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Originally Posted by whell
Who said it came up empty? The left-wing media?
Have you actually looked at the Durham report or attempted to read it? I suspect not.
Here's a sample, and this is just a single paragraph from the executive summary.
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It did indeed come up empty in that he did not discover anything meaningful beyond what was already discovered by the IG. The counterfactual rationalizations and disingenuous opinions found in his report don't change that. The bottom line is that even he found that Crossfire Hurricane was properly predicated and that
"there is no question that the FBI had an affirmative obligation to closely examine the [Australian] information." Also, he did not find evidence of
political bias in his report. He claims "confirmation bias," something that he, Barr and his own report are chock full of (he and Barr rejected the IG findings before even completing their investigation of Trump's claimed "crime of the century").
His assertion that the Coffee Boy's revelation inappropriately served as "the sole basis" for the FBI initiating the counterintelligence investigation is untrue. Russian intelligence had already hacked the DNC’s computer servers and stolen a large quantity of email. Wikileaks was already dumping some of the emails into the public domain. And on the very day the FBI received the Australian information, Trump called for more hacking of Clinton by the Russians by saying
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Moreover, his campaign manager was known to have worked for Yanukovych, a Putin stooge in Ukraine, and helped to remove the plank calling for aid to Ukraine from the GOP platform at the convention.
The bottom line is that the Durham investigation was an inappropriate effort by Trump and Barr to weaponize the DOJ to retaliate against FBI Counterintelligence staff for commencing a probe that resulted in the indictment of a bunch of Trump cronies and a lot of evidence embarrassing to Trump (i.e., that Russia helped his election efforts). He found no criminal activity, agreed that the counterintelligence was properly predicated and only took issue with it being a full investigation rather than a preliminary one, notwithstanding the facts above and the subsequent indictments and convictions obtained by Mueller despite documented efforts by Trump to obstruct the investigation.
No matter. This will all be moot soon enough when your Dear Leader gets indicted for further felonies beyond those already charged by NY AG Bragg. You'll need to really sharpen your pencil if you intend to carry Trump's water from all the criminal charges coming down the pike.