Durham (DOJ prosecutor) getting ready to spill beans on Obola-Russiagate spy scandal

Indictments Likely by Sep. 4th Against Former Obama Administration Officials​

August 12, 2020 by IWB

Link: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com...gainst-former-obama-administration-officials/

by Eric Zuesse

Here is why federal criminal indictments of former Obama Administration officials are likely before September 4th:

As I have previously documented, the case is overwhelming that extremely serious crimes were, in fact, committed and covered-up, and the only real question now is how high up in the Administration they went — possibly up to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, but that’s the big question.

(I need to state here, for the record, that I voted for Barack Obama both times, though recognized in 2012 that he was the lesser of two evils — I am not, and never have been, a Republican.)

The George W. Bush Administration established the precedent that there is a “60-day rule” that any indictment of a person who is associated with a U.S. Presidential election that is to occur within the following 60 days is to be avoided. It’s not a law, but it is — and ever since Bush’s Presidency has been — the custom; and the current U.S. Attorney General, Bill Barr, has reiterated it. Consequently, if there will be any indictments, then Barr would need to be an idiot to bring them after that time.

Any reader here who wants to know, in a general sense, what the crimes were, can find that at my previous presentation.

There is considerable speculation, in Republican circles, regarding how high up those crimes went. (See this and this.) For over a year now, there has also been considerable propaganda from participants in the cover-ups — mainly Democrats — aimed at preparing the public for such indictments (if they happen) by prejudicing the public to believe that (even if the 60-day rule will be adhered to) the public should view the indictments only as being political retribution for Democrats having impeached and tried to remove Trump. (See this, for a recent example of that Democratic Party propaganda.)

Here will be the currently existing public record of the relevant facts regarding how high up this operation actually went:

On 15 February 2018, Andrew C. McCarthy headlined at the Republican Party’s National Review magazine, “What Did Comey Tell President Trump about the Steele Dossier?” and he wrote about what had happened on 5 and 6 January 2017, right before Trump became President:

January 5 was the day President Obama was presented with the ballyhooed report he had ordered to be rushed to completion by multiple intelligence agencies before his administration ended, “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.” [This report, from the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was to serve as the basis for impeaching Trump and removing Trump from the Presidency, thus making the more reliably neoconservative V.P., Mike Pence, the U.S. President, which many billionaires wanted. All of America’s 700 or so billionaires are neoconservatives, in both Parties, no exceptions — none has more than token-donated to any anti-neoconservative national candidate. Pence is regarded as more-reliably neoconservative than Trump is.] The briefing that day was conducted by four intelligence-community leaders: James Comey, Michael Rogers, John Brennan, and James Clapper, directors respectively of the FBI, NSA, CIA and the Office of the National Intelligence Director.

Just as significant: January 5 was the day before these same intelligence-community leaders would brief President-elect Trump on the same report. [McCarthy had earlier said that "January 5 was the day President Obama was presented with” this report, so he contradicts himself there. January 5 actually was the day of, and not "the day before.”]

Also on hand at the January 5 White House briefing were Vice President Joe Biden and acting Attorney General Sally Yates. According to Rice, immediately after the briefing, President Obama had his two top law-enforcement officials, Yates and Comey, linger for “a brief follow-on conversation” with the administration’s political leadership: Obama, Biden, and Rice.

At the top level, Obama, Biden, and Rice, were the core team, and Obama was himself the leader; but Obama — as is usual in such instances — left nothing in writing to implicate himself: unrecorded private conversations would have been all. And Trump’s team will need to plea-bargain with subordinates in order to have any chance to nail any of those three: the mastermind (Obama), and his two top aides in the scheme.

As the Republican Paul Sperry, an investigative journalist for Real Clear Politics, noted on 22 July 2019, under the headline “Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Evidence Comey Probed Trump, on the Sly”, “Following a report on alleged Russian election interference, Comey cleared the conference room to privately brief Trump on the Clinton campaign-funded Steele dossier itself — without disclosing its source. He referred to the political document simply as ‘the derogatory files’. … Comey also withheld the facts that the dossier was financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign. … The omissions led Trump to believe the contents of the dossier came from U.S. intelligence.” (NOTE: Trump, who pretends to be intelligent, skeptical, analytical, and knowledgeable, is anything but those; so, he foolishly trusted Obama’s team, and didn’t ask the probing questions he should have asked of Comey.)

Columnist Kimberly Strassel headlined in the Republican Party’s Wall Street Journal on 25 July 2019, “What Mueller Was Trying to Hide”, and excerpts from it were published by the White House, including: “The most notable aspect of the Mueller report was always what it omitted: the origins of this mess. … Nine times during Wednesday’s hearing, Robert Mueller answered that something was not in his ‘purview’ to investigate. And each time, it was ‘in response to questions about the origin story of the FBI counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign,’ The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. ‘Americans need to know how and why a U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agency came to spy on a presidential campaign.’”

On 2 May 2020, National Review magazine’s Andrew C. McCarthy headlined “The FBI Set Flynn Up to Preserve the Trump–Russia Probe”, and he wrote:

To investigate the president, it was a practical necessity to sideline his chosen national-security adviser.

Michael Flynn was not the objective. He was the obstacle.

Once you grasp that fundamental fact, it becomes easier to understand the latest disclosures the Justice Department made in the Flynn case on Thursday. They are the most important revelations to date about the FBI’s Trump–Russia investigation, code-named Crossfire Hurricane.

The new disclosures, in conjunction with all we have learned in the last week, answer the all-important why question: Why was Flynn set up? …

The FBI set a perjury trap for Flynn, hoping to lure him into misstatements that the bureau could portray as lies. In the frenzied political climate of the time, that would have been enough to get him removed from his new position as national security adviser (NSA), perhaps even to prosecute him. On that score, the new disclosures, startling as they are to read, just elucidate what was already obvious.

But why did they do it? That has been the baffling question. …
 
Clinesmith, In Order to Save Himself, Has Implicated Others on Crossfire Hurricane — Who Ultimately Hid the Exculpatory Info From the FISA Court?​

August 15, 2020 

Link: http://www.madnesshub.com/2020/08/clinesmith-in-order-to-save-himself-has.html

Former FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty to altering Carter Page evidence to support the FISA warrant used to spy on the Donald Trump campaign in 2016.

However, Clinesmith, in order to save himself, implicated others on Crossfire Hurricane.

38-year-old Clinemsith altered an email from CIA investigators used to request a FISA warrant and renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

Carter Page previously worked as a source for the CIA, however Clinesmith falsely said Page was “never” a CIA source.

According to Durham’s charging document (and also in IG Horowitz’s report), “certain individuals” on the Crossfire Hurricane were told in an August 2016 memorandum that Page was a CIA asset — so who else knew?

Despite members of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team knowing Carter Page was a CIA asset, that information was omitted from the first three FISA warrants on Page.

“Mr. Clinesmith had provided the unchanged C.I.A. email to Crossfire Hurricane agents and the Justice Department lawyer drafting the original [October 2016] wiretap application,” Techno Fog posted from the New York Times report.

So who else knew about the lies?

So who, ultimately, hid the exculpatory information from the FISA court?

According to the Associated Press, Clinesmith will be charged in a DC court with one count of making a false statement.
 
Report: Many More Indictments Expected In Durham’s Obamagate Investigation​

Conspiracy charges believed to be included in cascade of incoming indictments by the DOJ

Jamie White | Infowars.com - August 16, 2020 35 Comments

Link: https://www.infowars.com/report-many-more-indictments-expected-in-durhams-obamagate-investigation/

More charges are expected to be handed down by the Justice Department after announcing Friday that former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty for making false statements over his role in the FBI’s surveillance against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.

Earlier this week, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said that his team issued 14 criminal referrals, including conspiracy charges, to Durham.

“We have made 14 criminal referrals in our exhaustive three-and-a-half year investigation,” Nunes said on Fox Business, adding that two more U.S. attorneys are also investigating other elements of the case.

President Trump also said that Clinesmith’s impending guilty plea is “just the beginning” of the “treason” that Durham and the DOJ will uncover pertaining to the unlawful spying of his campaign.

“That’s just the beginning, I would imagine. This… what happened should never happen again,” Trump said at a White House briefing Friday afternoon. “You’ll be hearing more.”

“President Obama knew everything. Vice President Biden, as dumb as he may be, he knew everything… And Comey and Brennan and Clapper, they all were terrible and they lied to Congress,” the president added.

Additionally, Infowars and The Gateway Pundit have independently confirmed that many more indictments are expected to be handed out to the upper echelons of the intelligence community, and that the DOJ has indeed tasked several other investigators to look into other aspects of the FBI’s actions against Trump’s campaign.

For example, we now know that ex-FBI Director James Comey knew that Trump campaign aide Carter Page was a CIA asset BEFORE signing off on FISA warrants to spy on him and Trump, suggesting he defrauded the FISA court to keep the bogus Russian collusion scam going.

However, with only 79 days left until the election, speculation is swirling about whether it will be too late for Attorney General William Barr to prosecute all the Deep State culprits responsible for perpetuating the fake Russia collusion narrative in time.

And now that its Russia collusion hoax is collapsing with the announcement of Clinesmith’s guilty plea, it’s almost certain that the Deep State will strike back at the White House.

Remember, these Deep State perpetrators are fighting to stay out of prison, and given this especially unprecedented situation where their control of the government bureaucracy is threatened by a political outsider like Trump, they will fight even harder than in 2016 to hold onto power.
 
HUGE: Former and Fired FBI Director Comey Is In Big Trouble – He Knew Carter Page Worked for the CIA But Signed Bogus FISA Warrants Anyway​

August 17, 2020

Link: https://johnbwellsnews.com/huge-for...he-cia-but-signed-bogus-fisa-warrants-anyway/

The Gateway Pundit
By Joe Hoft

Former FBI Director James Comey knew Carter Page was a CIA asset when he signed multiple FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page and candidate and President Trump. He knew this because Carter Page told him.

Republican Representative Devin Nunes was on FOX Business with attorney Gregg Jarrett. In the interview Nunes noted a couple of important items related to the Durham investigation of the Deep State gang behind Obamagate, but at the 3:15 mark below, Jarrett said the following:

Comey already knew Carter Page was an asset of the CIA. You know how I know this? Carter Page before the first FISA warrant application, he sent Comey a direct letter that said I work for the CIA. I’m not a Russian spy. How do I know that? Because he gave me a copy of the letter, it’s in both of my books. It’s also part of his Congressional testimony you’ll recall. So isn’t it true that James Comey concealed this information from the FISA Court and perpetrated a fraud when he signed the FISA warrants?

This is some shocking information that you would only know if you read Jarrett’s book. Clearly Comey committed a crime when he signed the FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page and the Trump Administration. He is in some real trouble.

See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...orked-cia-signed-bogus-fisa-warrants-anyways/
 
CIA chief John Brennan interviewed for 8 hours as part of Durham's review of Russia probe​

Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...n-durham-part-review-russia-probe/3418778001/

Kristine Phillips, USA TODAYPublished 9:46 a.m. ET Aug. 22, 2020 | Updated 10:03 a.m. ET Aug. 22, 2020

Insisting the criminal justice system won't be used for political ends, Attorney General William Barr says he doesn't expect a review into the Russia investigation origins to lead to criminal probes of Joe Biden or former President Barack Obama. (May 18) AP Domestic

WASHINGTON – Former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan was interviewed for eight hours Friday by a federal prosecutor leading the Justice Department's review of the Russia investigation.

Brennan, who was CIA director from 2013 to 2017, was interviewed by U.S. Attorney John Durham on issues related to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Nick Shapiro, Brennan's former deputy chief of staff, said in a statement late Friday night. Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham last year to review the origins of the Russia investigation and the FBI's surveillance activities.

Critics see the review as a politically charged attempt to undermine the results of the Russia probe and to give Trump ammunition ahead of the presidential election. The Russia investigation found that the Trump campaign was an eager beneficiary of Russia's systematic efforts to influence the 2016 election but did not find evidence of a conspiracy with the Kremlin.

Durham told Brennan he isn't under a criminal investigation and is, instead, a witness to the events under review, according to Shapiro. Brennan spoke with Durham and his team about the CIA's intelligence activities leading up to the November 2016 presidential election, as well as the intelligence community's findings about Russian threats to U.S. elections.

John Brennan on Capitol Hill on May 23, 2017. (Photo: Shawn Thew/epa-EFE)

'Grave counterintelligence threat': Republican-led panel rebukes Paul Manafort

According to the intelligence community's assessment, published in January 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an aggressive campaign to influence U.S. elections and help elect Trump.

"Brennan provided details on the efforts made by the Intelligence Community to understand and disrupt the actions taken by Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election," Shapiro said in the statement.

Brennan's interview came just days after Durham charged a former FBI lawyer of falsifying an email used to support the FBI's surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The case against Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty Wednesday, is the first brought by the Justice Department as a result of Durham's politically fraught inquiry.

Congressional Republicans have cast the development as proof that top FBI and Justice Department leaders in the Obama administration conspired to undermine Trump. Barr has said that former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, are not under a criminal investigation, seeming to contradict Trump's claims that his predecessor had committed crimes.

'I am concerned': Attorney General Barr says he will review government 'spying' on Trump campaign

Barr has been highly critical of the Russia investigation and the work of former special counsel Robert Mueller, who took over the probe.

John Durham is looking into the origins of the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference. (Photo: Bob Child, AP)

Barr told the House Judiciary Committee last month that he will not wait until after the election to release Durham's findings. He also told Fox News recently that there would be "significant developments" before November.

Brennan, according to Shapiro, asked Durham why the Justice Department is scrutinizing the CIA's activities, noting that the agency's findings "have been validated" by the Mueller probe, as well a separate investigation into Russia's actions by the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee.

Brennan also told Durham that Trump and Barr have politicized Durham's work, tarnishing "the independence & integrity of the Justice Department."

"It is Brennan's fervent hope that the results of the Durham review will be apolitical and not influenced by personal or partisan agendas," Shapiro said.

A Justice Department spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
 
Nunes, ANOTHER politician (hence dependent upon campaign-funding, hence upon kikes who are the masters of the counterfeiting machine, the central-bank (see Mises.org for expo; use their site search-engine)), gives his half-baked commentary/excuses.


 
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Durham Report Won't Be Ready By Election: AG Barr​

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/barr-durham-report-wont-be-ready-election

by Tyler Durden
Fri, 10/09/2020 - 09:50

Attorney General Bill Bar has begun telling Republican leaders that the DOJ's sweeping review into the 'Russiagate' investigation won't produce results before the election, according to Axios.

Recall last month that Democrats were frothing at the mouth over the investigation, conducted by US Attorney John Durham - with the Democratic chairs of four House committees demanding an "emergency investigation" into the probe out of fear of an "October surprise."
US Attorney John Durham

Now, it looks like that was much ado about nothing - as Barr "has made clear that they should not expect any further indictments or a comprehensive report before Nov. 3," according to the report.

"This is the nightmare scenario. Essentially, the year and a half of arguably the number one issue for the Republican base is virtually meaningless if this doesn't happen before the election," a GOP aide told Axios.

And as Politico notes, "Senate Republicans running similar investigations were told of the intention within the last week -- and it’s why they’ve been stepping up their releases of declassified documents."

“BUT TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES were pushing for much more than that; they wanted DOJ to indict their Obama-era foes as they seek to rewrite the Russia investigation and turn it against Democrats. The president channeled his grievances by retweeting supporters demanding that Barr immediately arrest and jail Trump’s political enemies like Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Late Wednesday afternoon, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said his office ‘has now provided almost 1,000 pages of materials to the Department of Justice in response to Mr. Durham’s document requests.’” -Politico

In recent weeks, we've learned that US intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to former FBI officials James Comey and Peter Strzok concerning allegations that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to smear then-candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian hackers, according to information given to Sen. Lindsey Graham by the Director of National Intelligence.

Notably, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-president Obama on Hillary's alleged approval.

BREAKING: According to handwritten notes, Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary's approval of a proposal to attack Trump in the 2016 election by tying him to Putin pic.twitter.com/lnwTFwjoAf
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) September 29, 2020

As part of his investigation, Durham has interviewed Brennan and others, allegedly regarding the CIA's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind interference in the 2016 US election in order to help President Trump.

In an August 13th interview, Barr said he expects "significant" developments to come out of the investigation before the election. Days later, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to fabricating evidence used to obtain surveillance warrants on former Trump adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith -who worked on both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Russia probe, was part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, and interviewed Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos.

We can't help but wonder if Durham's report will look the same if Biden wins in November.
 

Trump DOD Chief: Durham Outlining “Mob Style Conspiracy”​

Link: https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/10/trump-dod-chief-durham-outlining-mob.html

We’re still waiting on the release of the Durham Report. Now, obviously, it’s easy to be impatient, but it’s more important that the probe get it right than that it be done quickly, and you know that the Deep State is doing everything it can to gum up the process. So far, we’ve only seen charges against one lawyer allied to the Clinton campaign, a couple of weeks ago Durham filed another wave of new subpoenas, so there’s reason to be hopeful.

If anybody on our side knows the full extent of what the Durham Report ought to uncover, and what charges it should bring, it’s Kash Patel. Kash was one of the true warriors within the Trump Administration. He was chief of staff at the Department of Defense and was a strong behind-the-scenes ally of the president on the National Security Council.But before all that, Patel made his reputation exposing the sham Russia probe. He’s the author of the famous Nunes Memo, which exposed the egregious misconduct by the Deep State against the Trump campaign and the early Trump presidency. Why do you know that the FBI lied to a FISA court to spy on Carter Page? Because Kash Patel told us. How do we know about Bruce Ohr using his wife to launder information from Fusion GPS and give it to the FBI? Because of Kash Patel. How do we know that the FBI knew the Steele dossier was salacious and likely bogus but used it anyway to justify spying on Trump associates? Again, Kash Patel.
Now that the Trump administration is over, or perhaps just on hiatus, Patel is currently pursuing lawsuits against Politico, CNN, and the New York Times, and he says he wants to assist any other Americans who have been silenced, de-platformed, or defamed by our corrupt press establishment. To support those legal efforts, Kash has created the Kash Patel Legal Offense Trust, and he joined the show to discuss.
 

Damning New Details In The Durham Russia Investigation Point Directly To Hillary Clinton​

November 07, 2021 7 Comments Facebook

Link: http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/11/damning-new-details-in-durham-russia.html

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We haven’t heard much about Hillary Clinton lately and most people are probably just fine with that.
However, the Durham Investigation into the origins of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax is still going on and new details are emerging which put Hillary and her campaign at the center of the scandal.
Many people have known or at least suspected this all along, but it’s nice to have confirmation.
The New York Post reports:
Arrest illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton
Special counsel John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko, the principal source for the bogus Steele dossier used by the FBI as a basis for the Trump-Russia investigation, further illustrates that Durham has his sights set on the Clinton campaign.

Danchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in interviews during 2017, as the bureau struggled in futility to verify outlandish allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign were clandestine agents of the Kremlin. Those allegations were compiled in the so-called Steele dossier, which the FBI relied on in obtaining surveillance warrants from a secret federal court.
The dossier was generated by the Clinton campaign. Its principal author was former British spy Christopher Steele. Steele’s main source was Danchenko, a Russian native based in the United States who worked at the Brookings Institution — a Washington think tank whose former president, Strobe Talbott, is a college friend of Bill Clinton’s who worked in the Clinton State Department…
Danchenko is also alleged to have concealed that one of his sources for the information he provided to Steele was a longtime Democratic Party operative who was close to the Clintons — having worked on both of Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. This source was revealed on Thursday to be Chuck Dolan, a public relations executive who had Russian contacts, and referred to as “PR Executive-1” in the indictment.
This looks bad. Really bad.
Only one campaign colluded with Russia: Hillary Clinton
"Web of lies used to fabricate Steele Dossier, frame Trump"https://t.co/Xv6epACaAb
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) November 5, 2021
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Hillary's associates had the kind of close ties to Russia — and Putin — that Mueller and his team were desperate to find on Trump.
It took Durham — not Pulitzer Prize winning "journalists" of the establishment media — to look into what Hillary's players were doing in Russia. https://t.co/QKz9wQsDxi
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) November 5, 2021
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The jaws are closing in on the Clintons & their Russia fraud
Anyone know where Hillary was around then? https://t.co/WwMpq4whAw
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) November 5, 2021
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