Last week, I wondered why CNN was having a politician-style town hall special with James Comey. It seemed to come out of the blue, covered things we already knew, and did little to shine any sort of light on anything new. There was no new info, no new accusations, and Comey said little that we hadn’t heard a thousand times before. The fact that the disgraced FBI director showed up, only to dig his hole a little deeper, just seemed… weird.
Initially, I was baffled. Why would a ratings-challenged network waste airtime on a ratings loser who appears to be headed for trouble?
Then it hit me. They were trying to get out in front of something. Last night, we learned what that “something” might be. Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. Attorney tasked with investigating the origins of the entire “Russian collusion” narrative and investigation.
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Attorney General William Barr has appointed a top Connecticut prosecutor to look into the origins of the Russia probe.
US Attorney John Durham was tapped to determine if the government’s methods of collecting intelligence involving the 2016 Trump campaign were “lawful and appropriate,” the Associated Press reported, citing a source.
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This appointment comes about a month after Barr told Congress he believed “spying did occur”against the Trump campaign, without providing details.
This investigation will likely cover the motivation behind and execution of the infamous FISA warrant, the wiretaps, James Comey and Loretta Lynch’s bizarre behavior, the tarmac meeting, and the creation of the Mueller investigation. In other words; the other shoe has finally dropped. This has been a long time coming for those of us who understand how ridiculous the “collusion” lie really was.
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Who is John Durham? Well…
As the Hartford Courant reports:
“In the late 1990s, Durham was tapped by Bill Clinton’s justice department to investigate Boston police and FBI agents’ connections with infamous gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. That investigation ultimately identified corrupt law enforcement officials who had given the killer information he then used to kill informants and eventually became a part of the case that led to Bulger’s conviction.
He then was assigned by justice departments under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and its destruction of certain videotapes showing the torture of suspected terrorists.”
In other words, he’s a bi-partisan sort of guy. He’s respected, and trusted, by people on both sides of the aisle. That’s good news, since we want someone in which people of all political persuasions can place their faith. It will also make it very difficult for Democrats to attack his findings… which may be coming sooner than we think.
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According to a Fox News report, Durham’s appointment is not new. We’re only now hearing about it, but he’s been on the job for a while. In fact, their source claims he’s been digging into the matter “for weeks”
So, why is that Whitey Bulger connection raising eyebrows? It all boils down to a certain Mr. Robert Mueller’s alleged involvement.
As the victims of the FBI-Bulger conspiracy sought legal restitution they ran up against a director of the FBI who stonewalled them to protect the Bureau’s reputation. I bet you can’t guess that FBI director’s name! Go on! Try!
— Mike (@Doranimated) May 14, 2019
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Bingo. That director’s name was “Robert Mueller.” As the Daily Caller reported last year:
As FBI director in 2002, Special Counsel Robert Mueller directed his agents to oppose the pardons of four wrongfully imprisoned men because exculpatory evidence was merely “fodder for cross-examination,” newly revealed FBI documents show.
Four years later, the four men, or their estates, were awarded $102 million by a federal judge in Boston for their wrongful decades-long imprisonment due to FBI misconduct.
…he four men – Louie Greco, Henry Tameleo, Peter Limone and Joe Salvati – were convicted in state court in Boston of murdering Edward “Teddy” Deegan, a small-time hoodlum, in an alley during a bank burglary.
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Within days of the murder, Boston FBI agents knew the identities of the actual murderers, and reported the information to J. Edgar Hoover in Washington. But they allowed a Mob hitman they had flipped, Joseph Barboza, to settle some old scores by falsely testifying that the four men had taken part in the gangland murder he had helped arrange with others.
Alan Dershowitz put it this way:
“He’s the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informer. Those of us in Boston don’t have such a high regard for Mueller because we remember this story. The government had to pay out tens of millions of dollars because Whitey Bulger, a notorious mass murderer, became a government informer against the mafia . . .
“And that’s regarded in Boston of one of the great scandals of modern judicial history. And Mueller was right at the center of it. So, he is not without criticism by people who know him in Boston.”
If you’re wondering how much of this is conspiracy theory and how much is true, you’re not alone. The one person who might be willing to tell us is no longer alive. Bulger was a horrible, violent, monstrous man, and he was beaten to death in prison shortly after what even CNN acknowledges was a mysterious transfer.
However, if you read between the lines of it all, you come away with this: Attorney General Barr has appointed a highly respected U.S. Attorney – a guy Democrat presidents have long admired – to investigate the collusion narrative and the beginnings of the Mueller probe… And he’s a guy who has a long history of investigating abuse of power scandals that, at the very least, feature Robert Mueller as a player.
I’d be willing to bet there were a lot of nervous phone calls in DC last night.
