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catbyte

(34,170 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:19 PM Sep 2020

Nora Dannehy, CT prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham's Trump-Russia investigation, resigns

Source: Hartford Courant

Nora Dannehy, Connecticut prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr

Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned from the U.S. Justice Department probe - at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said.

Dannehy, a highly regarded prosecutor who has worked with or for Durham for decades, informed colleagues in the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Haven of her resignation from the Department of Justice by email Thursday evening. The short email was a brief farewell message and said nothing about political pressure, her work for Durham or what the Durham team has produced, according to people who received it.

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Durham recruited Dannehy to join his team after he was appointed by Attorney General William Barr more than a year and a half ago to examine the the FBI’s legal justification for a disputed counterintelligence investigation that looked for ties between President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian efforts to meddle in the election.


Read more: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-john-durham-dannehy-resignation-20200911-20200911-xcsapnq7g5e63kvtw5aqi7cv34-story.html



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SayItLoud

(1,696 posts)
3. Sure hope @Biden et al get out in front of the report.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:41 PM
Sep 2020

The report (and I use that term very very loosely) will be another Barr bull shit lying document that will be just ONE of their end of September/ October surprises.

We know it's coming and I sure wish the Biden spox would start damaging it RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. Don't be put in a position to react. Act. (Just my 2 cent).

still_one

(91,962 posts)
7. Since this is an investigation on an investigation that has already been done. Barr's so-called
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:58 PM
Sep 2020

investigation of an already done investigation which showed Russian connections with the trump administration is to discredit the first investigation

Barr needs to be disbarred for unethical behavior

This DOJ under trump is is one of the most corrupt and compromised one we have had since Nixon

dem4decades

(11,244 posts)
4. I was friends with a Federal prosecutor in the Hartford office that i had the utmost respect for.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:44 PM
Sep 2020

I believe he still works with Durham. I hope my faith in him isn't tarnished by Durham. I will be crushed.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
5. She needs to be asked to come before the intelligence and the House Oversite Committee
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:45 PM
Sep 2020

now................and not come in and say well the investigation is ongoing and i can't say anything...........BS.............

C_U_L8R

(44,894 posts)
6. Sound that whistle.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:56 PM
Sep 2020

There's likely some nefarious stuff behind the scenes in the dystopian land of Barr

Ligyron

(7,592 posts)
9. We all knew from the beginning this was designed to be a hit job on Biden.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:02 PM
Sep 2020

Of course they'll come up with some shit they'll try and make a big deal about.

Now I can't stop picturing that greasy weasel from Epoch Times, who's pushing that BS "Spygate" CT everytime I click on a YouTube video, getting all excited and squawking about this nothingburger too.

I wish I could make it stop.

I'd like to pull him through the screen by his scrawny neck and punch him in the face repeatedly and just beat the Tump outta him until that stupid look was permanently erased. Spygate? pfft we'd see if he could even remember his name when I got done with him.

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