Looking forward to the new cascade of whistleblowers from this thing. https://t.co/Q2oEiOapYc
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) October 25, 2019
NYT: William Barr’s Justice Dept has opened a criminal inquiry into the origins of ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ — the code name for the FBI’s Russia investigation https://t.co/GxcFMPT7eT
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) October 25, 2019
… Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move gives the prosecutor running it, John H. Durham, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury and to file criminal charges…
Mr. Trump has made clear that he sees the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. That view factors into the impeachment investigation against him, as does his long obsession with the origins of the Russia inquiry. House Democrats are examining in part whether his pressure on Ukraine to open investigations into theories about the 2016 election constituted an abuse of power.
The move also creates an unusual situation in which the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into itself…
It was not clear what potential crime Mr. Durham is investigating, nor when the criminal investigation was prompted. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment…
Revelations so far about Mr. Durham’s investigation have shown that he has focused in his first months on the accusations that Mr. Trump’s conservative allies have made about the origins of the Russia inquiry in their efforts to undermine it. Mr. Durham’s efforts have prompted criticism that he and Mr. Barr are trying to deliver the president a political victory, though investigators would typically run down all aspects of a case to complete a review of it…
What Barr is doing in Europe is just a more careful version of what Giuliani is doing.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 25, 2019
dollars to donuts, this will end up being another article of impeachment https://t.co/dHs0wzrDHP
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 25, 2019
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