Posted on 08/07/2020 9:15:19 PM PDT by romanesq
Print this article Former CIA Director John Brennan appears to have dodged prosecution in U.S. Attorney John Durham's criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation.
After NBC News reported Thursday that Brennan agreed to do an interview with Durham, signaling that his investigation is nearing its end, a lawyer familiar with the situation told NPR that the Obama-era CIA director has been told he is not a target of prosecutors. Instead, this source said, the interview will mainly consist of technical questions.
The news is sure to disappoint some of President Trump's most ardent supporters who believe Brennan and other top officials in the Obama administration sought to sabotage Trump's candidacy in 2016 and later his presidency.
Still, while Brennan may escape an indictment, he may yet be harshly criticized in a report. Attorney General William Barr said he expects "developments" from Durham's inquiry by the end of the summer.
“It’s hard to prove criminal intent at their level, and unless there’s a smoking gun, like an email or text, they’ll probably get off with a damning report about their activities," former Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker, who claims to know Durham personally, told RealClearInvestigations in reference to Brennan and other top intelligence community and law enforcement officials from the Obama administration.
Durham has reportedly scrutinized Brennan's emails, call logs, and other records from the CIA as his team looked into the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference, whether there was an effort to hide information from other agencies, British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s flawed anti-Trump dossier, and other issues.
Democrats, some Justice Department veterans, and legal experts have raised concerns about the public release of Durham's findings or indictments less than 90 days from the election. Under questioning last week by Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Florida Democrat, Barr refused to commit under oath to not releasing a report before the November contest and pledged it would not "disrupt" the election.
Timing is also a mounting concern for the president's allies who fear the federal prosecutor's work will get buried should former Vice President Joe Biden defeat Trump.
Brennan, who has traded barbs with Trump over the past couple years, found out he had been blocked from accessing his classified notes and records while working on his forthcoming memoir.
As I said,.......
OF COURSE he does.
And so does the very guilty, knowingly so... Susan Rice the gofer nasty piece of work nat security advisor (same one with the Benghazi video crapola)-— who is one. LYING. SACK of excrement, who wrote herself a “exonerating” email that obiwon kenyobi wanted everything done “by the book”. Whose book, biotch,hmmmmm? Freaking criminals, all of them.
And she thinks she can deep state her way into the presidency by being VP to mindless Joey Bags Biden. No way—even if she made it to VP, she’d be taken out. Just sayin’.
Could be.....false leaks all the time. To buy time. Fun to watch them squirm. This one came from Brennan’s idiot lawyers— who, if so doing are committing prosecute-able crimes themselves. Stupid a@@holes.
Comey told Trump he wasn’t a target of the investigation. Let’s hope it’s fake news deliberately spread so that his face will be even more pathetic when he does the perp walk.
NO ONE will be prosecuted and that’s a dirty damn’ shame.
One of two possibilities. The other is that he has convinced Durham that he has a pardon.
If a pardon, one would like to see it on the public record because you would like to know who signed it and exactly what it says.
I recognize that I am somewhat of a broken record but technically, on the way out the door, Biden was and had been for 8 years, the Acting President under the Constitution and to be effective, a pardon would have had to have been signed by Joe. That would have been another piece of evidence with respect to Barry's true status.
It's more than a dirty damn shame, it's the guaranteed death of America. If they can get away with attempting to frame Trump with such a ludicrous charge (that he was a secret super-spy for Russia), and spy on his campaign with the full power of the NSA, there are no more limits. The next performance will be shockingly brazen.
bkmrk
There is no justice in the United States of America. If you’re a Democrat, you have nothing to fear by breaking the law.
You people who think you’re not recognized as the marxist democrat party provocateurs that you are, are just ridiculous. Let me clue you in, its the chosen phrases and the ridiculous names you come up with in a lame attempt to convince freepers and others that you’re a true conservative, but most of us can spot you chumps a mile away. Try a little harder next time.
What are you smoking?
I'm ready. Are you? I'm good with God, my family and myself. I'm at peace. I'm also a realist.
I have my bug-out bags all ready to go. Picking up the newest family member later today, completing my HnK family. I have enough food for 3 months and my portable Ham Radio setup tested and ready (tested it yesterday in fact). I can be loaded up and ready to go in under 60 minutes.
Our generation needs to clean up this mess. Let the Burn Loot Murder idiots come out to the burbs. I'm all for some target practice. Let 'em attack and see how far they get. That'll just be the warm-up for the big show.
Let's get it on.
We don’t have much of the facts yet. We have a lot in the public domain but we don’t know the full picture of what transpired.
And we almost certainly never will know all the facts due to the delay in investigating these crimes. The time for this investigation from 2017. Instead, the criminals have had near 4 years to destroy evidence and CYA. That could only have happened due to the bipartisan nature of the ongoing coup.
I hope it means he’s rolled over on his co-conspirators. Snitches get stitches, but help nail the bitches.
Until there is a 1 tier justice system its all just sing along and dance along and I will never support sending troops into any situation to defend this American way, get out jail free cards for wankers who would replace and enslave us. No way and this one of the many ways corruption makes a nation weaker
The president had to pardon a guy who took a picture of his bunk on a sub (he was wrong but was he spying no) was Hillary providing classified information to America's enemies - yes yes she was
John Brennan sets the CIA Hive implant system against the wifi routers of America, each sending back beacons of survey data of everyone machine, Hive inserts tip offs for login and traffic patterns into everyone's wifi routers iptables firewall rules.
Obama and John Brennan's CIA can use the Honeycomb system to one way transfer all that illegally gotten data to their Rip Snapper Database.
John Brennan, Susan Rice, Barack Obama can access it via the cutthroat ilm (Implant library Module) program on their CIA GENISIS workstation (The one Devin Nunes ran up to access in June of 2017) in the Whitehouse. Most likely signing in with Susan Powers login credentials.
That's all cool? - pathetic No wonder the Iranians were able to steal our cyberwarfare tools. More wankers.
Lets pretend this all a big secret and nobody knows - corruption is killing us
Nice fantasy. This is a place where Leprechans give away free gold and unicorns crap gold.
It's as true now as it ever was. Would be nice to someday not have this be true. The only way is to throw the GOP over the cliff and start a new party.
Let’s start with throwing the DEMONCRATS over FIRST!
They will probably get that one guy that changed the document—he will be the fall guy. Everyone else will be severely criticized.
Overall this is going to be a bit let down for anyone expecting prosecutions. If there were going to be prosecutions, it wouldn’t be interviews. They’d be calling people before a grand jury. That’s not happening.
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