By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER
The shockingly lenient treatment of FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who lied to a federal judge in order to keep spying on Carter Page, has led many of us to despair that justice will never be done in the greatest political scandal in American history, the use of the FBI and intelligence community resources to spy on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and to bring him down once elected. But John Solomon, the journalist who has broken more stories on the scandal than anyone else I can think of, offered a ray of hope yesterday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on her weekly must-see Fox News Channel show, Sunday Morning Futures.
In the second half of the interview (full interview here), Solomon revealed that his sources (which have been excellent) indicate that a senior member of the FBI leadership group around Comey and Strzok has turned state’s evidence. Solomon also believes that Durham will have indictments ready in six to eight weeks.
However, and this is the soul-crushing detail, Durham needs Department of Justice approval before going ahead with indictments.
I would put the odds on such approval coming from the DOJ under AG designate Merrick Garland as very low.
In other words, the coverup is likely to succeed – unless our side starts playing dirty the way our opponents do and start leaking details out to the media. And even then, expect Google, Facebook, and Twitter to suppress those few media outlets that would even deign to publicize anything harming the progressive narrative.
If Durham is allowed to proceed with indictments of serious power players, then the conclusion that we are becoming a banana republic without the bananas can be suspended for a while.
It all started in the early 90ties!
@ Shmuel HaLevi:
I agree. By the time Durham was appointed, there were already megatons of evidence obtained from the investigations of Nunes, Gowdy, OANN/Guiliani, DOJ IG, a whole host of others. To obtain meaningful indictments, all he had to do was cut and paste them into Templates he could obtain from the DOJ Policy and Procedures manual, or even from the web. Those indictments would have resulted in others turning states evidence earlier. There was no persuasive reason for waiting almost another year to issue indictments or a report.
Barr’s excuses for changing the subject were given the lie by the Democrat’s investigation. Mueller, the DOJ leadership, and the Democrats had no compunctions about violating attorney-client privilege and putting targets of their investigation (including one over 70 years old) into solitary confinement and non-stop interrogation in order to break them.
In any event, the Left has won, and the Constitution has been replaced by “Post-Modern Theory”. So this investigation has devolved into Kabuki and needs to be viewed as such.
I may be wrong, but, it looks like Barr and Durham played a flawless hand of delay and misdirection. Hope is there, but not much…
What is more likely is that Garland will approve of an indictment of a retired receptionist and claim he is being responsive to Durham. That, in turn, assumes that Durham will do now what he didn’t do months ago when he had a Republican Attorney General. To my mind, the interesting question is how the Democratic left will package their duplicitous pile of necrotic ectoplasm and then sell it through saturation press coverage.
@ Davidowitz:
I agree, this is a battle already lost…it was lost the day that Trump left the White House. Durham will, however, have a report to publish(ahh, yes that same report for which we have been awaiting a very long time now) which the AG can not prevent unless he fires Durham before he completes it. Unfortunately, as Sundance from the Last Refuge website has noted often, we live in a two-tiered system of justice and this fact becomes more clearly delineated by the day – there is the China Class and their acolytes and then there is the rest of us. Divine approval indeed.
Getting approval from Garland will be like getting Divine approval.