Well, it shows that William Barr and Rump could find a special counsel to waste $6 million and say what they wanted said. But what was said is so weak.
The FBI prematurely opened a FULL investigation. They should have continued with the PRELIMENARY investigation at that point. So let's play this out. Wouldn't the preliminary investigation have discovered that Michael Flynn lied about meeting with the Russian ambassador? Or a few days after Rump said on national TV if the Russians had information that would help him win the election he would talk to them, Rump Jr. and other campaign officials traveled to visit with what the CIA called Russian assets. Wouldn't this have been discovered?
BTW, those two events showed first the will and then the intent to collude. What I'll concede, I think the Russian pre-election playbook was written at that point, and there likely was no NEED to collude. The Russians probably knew Rump's minions wouldn't be much use to them until after he was elected.
Why doesn't anybody talk about the fact both the CIA and the NSA were investigating the Rump campaign's ties to Russia at the same time, and that it was actually the CIA that came to the FBI and encouraged them to investigate the matter?
All of the information here may have been known before the FULL investigation was opened, and Duram may just be full of shit. In any event, a full investigation was warranted and would have happened whether on Durham's desired schedule or Comey's.
It's funny that the right sees Comey as some kind of villain. He kept the investigation into the Rump campaign under wraps pre-election while he quite publicly reopened the investigation into Hillary's email server just days before the election. He might have done her more harm than the Russians.
The FBI prematurely opened a FULL investigation. They should have continued with the PRELIMENARY investigation at that point. So let's play this out. Wouldn't the preliminary investigation have discovered that Michael Flynn lied about meeting with the Russian ambassador? Or a few days after Rump said on national TV if the Russians had information that would help him win the election he would talk to them, Rump Jr. and other campaign officials traveled to visit with what the CIA called Russian assets. Wouldn't this have been discovered?
BTW, those two events showed first the will and then the intent to collude. What I'll concede, I think the Russian pre-election playbook was written at that point, and there likely was no NEED to collude. The Russians probably knew Rump's minions wouldn't be much use to them until after he was elected.
Why doesn't anybody talk about the fact both the CIA and the NSA were investigating the Rump campaign's ties to Russia at the same time, and that it was actually the CIA that came to the FBI and encouraged them to investigate the matter?
All of the information here may have been known before the FULL investigation was opened, and Duram may just be full of shit. In any event, a full investigation was warranted and would have happened whether on Durham's desired schedule or Comey's.
It's funny that the right sees Comey as some kind of villain. He kept the investigation into the Rump campaign under wraps pre-election while he quite publicly reopened the investigation into Hillary's email server just days before the election. He might have done her more harm than the Russians.
