Barr Assigns U.S. Attorney in Connecticut to Review Origins of Russia Inquiry

[highplainsdem]

Source: NYT via MSN

Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter, a move that President Trump has long called for but that could anger law enforcement officials who insist that scrutiny of the Trump campaign was lawful.

John H. Durham, the United States attorney in Connecticut, has a history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among national security officials, including the F.B.I.’s ties to a crime boss in Boston and accusations of C.I.A. abuses of detainees.

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Mr. Durham, who was nominated by Mr. Trump in 2017 and has been a Justice Department lawyer since 1982, has conducted special investigations under administrations of both parties. Attorney General Janet Reno asked Mr. Durham in 1999 to investigate the F.B.I.’s handling of a notorious informant: the organized crime leader James (Whitey) Bulger.

In 2008, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey assigned Mr. Durham to investigate the C.I.A.’s destruction of videotapes in 2005 showing the torture of terrorism suspects. A year later, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. expanded Mr. Durham’s mandate to also examine whether the agency broke any laws in its abuses of detainees in its custody.

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Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/barr-assigns-us-attorney-in-connecticut-to-review-origins-of-russia-inquiry/ar-AABjF9U

[ETStevens]

1. Impeach Barr!

Yes, I know the Senate won't convict, but damn it, this is Bull Shit and this partisan hack needs to be checked.

Will all of our candidates be subject to DOJ investigations because Trump will order his willing lap dog to so so?

If Barr proclaimed Trump exonerated, you know what the verdict will be with BS investigations!

[watoos]

2. Ditto!

You beat me to it, I was going to post the same thing.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. This will come back to bit Barr in his fat ass

bigtime. The Rethugs are all in with this stuff and they do not give a rat's ass to the Consequences it is going to have on them in the future.

[EveHammond13]

7. let's hope

[yaesu]

4. Just more obstruction. nt

[pnwmom]

5. I bet this is a sign that the report that's about to come out won't be helpful to Trump.

And Trump has had a heads up.

[RockRaven]

6. Does Durham want to end his career by being a bagman for Trump/Barr or does he want to

maintain his career prospects (I mean beyond the arena of right-wing think-tanks & FOXNews talking-headism)?

[creeksneakers2]

8. Another Huber?

They should have to tell us what happened to the last Huber. Did he strike out?

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. Jabba's going to wish he hadn't done this. n/t

[barbtries]

10. they'll start imprisoning people

this is so bad. so fucking bad.

[B Stieg]

11. tRump still looking for "the oranges" of the investigation? nt

[trusty elf]

12. That's absurd.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. "Benghazi" all over again. Just muddy the waters with endless investigations

that occupy people, give them reports to wave around even though they show the FBI did nothing wrong, and talking points for the gullible Trump voters to lap up.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. Yup. that's it.

No care about wasting tax money. Just throw it onto the growing debt from all their tax money giveaways to themselves and their big donors.

But it will emit even more smoke. And they know they have their Fox captured sheep in such a trigger happy state of suggestiveness that only requires the smallest of hints that the smoke they are seeing has a raging fire beneath.

[BlueIdaho]

15. 0% Confidence

In anything Barr touches.

[skypilot]

16. I thought the Republicans...

...wanted to just "move on" from all this.