90 Miles From Tyranny : Durham's 'Russiagate' Report Is Damning for the Media, Too

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Durham's 'Russiagate' Report Is Damning for the Media, Too


Special Counsel John Durham dropped a bombshell on Monday. "Russiagate"—the biggest media story on the planet for four years—was never justified by the evidence.

According to Durham's scathing report, the FBI initiated its investigation of former president Donald Trump's 2016 campaign without sufficient proof of collusion and then ignored mounting contrary evidence. Durham criticized the FBI for relying on the later-debunked Steele dossier to get a warrant to surveil Trump's campaign; for coziness with Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic opponent; and for repeatedly accepting information from anti-Trump sources, if not showing the same bias itself.

Each of Durham's findings of FBI misconduct could be—and have been—applied to the corporate press, which breathlessly reported each twist in the FBI's false narrative and helped to drive American politics off a cliff.

Reliance on the Steele dossier: Like the FBI, media outlets touted the most salacious allegations compiled by former British spy Christoper Steele on behalf of the Clinton campaign. They did so, to borrow a term of art, "without evidence."
Even after the dossier and Steele himself were discredited, the media insisted the FBI's investigation of Trump was super serious.
Prominent journalists earnestly discussed the possibility that Trump was a Manchurian candidate, recruited by Russia three decades earlier.



Bias against Trump: Agents deemed too biased or unprofessional by the FBI were welcomed on the airways to pontificate on the investigation they had compromised. Peter Strzok—a senior FBI agent who oversaw both the Trump and Clinton investigations until he was fired for anti-Trump texts in 2018—immediately became a regular on-air contributor for MSNBC. And former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who was pushed out for leaking, landed a...



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3 comments:

Ron said...

Oh, yes, tell just how evil the demoncrat suckcockers are, KNOWING THAT NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THEM.
Give me a break.

Matthew said...

Why on earth would anyone think that Putin wanted Trump elected, Clinton had already been publicly and openly bought and paid for, that cannot be denied, it fucking happened. Putin was probably more pissed off when Trump got elected than Hillary was.

JG said...

Nothing will happening via the Durham Report. It is clear that the FBI needs to be removed. Likely the CIA needs to be removed. The ATF needs to be removed. The additional IRS agents are not needed since the country is making tax money but spending too much so the agents are not needed.