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IMPLOSION I
WYOMING CONGRESSWOMAN
ASKS A GREAT QUESTION
'The Nation Can't Stand':
John Durham's Response to Harriet Hageman's One and
Only Question Portends a Chilling Truth
Special Counsel John
Durham testified before
the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for nearly
six hours. The Democrat members of the committee
trotted out their standard barrage
of sly accusations and sinister insinuations, while
the Republicans, for the most part, sussed out the
highlights (or lowlights) of the most critical
findings contained in Durham’s report. Rep. Matt Gaetz
(R-FL) shook things up a bit,
going right after Durham and accusing him of
essentially serving as the Washington Generals to the
Swamp’s Globetrotters.
For his part, though he appeared somewhat ill at ease,
Durham kept his composure, even lobbing a brushback
pitch at Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). He took some affront
to Gaetz’s accusations. But it was his response to
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) at the very end of the
hearing that served as a chilling portent for the
nation’s future.
Hageman utilized
most of her allotted five minutes to address Durham,
reading prepared remarks:
Mr. Durham, in
reviewing your report, I sincerely wanted to
understand the work that you did and decipher
the various investigations that we have been
discussing: the origins, the history, the
backstory, the whos, the whys, the whats, the
what ifs, and the hows. I desperately wanted to
figure out what happened to what was once our
flagship law enforcement agencies — the FBI and
the DOJ — to determine what went wrong and to
evaluate how we can go forward from here. I have
listened with great interest, hoping to find
some answers to the burning questions of the
day. And I have reached a few conclusions that I
do not believe are subject to dispute or debate.
Now, I truly
appreciate your regard for the agency you have
dedicated your career to. I am sure that as your
investigation progressed, you must have been
truly saddened by what you found. What you have
exposed, however, is that we are dealing with
something so corrupt and so rotten that no
amount of face paint, deflection, or
whitewashing can fix this. You have been asked
lots of questions about predicates, protocols,
the Steele dossier, the Australian connection,
Mr. Papadopoulos, Mr. Carter, the FISA court,
and Crossfire Hurricane, among others. Your
responses have been enlightening, but let’s get
to the brass tacks: None of those people or
documents or reports were relevant to the FBI
when it identified Donald Trump as Public Enemy
Number One. What do I mean? The accuracy and
veracity of the Steele dossier was irrelevant to
the FBI. The accuracy and veracity of the
reports coming from the Australian embassy were
irrelevant to the FBI. The fact that the Russian
experts in the CIA, FBI, NSA, and other agencies
had no evidence of any kind of relationship
between Mr. Trump and Putin or Russia was
irrelevant to the FBI. And the fact that there
was no verifiable evidence, such as testimony,
documents, videos, or recordings of Russian
collusion was irrelevant to the FBI.
Hageman continued,
laying out her theory of the motivation behind the
whole endeavor.
Nothing — and I
repeat, nothing — that the FBI did was designed
to show that Donald J. Trump was a Russian
asset. That wasn’t the purpose of the entire
charade. How do I know this is true?
Because they told us so. The very people who
cooked this up, and the ones who ran this entire
operation: Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe,
Clinesmith, Steele, the DNC, Perkins Coie. It
was never their purpose to prove Russian
collusion, and in fact, from the very beginning,
they knew that no such thing actually existed.
They knew that the entire Russian collusion
narrative was fabricated by the Clinton campaign
to deflect attention from her mishandling of
classified materials and destruction of official
emails. They didn’t need to prove Russian
collusion. They just had to keep the
investigation alive. And so long as they had a
complicit press, and so long as they had people
in this very body, who has been here — one of
the gentlemen, who has been here much of the
day, who would go on TV every night and lie
about the smoking gun — they could further their
personal and political agendas. Oh no, the
purpose of Crossfire Hurricane wasn’t to prove
Russian collusion — it was to destroy Donald J
Trump, and they told us that with the text
messages that are set forth on page 49 and 51 of
your report — 49 and 50 of your report. And
then, if they failed at blocking Mr. Trump from
being elected as president, well, they had a
backup plan — they had their “insurance policy,”
to use Strzok’s terminology — which was to make
it impossible for him to govern; to use whatever
tools were available to taint his presidency,
the legitimacy of his election, his ability to
work with foreign leaders, and to make
everything about “Russia, Russia, Russia.”
And then, Hageman
drilled down to the heart of the matter.
And how has this
corruption and rot manifested itself in our
everyday lives? In our national culture? In our
ability to solve the problems we are facing? It
has destroyed some of the key foundations of
this country, a foundation built on equal
protection, on the belief that justice is blind,
on the belief that you will be held accountable
if you commit a fraud of the magnitude of what
we have been discussing here today, on the
belief that due process, justice, and
constitutional rights are more than mere words.
It has left a smoldering hot volcanic mess where
the soul of this country used to be — all
because a few people in the FBI decided they
wanted to destroy a political candidate and
ultimately a president and anyone associated
with him. While these folks set out to destroy a
presidential candidate and later a presidency,
the fact is that they destroyed so much more —
and that will be their ultimate legacy. One
casualty is America’s faith in our institutions,
and another casualty is the erosion of a justice
system that is supposed to apply equally to all
Americans, but that has been weaponized to
protect the favored few elites — the Clintons,
the Bidens — while targeting political enemies.
That is the current legacy of the FBI and DOJ,
Now at the end of
her allotted time, Hageman asked her one and only
question of Durham — though Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)
did his level best to cut her off:
Mr. Durham, here
is my question: How long do you think that
this country will survive with a two-tiered
justice system that seeks to persecute people
based on their political beliefs?
Whatever one’s
takeaway of Durham’s report and his testimony might
be, it would be difficult to doubt the sincerity (or
the foreboding accuracy) of his response:
I don’t think that
things can go too much further with the view
that law enforcement, particularly the FBI or
Department of Justice, runs a two-tiered
system of justice. The nation can’t stand
under those circumstances.
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See also:
John Durham: The nation cannot stand
under our current two-tiered system of justice
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