Durham who?
Talk about “too little, too late”:
In the second half of the interview (full interview here), Solomon revealed that his sources (which have been excellent) indicate that a senior member of the FBI leadership group around Comey and Strzok has turned state’s evidence. Solomon also believes that Durham will have indictments ready in six to eight weeks.
However, and this is the soul-crushing detail, Durham needs Department of Justice approval before going ahead with indictments.
I would put the odds on such approval coming from the DOJ under A.G. designate Merrick Garland as very low.
Ya think?
I can’t remember how long it’s been since it seemed to me that the Durham investigation might yield anything meaningful. I’m not even sure I ever thought so. Hey, I’d be happy to end up being wrong on Durham. But I can’t even imagine a scenario where his findings or recommendations would end up mattering.
The imminent occupation of the DOJ by a truly ghastly triumvirate (M Garland, K Clarke, and V Gupta), the former certain, the latter two very likely, to be confirmed, bodes ill indeed for any true justice over the next four years, nor is the swamp-creature running the FBI (chosen, alas!, by Trump) preferable. One imagines that Antifa/BLM looters, rioters and statue-topplers (to say nothing of the egregious Hunter) will be pleased with this nomenklatura, but any intelligent and rational citizen who cares about equal justice under the law will be bitterly disappointed.
At this point, I actually WANT the Biden DOJ to shut down Durham and sweep everything under the rug. The entire class of Republican political/legal types like William Barr and Andrew McCarthy not only need to be delegitimized in the eyes of the Right-leaning public but they need to have their own failures shoved down their throats until they choke on them.
These fools play at being establishmentarians but failed even at that because when it came time to protect their precious establishment from internal enemies, they chose to care more about their own personal comfort and careers.
Mike
The entire class of Republican political/legal types like William Barr and Andrew McCarthy not only need to be delegitimized in the eyes of the Right-leaning public but they need to have their own failures shoved down their throats until they choke on them.
McCarthy has some bad instincts, but he’s not implicated in any of this. Barr, Durham, and Huber are.
“McCarthy has some bad instincts, but he’s not implicated in any of this.”
He stepped up right away to defend the FBI and the law enforcement community when the whole Trump mess started. Yes, he deserves some credit for publicly admitting he was wrong but has that acknowledgement of error resulted in any appreciable change in his thinking or public rhetoric?
I just went to NRO and found THIS nonsense:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/supreme-court-clears-way-for-new-york-das-investigation-of-trump/
McCarthy refers to the Manhattan DA’s investigation of Trump as “serious” and, even as he specifically details how it began with the alleged Stormy Daniels’ payoff and then expanded into Trump’s “real-estate enterprise for potential bank, tax, and insurance fraud,” never once even suggests the investigation might be motivated by something more than the Manhattan DA’s commitment to law and order.
To me, that says McCarthy has learned NOTHING and his public mea culpa was cosmetic at best.
Mike
Is there any chance that his report will at least be made public?
Mike Bunge,
I used to have a great deal of respect for Andrew McCarthy. But while he may not be complicit in the nefarious actions of the past 4 years, he has certainly been an apologist for the people committing those actions. I hear he has even owned up to that. I wouldn’t know because I stopped taking him seriously a while ago.
On the podcast “What are the Odds” on Monday. Robert Barnes dropped a comment that the DC Grand Jury REFUSED to indict McCabe. So there may have been efforts but jury nullification was in effect. Just a tidbit. But the report should have dropped before the election. Barr’s part in the great steal is yet to be fully understood.
When I came back from Poland in 2000 Bill O’Reilly was rocking it. He said something that has stayed with me. “The Rich and Powerful protect their own.” Then he got married and lazy and started his “Killing series” .
Both sides protect their own until they lose their utility or are a threat to the current ruling cabal. Sorry Gavin and Andrew. Your usefulness has come to an end.
This wouldn’t be happening now unless a deal had been cut. Maybe, but even this is imho unlikely, there will be minor charges against minor characters who ‘went to far, maybe, in an excess of enthusiasm for enforcing the law or for love of country’ but that will be it. If a leak of the report is announced, count on it making the deep state look good.
Mike – we DO NOT want this unholy trinity at DOJ. With the power of the surveillance state in their employ no one is safe. As Beria of the NKVD said “show me the man and I will show you the crime.” They will weaponize the DOJ even worse than Obama did. Their allies have burrowed their way deep into the entrails and are awaiting their orders. It really sucks. With Big Tech/Business ready to do their bidding they will try and crush us.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/09/twitter-sues-texas-ag-ken-paxton-for-investigating-their-censorship-practices-watch-this-one-closely-it-appears-twitter-is-leveraging-their-alliance-with-fbi/
That truly ghastly triumvirate of M. Garland, K Clarke, and V Gupta would be wise to remember John F Kennedy’s dictum; ‘Those who make peaceful resolution of differences impossible, make violent resolution of differences inevitable’. If they imagine that they will escape consequence for their support for tyrannical actions, they are in for the rudest of awakenings.
Reluctantly, I have to agree with Mike as to McCarthy’s refusal to stand forthright for the truth. He’s simply unwilling to go the last mile and that is where character is revealed.
“Mike – we DO NOT want this unholy trinity at DOJ.”
Actually, we do…kind of. At this point, the die has been cast…the milk has been spilt…the Rubicon has been crossed. It might as well get as bad as it can get, as fast as it can get, because that’s probably the only way to shock people out of their complacency. Our republic currently consists of a largely failed elite and a general public amusing itself to death.
Let me show my age by using a Clinton analogy. If Bill had immediately admitted he got serviced by a White House intern in the Oval Office, he probably would have had to either resign or be removed. The outrage and disgust would have been great enough to stampede Democrats into abandoning him. So Clinton lied and he stonewalled and he waged a political war against the investigation into him. And even though all of that behavior, by every moral and intellectual standard, only increased his level of wrongdoing, it gave Democrats, the media, and the political establishment enough time to “get used” to Clinton’s misdeeds and feel comfortable excusing them.
Or you can look at David French, who is repeatedly roasted for his 2019 description of Drag Queen Story Hour at public libraries as “one of the blessings of liberty.” You think David French says that in 2009 or 1999, when his liberal peers would still have been a little creeped out by the idea? Hell, no. But 2019 David French knows EXACTLY what’s acceptable in his social circle today.
Mike