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May 15, 2023 · "In short, it is the Office's assessment that the FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia ...
May 16, 2023 · Special counsel John Durham concluded that federal investigators did not have “any actual evidence of collusion” between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia before the FBI launched a ...
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Aug. 22, 2020, 1:30 AM PDT. By Michael McFaul. The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the ...
Russian security expert Andrei Soldatov has said, "[The Kremlin] believes that with Clinton in the White House it will be almost impossible to lift sanctions against Russia. So it is a very important question for Putin personally. This is a question of national security." [30] Russian officials have denied the allegations multiple times.
- Who Is John Durham?
- Why Did The Trump Justice Department Think Such An Appointment Was Necessary?
- Were There Problems with The Russia Investigation?
- What Criminal Cases Did He Bring and What Was The Outcome?
- What Specifically Did Durham find?
- How Did The FBI Respond?
- What Happens Next?
Durham has spent decades as a Justice Department prosecutor, with past assignmentsincluding investigations into the FBI’s cozy relationship with mobsters in Boston and the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of its harsh interrogations of terrorism subjects. He was appointed in 2019to investigate potential misconduct by U.S. government officials as the...
The appointment came weeks after a different special counsel, Robert Mueller, wrapped up his investigation of possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. That probe produced more than two dozen criminal cases, including against a half-dozen Trump associates. Though it did not charge any Trump aide with working with Russia to tip the...
Yes, and a Justice Department inspector general inquiryalready identified many. The watchdog report found that FBI applications for warrants to eavesdrop on a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, contained significant errors and omitted information that would likely have weakened or undermined the premise of the application. The cumulative effe...
Durham brought three prosecutions during his tenure, but only one resulted in a conviction — and that was for a case referred to him by the Justice Department inspector general. None of the three undid core findings by Mueller that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election in sweeping fashion. A former FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, pleaded guilt...
Durham found that the FBI acted too hastily and relied on raw and unconfirmed intelligence when it opened the Trump-Russia investigation. He said at the time the probe was opened, the FBI had no information about any actual contact between Trump associates and Russian intelligence officials. He also claimed that FBI investigators fell prone to “con...
The FBI pointed out that it had long ago made dozens of corrective actions. Had those measures been in place in 2016, it says, the errors at the center of the report could have been prevented. It also took pains to note that the conduct in the report took place before the current director, Christopher Wray, took the job in fall 2017.
It didn’t take long for Republicans in Congress to react. Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said he had invited Durham to testify on Capitol Hill next week. Trump, too, sought to seize on the report, claiming anew in a post on his Truth Social platform that the Durham report had found “the crime of the century” and calling ...
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Mar 24, 2019 · The Mueller Report did not find any evidence of collusion, but did find two main efforts by the Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're breaking down ...
May 15, 2023 · Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according ...
