Opinion by Greg Sargent: Awful new details about the Durham probe demand a serious response
this past week about prosecutor John Durham’s years-long quest to delegitimize the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In 2019, this obsession of President Donald Trump was initiated by his attorney general, William P. Barr, but as the Times found, Durham’s effort was itself profoundly tainted.
Now, because Democrats have 51 Senate seats after gaining one in the midterm elections, they have subpoena power on Senate committees that were previously divided. That means the Judiciary Committee is in a position to investigate the Barr-Durham escapades.Sen. Richard J. Durbin , the Judiciary Committee chair, is signaling such an intent.
That’s encouraging, but how far will this investigation go? The Times report finds that Barr relentlessly pushed Durham to substantiate Trump’s theory that the Russia investigation was a conspiracy by intelligence and law enforcement against him. But Durham’s effort petered out “without uncovering anything like the deep state plot” invented by Trump and Barr.Worse, the Times also found bizarre irregularities.
“How much of the material in the Times report was Garland aware of?” asks former FBI agent Peter Strzok. “It’s possible he didn’t know some of it. If he didn’t, why on earth not? And if he did, what on earth is going on?”would take an interest in all this. But we all know that’s not what this committee will be about, and this creates new obligations for Senate Democrats.
For years, a central project of MAGA Republicans has been to feed Trump’s mythology about the “deep state” being corrupt to its core. The Durham effort was central to that. But now that it’s gone belly-up, Republicans are seamlessly picking up where Durham left off. The House “weaponizing” of government committee will be the nexus of this, surely
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