John Durham’s Report Used Sketchy Intelligence That Might Be Russian Disinformation (Did Cankle's deleted emails contain Brandon bribe information?)

Mother Jones ^ | 5/25/23 | Dan Friedman

[Libloather]

John Durham’s final report blasts the FBI for using the so-called Steele dossier, a compilation of unconfirmed claims about Donald Trump and Russia, without sufficiently considering the chance that Steele’s findings contained deliberate Russian falsehoods. But Durham himself relies substantially on a sketchy intelligence product that may be Russian disinformation to push a partisan political narrative. And he does not even note the irony.

Durham, the special counsel who former Attorney General Bill Barr selected in 2019 to look into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, may have succeeded in his apparent goal of serving up reheated scraps for a familiar retinue of hardcore Donald Trump defenders to feast on. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced last week he wants Durham to appear before the committee on Thursday. But that testimony remains unscheduled. The Judiciary Committee did not respond to questions about the delay, which occurred with Durham facing substantial criticism.

Obituaries for his four-year, $7 million investigation have noted Durham’s repeated failures to secure courtroom convictions and pointed out how meek his conclusions were compared to the wild expectations of Trump fans. But a different shortcoming in Durham’s work - its astounding hypocrisy - may not be getting the attention it deserves.

The special counsel’s 306-page report refers 65 times to the “Clinton Plan intelligence.” That is a claim that Hillary Clinton, on July 26, 2016, approved a plan to “vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.” Where does this supposed intelligence come from? Those very same Russian security services. The report notes that the “Clinton Plan intelligence” came from a “Russian intelligence analysis” that US intelligence agencies got their hands on.

Think about that. To figure out how an American presidential campaign supposedly went about attacking a rival...

[Libloather]

Did Cankle's deleted emails contain Brandon bribe information?

Just a question.

[RoosterRedux]

Mother Jones?

That's a really hard-core conservative site.

[Libloather]

Try reading what the commies put out. Every single bit of fiction is what they run with. And they actually believe it.

[sauropod]

Yep. Just look at all those American Flags on the home page!

[RoosterRedux]

I agree. It’s important to know your enemy.

[Triple]

Mother jones - speculation to divert attention and fool their readers into thinking the FBI did nothing wrong, and Trump is guilty.

Propaganda much?

Did the FBI pay them?

Does the DNC have to report this as an in-kind donation?

[MTBobcat]

Reads like it was authored by a mediocre middle school student.

[Vlad0]

Mother Jones was the rag that originally published the Steele dossier. So in effect the Durham report is a 300 page indictment of their reporting, and what it brought. David Korn was the scumbag reporter (head of Mother Jones Washington bureau) who published the fake Steele dossier as real. Of course he now has found someone to tell more lies about this.

Imagine how much better off our country would be without these self-righteous leftists lying in print constantly. Having so many of these vermin infecting our politics is a curse and burden our nation seemingly can not escape.

[RoosterRedux]

I have noticed a lot of that lately. Makes me wonder if, given that good English writing like math and science are racist, the Left takes pride in its poor grammar.

[MMusson]

“Trump is Guilty! He’s Guilty! He’s Guilty!
He just hasn’t been caught yet.”

(I wonder what color the sky is in their world?)

[dowcaet]

The left won’t give up the “Russia disinformation” narrative. They’re going to continue using it to weasel their way out of everything. This is hilarious coming from the same people, who until recently, were the biggest apologists for Russia and it’s communist predecessor, the Soviet Union.

[odawg]

“But Durham himself relies substantially on a sketchy intelligence product that may be Russian disinformation to push a partisan political narrative.”

Sketchy intelligence?? How does he know that? Does he possess the original whereby he can make comparisons?

May be Russian disinformation??

We just as well should go ahead and surrender to our Russian masters. We can no longer believe our lying eyes. Up is down and down is up and the earth is moving under our feet and it is all Russian disinformation.

We are all ruled by Russian disinformation. Is Russian disinformation merely Russian disinformation?

[Alas Babylon!]

David Korn is a Russian Agent.

Change my mind.

[Pete Dovgan]

We have two systems of Justice in this nation. The DOJ destroys evidence, and drops charges, against those that have a (D) or grift with them. No Republic can survive like this. This process is not new, it’s been done before, wherein corrupt judges and legal system let political individuals free from their crimes.

The same process marked the end of the German Republic and ushered in the NAZI state. It’s happening here and now.

[virgil]

Sketchy intelligence sounds more like the Steele dossier and it smells like bs. Mother Jones has the same smell.

[dforest]

No, he is CIA, a China Intel Agent.

[SMARTY]

We can pretty much accept that everything in Hillary ‘Tonka Thighs’ e mails had tons of stuff that would incriminate her, Joe and lots of other people

[corlorde]

But Durham himself relies substantially on a sketchy intelligence product that may be Russian disinformation to push a partisan political narrative. And he does not even note the irony.

They will never learn. We see through their bs, they don't care. The deepstate narrative is what it is.

[Bratch]

[VTenigma]

Didn’t Mother Jones start this whole mess? I think Mother Jones is “Russian disinformation”.