Biden's Justice Department Should Not Be Pursuing Trump's Political Vendetta
Will the 2016 election ever end? The question is worth asking once again after it was reported on Thursday that a grand jury subpoena had been issued to a law firm that worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign, a development that comes on the heels of the indictment earlier this month of a lawyer at the firm for alleged misconduct in the run-up to the election.
The newly reported subpoena and the earlier charge against the Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussmann, are the latest developments in a yearslong effort by Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr to seek retribution for the Trump-Russia investigation. The indictment was obtained by John Durham, who was appointed by Barr in early 2019 — shortly after the release of the Mueller report — to investigate the origins of what Trump and Barr had characterized as a “witch hunt.” Their apparent hope was that Durham, who was the U.S. attorney in Connecticut at the time, would find that senior DOJ or FBI officials in the Obama-Biden administration had somehow tried to manufacture or exaggerate ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. So far, he has not, but the fresh round of subpoenas suggests that Durham is continuing his work.
Perhaps Durham has provided Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, with serious reason to believe that a much worthier criminal prosecution than the one against Sussmann is coming soon. But if Durham has not, Garland should at this point insist that Durham wrap up his work in a prompt and orderly fashion. The Biden administration need not continue to throw federal resources at a seemingly aimless criminal investigation that began as a political vendetta on the part of Trump.
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