New Clues Emerge About Barr’s Investigate The Investigators Jihad | Talking Points Memo

A new report out Thursday offers new clues about the DOJ investigation into the origins of the Russia probe that was ultimately led by special counsel Robert Mueller.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1291281
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" In December, Barr said he didn’t expect Durham’s report to be ready “for quite a few months.”"

Have to get those lies straight.

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Good grief, the alphabet agencies are notorious for not wanting to share information or assets. That is really nothing new.

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“Durham and his investigators have interviewed analysts at multiple agencies”

Which of course means they’ve interviewed rabid pro-GOP, pro-Trump employees…likely cherry-picked them…in order to get answers that would assist them in “concluding” that Brennan et al. had a goal of turning the Russian interference evidence against Trump to prevent his election or ruin his presidency.

Durham and Barr are basically accusing Brennan and others of having a preconceived goal because proving that accusation is THEIR preconceived goal.

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Convenient that they’ve latched onto that…something they’re guaranteed to be able to find and then spin…as their basis for upcoming propaganda designed to interfere in the election and help Trump get re-elected, eh? That’s the Russian interference in 2016 killing two elections with one interference.

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Yep, it should be ready in a “quite a few months.” Taking a wild guess, I’m betting October 2020, say, the last week of the month.

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“The questions asked by Mr. Durham and his team suggest they are looking for any potential basis to support making the latter reading, officials said.”

It even reads like officials are saying Barr and Durham have preconceived conclusions and that they’re just trying to backfill them.

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It takes time to translate from Cyrillic.

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Jihad? Or Fatwa?

Hard to tell…

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The Cyrillic Game…

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Cyrillic is harder to translate form than say Trumpspeak. In Trumpspeak “for quite a few months” is " We’ll be looking into that", with end result of 12th of never.

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Also, will coincidentally fall just a few weeks before the election, with just enough time to gin up the base but not enough time for any of it to be refuted.

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Mr. Durham appears to be pursuing a theory that the C.I.A., under its former director John O. Brennan, had a preconceived notion about Russia or was trying to get to a particular result

So this one more reason Barr wants Trump to shut up. The moment Trump starts tweeting about this it would ruin the whole set up.

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As adjectives the difference between crazy and insane
is that crazy is insane; demented while insane is exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted .
As an adverb crazy is (slang) very, extremely.
As a noun crazy is an insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

These crazies be crazy insane.

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This is star chamber territory. My list of new abuses of power is starting to get pretty long. And it has only been one goddamned week since the trial!

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One of the most pernicious aspects of this investigate the investigators nonsense is the Trump cabal’s use of the Obama team’s laudable investigatory reticence–due to their concern that they might undermine or appear to undermine then candidate Trump–against them.

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Confirmation bias big enough to sail a double hulled super tanker through.

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And Durham will not rest until he proves it.

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Pretty sure he already has.

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It sure is swell that our DOJ is investigating Federal employees to find any cases where access to information has been denied in order to cover up dastardly deeds.

I look forward to the DOJ setting up a tip line so private citizens can help point out suspicious activity that the DOJ might have overlooked due to the obscurity of the activity.

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