Bill Barr’s New Remarks About Durham Make Peter Strzok Melt Down – Opinion

Former Attorney General Bill Barr still supports Special Counsel John Durham despite the fact that the jury returned a not guilty verdict against Michael Sussmann in his case for lying to FBI about having no client.

Barr was highly praised for Durham’s work. He also said that while Durham didn’t get a conviction against Sussmann, he brought out some important truths.

Barr: I’m very proud of Durham and I do take responsibility for his appointment. pic.twitter.com/odKy2FaqKG

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 1, 2022

“I’m very proud of John Durham. And I do take responsibility for his appointment,” Barr told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “I think he and his team did an exceptionally able job both digging out very important facts and presenting a compelling case to the jury.” [….]

“First, I think he crystallized the central role played by the Hillary campaign and launching as a dirty trick the whole Russiagate collusion narrative and fanning the flames of it,” he said. “And, second, I think he exposed really dreadful behavior by the supervisors in the FBI, the senior ranks of the FBI, who knowingly used this information to start an investigation of Trump and then duped their own agents by lying to them and refusing to tell them what the real source of that information was. And that was appalling.”

Barr continued.

Pressed by Watters on the frustration of people who “feel like they were cheated out of accountability” by Durham not getting a conviction, Barr stressed that criminal liability isn’t the only factor at play in the special counsel inquiry.

“People have done, I think, a very good job trying to develop this case in the face of very strong headwinds,” Barr said. “And part of this operation is to try to get the real story out. John Durham is going to be convicted if possible. That was my belief from the start. This is not the only aspect. And I think the Danchenko prosecution is going to further amplify these themes and the role that the FBI leadership played in this, which is increasingly looking fishy and explicable.” [….]

“The FBI was aware that the primary source of it — they had suspected of being a Russian intelligence agent,” Barr said. “So the prospect that this was Russian disinformation fed through Hillary’s campaign is very real and was never looked into by Mueller even though he had all the relevant facts.”

Barr had previously also termed “seditious” what was done to the Trump team and the United States on the head of this.

Perhaps cold comfort when we’re looking to hold people accountable and when we wish Barr would have brought all this out when he was in office. But Barr is right that there’s a greater point that was proven here — that the Clinton campaign was behind smearing Trump to the media and Sussmann spread this to the FBI. Mook acknowledged that Clinton approved the defamation of the media. It is now impossible for them to get around it.

It is currently pending that the Danchenko Indictment. Durham appears to be trying to set the stage for the small guys to take on the larger fish. Danchenko is the main source of Steele dossier information and the prosecution will likely reveal more details about the beginning of the investigation.

Danchenko is a Soviet Union-born, US-based, researcher. When interviewed by FBI, Danchenko allegedly relied upon a Russian network and nullified key Trump-Russia collusion claims. According to documents released by Barr in September 2020, Danchenko was already under investigation as a potential threat to national security because of possible Russian intelligence contacts. Danchenko anonymously sourced a claim about Trump 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort to longtime Clinton ally Chuck Dolan, who spent many years, including 2016, doing work for Russian businesses and the Russian government, according to Durham’s false statements charges.

We also may yet see a “Durham report” that lays it all out because Durham’s appointment laid out that he would submit a final report for “public dissemination.”

But guess who piped up, spreading disinformation about Barr’s remarks? Peter Strzok was dismissed as an FBI officer.

Bill Barr says the loud part brazenly:

Durham using criminal prosecutions to get out a false Russia narrative is “far more important” than actually achieving convictions. https://t.co/yksmxB2IFx

— Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) June 2, 2022

Durham’s charge wasn’t only to get “convictions”; it was also to get to the truth and he’s done that. That’s what the Clinton team and the people on the left are upset about. Strzok claiming that Durham was getting out a “false Russia narrative” after all the evidence presented that showed the Clinton team’s involvement in the smear is laughable and once again, it shows how compromised he was. He can’t handle the truth.

Svetlana Lokhova was one of many who blasted Strzok’s spin. We’ve written before about Lokhova, here.

.@petestrzokYou ask your friends and family to call you a spy master.
Documentary evidence proves that you can’t find your way out from a paper bag.
You are an embarrassment to your profession and have trait of stealing from others. https://t.co/GhW7IPob5f

— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) June 2, 2022

However, his reply shows how much they still believe in bullion even after all the facts have been revealed.