Victoria Taft “The LEAST one can say of it is that it involved a malicious use of federal law-enforcement officers to conduct a contrived investigation utterly lacking any valid, factual foundation from the very beginning. That is itself incredibly troubling—and also unconstitutional,” he wrote. But he said that the Durham Report indicated that the FBI corruption “was SO MUCH WORSE than that.” He stated that the ramifications of the Report showed “a powerful, long-respected, federal law-enforcement agency” using its power “to render a presidential candidate unelectable—entirely in the absence of any valid, good-faith basis for doing so.” [emphasis added]
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"It’s hard to overstate the sickening corruption at the FBI in this case and what we’ve seen in the January 6 prosecutions. If you want to know what a corrupt outfit the FBI is and how the January 6 prosecutions are fundamentally unconstitutional, you may want to watch my interview with civil rights attorney and Democrat Harvey Silverglate who calls for getting rid of the FBI “root and branch.” See it below.
"John Durham ended his investigation of the FBI lying and spying on Donald Trump at the behest of Obama. Instead of sending anyone to prison for this sedition and treachery, Durham placed a 316-page letter in their permanent record.
"The deep state broke the law and used Durham to rub our noses in it. What are we going to do about? Josh Hawley said break up the FBI. That won’t affect Comey, Obama and the rest of the criminals who created and promoted Russiagate.
"Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said, “As confirmed by Durham: Obama knew. Clinton knew. Biden knew. Comey knew. Brennan knew. McCabe knew. Strzok knew. Clapper knew. Schiff knew. FBI knew. DOJ knew. They all knew Trump was innocent but they smeared and spied on him. Worse than Watergate. Trump is a crime victim!”
"He is right — and there is not one damned thing readers can do about this miscarriage of justice. Did I say miscarriage? It is an abortion. And they got away with it because no one in Washington will hold anyone in Washington accountable. It is the code of the totalitarians.
"Readers should not be surprised. On September 18, 2021, I wrote in my old blog, “I go by track record, and John Durham's track record shows he is a good investigator and a smart bureaucrat. He will go just deep enough in his prosecutions to satisfy the public but not so far as to endanger the establishment.
“ 'I base this on the Whitey Bulger case. He was a gangster in Boston who was politically connected. His brother Billy became President of the Massachusetts Senate. Upon retirement, he became a well-paid bureaucrat in the state college system.
“ 'His other brother was Jackie, a court clerk magistrate who after retirement went to prison for fixing grand juries: . . .