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As Kevin R. Brock, former FBI assistant director of intelligence, noted at the time, (Click Here) the word "travesty" usually is applied to gross perversions of justice, and that apparently is the context Attorney General William Barr desired -- Barr went on to liken the FBI investigation to "sabotage" and added that he was not interested in simply getting a report from Durham. "If people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted."
Barr's change in tone is not difficult to explain. In the absence of strong political support -- of a kind that a powerful, predictable president, in normal circumstances, is able to provide -- there is zero percentage in crossing the Deep State. Moreover, if Trump doesn't fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, an indispensable asset to the Deep State who has slow-rolled many a White House order and FOIA request, and if Biden keeps him on, what kind of cooperation might Durham expect from the FBI and Justice.
Trump: "Something Should Happen"
As shown by his extraordinary speech released yesterday on voting, President Trump is more than somewhat distracted. He did manage to insert some familiar complaining about his antagonists in the National Security State, but without showing that he has much feel for the current state of play or what he might try to do about it. His words speak for themselves, sort of: Click Here
"What can I say? We caught Comey cold, we caught McCabe cold, we caught them all. We're still waiting for a report from a man named Durham. ... They can go after me before the election as much as they want, but unfortunately, Mr. Durham didn't want to go after these people or have anything to do with going after them before the election.
"So who knows if he is ever going to even do a report, but if you look at the lies and the leaks and the illegal acts of behavior done by so many people and their desire to hurt the president of the United States, something should happen.
"The hardest thing I have to do is explain why nothing is happening with all of these people that got caught spying on my campaign. It's never happened before, and it should never happen again to a president of the United States. All you have to do is watch the hearings and see for yourself. The evidence is overwhelming."
Plenty of Time
Truth be told, the evidence is overwhelming. In early October Trump told Rush Limbaugh that Department of Justice investigators had "plenty of time to do it...The facts are on the table...Unless Bill Barr indicts these people for crimes -- the greatest political crime in the history of our country -- then we'll get little satisfaction, unless I win...If we don't win, that whole thing is going to be dismissed."
It is a safe bet that Trump will be proven right about "the whole thing" being dismissed, now that Barr has jumped overboard -- whether Durham becomes "special counsel" or not.
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