With recent comments from AG Bill Barr this week, many are now anticipating that criminal charges against those who abused the FISA application process and to send them to prison for a long time to come.That is because Barr said this week that what happened was a deliberate criminal act and not merely sloppiness on their parts. To get a conviction, you must show intent and that seems to be what Barr did.
Barr also hinted about a report from Durham, detailing his investigation. Investigative Reporter John Solomon this week said that Durham has been convening a grand jury in Washington D.C. this week and that if true would just add to the anticipation. In sales this is known as price preperation. Getting the customer ready for the bottom line.
The investigation has been concentrating on John Brennan for quite some time anbd he could be the second person indicted. Kevin Clinesmith who altered an email in order to implicate Carter Page Will be first. Hopefully, neither one of them will be the last. People must go to prison to assure this corrupt behavior never happens again.
“He is looking to bring to justice people who are engaged in abuses if he can show that they were criminal violations, and that’s what the focus is on,” Barr told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Thursday. “He’s diligently pursuing it.”
The comments have heartened those who have long awaited consequences for current and former officials who investigated the Trump campaign on the basis of a discredited dossier put together by ex-British spy Christopher Steele that was funded by the Clinton campaign.
Barr tapped Durham last year to investigate the origins of the Obama administration’s investigation into the Trump campaign, as well as actions taken up through President Trump’s inauguration. Last fall, Durham upgraded his investigation to a criminal one.
Durham relocated from Connecticut to Washington, D.C., in March, so that he could continue work on his investigation amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Time is of the essence, with an election looming in November. Barr is reportedly looking to have the investigation finished by the end of summer.
“The closer we get to election day, the more any charges he brought would be framed by the media as kind of a Trump campaign stunt,” former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy told WMAL on Saturday.