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2021-08-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Durham Grand Jury Investigating If Someone Presented FBI With Fabricated Evidence in 2016 Russia Probe
[Conservative Wire] Hillary Clinton’s team should be sweating bullets after the latest update from Special Counsel John Durham.

Durham is presenting evidence to a grand jury regarding his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

According to The Washington Post, Durham is focusing on whether someone lied to the FBI and gave them false evidence.

If someone working for Clinton’s team was involved with the unverified dossier or gave the FBI fabricated evidence to jumpstart the Trump-Russia investigation, that could be a crime.

This could also pertain to ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by Democrats and allies connected to Clinton’s team to compile the salacious, unverified anti-Trump dossier.

The dossier played a huge role in jumpstarting the Trump-Russia investigation.

"It has struck me from the start as a fool’s errand at best, and a political task at worst, but to shut it down would give the appearance of political interference that would be unwise," said former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade.

From The Washington Post:

Steele had been hired to look into Trump by an opposition research group working for the law firm representing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

Durham’s most recent inquiries, people familiar with the matter say, have focused in part on the authenticity of data given to the FBI about alleged cyber links between the former president’s company and Alfa-Bank of Russia — a theory pushed to journalists by some computer scientists in the fall of 2016 on the basis of purported server connections they had discovered.

The theory — which generated public pushback after it was published by Slate — essentially posited that Domain Name System lookups from Alfa Bank servers to a server with a Trump Organization-linked domain could signal a secret communications channel.

One of the researchers told the New Yorker in a story published in 2018 that his lawyer passed along the data to the FBI. Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie lawyer whose firm represented the DNC and the Clinton campaign, testified to the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017 that he talked with the FBI’s then-general counsel, Jim Baker, in September 2016 about the information. Baker testified that he referred the matter to investigators.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-20 00:54|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 The Durham investigation is percolating once again. I'm not giving it much credence until the the bodies start washing up.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-20 01:50||   2021-08-20 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Witnesses?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-08-20 04:54||   2021-08-20 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Once again real culprits will dodge justice. The Durham report will be a summary of sugar coated information that is old, stale and dated.
Posted by Airandee 2021-08-20 06:56||   2021-08-20 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Likely little more than a media diversion from the excellent news coming out of Afghanistan.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-20 06:58||   2021-08-20 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 
We should see the report just after the statue of Limitations runs out.

5 years for lying to Federal Law Enforcement office. 18 U.S. C. § 1001

7 year if classified as a Federal Major Fraud.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-20 07:03||   2021-08-20 07:03|| Front Page Top

#6 It'll probably say McCain was the one that passed it on and asked for action upon it. Can't prosecute the dead. Case closed.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-20 07:05||   2021-08-20 07:05|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ this
Posted by Frank G 2021-08-20 07:31||   2021-08-20 07:31|| Front Page Top

#8 And then Cyndy will sue Durham for slandering her dead husband.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 09:45||   2021-08-20 09:45|| Front Page Top

#9 #5^^^July 2016 the farce began as I recall, August 2021...Durham report close to release... almost as if the authors are relaying on the media and public's poor grasp of math and the law.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-20 13:03||   2021-08-20 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 This may be the first time a Grand Jury commits mass suicide...
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-20 14:17||   2021-08-20 14:17|| Front Page Top

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