Oops yes, Durham is countering the report that he told the IG there is no evidence of wrongdoing or bias. That report seems to be especially troubling because Durham told the IG the exact opposite.
I suggest you go and listen to the Media’s narrative.
It just suggests that the DOJ did a good job covering their tracks - some of which we already knew. For example the DNC hiring a law firm to hire Fusion GPS which hired DOJ honcho’s wife which hired British agent Steele to dig up Russian dirt on Trump to pass them back through DOJ honcho via his wife. Multiple arms length deniability. We’ll see what comes of Durham.
Seems to me Barr’s statement is more ominous for the conspirators. He flat disagreed that the investigation was adequately predicated. From all I know, I agree. From the IG’s perspective the internal DOJ paperwork was “flawed” but not “biased”. From my perspective they knew exactly what they were doing and it was a seditious criminal conspiracy. They knew Carter Page was an FBI informant who helped capture Russian spies and failed to reveal that to the FISA court; instead they actually reversed it and implied he was a Russian asset - a claim for which they had no evidence. They knew the Steele Dossier was a fabrication. They knew of its political origin. They knew of Steele’s biases. They were warned by the MI6 to be weary of him. They knew several pieces of the information in the Dossier were false (one in particular, the Trump-Russia Bank Computer connection was a tip they had previously received and investigated) while others were just old rumors you could find on the internet. When these knowingly false and repeated claims materialized again in the Steele dossier, without verification of any kind, they had every reason to be extra-suspicious of its validity. But instead they ran with it. That part alone is misconduct of the highest order but it is still far worse than that.
They claim they had to “fire Steele” for his bias and leaking and then he was conveniently re-hired by Fusion GPS, and then they accepted his “dossier”. You know what this looks like is exactly what happened. They planned this whole thing out. They used fudge words about Carter Page’s mere association with Russians to make him look guilty of conspiring with them. They moved Steele from the FBI payroll to the DNC payroll (via Fusion via Perkins Coie law firm). This was all to give the appearance of plausible deniability. There was even a 2nd Dossier floating around coming from the Sydney Blumenthal camp. I’d wager that Steele never had a single “Russian” source for anything in his dossier. I’d wager he just wrote what he was told to write and that he was hired simply to put his name on the documents to give them the air of intelligence gathering.
And we know of course that the only reason they targeted Page was because that gave them the ability to wiretap everyone 2 degrees removed from Page. Page emails Manafort, Manafort CC’s Trump, and voila they can tap Trump. We know this because it seems NSA Director Rogers told Trump and was going to tell the FISA Court itself before the FBI amended one of its Warrant applications.
Trump did goad them with his campaign rhetoric but Trump was being mostly sarcastic while the DNC was being worse than negligent in blaming Russia for hacks that were probably leaks and for Podesta’s own stupidity in opening malware on his computer. None of Trump’s rhetoric excuses their actions in the slightest. I hope we can really get to the bottom of all this.