Posted on 04/24/2020 4:49:28 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
It is interesting, if nothing else. – One interesting aspect of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s decision to bring the Chief of the violent crimes and narcotics trafficking section for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., Anthony Scarpelli, onto his investigation team is that Scarpelli has been a specialist in RICO-type investigations over the last decade. His job has been to identify domestic and international drug trafficking networks and bring the major players to justice, as he and his team did in the example described at this link.
In response to the piece on this that I posted last night, one cynical reader responded that Scarpelli is nothing more than a guy who was sitting around right now with nothing to do, so Durham brought him in to get him some work. Who knows – that could be right. On the other hand, he has been in charge of a team of 23 attorneys and 20 support staff, so what are those 43 people going to be doing in his absence?
On the other hand – which seems more likely, frankly – Durham may have identified Scarpelli as having the skillset needed to help make whatever case or cases he is planning to bring. Such cases would be brought against what we all know was a complex international conspiracy run out of the DOJ and FBI first to fix the 2016 election and then to execute a coup d’etat on American soil. This cabal wasn’t trafficking in drugs, but it was trafficking in disinformation and propaganda, and, as last December’s Horowitz Report and the recently-declassifed footnotes and margin notes clearly document, using what it knew to be false information in order to defraud the FISA court.
Prosecuting highly-complex conspiracy cases with hundreds of moving parts such as this one is a specialized area of expertise within the Department of Justice, and it is not something in which Durham himself has specialized. Just as Gestapo Chief Robert Mueller brought in rafts of attorneys who were specialists in money laundering, financial crimes, tax evasion and other areas to help execute his coup effort, we would expect a U.S. Attorney investigating the investigators to make similar moves in putting together his own team.
Which is why the selection of Scarpelli is so interesting. Take a look at his curriculum vitae as described at his Linkedin page:
Manage and supervise 23 senior attorneys and 20 support staff handling all aspects of federal violent crimes, narcotics, firearms, and money laundering investigations and prosecutions. Counsel supervisors and line prosecutors regarding investigative, charging, and trial issues. Review indictments, affidavits, forfeiture allegations, and proposed plea offers. Evaluate requests for major investigatory steps, such as wiretap authorizations and GPS data collection. Act as a liaison to law enforcement agencies including the FBI, DEA, ATF, HSI, and other federal and local law enforcement agencies. Supervised and managed complex litigation involving an FBI agent who tampered with evidence in dozens of criminal cases. Developed and implemented Office’s threats and escape prosecution protocol. Top Secret/SCI Clearance. [End]
Obviously, given the recent reports that Durham has spent many days holed up in a SCIF in recent months personally reviewing top secret information, that clearance is important. But all of the rest of those items listed could be directly relevant to Durham’s effort if he does indeed plan a real effort to prosecute the major players in the conspiracy.
Pay particular attention to this item: “Supervised and managed complex litigation involving an FBI agent who tampered with evidence in dozens of criminal cases.” In addition to the cabal’s efforts to defraud the FISA court, would that experience not be directly relevant to the effort by the FBI to entrap and frame General Mike Flynn and the multiple revisions of the 302 reports that FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors went to great lengths to hide?
Many observers, including journalist John Solomon, have speculated in recent weeks that Durham will likely only indict a few low-level players as sacrificial lambs and leave it at that. The move of Scarpelli onto the Durham team at least provides some hope that something bigger and more encompassing may be in the works.
That is all.
Me: Zzzzz. Zzzz. Zzzzz.
I do not believe either Durham or Barr are interested in doing anything other than creating a smokescreen to make sure any investigation goes nowhere.
Why don’t you PRAY???
You need to PRAY also!! Come on Freepers....I’ve been there with you in Poo-Poohing everything, but MAYBE, just MAYBE we have a couple of HONEST people in our Govt.!! PRAY!
Sounds like some real meat may finally be in the pipeline. Got to get it in front of the right judge... not some useless Obama or Bush pick.
Investigating Americas second or third coup attempt.
Lincoln, JFK, Trump.
I hope people hang.
If any trials arising out of possible indictments are held in DC, considering the jury pool there, I’m not too optimistic over the outcome.
Bombshell.
Hey, try’n to get some rest here. Don’t be screaming’ in my ear, woman. Wake me if somthin’ actually happens. Been waiting three years.
Durham is working on a stall-and-run-out-the-clock case for the deep state, anticipating that Trump loses in 2020. If Trump loses, that will settle everything very nicely for the establishment.
If indictments are handed down before the election, they could have a huge effect on the election’s outcome. We’ll see.
FDR’s coup throwing the Constitution to the curb and bringing in a Lawless federal with limitless arbitrary power succeeded. He overthrew the Republic and Eisenhower (Mr No Repeal) rubberstaped it.
Watch brennan, clapper and comey over the next coupla weeks and see if they maintain radio silence.
If they stay under cover, that will indicate that they fear that Durham is coming and they had best go quiet.
I know it's a long shot...but...hope springs eternal.
I thought the plan was to run out the clock until November when hopefully the DS would be rid of Trump. Who knew they only needed to cover up until March. An indictment of Comey would now be met with “who cares about that, how many ICU beds are there in North Dakota”.
More mindless speculation into events that, if history is any indicator, won’t amount to much of anything. May we all be pleasantly surprised, though.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
swift justice is not a method practiced by this justice department.
This entire matter leads directly to Obama & Hillary and if anyone believes that indictments will shower down between now and November’s election they are delusional. Should DJT have the election stolen from him, which is quite possible, it will all disappear.
Tick-tock, tick-tock if Trump loses in November these investigations will disappear into the rabbit hole.
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