The Department of Justice has been investigating matters concerning the Ukraine using material they got from Rudy Giuliani. AG Bill Barr is not assuming Giuliani’s information is correct and instead they are vetting the information carefully. This is separate from the Durham probe, but I’m sure if the new investigation finds and verifies information, it will be passed onto John Durham for further investigation and if need be, prosecution.
The vetting is being done out of one of the Pennsylvania office of the US Attorney. Te recently discovered investigation has been going on for weeks before being discovered. The probe is not limited to the Bidens, but includes other accusations of wrongdoing including the missing $1.8 billion dollars we set them that no one can find.
CBS News’ Catherine Herridge and Clare Hymes reported Tuesday that “staff outside of Main Justice were assigned to Bill Barr to review the Ukraine matter. That investigation will be handled out of the US Attorney’s office in Pennsylvania. That will include all information not related to the Biden’s. If Barr can verify Rudy’s proof, it could be real trouble for the Deep State.
As Herridge and Hymes reports, the allegations involving the Bidens and Ukraine “have gained new life” since Trump’s acquittal, with Barr stating Monday that the department has established an “intake process in the field” for material concerning Ukraine.
During the impeachment trial in the Senate, Trump’s lawyers repeatedly brought up the issue of corruption in Ukraine, around which Trump’s request to Zelensky centered. At one point, President Trump’s deputy counsel Patrick Philbin connected the “Ukraine matter” to the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment.
If the whistleblower, as is alleged in some public reports, actually did work for then-Vice President Biden on Ukraine issues, exactly what was his role?” asked Philbin. “What was his involvement when issues were raised — we know from testimony that questions were raised — about the potential conflict of interest that the vice president then had when his son was sitting on the board of Burisma. Was the alleged whistleblower involved in any of that and in making decisions to not do anything related to that? Did he have some reason to want to put the deep-six on any question raising any issue about what went on with the Bidens and Burisma and firing Shokin and withholding a billion dollars in loan guarantees and enforcing a very explicit quid pro quo — you won’t get this billion dollars until you fire him? We don’t know. And because Manager [Rep. Adam] Schiff was guiding this whole process, because he was the chairman in charge of directing the inquiry and directing it away from any of those questions, that creates a real due process defect in the record that has been presented here.”