(The Center Square) – Special counsel John Durham criticized the Federal Bureau of Investigation for investigating Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign based on “uncorroborated intelligence” in a new report.
Attorney General Merrick Garland sent the 306-page report to Congress on Monday.
Durham’s report was critical of the FBI’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign had coordinated with Russia to influence the presidential election.
“We conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law,” it said.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the FBI’s investigation undermined national security.
“The Durham Report details serious and unforgivable breaches by federal law enforcement. Relying on altered documents and partisan opposition research is an extreme abuse of power,” Rubio said in a statement. “There is no justification for using national security tools designed to keep America safe for partisan political gain. Those responsible need to be held accountable, not just for meddling in the presidential election but also for the damage done to our institutions.”
Trump had predicted the report would bring “the crime of the century” to light.
“FBI personnel working on that same FISA application displayed, at best, a cavalier attitude towards accuracy and completeness,” according to the report. “FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities. And certain personnel disregarded significant exculpatory information that should have prompted investigative restraint and re-examination.”
The FBI leadership has changed since 2016.
“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time,” the FBI said in a statement Monday afternoon. “Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.”
Durham criticized the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Another ‘investigation’ that netted us nothing.
Exactly. WHEN TIME AFTER TIME we see these things come out, and NOTHING ever gets done to the offenders, it makes me wonder. WHY THE HELL Bother with them anymore.//???
To boil down the Durham report to its essence… “What you guys did was wrong. Don’t let it happen again.” Although basically true, it was woefully inadequate, understated, and designed to protect the DC elites. Durham is just another DC swamp creature. The report is almost worthless. It will not result in accountability for any wrongdoing.
“The FBI leadership has changed since 2016.”.
Yes, but it was replaced with the same ilk of personnel, only worse. And the perps who started the Russian scam and subsequent election fraud are apparently getting away with it. However, I do think the Durham investigation was well worth the time and effort. The Left has no choice but to duck and cover with the results of the investigation made public. Perhaps enough of the democrat/Independent voting morons may be forced to stop and actually look at the facts.
Facts. THEY ARE Racist to these idiot voters. AND even if they SEE them mentioned about on their lame stream media, THEY WILL ALL say “its just republican disinformation and lies”..
If all the FBI is going to get, for an attempted coup d’etat, is being called “irresponsible” then nothing will change. Although the term may be overused this was truly worse than Water Gate, but the reaction to it is tepid at best. Another term we hear often that applies more to this than anything else is “a threat to democracy”. It is my fear that Americans are becoming desensitized to the corruption and lawlessness in Washington and are too apathetic to notice our republic is dying. We are well down the road to becoming a third world country complete with a government hit squad and a media that is willing to spread whatever lie the powers to be give them.
A few weeks back, i remember one dem, CHASTIZING the republicans, for ‘wanting to defund the FBI’.
IN THIS CASE< i fully agree. CANCEL ALL THEIR FUNDING.. That imo is the ONLY way we will scorch them out of existance.
IT was not an attempted coup d’etat, it was actual coup d’état that succeeded!
AND If what they did, doesn’t come under the legal heading of SUBVERSION AND SEDDITION< THEN why bother having those laws on the books?!