perfectly and what new penalties are to be inflicted on those who do not?

Hey! Wasn't Trump impeached for this?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 15, 2023 05:29 PM (Wy1BU)

161 Yeah, but other than that, what you got?!

Also, the Clinton campaign clearly was working with Russian assets to manipulate the election; exactly what they accused Trump of doing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:29 PM (0hOvj)

162 The report is flaccid.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (CZBWZ)

"The chair is against the wall. I repeat, the chair is against the wall".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 15, 2023 05:29 PM (Zvtjl)

163
Do you know who's not writing reports?

Merrick Garland.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (BXxcV)

164 Durham will never come, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

What everyone is saying is it's like saying that the WWI could have been avoided - yeah, it's the truth. But it's too many years too late - WWII has already started.

No one can or nor expected to act upon a commission or factfinding mission from - um, like more than 3/4ths of a decade hence.

Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (+Cgut)

165 153 I'm sure Durham is right, there are no rules to change. There are plenty of rules in place, they were just broken by and illegitimate and lawless government.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (cMXNt)

There are written rules and unwritten rules.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (ynpvh)

166 Jame Comey looks like a homeless vagrant.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (NpAcC)

167
I wish I had your optimism
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (bs+z0)

so do we

Posted by: Altria at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (us2H3)

168 They knew this was coming, and still they are launching another, all out, illegal, politically motivated, and coordinated attack on Trump, the electoral process, and our First Amendment using all the institutions of our government to coordinate their scheme.

Anyone care to guess why?

Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM


Because you never swing the chain saw at a grapefruit unless the bacon is crispy at halftime?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (ncXxy)

169 >>I wish I had your optimism

It only seems like optimism around here.

Also from the report.

@Techno_Fog

The FBI and DOJ restricted two investigations into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election:

1) The Clinton Foundation investigation

2) Illegal foreign contributions to the Clinton Campaign

"No investigative activities occurred for months"

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:31 PM (1VMoy)

170 But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam used the power of the government to try and take down a sitting President of the United States after trying to rig an election based on made up bullshit.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

Jack - I just wanted to say I so appreciate your perspective; I know you caught a lot of flak around here after the steal…. You might’ve been wrong on a few things but you’re dead on with most IMHO…. You often say what I want to, only better

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2023 05:31 PM (hu7fu)

171 MSM: So the FBI was corrupt on that Russiagate thing but that Mar-a-Lago raid was totally legit.

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:31 PM (G0vdT)

172 > Jame Comey looks like a homeless vagrant.
____________

If only this could be made true.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2023 05:31 PM (Q4IgG)

173 But it's not a small deal that now the entire world knows that Obama, Biden, Hillary, Comey, Lynch and everyone else involved in this scam used the power of the government to try and take down a sitting President of the United States after trying to rig an election based on made up bullshit.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:20 PM (1VMoy)

Now let's do the 2020 and 2022 elections.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2023 05:32 PM (BdMk6)

174 Not one day of jail time for anyone of the these conspirators. Not one day. This is worse than if no investigation was done. This just emboldened them all. The proof is they haven’t stopped with the partisan and illegal targeting of the Right. I expect more 2am raids .

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:32 PM (MNhXM)

175 Never be surprised when skilled liars lie to you.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 15, 2023 05:32 PM (jTmQV)

176
Durham's "come" can't even be measured in micrograms.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:26 PM


Unlike some who can propel it ten feet with ease while angle grinders blaze away in the background.

Posted by: Peter North at May 15, 2023 05:32 PM (enJYY)

177 Also, the Clinton campaign clearly was working with Russian assets to manipulate the election; exactly what they accused Trump of doing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:29 PM (0hOvj)


Yes, but Clinton was working with Russia to stop Trump. Which makes it okay.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:32 PM (pwExq)

178 Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan

We’ve reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (NpAcC)

179 James Comey looks like one of those middle-aged numbnuts you see at a Jimmy Buffett concert.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (xPl2J)

180 Just remember: any Republican who allocates one penny to fund the FBI is your fucking enemy, too.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (KSNKu)

181

We got our FBI training in Sparta. MS, in a program run by the police officers from "In the Heat of the Night".

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (aJGg7)

182 This country has gotten so dumb that you can get away with pretty much anything, with 60% of the people, so long as it takes more than ten seconds to explain.

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (5FPX4)

183 178 Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan

We’ve reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (NpAcC)

Blah,blah,blah

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (bs+z0)

184 Hey! Wasn't Trump impeached for this?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 15, 2023 05:29 PM (Wy1BU)
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No but it cost a couple of election cycles.

Impeachment 1: Zalinski call
Impeachment 1: Jan 6

Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (G0vdT)

185 178 Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan

We’ve reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (NpAcC)

And this will help how? Sorry, the entire Justice department is unavailable. Please leave you name and message at beep.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (ynpvh)

186 So essentially the FBI is now and has been an arm of the Democrats used to slander Republicans.

Color me shocked. /s

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (qZdIZ)

187 I make a book lepor. Now you know what in book!

Posted by: Inexplicably Asian John Durham at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (KFhLj)

188 the real dumbass in all this, other American people, is Kevin Clinesmith

Shoulda went to trial

never woulda been convicted

but maybe pleading guilty to being an enemy of the people is some sorta badge of honor

yeah, it's become that upside down

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (us2H3)

189 This is a very angry letter to the editor. Both the Biden and Clinton crime families shaking in fear right now, I'm sure

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (OalnH)

190 "We’ve reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week."

I hate that phrase "reached out". How about "Demanded"?

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (iayUP)

191 The key question that everyone wants to know: Will Republicans "seize" or will they "pounce" on this report?

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (YQ4mh)

192 Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (us2H3)

He got community service.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (MNhXM)

193 "No investigative activities occurred for months"
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:31 PM (1VMoy)


This means there will be consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (pwExq)

194 >>Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Thank you

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (1VMoy)

195 Jim Jordan to be the first committee chair to be present in a wifebeater

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (us2H3)

196 From the Julie Kelly tweet -
I long suspected Russian Ambassador Kislyak was in on the scam--these passages confirm he was in cahoots with Dem operative Dolan during 2016
__

In conclusion, Trump didn't collude with Russia, but the Democrats did!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (fs1hN)

197 https://amgreatness.com/time for republicans to confront-january-6 lead prosecutor
https://tinyurl.com/5bs272bk

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (xhxe8)

198 I believe there's some Pulitzer Prizes that need to be returned.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (NpAcC)

199 192 Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (us2H3)

He got community service.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (MNhXM)

Don't believe he was even disbarred.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (ynpvh)

200 >>I wish I had your optimism


Well. He's REALLY High.

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (cTv4+)

201 "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump"

Umm, isn't this, well, kinda like the biggest scandal in American history, all in itself? The sitting president, "briefed" on a facially ridiculous political campaign gambit *by federal agencies*?

And the national level GOP, as ever a farcical menace to American freedom and institutions, rose up as one to combat this obviously absurd, outrageous abuse of federal power, as I recall. Oh, no, that was Nunes and Johnson.

Overall, based on the bits offered here, yet again a jaw-dropping "investigation" conclusion. Very much like the Horowitz IG thing on the stunning, outrageous refusal to treat Clinton's historic Espionage Act crime wave seriously. Nothing to see here. Mistakes were made. The country has been beyond parody for a while, but they keep trying, at least.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (OTzUX)

202 Trump should be able to sue for all the money he had to spend on Lawyers

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (bs+z0)

203 " conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time."

were those wonderful reforms in place when FBI used 15 FBI to entrap a couple goofballs in the FBI run Gretchen kidnapping plot?

What about when they ran the 1/6 "Insurrection" PsyOp? What about when they went after parents complaining about their child being raped by a fake trannie? ... or all the dawn raids on political opponents, like O'keefe and a dozen others? yeah, the only reform is to be more corrupt.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (Cus5s)

204 Durham Revisits Old Trump Accusations;
Polls Show Most Americans Want to Move On.

Posted by: All the spin that fits we print at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (5FPX4)

205
So the KKK has been replaced as the militants of the democrats by the FBI??

Posted by: Yo ultra MAGA at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (9kgjf)

206 202 Trump should be able to sue for all the money he had to spend on Lawyers
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (bs+z0)

LOL. Go ahead.
- DC Jury That Will Hear The Case

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (OalnH)

207 178 Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan

We’ve reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (NpAcC)


This means there will be consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (pwExq)

208 Because you never swing the chain saw at a grapefruit unless the bacon is crispy at halftime?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (ncXxy)

Was that AI generated? 😃

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (MNhXM)

209 This was a 306 page long Epitaph for America. So long, you had a good rrun, but it's over. You ain't coming back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 05:27 PM (i9ffA)

It's kind of where I'm at with this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (BdMk6)

210 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary! at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (CZBWZ)

211 The entire report is rendered absolute rubbish and unusable for anything other that cheap talking points for people who might already be spending too much time online - it was, to be short, a complete waste of many millions of taxpayer dollars on something they had every right to expect - ii was were supposed to produce some sort of change in how those dollars got spent that up to now was in complete difference to the desires of the forced American tax payees.

Shame on all involved.

Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (+Cgut)

212 So much malfeasance out in the open. Nothing happens to the DC syndicate. No teeth. Just once I’d like to see a leftist power broker get their left testicle stretched over their right ear.

Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (2bFN5)

213 196 From the Julie Kelly tweet -
I long suspected Russian Ambassador Kislyak was in on the scam--these passages confirm he was in cahoots with Dem operative Dolan during 2016
__

In conclusion, Trump didn't collude with Russia, but the Democrats did!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (fs1hN)

Who's Dolan?

The only one I know is Dolan Duck.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (ynpvh)

214 They knew this was coming, and still they are launching another, all out, illegal, politically motivated, and coordinated attack on Trump, the electoral process, and our First Amendment using all the institutions of our government to coordinate their scheme.

Anyone care to guess why?
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2023 05:28 PM (wgAtL)

The Dems' attacks on the US Supreme Court are unprecedented.

Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (rj6Yv)

215 I'm terribly sorry those bad men raped and killed your daughter. Here's a gift card for Starbucks.

Posted by: Lawman Durham to the rescue at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (5FPX4)

216 The Russia Collusion was all bullshit but it's still good that it happened because Trump is a bad bad bad very bad man.
- MSM

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (OalnH)

217 Well, it worked, didn't it?

Posted by: The Demorat Party at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (iayUP)

218 179 James Comey looks like one of those middle-aged numbnuts you see at a Jimmy Buffett concert.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 15, 2023 05:33 PM (xPl2J)

He also resembles older weed heads who stumbled into millions by owning a creaky ranch house in SoCal who cashed out and moved to Maui to smoke pot all day.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:38 PM (KSNKu)

219 Trump should make every ham and egger take a polygraph

if someone refuses, fire their lame ass

if they take it and pass, fire their lame asses

only way to be for sure

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (us2H3)

220 202 Trump should be able to sue for all the money he had to spend on Lawyers

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:36 PM (bs+z0)

Tried in DC by DC judges and DC juries if not thrown out. Trump will be made to pay for Gov't expenses in his suit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (ynpvh)

221 BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.

--------

None dare call it treason.

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (rY/ZL)

222 Conclusion: We did something wrong, something illegal and we made sure to cover our own butts and there's nothing anyone will do about it, so nah-nah-nah.

Watch for the Republicans to come storming to the cameras, huffing and puffing and telling anyone that will listen that at least those responsible have been "exposed."

BIG
FUCKING
DEAL

Posted by: Tracy at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (0klyx)

223 With one order lepor, you get flee eggrorr.

Posted by: Inexplicably Asian John Durham at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (KFhLj)

224 I'm terribly sorry those bad men raped and killed your daughter. Here's a gift card for Starbucks.

There were bad procedures, we have informed the rapist murderer and he is undergoing training.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (0hOvj)

225 Wait! That's Comey with a beard? Wow. I didn't recognize him! He looks good with a beard. It covers up his weak chin.
He's still a despicable prick.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (Wy1BU)

226 This country has gotten so dumb that you can get away with pretty much anything, with 60% of the people, so long as it takes more than ten seconds to explain.
Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:34 PM (5FPX4)
---
Well said.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:40 PM (krQz2)

227 This means there will be consequences, right?

Right?
Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (pwExq)
******
People are going to jail! Heads will roll!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:40 PM (NpAcC)

228 Comey has a Mel Gibson vive in that pic.

Posted by: Montec at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (OalnH)

229 ace, you were right about Jonathan Winer.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4jptap

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (1VMoy)

230 Durham reports like it was unintentional incompetence as opposed to the coordinated conspiracy that we all know it was.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (MNhXM)

231 227 This means there will be consequences, right?

Right?
Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM (pwExq)
******
People are going to jail! Heads will roll!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:40 PM (NpAcC)

Just not theirs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (ynpvh)

232 This proves TRUMP lyed to my Blank Presdent !!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (LrYuZ)

233 Meanwhile a tiger shark video. That's it, that's all I got.

https://tinyurl.com/5d52sryt

Posted by: John Durham, fishing in retirement at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (txViY)

234 I saw a head roll by just now!

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2023 05:41 PM (iayUP)

235 3 Mistakes were made.
Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2023 05:06 PM (Gpu6T)

Such as having hope anything would come from this other than The Swamp proving they can do anything, and we proles are stuck taking it.

Posted by: Bete at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (sKFy+)

236 Crybabies.
Pants-shitters.
Bedwetters.
Stop throwing toddler tantrums because you aren't getting what you want fast enough.
Trust the system.
Let the process work.
Sealed indictments, swear to God!
Behold Durham's damning report!

Posted by: Copium Conservative - The Only True Conservative! at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (FEapg)

237 Oh, just a cat.

Posted by: fd at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (iayUP)

238 if pushed to the wall, DC would give up the FBI to preserve their power structure

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (us2H3)

239 But, Putin.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (KSNKu)

240 People are going to jail! Heads will roll!

Well, eyes will roll. That's almost the same thing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - two weeks to sod off at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (KFhLj)

241 Dems that would prosecute Penny in NY or indict Trump on laughable charges in NY, DC or GA - could care less if Durham found Trump innocent of anything.

Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (+Cgut)

242 strict fidelity = The fucking Clintons

Posted by: DaveA at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (FhXTo)

243
The GOPe will have a very stern meeting about this

Posted by: Yo ultra MAGA at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (9kgjf)

244 Let's see if any country>party journos or pols ask any hard questions to Obama or Hillary or Biden.

Brennan is on MSNBC - let's see if a co-host asks any questions.

Posted by: Harun at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (Cg63x)

245 Oh. Did weee do thaaaat?

Posted by: The Federal Bureau of Urkel at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (BXxcV)

246 So adjustments were made, but at no time has the FBI come out and publicly announced the whole investigation was predicated on known bullshit and they KNEW it was predicated on bullshit.

It's obvious there haven't been enough adjustments to unfuck the Bureau. Time to revoke the charter that established it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at May 15, 2023 05:43 PM (l7Kbv)

247 This was the infamous (well, actually unknown, to most of the ignorant masses, of course) WH meeting where the vegetable was present, and the idiot Obama was briefed by the idiots Brennan and Comey, Jan. 5 2017? Referring her to the "briefed" reference above. Or was this an even earlier direct involvement by Obama in this outrageous unlawful weaponization of federal agencies for political ends?

And there's an "alleged" in there. So did Durham actually report there *was* a plot by the Clinton camp on this stupid RUSSIA! thing, and that it was "briefed" to a sitting president?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2023 05:43 PM (OTzUX)

248 Using the mechanism of law enforcement to pursue a bogus "investigation" ought to be a crime.

You have bilked the American people out of the money for your sham investigation. And you probably have violated people's rights not to be lied about by their government.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:43 PM (krQz2)

249 242 strict fidelity = The fucking Clintons

Posted by: DaveA at May 15, 2023 05:42 PM (FhXTo)

Bill always did things in fidelity.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:43 PM (ynpvh)

250 Washington DC is irreparably broken. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2023 05:43 PM (BdMk6)

251 222 Conclusion: We did something wrong, something illegal and we made sure to cover our own butts and there's nothing anyone will do about it, so nah-nah-nah.

Watch for the Republicans to come storming to the cameras, huffing and puffing and telling anyone that will listen that at least those responsible have been "exposed."

BIG
FUCKING
DEAL
Posted by: Tracy at May 15, 2023 05:39 PM (0klyx)

Those "exposed" include Republicans who are impotent liars at best, and who most likely are co-conspirators.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (KSNKu)

252 I recognized that smug face from anywhere

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (xhxe8)

253 Rat fker is probably in Tahiti living the high life

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (xhxe8)

254 Greg Price @greg_price11

BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.


I believe the original plan was to prosecute Trump for election tampering or something, anything, hoping it would stick with Hillary's Attorney General pushing the case hard. The Media would use the Steele BS to ruin Trump's name and brand while the criminal cases were proceeding. All to punish Trump for daring to insult and challenge Hillary, the Media, and the Uniparty.

When Trump won the election, the gobsmacked Democrats needed a little time to revise the plan to destroy a President, not private citizen, Trump. They decided to use the lies they had in hand to quickly get the POTUS Trump destruction machine rolling. They believed they didn't have time to fabricate better lies guaranteed to take-out a President who (in theory) controlled the Executive Branch. The new plot did not work-out as they hoped. Because Trump was Trump, not a typical Republican.

Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (AMIL/)

255 My main problem is that if Meatball became President

he wouldn't do shit about the FBI or DC

and even a bigger problem

neither would Trump

we been had, boys

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (us2H3)

256 This was the infamous (well, actually unknown, to most of the ignorant masses, of course) WH meeting where the vegetable was present, and the idiot Obama was briefed by the idiots Brennan and Comey, Jan. 5 2017? Referring her to the "briefed" reference above. Or was this an even earlier direct involvement by Obama in this outrageous unlawful weaponization of federal agencies for political ends?

And there's an "alleged" in there. So did Durham actually report there *was* a plot by the Clinton camp on this stupid RUSSIA! thing, and that it was "briefed" to a sitting president?
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2023 05:43 PM (OTzUX)

IIRC, Susan Rice was there, too.

Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (rj6Yv)

257 >>This was the infamous (well, actually unknown, to most of the ignorant masses, of course) WH meeting where the vegetable was present, and the idiot Obama was briefed by the idiots Brennan and Comey, Jan. 5 2017? Referring her to the "briefed" reference above. Or was this an even earlier direct involvement by Obama in this outrageous unlawful weaponization of federal agencies for political ends?

>>And there's an "alleged" in there. So did Durham actually report there *was* a plot by the Clinton camp on this stupid RUSSIA! thing, and that it was "briefed" to a sitting president?

Yes. And a sitting Vice President. And a sitting Attorney General. In August 2016.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (1VMoy)

258 >>Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place


ahhh hahahahaha!
so how much did this sweeping 'investigation to nowhere' cost the taxpayers?

gosh, I hope no one was expecting something substantial

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (geLO8)

259 Nixon and his White House operatives did far less than this. Far less.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (MNhXM)

260 Even as lame a report as this is , it probably would have made an impact if it came out before the 2020 election.. barring the cheat

Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (bs+z0)

261 Wait a second, are you guys telling me that an agency that spent its formative years, its first several decades under J. Edgar Hoover has integrity problems?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - two weeks to sod off at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (KFhLj)

262 WHAAAAT??? The premier, most prestigious and distinguished law enforcement agency in the world is actually completely corrupt?

No. I shan't believe this. I simply shannot!

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at May 15, 2023 05:45 PM (PWI4f)

263 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines Had No Effect on Overall Mortality: Trial Data Reanalysis

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (IOMYY)

264 >>>Meanwhile a tiger shark video. That's it, that's all I got.

Was expecting an F-20

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (xPl2J)

265 >>Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place


seriously, is anyone surprised

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (geLO8)

266 waiting for Cruz to put the bee in my bonnet

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (us2H3)

267 Jame Comey looks like a homeless vagrant.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (NpAcC)
........

He had to change his appearance because people kept kicking him in the shins every time he walked down the street.

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (v0R5T)

268 Who's Dolan?

The only one I know is Dolan Duck.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I dunno, I trust Julie Kelly was making a good point, but she didn't go into details. I found this from Oct. 2022-
Democratic operative Charles Dolan Jr. testified Thursday that he lied to Igor Danchenko in 2016 when he claimed to have information from a GOP insider about why Paul Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (fs1hN)

269 Old and Busted : The US Constitution

New and Hot : The Declaration of Independence

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (cTv4+)

270 255 My main problem is that if Meatball became President

he wouldn't do shit about the FBI or DC

and even a bigger problem

neither would Trump

we been had, boys
Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (us2H3)

I'll trot out my old line:

It isn't a matter of they won't do anything.

It is a matter of they can't do anything.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (KSNKu)

271 CLINESMITH IS THE KEY

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (BXxcV)

272 The fig leaf of civilian oversight of this government is a myth.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (jTmQV)

273 Here's your slap on the wrist, G-Man


ah me

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (geLO8)

274 Oh got it, August 2016. So this makes it even worse.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (OTzUX)

275 263 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines Had No Effect on Overall Mortality: Trial Data Reanalysis

Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (IOMYY)

It wasn't the vaccines, it was what the vaccines produced. It's like saying smoking doesn't cause cancer, only the particles that are inhaled during smoking cause cancer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (ynpvh)

276 CNN Chyron: The FBI should have never opened the Trump-Russia probe.
---

DOH!!
*knocks palm against forehead*

Posted by: The FIB at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (krQz2)

277 This is not the Efram Zimbalist, Jr. FBI I was promised as a yute.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (a3Q+t)

278 The US is becoming a Greek tragedy

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (geLO8)

279 we been had, boys
Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:44 PM (us2H3)


The fetal position gets tiring on the lower back after a while, you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (xhaym)

280 I hate that Durham continued to use the term ‘fidelity’ just because it’s part of the FBI motto.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (MNhXM)

281 BREAKING: According to the Durham Report, the plan by Hillary Clinton to create a false story linking Donald Trump to Russia was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama, VP Biden, AG Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director Comey.


+++++
Because of no indictments, no nothing, Hillary is free to continue the lie, every chance she gets, for as long as she lives.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (6nNbw)

282 When Trump won the election, the gobsmacked Democrats needed a little time to revise the plan to destroy a President, not private citizen, Trump. They decided to use the lies they had in hand to quickly get the POTUS Trump destruction machine rolling.
___

Yep. And it worked!

Posted by: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Genius) at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (fs1hN)

283 I guess that's why they had to prosecute that retired general who was advising Trump, Flynn.
When the US government wants to see a crime, the crime is always there.

Posted by: PG at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (84jHt)

284 264 >>>Meanwhile a tiger shark video. That's it, that's all I got.

Was expecting an F-20

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (xPl2J)

Sorry, can only provide an F-5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7X3fyId2U0

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (ynpvh)

285 According to Lara Logan, Texas officials are working with border patrol to facilitate the invasion. I guess when some Zapata backs a dumptruck full of money on your lawn, its hard to resist corruption.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:49 PM (0hOvj)

286 I feel like when my first wife told me she had been cheating on me

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:49 PM (us2H3)

287 New and Hot : The Declaration of Independence

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (cTv4+)

---------

The Declaration of Independence 2: Heads on Pikes Boogaloo

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 05:49 PM (rY/ZL)

288 Was there a reason for Trump calling DeSantis "meatball"? Yes; I know it's an insult and I'm not trying to start the T/D wars; I just wanted to know if the insult was tethered to anything particular or just general political gamesmanship.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2023 05:49 PM (Keyt1)

289 Because you never swing the chain saw at a grapefruit unless the bacon is crispy at halftime?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

Wow, that's good. I heard it in Pinkie's cartoon voice, too.

Posted by: micky at May 15, 2023 05:49 PM (3byMq)

290 And now for something completely different . . .

Derick Hall was given a 1% chance to live after being born a premie at 23 weeks. Now he's been drafted into the NFL.

https://bit.ly/3IcqY3o

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 05:49 PM (FVME7)

291
Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you
........

don't take vodka if you're allergic to vodka

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (v0R5T)

292 I hate that Durham continued to use the term ‘fidelity’ just because it’s part of the FBI motto.
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (MNhXM)
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They have the fidelity of a Donkey Show whore.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (krQz2)

293 So now we know what Obama knew and when.

So Schumer said the quiet part out Loyd about the IC having nine ways to get you.

Do we know what Resist meant when members of the federal beuracracy chanted it.

We know strozks back up plan.

We know this was hilarys doing.

Nothing will happen.

No one in the press will ask difficult questions of any of those people who all should be under indictment right now.


But Trump paid stormy off.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (0Qrr3)

294 280 I hate that Durham continued to use the term ‘fidelity’ just because it’s part of the FBI motto.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:48 PM (MNhXM)

InFidelity they trust.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (ynpvh)

295 Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place
---------------------

This is sort of like the Medical Examiner announcing that Jeffrey Dahmer's food prep guidelines are immaculate.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (BXxcV)

296 Juries are going to have to show their contempt for the FBI.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (rJ48h)

297 288 Was there a reason for Trump calling DeSantis "meatball"? Yes; I know it's an insult and I'm not trying to start the T/D wars; I just wanted to know if the insult was tethered to anything particular or just general political gamesmanship.

it's an anti-Italian slur

whatever we like meatballs and also f*ck you

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (w0NJk)

298 I feel like when my first wife told me she had been cheating on me

Completely erect and hopeful that there's high quality video?

Posted by: David French at May 15, 2023 05:51 PM (KFhLj)

299 272 The fig leaf of civilian oversight of this government is a myth.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (jTmQV)

Pretty much. It is a wealthy garbage tier police state transitioning into a poor garbage tier police state. The good news is it is imploding--which also is the bad news for those of us who have to live in the ruins.

But, hey, y'all, let's believe everything we are told about Russia and China because otherwise these are straight shooters.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:51 PM (KSNKu)

300 Skeptical: "I did not have sex with that woman... Monica Lewinskyi."

Taken as fact: "Trump conspired with Ukraine and hookers peed on him."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (Q4IgG)

301 Oh got it, August 2016. So this makes it even worse.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (OTzUX)

Just in time for the debates.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (BXxcV)

302 Just as The Republic takes another razor-studded strapon to the bunghole, our intrepid NY GOP has just sent a blast email to "oppose the progressive agenda" of Gov Hochul.

Well then, battle is joined sir!

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (5FPX4)

303 It's a small consolation, but at least this report represents another chink against the dwindling credibility and authority of the gangster DC/media regime. When authority is fully lost, all that's left is raw power at the point of a gun.

Posted by: Bamanarama at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (uH1aC)

304 >>I feel like when my first wife told me she had been cheating on me


Glad you stopped on the way home for a fresh bottle of Lubriderm?

Posted by: JOnah Goldberg at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (cTv4+)

305 Disclose.tv
@disclosetv

JUST IN - Elon Musk subpoenaed in JPMorgan-Epstein case.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (NpAcC)

306 296 Juries are going to have to show their contempt for the FBI.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (rJ48h)

99.9% of DC jurors have no idea what "contempt" means

most think it's a fancy french liquor for hot tubs and Luthor

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (us2H3)

307 Test Question worth 50 points.............


Which is more intelligent ?

1. Joe "Werner Von Braun" Biden
2. Mary Clogginstein
3. The entire population of Brattleboro, Vt
4. The Wet Fart in my Boxers

Posted by: Franklin Stien at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (p3lya)

308 Trump sometimes comes up with goofy insults. My favorite lately is "donut" ala Gordon Ramsay. It especially works well with girls: sweet and pretty on the outside, but nothing inside. Another great one is "muppet". You muppet!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (0hOvj)

309 265 >>Durham's report "does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place


seriously, is anyone surprised

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (geLO


If the crooked bastards are ignoring existing laws, policies, and guidelines, revisions are pointless anyway. As often written here, the only cure is to abolish the FBI.

Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (AMIL/)

310 There's a spectre haunting Florida . . .

The View Rips “Dangerous” DeSantis Raising Money For NY Marine Vet

-
There could be dead Michael Jackson impersonators littering the streets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (FVME7)

311 Well, Chief Justice John Roberts, what do you think of the FBI-DOJ's mockery of the FISA Court now?

Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (rj6Yv)

312 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines Had No Effect on Overall Mortality: Trial Data Reanalysis
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2023 05:46 PM (IOMYY)


So let's parse that:

Does it mean the RNA jab had no effect on mortality from COVID or does it mean it had no effect on TOTAL MORTALITY above baseline?

Because one is equivalent to "those pills don't alleviate the effect of feline sinus infections" and the other one is equivalent to "it turns out that pill we gave out to the vets doesn't kill the cats to which it was administered""

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (xhaym)

313 Posted by: Bamanarama at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (uH1aC)

The stronger a government becomes, the less legitimacy is has.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (BXxcV)

314 Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 15, 2023 05:50 PM (w0NJk)

Thanks; I had not heard of that insult towards Italians before-just the usual ones.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2023 05:54 PM (Keyt1)

315 CNN says, that as of December 2022, Special counsel Durham has spent at least $6.5 million on inquiry into Trump-Russia probe

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:54 PM (geLO8)

316 Because you never swing the chain saw at a grapefruit unless the bacon is crispy at halftime?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2023 05:30 PM (ncXxy)

Was that AI generated? 😃

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 05:37 PM


I stole that from someplace that I don't recall. It was a cartoon of joe biden talking.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2023 05:55 PM (ncXxy)

317 And remember that dirty c*nt had the temerity to accuse the *Right* of a "Vast Conspiracy".

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 05:55 PM (BXxcV)

318 303 It's a small consolation, but at least this report represents another chink against the dwindling credibility and authority of the gangster DC/media regime. When authority is fully lost, all that's left is raw power at the point of a gun.
Posted by: Bamanarama at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (uH1aC)

They seem perfectly fine with exercising power from the point of the gun. Who will stop them? The GOP? It is just out in the open now. The world is moving past the United States. It is time for us to at least mentally do so.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:55 PM (KSNKu)

319 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (0hOvj)

Well except for "muppet" I guess Trump likes insults related to food.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2023 05:56 PM (Keyt1)

320 What will those yeasty hags of "The View" have on this tomorrow? I mean except for making the stinky-face and waving their hands?

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 05:56 PM (5FPX4)

321 >>If the crooked bastards are ignoring existing laws, policies, and guidelines, revisions are pointless anyway. As often written here, the only cure is to abolish the FBI.

That's actually what Durham said:

“The promulgation of additional rules and regulations to be learned in yet more training sessions would likely prove to be a fruitless exercise if the FBI’s guiding principles of ‘Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity’ are not engrained in the hearts and minds of those sworn to meet the FBI’s mission of ‘Protect[ing] the American People and uphold[ing] the Constitution of the United States,'” Durham concluded. “The answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.”

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 05:56 PM (1VMoy)

322 319 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (0hOvj)

Well except for "muppet" I guess Trump likes insults related to food.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2023 05:56 PM (Keyt1)

There was also "Lyin' Ted".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:56 PM (ynpvh)

323 It's a small consolation, but at least this report represents another chink against the dwindling credibility and authority of the gangster DC/media regime. When authority is fully lost, all that's left is raw power at the point of a gun.
Posted by: Bamanarama at May 15, 2023 05:52 PM (uH1aC)


The only justification for government since the Enlightenment, and US federal powers since Lincoln, has been the fair administration of law, protection from foreign invaders, and the prevention of domestic anarchy.
Anyone want to draw conclusions here?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (xhaym)

324 @271

>>CLINESMITH IS THE KEY

Clinesmith is currently teaching ethics at Arizona State and is unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (up/3i)

325 The "no changes to policy" thing bothers me. Was this probe to find out if policy was bad, to dig into procedures to find out if they worked or needed changing or was it an investigation into criminal wrongdoing? Because there's a big difference here.

If someone broke the laws, who the hell cares what the policy is or how it can be changed? Its time to bust out the bracelets and frog walk some people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (0hOvj)

326 I confess that I thought Durham would FINALLY bring down the Clintons. He will not. They're going to get away with it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (eOEVl)

327 311 Well, Chief Justice John Roberts, what do you think of the FBI-DOJ's mockery of the FISA Court now?
Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 05:53 PM (rj6Yv)

He care as little about it now than he did back then, plus the terror against his fellow justices assures he will not pipe up about it. But let's face it: the revelation that the parasitic FISA court judges didn't even bother to read the warrant applications was sold fucking gold.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (KSNKu)

328
"Hey guys, stop the presses! Durham's report is out!.. Guys?... Guys?..."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2023 05:58 PM (MoZTd)

329 I confess that I thought Durham would FINALLY bring down the Clintons. He will not. They're going to get away with it.

And let's just stop with the BS about what the world will know. What they will know is that the Clintons got away with it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 05:58 PM (eOEVl)

330 >> “The answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.”

Posted by: JackStraw


OMG WHAT HORSESHIT
what color is the sky in Durham's world?
Has this guy been on another f***ing planet the last 50 years?
FFS

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (geLO8)

331 325 The "no changes to policy" thing bothers me. Was this probe to find out if policy was bad, to dig into procedures to find out if they worked or needed changing or was it an investigation into criminal wrongdoing? Because there's a big difference here.

If someone broke the laws, who the hell cares what the policy is or how it can be changed? Its time to bust out the bracelets and frog walk some people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (0hOvj)

The point of the probe was to run out the clock and protect the police state apparatus that poses as a government.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (KSNKu)

332 Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

Posted by: Jake Tapper, Time Traveler at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (krQz2)

333 The time for this to come out would have been before the 2020 election. Really, prior to the shellacking in the 2018 midterms when the Dems ran on Russia, Russia, Russia. It's worthless now. That is, of course, by design.

The Dems got to run on the Russia shit for at least 2 election cycles. The only ways to prevent future hoaxes is for the perpetrators to go to jail and lose their jobs, or for Dems to lose elections as a result of their dishonesty. Neither is happening.

Posted by: Paladin at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (rw+NJ)

334 "Renewed fidelity..."
I may actually puke. I enjoy patriotic rah rah as much as the next, but, really, if you ever believe what *this* government says, even once, ever again, there is no helping you. You are a credulous fool.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (jTmQV)

335
And let's just stop with the BS about what the world will know. What they will know is that the Clintons got away with it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 05:58 PM (eOEVl)

___________

Guilty as hell, free as a bird.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (MoZTd)

336 Billable hours bitches!

Posted by: Archer at May 15, 2023 05:59 PM (gmo/4)

337 “The answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.”

He misspelled "but in fire, gibbets and The Wheel."

Posted by: Zek at May 15, 2023 06:00 PM (5FPX4)

338 Now we know exactly what Bill was conversing with Loretta about on the private airplane

Posted by: Deseret Rebel at May 15, 2023 06:00 PM (PJaTp)

339
Ethics are for losers

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (MoZTd)

340 there is no one at the FIB that is not a criminal

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (us2H3)

341 The cure for Charles Manson is not new lessons but a gentle reminder of all the old ones.

Posted by: The Durham Report on Charles Manson at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (BXxcV)

342 Guilty as hell, free as a bird.

"Soon"
--God

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (0hOvj)

343 Come, probably too little too late

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (xhxe8)

344 Can't take the MSNBC clip seriously. Niccole's "Flying Nun" hairdo is just too distracting.

Posted by: scruboak at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (jjH9L)

345 He submitted a 306-page report to Merrick Garland, who I'm sure is determined to punish the wrongdoers in the FBI.

Whack their pee-pees!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (anj39)

346 The FBI is apparently just suffering from a little "mission drift". They'll be back soon! Swearsies! America, fuck yeah!

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 06:02 PM (BXxcV)

347 Josef Stalin was always stopped by pesky rules, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:02 PM (ynpvh)

348 The only reason that Durham released the report was because the DS is completely convinced that they have everything they need to make sure Trump will never be elected again.

Posted by: pawn at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (kYVzH)

349
Mistakes were made
Administrative measures are being taken
This matter is closed

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (MoZTd)

350 330 >> “The answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old.”

Posted by: JackStraw

step away from the pipe

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (us2H3)

351 The only justification for government since the Enlightenment, and US federal powers since Lincoln, has been the fair administration of law, protection from foreign invaders, and the prevention of domestic anarchy.
Anyone want to draw conclusions here?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (xhaym)

--------

The Left has accomplished all three here in a mere three years?

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (QGugg)

352 341 The cure for Charles Manson is not new lessons but a gentle reminder of all the old ones.

Posted by: The Durham Report on Charles Manson at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (BXxcV)

Given he's dead, well, I'm sure he's learned something new.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (ynpvh)

353 It wasn't the vaccines, it was what the vaccines produced. It's like saying smoking doesn't cause cancer, only the particles that are inhaled during smoking cause cancer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (ynpvh)

And even the tobacco part of that has never been proven. Nothing from the government for the past 50 years (if not, longer) should have been believed to be true. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (BdMk6)

354 It must be nice to be a democrat. I mean except for the part where you have to be crazy.

Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

355 Now we know exactly what Bill was conversing with Loretta about on the private airplane
Posted by: Deseret Rebel at May 15, 2023 06:00 PM (PJaTp)
........

Peyronie's disease?

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (v0R5T)

356 i'll just say that perhaps durham understood that no one would be convicted of anything so as a prosecutor he understood that a prosecutor is not supposed to bring cases to court that he pretty much knows he cannot win. (i think that's the rule, anyway.)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (B1FKF)

357 there is no one at the FIB that is not a criminal
Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:01 PM (us2H3)
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They belong to an organized crime.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (krQz2)

358 Our kitty, Pax is still not feeling well. She is still limping but moving more easily. She allowed the girl spawn to pick her up last night but still fussy about touching on her left hip.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 15, 2023 06:04 PM (Wy1BU)

359 The time for this to come out would have been before the 2020 election.

"oh that would be wrong, we don't want to influence the election"
--FBI giggling behind their hands

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:04 PM (0hOvj)

360 the only good FIB is no FIB

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:04 PM (us2H3)

361
Printing the report in Comic Sans was a nice touch

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (MoZTd)

362 >>OMG WHAT HORSESHIT
what color is the sky in Durham's world?
Has this guy been on another f***ing planet the last 50 years?
FFS

He's right. Every single time the FBI has gotten caught in the past pulling some corrupt bullshit the solution, which is widely panned here, is more training and new rules. And it never matters.

You can make all the rules in the world but if you have corrupt people running the government who ignore the rules it doesn't mean shit. Obama didn't care about the rules. Biden didn't care about the rules. Lynch didn't care about the rules. Comey didn't care about the rules. What new rules are going to stop corrupt people from doing corrupt shit?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (1VMoy)

363 Well except for "muppet" I guess Trump likes insults related to food.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

He's an amateur compared to Brad Majors.

"You're a real hot dog but you'd better not try to hurt her, Frankfurter!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (FVME7)

364 Agents of the FIB are employed by a band of organized criminals.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (krQz2)

365 i'll just say that perhaps durham understood that no one would be convicted of anything so as a prosecutor he understood that a prosecutor is not supposed to bring cases to court that he pretty much knows he cannot win. (i think that's the rule, anyway.)

That is NOT his job. It's his job to ensure that people are held accountable, if not in court, in the historical record. He punted on both.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (eOEVl)

366 353 It wasn't the vaccines, it was what the vaccines produced. It's like saying smoking doesn't cause cancer, only the particles that are inhaled during smoking cause cancer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 05:47 PM (ynpvh)

And even the tobacco part of that has never been proven. Nothing from the government for the past 50 years (if not, longer) should have been believed to be true. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (BdMk6)

Lots of studies on tobacco chaw and smoking showing pretty strong links.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (ynpvh)

367 Durham Report:

"Some people did some things that weren't great. They need to be better."

"That'll be $6.5 million dollars please."

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (geLO8)

368
Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines Had No Effect on Overall Mortality: Trial Data Reanalysis

It will be a slow speed drip, drip, drip of data which will ultimately prove nothing but VAED - vaccine associated enhanced disease. Which 20 years of efforts to secure a vaccine had all shown. Nothing good, all bad. 20 years of bad results. Unleashed on the public eager to believe.

Posted by: Peter North at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (enJYY)

369 This means there will be consequences, right?

Right?
Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 05:35 PM (pwExq)

A lot of people talking about consequences lack perspective. A short jail term in a country club prison is not the worst thing that can happen to you, by a long way. This is the further delegitimizing of the Bloomberg/ Soros cabal. Both the American Revolution and the Civil war were waged over much less. So far as the Durham Report reveals the Constitution as a dead letter, the solution is well beyond anything he can recommend.

Posted by: trev006 at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (78UcJ)

370 The FIB should be RICO-ed.

You can't get more organized in crime than the FIB.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (krQz2)

371 reforming the NAZIs was more possible than reforming the FIB

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (us2H3)

372 360 the only good FIB is no FIB

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:04 PM (us2H3)

Scratch a Liar find a Thief.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (ynpvh)

373 Mistakes were made
Administrative measures are being taken
This matter is closed

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (MoZTd)

---------

Biden to React by Appointing KJP to be New Lying Czar.

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (QGugg)

374 It must be nice to be a democrat. I mean except for the part where you have to be crazy.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
........

I might be that crazy, but no way am I that stupid.

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (v0R5T)

375 Paladin, even if it came out in 2021 it would have helped. Voters could hold DEms to account.

Do you think they could slather on all these crimes on Trump if that was out there?

Posted by: Harun at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (Cg63x)

376 >>step away from the pipe

Put the bottle down. Durham said that not me.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (1VMoy)

377 So soon? I thought these reports weren't released until all guilty parties were decessed. Hmm progress..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (h//oo)

378 I was told repeatedly that Durham will come. Repeatedly. By people in good standing on this blog.

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (uVPm5)

379 I gave up arguing with "Durham Will Come" supporters long ago, and this nonsense "report" illustrates why.

Nothing will happen. Even the FBI says that very thing today, in their "Statement", arguing "we already changed training" and nothing else needs to happen. The FBI/DOJ cabal should, apparently, be allowed to continue to overthrow duly-elected governments at will.

Anyone with faith our national institutions are self-correcting is shown now the irrefutable evidence of their own idiocy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 15, 2023 06:06 PM (CCFsy)

380 And the national level GOP, as ever a farcical menace to American freedom

soundtrack


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1z4JfxFb6c

Posted by: DaveA at May 15, 2023 06:07 PM (FhXTo)

381 If a live woman came forward and claimed Trump killed her, but that she later came back to life, do you think a NYC or D.C. jury would convict him?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 15, 2023 06:07 PM (5K27I)

382 All these guys that investigate the system end up with a report that sounds like you have to critique your girlfriend's singing. They want to tell the truth but have to word it in such a way she doesn't claw your face off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:07 PM (0hOvj)

383 I was told repeatedly that Durham will come. Repeatedly. By people in good standing on this blog.

Guilty.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 06:08 PM (eOEVl)

384 favorite phrase amongst FIB ham and eggers

fuddgetaboutiit

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:08 PM (us2H3)

385 You can make all the rules in the world but if you have corrupt people running the government who ignore the rules it doesn't mean shit. Obama didn't care about the rules. Biden didn't care about the rules. Lynch didn't care about the rules. Comey didn't care about the rules. What new rules are going to stop corrupt people from doing corrupt shit?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (1VMoy)

Rules are worthless as are laws if no one enforces them. Exhibit A is the ongoing erasure of the United States at the southern border.

Evil pays.

And as much as it pains me to write, Comey looks fabulous.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 15, 2023 06:08 PM (KSNKu)

386 WTF is Durham?

Oh, the Party cleaner.
But I thought that Barr's job.

Meh. The People will figure it out sooner or later. Most likely layer. After their great grand children are whored out for debts the present said the future of humanity depended upon...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2023 06:08 PM (IdeM3)

387 If a live woman came forward and claimed Trump killed her, but that she later came back to life, do you think a NYC or D.C. jury would convict him?

So you're saying "I got better"?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 06:08 PM (eOEVl)

388 Comey looks like he's stranded on a deserted island and just found a volleyball to fuck.

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (v0R5T)

389 326 I confess that I thought Durham would FINALLY bring down the Clintons. He will not. They're going to get away with it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 05:57 PM (eOEVl)

That was part of the deal, and I honor my contracts.

Posted by: Satan at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (LoCcQ)

390 if trump is the nominee, they'll double down

if trump wins, they'll double down again and then three times

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (B1FKF)

391 Words cannot express the amount of disgust, loathing, and disrespect I have for these people. Traitors. Every fu*king one of them.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (anj39)

392 Good Precedent.

It is totes OK for dot gov to not only frame high ranking elected officials of crimes but to also fabricate the crimes they framed of...


Relatively speaking Pol Pot was quite open and just.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (IdeM3)

393 Erev Tov Patriots

And nothing, absolutely nothing will come of this, and No One NO ONE will be held accountable but they are still going after Trump

I fuckin hate the left and 1/2 of this Country

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (EVR4i)

394 The FIB should be RICO-ed.

--------

Rico and the FBI in the same sentence once referred to The Untouchables.

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (QGugg)

395 If a live woman came forward and claimed Trump killed her, but that she later came back to life, do you think a NYC or D.C. jury would convict him?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Does an FBI bear shit in the woods?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (FVME7)

396 It must be nice to be a democrat. I mean except for the part where you have to be crazy.

Nah, spending an eternity in Hell isn't worth it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (YXHzG)

397 The FIB should be RICO-ed.

That would be the way you tear it apart. You have people on the inside who dig up information, and bust little fish, who tell on the bigger fish, who tell on the big fish. You wiretap and collect computer info, and show that the biggest fish gave orders which the little fish carried out, which RICO allows to jail the big fish.

But to do so... you need a legal authority who would sign off on and execute this. And who would that be?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (0hOvj)

398 the good thing about this is that we wil never believe that another savior is coming like Durham

the bad thing is that is not true

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (us2H3)

399 395 If a live woman came forward and claimed Trump killed her, but that she later came back to life, do you think a NYC or D.C. jury would convict him?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Does an FBI bear shit in the woods?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (FVME7)

if a bear at a fibbie, he'd shit FIB in the woods...eventually.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (ynpvh)

400 It must be nice to be a democrat. I mean except for the part where you have to be crazy.

Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
---
And corrupt. Jesus wouldn't be pleased with my becoming pro-corruption.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:11 PM (krQz2)

401 Does an FBI bear shit in the woods?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy
.......

Does an FBI frog have a watertight asshole?

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2023 06:11 PM (v0R5T)

402 400 It must be nice to be a democrat. I mean except for the part where you have to be crazy.

Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2023 06:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
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And corrupt. Jesus wouldn't be pleased with my becoming pro-corruption.

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:11 PM (krQz2)

just like his stance on abortion and transgenerism.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:11 PM (ynpvh)

403 In fairness to Durham, policy recommendations are not the point of his investigation. Everyone knows there is zero chance Merrick Garland will act on any recommendation Durham makes. It's the opposition party's job to take Durham's findings and demand scalps.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (l7udz)

404 All these guys that investigate the system end up with a report that sounds like you have to critique your girlfriend's singing. They want to tell the truth but have to word it in such a way she doesn't claw your face off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:07 PM


I did that once and that pussy instantly froze solid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (ncXxy)

405 Does an FBI bear shit in the woods?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (FVME7)
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Does a FIB-ber shit on the flag?

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (krQz2)

406 the bad thing is that is not true

I think its like electoral fraud, every time more people recognize it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (0hOvj)

407 Baloneyous assault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79_I8GozFw

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (MvF+J)

408 394 The FIB should be RICO-ed.

the FIB is RICO, you miserable fuck

Posted by: LT Nick Frescia at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (us2H3)

409 405 Does an FBI bear shit in the woods?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (FVME7)
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Does a FIB-ber shit on the flag?

Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (krQz2)

And wipes with the Constitution.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (ynpvh)

410 Presentation in WSJ:

FBI Faulted for Its Probe of Russian Meddling in 2016 Campaign
A four-year inquiry by special counsel John Durham, who was appointed in President Trump’s administration, concluded that the bureau was rash in its handling of allegations linking the former president to Russia.

Oh, those rash rapscallions, what are the up to now? Such practical jokers! They deserve a pat on the head.

Posted by: PG at May 15, 2023 06:13 PM (84jHt)

411 if trump is the nominee, they'll double down

if trump wins, they'll double down again and then three times

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (B1FKF)

---------

If they can't steal the election from him, they'll Epstein him -- and to be honest, I'm surprised they haven't already done so.

What would our side do in response? Any protests or civil disobedience now gives patriots a one-way ticket to the Garland Archipelago.

Make Irish Democracy Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 06:14 PM (QGugg)

412 It's the opposition party's job to take Durham's findings and demand scalps.
Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (l7udz)

True. And it ain't gonna happen, ever, so we're all fucked. The End.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 06:14 PM (i9ffA)

413 Let us wrap this up… who here expected anything different?

Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2023 06:14 PM (PCK5/)

414 comedian jackie vernon (not jackie mason) years ago said "i've been smoking for 20 years and there's nothing wrong with my lung"

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2023 06:14 PM (B1FKF)

415 99% of the FIBers sit and watch reruns of SAC while sipping bud light thru a straw

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:14 PM (us2H3)

416 >concluded that the bureau was rash in its handling of allegations linking the former president to Russia.


well bless their hearts...

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 06:15 PM (geLO8)

417 Feebs are all sitzpinklers.

this is known.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Totes Intelleckshul and Stuff at May 15, 2023 06:15 PM (T/Lqj)

418 Nah, spending an eternity in Hell isn't worth it.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 15, 2023 06:10 PM (YXHzG)

Hell would be a step up from living in San Fran.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2023 06:15 PM (i9ffA)

419 >Let us wrap this up… who here expected anything different?

Posted by: tubal


not me

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 06:15 PM (geLO8)

420 Lots of studies on tobacco chaw and smoking showing pretty strong links.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (ynpvh)

You mean associations. Anything can be associated with something else. Ya just have to get the wording right to sound all scientific and stuff. Happens all the time. Man-made global warming is another good example.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2023 06:15 PM (BdMk6)

421 There damn well better be some funny animal videos later

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 06:16 PM (geLO8)

422 Durham could have report this exact same thing BEFORE the 2020 election. The fix was in. ELECTION FRAUD

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2023 06:16 PM (EVR4i)

423 They should all, including the Durham bunch, be taken out and shot.

1780s France was so much simpler. I'd accept the outcome.

Posted by: JEM at May 15, 2023 06:17 PM (8erNz)

424 407 Baloneyous assault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79_I8GozFw

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (MvF+J)

He had the meats!

Posted by: Arby's at May 15, 2023 06:17 PM (ynpvh)

425 And corrupt. Jesus wouldn't be pleased with my becoming pro-corruption.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2023 06:11 PM (krQz2)


Oh, we're not corrupt -- we only support all Democrat policies 100% (even on abortion)!

Posted by: Progressive Christians at May 15, 2023 06:17 PM (PiwSw)

426 The FBI exist to make criminals out of citizens.

There is not one person in the FBI that would not kill you on orders.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2023 06:17 PM (BRHaw)

427
I think its like electoral fraud, every time more people recognize it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM


Tomorrow Philly has a primary election for Mayor. On the radio today a complete 180 degree change on election fraud. Not only does it suddenly and mysteriously appear (and is real and spectacular) but there are all sorts of numbers and agencies ready to act on reports.

It's a real head scratcher how in only two years time it's become so obvious.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 15, 2023 06:18 PM (enJYY)

428 NOOD Hits

Posted by: Arby's at May 15, 2023 06:18 PM (ynpvh)

429 c'mon people- any investigation of the deep state is just Lucy-with-the-football shit


come over to the dark side, where we KNOW everything sucks and always will

Posted by: DB - ask your bartender if vodka is right for you at May 15, 2023 06:18 PM (geLO8)

430 In fairness to Durham, policy recommendations are not the point of his investigation. Everyone knows there is zero chance Merrick Garland will act on any recommendation Durham makes. It's the opposition party's job to take Durham's findings and demand scalps.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (l7udz)

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Next you'll be telling me that the Rs in Congress voted to give them an additional $1 billion in their budget at the end of last year ... or something.

Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2023 06:18 PM (QGugg)

431 re 395: "If a live woman came forward and claimed Trump killed her, but that she later came back to life, do you think a NYC or D.C. jury would convict him?"

no, but the jury would convict him of assault

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2023 06:19 PM (B1FKF)

432 Thhere are some many targets to be angry with, it is overwhelming, which is part of the plan, I am afraid.

Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2023 06:19 PM (PCK5/)

433 the FIB and their handlers know this isn't an endless ride

but what a ride while it lasted

YOLO

Posted by: REDACTED at May 15, 2023 06:19 PM (us2H3)

434 I did an internetz search for information on Carter Page's federal suit against the DOJ-FBI biggies, like Comey, Strozk, Clinesmith, etc. The suit was tossed by the judge, who ruled that Page had filed his suit against the wrong people. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said that Page should have sued the people who actually conducted the surveillance. What a racket.

Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 06:20 PM (rj6Yv)

435
I'm still amazed this Russian dealio ever went anywhere.

Does no one remember that Hillary! had a woman reporter (who's name I forget) who had complete access to her campaign with the promise of writing a complete story of the First Woman President Hillary!'s Glorious Ascension to Her White House Throne?

And when it was clear Trump had won, Hillary et al called a meeting the next day and plotted on how to derail Trump's presidency and they came up with a plan to link him to Russian.

And this was printed and remarked upon in the news.

Yes, really!

Then like a week or so later all that reporting "disappeared".

And when the Russia Hoax it was as if no one remembered Hillary!'s favored, handpicked reporter with complete access had already spilled the beans.

Man, they must've hated Trump for everyone, even Republicans, to go along with that stupid, lame-ass hoax which had already been revealed.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2023 06:20 PM (RJQ8g)

436 "...was briefed in August of 2016 by CIA Director John Brennan to President Obama"

At the time, I knew there was a reason for Barry's serene smile at Trump's 2016 inauguration...and at last, here it is, at least in part.

President Trump, you must set a precedent for such treason against yourself and your Office, as Dims often state, "for the sake of our precious democracy." Time to follow their example:

Sue Barry and Mooch right out of their 4 mansions in 4 states.

That would be Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois, in case you're wondering where to file.

Posted by: Ju at May 15, 2023 06:20 PM (aTmM/)

437 You can make all the rules in the world but if you have corrupt people running the government who ignore the rules it doesn't mean shit. Obama didn't care about the rules. Biden didn't care about the rules. Lynch didn't care about the rules. Comey didn't care about the rules. What new rules are going to stop corrupt people from doing corrupt shit?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (1VMoy)


Special Counsel's job is not to recommend new rules. It is to investigate whether laws were broken and prosecute. No one was looking for the report to have new rules. We were looking for consequences.

There will be some, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 06:21 PM (pwExq)

438 Or 1650s England a little more complex. Do we need need bad people to be constrained to do good things, or do we now accept we need good people to do what's necessary?

Posted by: JEM at May 15, 2023 06:22 PM (8erNz)

439 Yeah well this country has a disease and it is TIME to stop treating the symptoms and operate to remove the tumors stat. The voting them out strategy is not working. What will it take. I figured back in the 60's when forced school busing started CW 2.0 could not be far off. Now we're up to the point of cutting off kids weiners and *crickets*.. WTF?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at May 15, 2023 06:22 PM (h//oo)

440 I'll have to listen to my BIL to see what NPR's take on all this is.....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 15, 2023 06:23 PM (6v1v0)

441 What new rules are going to stop corrupt people from doing corrupt shit?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2023 06:05 PM (1VMoy)

How is an insistence on adhering to old rules going to stop them?

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 06:23 PM (BXxcV)

442 Thhere are some many targets to be angry with, it is overwhelming, which is part of the plan, I am afraid.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2023 06:19 PM (PCK5/)

One the things they taught us in disaster recovery training is to start where you are. You can't control everything but you can control what is in front of you. This has to be the way back. Start locally pushing back.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 15, 2023 06:24 PM (qayCr)

443 Guilty.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2023 06:08 PM (eOEVl)

I say this without a hint of malice - cool shit.

Posted by: ... at May 15, 2023 06:25 PM (BXxcV)

444 390 if trump is the nominee, they'll double down

if trump wins, they'll double down again and then three times

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2023 06:09 PM (B1FKF)


Trump will be nominee. I expect that sometime fter the Republican Convention, he will be indicted on several Federal felony counts for the Mar-a-Lago document BS. The Junta will wait till then to throw the Republican campaign into chaos. If Trump manages to remain the nominee, they hope felony indictments will drive away enough independents that Joe/Kamala can win using only 2020-type cheating. If Trump is somehow forced out by the GOPe, the Junta expects a chaotic process to choose a replacement, not leaving enough time for even DeSantis to campaign and win.

Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2023 06:26 PM (AMIL/)

445 You’d like the FBI building turned to rubble.
You’d take the FBI brass in federal prison for sedition.
You’ll get a $20,000,000 bill for a 5 year investigation that results in 2 not guilty verdicts and a 306 page “report.”

Posted by: Ted Torgeson at May 15, 2023 06:26 PM (LLm9n)

446 410 Presentation in WSJ:

FBI Faulted for Its Probe of Russian Meddling in 2016 Campaign
A four-year inquiry by special counsel John Durham, who was appointed in President Trump’s administration, concluded that the bureau was rash in its handling of allegations linking the former president to Russia.
____

If WWII concluded 4 short years ago -
WSJ-
Hitler Faulted for His Response to Polish Meddling in Free City of Danzig
A four-year inquiry by special counsel John Durham, concluded that the Hitler was rash in his handling of the allegations of Polish treatment of German minorities in the Danzig corridor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2023 06:27 PM (fs1hN)

447 >> Next you'll be telling me that the Rs in Congress voted to give them an additional $1 billion in their budget at the end of last year ... or something.

Posted by: ShainS

Only $1B? Their new HQ costs a lot more than that.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 06:30 PM (l7udz)

448 I agree, did the yeoman work on this endeavor. Thanks much

Posted by: yoeman at May 15, 2023 06:31 PM (BYNHj)

449 the opposition party's job to take Durham's findings and demand scalps.
Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 06:12 PM (l7udz)

You got to give them a report they can work with. Not one mention a law that was broken.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2023 06:44 PM (MNhXM)

450 Trump will be nominee. I expect that sometime fter the Republican Convention, he will be indicted on several Federal felony counts for the Mar-a-Lago document BS. The Junta will wait till then to throw the Republican campaign into chaos. If Trump manages to remain the nominee, they hope felony indictments will drive away enough independents that Joe/Kamala can win using only 2020-type cheating. If Trump is somehow forced out by the GOPe, the Junta expects a chaotic process to choose a replacement, not leaving enough time for even DeSantis to campaign and win.
Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2023 06:26 PM (AMIL/)

In this case, John Durham's report does have consequences. It is an event. There will be more events between today and November, 2024.

Posted by: mrp at May 15, 2023 06:49 PM (rj6Yv)

451 Special Counsel's job is not to recommend new rules. It is to investigate whether laws were broken and prosecute. No one was looking for the report to have new rules. We were looking for consequences.

There will be some, right?

Right?
Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2023 06:21 PM (pwExq)

No, but Jack will claim victory. For what exactly, I don't know. Oh, Durham got no convictions. His report obviously showed massive criminal activity. Result, nothing. Except for some details, everyone pretty much knew what happened.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 15, 2023 06:52 PM (dN42F)

452 I expect that sometime fter the Republican Convention, he will be indicted on several Federal felony counts for the Mar-a-Lago document BS. The Junta will wait till then to throw the Republican campaign into chaos. If Trump manages to remain the nominee, they hope felony indictments will drive away enough independents that Joe/Kamala can win using only 2020-type cheating.
Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2023 06:26 PM (AMIL/)

That's what living under a Garland/ Bloomberg legal system will do. Bear in mind that the current flood of injustices hasn't just boosted Donald Trump's leadership of the Republican Party, but solidified it. Very stupid Epsteinite drones on both sides of the aisle are laboring under the impression they can change that, but they won't.

It's likely that the unified Epsteinite elite can steal the 2024 election, but those don't really matter anymore. You can do as the Founders did, or wait for history to come to you. I suspect "vae victis" is the principle under which the anti-Christian system will judge you.

Posted by: trev006 at May 15, 2023 07:07 PM (78UcJ)

453 >>> You got to give them a report they can work with. Not one mention a law that was broken.

And Garland would prosecute?

I haven't read anything more than snipets from it. But Durham going on record, after a lengthy investigation, that the FBI launched an investigation against a presidential candidate based on precisely zero evidence is good ammunition for a capable opposition party. DJT will claim it vindicates his statements that Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller invesitgation were never anything more than a witch hunt. If there's a big winner in this, it is Trump, because he can point to a lifelong DoJ bureaucrat saying "Trump was right".

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 07:10 PM (l7udz)

454 Color me naïve, but doesn’t Trump have some legal course of action? Can’t he sue the shit out of several people because of the findings of this report? There was actual malice involved in this. Defamation, malice, (Not to mention the treason involved by the FIB’S, Law enforcement, DOJ, And other government apparatus’s). Someone explain why he cannot launch several huge lawsuits, civil, and criminal against these traitorous scum. Screw it, just do it for the law fair. Keep them busy with attorneys fees. Tie their stinking lives up with lawyer crap for evermore. So what am I missing? It’s either that, or lined them all up against the wall.

Posted by: Ron at May 15, 2023 07:15 PM (yVwLR)

455 Color me naïve, but doesn’t Trump have some legal course of action? Can’t he sue the shit out of several people because of the findings of this report? There was actual malice involved

Posted by: Ron at May 15, 2023 07:15 PM (yVwLR)

Yes, but Donald Trump doesn't actually have infinite money to spend on shysters against a terminally corrupt Epsteinite legal system. Assuming American justice is more honest than Pakistani justice, the Supreme Court can use the Durham Report finding to demand an end to all lawfare against Trump for the 2024 election cycle.

Yeah, stop laughing.

Posted by: trev006 at May 15, 2023 07:38 PM (78UcJ)

456 >>> doesn’t Trump have some legal course of action?

Durham is effectively now on record that Strzok, Page, and others in the FBI, at a minimum, violated the Hatch Act by using their positions as partisan operatives. Don't know if Trump can file a civil suit under the Hatch Act. If they've made public statements about him he should be able to sue for defamation. A Trump v Strzok lawsuit would stir up his base like nobody's business.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 07:42 PM (l7udz)

457 >>> Donald Trump doesn't actually have infinite money to spend on shysters against a terminally corrupt Epsteinite legal system.

I'm betting donations would pour in for a Trump v Strzok legal expenses fund. Assuming you can crowdsource legal funds as a plaintiff (don't know if that's legal, but sure sounds like cost of E Jean Carroll's "defamation" suit was entirely outsourced to donors).

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 07:50 PM (l7udz)

458 If John Durham fell over in the swamp but there was no one who gave a shit about his long overdue "investigation," at this point, what difference would it make?

Posted by: p-squared at May 15, 2023 08:03 PM (UxSB9)

459 I know this sounds bad:

"...does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability"

But its the same as gun control. They didn't follow the policies already in place. Its like making murder with a gun double secret illegal.

Posted by: deadrody at May 15, 2023 08:44 PM (OeYsY)

460 >>But its the same as gun control. They didn't follow the policies already in place. Its like making murder with a gun double secret illegal.

Exactly. They didn't take advantage of policy loopholes to do something "perfectly legal". They blatantly ignored policy to do things blatantly illegal. A pointless policy recommendation would give Garland cover to take some meaningless action "so that this never happens again".

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at May 15, 2023 09:25 PM (l7udz)

461 I'm ashamed to admit that when Durham was first appointed I actually thought something might come of it.

The fuck was I thinking?

Posted by: Arradin at May 16, 2023 03:49 AM (5kvQv)

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