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(550 posts)fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)Maybe something new about server in loser's towers connected to Russia? Also something about HRC surveilling his campaign in '16 and she should be killed for it.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)rabidly commenting about how Durham is going to save the Pig.
Mad_Machine76
(24,412 posts)They spend half their time claiming that Russiagate was just a Deep State hoax and deny its existence and, regrettably, Mueller didn't pursue charges against him and Democrats didn't even try impeaching him over it. Seems like the matter should be closed for him. But of course, for narcissists, nothing but complete absolution and an acknowledgement that their enemies were somehow wrong to oppose them is enough for them.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)collusion, something he has been saying for years. Proves him right and so he is right about election. The libs just out to get him again. See?
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)about a possible conflict of interest in the one criminal case he has brought in the two and a half years of his investigation alleging something about computer hacking of Trump's communications with Russia in 2016. Durham let the statute of limitations pass without bringing any sort of criminal case about this of course. So Trump is making noise. It's just junk. The allegation is irrelevant to the pending criminal case.
Marcy Wheeler at Emptywheel has much more info.
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)Figured it was BS...
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)from the date of the alleged crime.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)I realize the twitter explosion is just the Qult reacting to their leader's tantrum, but I keep seeing "indictment" flying about. Then again, half these people think there is going to be "military tribunals" as well. In a drawer of sharp knives, they are a rubber mallet...
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)occurred 5 years and two days before Durham's filing.
Durham was from CT and had a decent reputation. He's gone the way of all special prosecutors: He's gone nuts trying to find a crime.
William769
(55,147 posts)It's still bullshit.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,231 posts)I read the Durham filing last night and was amused. There is nothing in this filing that proves anything.
I was amused to find this thread on Durham's latest nothingburger
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Cha
(297,211 posts)1st I've heard of this.. wasn't paying attention to it.
ForgedCrank
(1,781 posts)we have accusations, but we haven't seen any actual evidence (with our own eyes).
And like always, I call BS until I see it for myself. Media cannot be trusted anymore, most especially the right-wing brand.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)funds are still paying this clown.
Cant we just kick this grifter to the curb?
WarGamer
(12,444 posts)Durham alleges that a Gov't contractor (possibly Crowdstrike) with access to the Executive Office of the President took data from the EOP server at the behest of an outside entity.
Problem is... Durham is biased, IMHO. Take his accusations with a grain of salt. I'll wait to see if Garland and the DoJ at large will back this clown up.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,231 posts)When Fox is down on this report, you know that it is bogus
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'I don't read a lot into this," said York. "But I would say as far as Durham is concerned and a lot of Republicans and especially the strongest Trump supporters, a lot of them have been disappointed in Durham. Frankly, because I think they have expectations that are too high. Some Trump supporters are really not going to be happy unless they saw James Comey or Hillary Clinton lead out of a door in handcuffs."
This, he explained, is never going to happen. Nor will Durham find something suddenly that results in President Joe Biden being kicked out of office and Trump reinstated.
Durham was appointed by Trump to investigate former Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Oct. 19, 2020, which is 482 days ago. Robert Mueller's investigation lasted 674 days and resulted in 34 indictments of individuals and three companies. Thus far, Durham has indicted a lawyer who once worked for Democrats. In subsequent filings, including this most recent one, Durham hasn't made any indictments nor has a grand jury.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,231 posts)This article sort of explains why the MAGA nut cases are so excited. These MAGA nut cases are really stupid and their excitement amuses me
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The theory behind the Alfa Bank rumor is complicated. Sussmans law firm, Perkins Coie, had been retained by Clintons campaign (leading it, separately, to engage the investigative firm Fusion GPS that later generated the infamous dossier of reports alleging a more robust connection between Russia and Trumps team). An unidentified individual first noticed traffic between the Trump server and the Russian bank and brought it to an executive at a technology firm who had retained Perkins Coie and was working with Sussman. (Wheeler has an excellent timeline of all of this.) That triggered an effort to examine the scope of those connections, one that at least some of those involved in the research apparently understood to be an effort to create a jumping-off point for further research that could bolster a Trump-Russia narrative. (The tech executive, Ill note, wasnt sold on the Alfa-Trump link even back in August 2016.) Durhams filing ties the campaign to Sussman and Sussman to the executive, but its not explicitly argued that the probe flowed down from Clintons team or up to it.......
ts important here to know why those records might have been collected. An expert on the technology with whom I spoke on Monday explained that Internet service providers often allow third parties to collect domain name lookups because the information is useful for tracking bad actors on the Internet. If, for example, there are suddenly a number of lookups to we11sfargo.com, with ones replacing the Ls in the domain name, that might suggest some effort to redirect traffic away from the bank to some spoof site. Or organizations might similarly have a passive DNS collection process in place so that they might know if theres a sudden spike in lookups for unusual servers in, say, Russia an early indication that maybe someone is trying to run a scam targeting employees.....
Its useful to note that Durhams claim about data being exploited emerged early. Both Wheeler and Graham elevated questions about the ethics of digging through collected DNS records to investigate something that was probably outside of any agreement governing what the data was being collected for. But that doesnt mean 1) that any laws were violated or 2) that this constitutes hacking. If I give you a key to my house and you use it to come in and read my diary, I will certainly be angry with you, but its not like you committed burglary.
After reading this article, it become even clearer that there were no laws breached and that Durham is wasting everyone's time