Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) Puns

You may recall that in 2019 Durham was tapped to lead an investigation into Obama Administration era policies surrounding the surveillance of the Trump Campaign in 2016 and the origins of the "Russiagate" scandal.

And now the announcement today that Barr has made Durham a special council: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/01/william-barr-john-durham-special-counsel-russia-441872

>Attorney General William Barr has appointed U.S. attorney John Durham as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

>The appointment formalizes Durham’s ongoing probe, but more significantly, would give Durham latitude to continue the politically explosive investigation after President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January.

So immediately the Mueller Investigation came to mind, and I wondered what ways the Biden/Harris administration will deal with this new special council. Will the Biden administration try to end it? Will they allow it to go on, like Trump did the Mueller investigation? Will it result in charges beyond the first guilty plea that came out of the Durham investigation: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-probe-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-first-criminal-case-arising-from-review-attorney-says >Durham probe: Ex-FBI lawyer to plead guilty in first criminal case arising from review, sources say

What legal ramifications would come from the Biden administration trying to stop this special council? What political ramifications? What political and legal ramifications would there be to allow it to continue?

The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia authorized the release of certain grand jury materials to the House Judiciary Committee relating to the Mueller investigation. The order requires the Department of Justice to provide the committee all redacted components of the Mueller report containing grand jury material by Oct. 30, 2019.

Link to judge's order: <https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6523555/Mueller-Report-Material-20191025.pdf>

##Submissions that may interest you

[Judge: Justice must give House Mueller grand jury evidence](https://apnews.com/358d24d6b69f4bca9934

I recently acted as special counsel to the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2020, including for the impeachment and trial of President Donald J. Trump. I previously served as ethics czar for President Obama and then as his ambassador to the Czech Republic. A Case for the American People: The United States vs. Donald J. Trump is my third book.

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EDIT: Thank you everyone for joining and for asking such great questions, that was fun!

The United States of America,
February, 2019

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The Conclusion of the Special Counsel’s Investigation

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On May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Mr. Comey had been overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. The FBI was also investigating former National Security Advisor and Trump campaign adviser Michael Flynn, who failed to disclose communications with Russian officials and reportedly lied to Vice President Mike Pence about those communications.

On the 7th of July, 2017, Acting Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein set in motion a chain of political events that would captivate the national consciousness of the United States, capturing the spotlight like only once before in political history. With Order no. 3915-2017, Mr. Rosenstein declared:

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> *”By virtue of the authority vested in me as Acting Attorney General, including 28 U.S.C. §§ 509, 510, and 515, in order to discharge my responsibility to provide supervision and management of the Department of Justice, and to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the Russian govemmenfs efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, I hereby order as follows: ... Robert S. Mueller III is appointed to serve as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice ... ”

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However, by late summer 2017, President Trump’s firing of James Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In August, press reports began filtering out, and indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.

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Conclusions of the Investigation into Obstruction

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In January 2019, after an exhaustive and protracted internal review of evidence gathered during the 2017-2018 phase, Special Council Mueller appeared before the executive officers of the Department of Justice to submit his findings. The Counsel found no additional charges to bring forward regarding the special mandate of election interference by the Russian Federation - those having been indicted already - or additional collusion into said investigation.

However, the report cited an exha

There’s enough probable cause to warrant a special counsel investigation, if the Civil Rights Division really cared they would of looked into this case long ago. The Wisconsin AG, District Attorney, Kratz, Sheriffs office, Brendans high school, and everyone involved should be heavily scrutinized and even prosecuted under federal statues. The lack of independent investigation into this is mind blowing.

But of course this is unlikely to happen, well because politics ruins everything. 🙄