Did Attorney General Barr just name John Durham as a Special Counsel?

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MrPickins

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Back on topic, the special counsel appointment is on shaky ground because Barr didn't adhere to the regulation that the SC must be selected from outside of the United States Government.

 
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BUTCH1

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There you go.
So yea, in every election involving 140+ million voters will have a few fraudulent votes cast, it's 100% pointless to attempt to link it into some case of organized fraud to overturn an election though, why the fuck do you even bother.
 
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ElMonoDelMar

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There you go.

Your own sources cast doubt that there was enough fraud to change the outcome of the election.

And it is worth noting that so far, the Trump campaign’s arguments in court do not match the president’s tweets that he “easily won” Michigan and Pennsylvania, or that Dominion voting software “attempted to alter our election and got caught.” As of this writing, Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania is 53,244, his lead in Nevada is 36,870, his lead in Wisconsin is 20,456, his lead in Arizona is 11,635, and his lead in Georgia is 14,057 — and that state will do a hand recount, at state expense. It is extraordinarily unlikely that judges will invalidate enough ballots in a majority of those states to reverse the results.

Back to Siberia for you!
 

Vic

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Weren't you convinced the election was fraudulent? Or am I thinking of someone else
Like all the Trump cultists on ATPN, Taj always denies being a Trump cultist. It's an intentional troll they do to try to make their radical extremism appear moderate.
 
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Back to the original story, the incoming AG can get rid of Durham easily. All he/she has to do is ask to see Durham’s evidence so far, claim it doesn’t merit further investigation and let him go.
 

HomerJS

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Are you claiming that no fraud occurred in the 2020 general election ? It's a simple question, even for you. Yes or No? I claim that fraud occurred and i'm sure i'll be able to prove it later with convictions. I just want you to have the integrity to put yourself on record.

and to answer your question 1. At least 7 States. 2. I have no idea.
We've never had a perfect election. A mailman was caught trying to change Democrat ballots to Republican. Most of the actual "fraud" cases have been committed by Republicans.

Now in an attempt to stroke your own ego because no one else will do it, you find an article from some right wing trope posing the strawman "Dems say there is no voter fraud"

NOBODY, I repeat NOBODY has EVER made that claim. The dishonest scumbag portion of your brain will never admit that. There is ZERO widespread voter fraud. The kind of fraud planned out by a group/groups that could effect the results.

The rest of your troll army has been tring to prove this in court and have failed every time. Why? Because there is no evidence. Judges laugh at you. They tell you to get lost. Yet your crowd continues to posh this lie of voter fraud.
 

HomerJS

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I'm not a Trump cultist or in Parler, so no way of knowing what they think.
I want to get back to this because I created a thread a while back just for people like you, knowing you would attempt to reform your reputation.

You've explicitly or implicitly supported everything Trump said or did. You were silent during all of Trump's acts of corruption, crimes, incompetence and heinous acts. You are the shining example of a Trump cultist.

Now you want to deny Christ, Peter? Go fuck yourself
 
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He was a die hard R before trump, exemplifies tribalism.
About half the voters in this country vote Republican.

The country as a whole leans conservative.

I'm sure the Authoritarian left is attracting supporters though.
 
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I want to get back to this because I created a thread a while back just for people like you, knowing you would attempt to reform your reputation.

You've explicitly or implicitly supported everything Trump said or did. You were silent during all of Trump's acts of corruption, crimes, incompetence and heinous acts. You are the shining example of a Trump cultist.

Now you want to deny Christ, Peter? Go fuck yourself
No i haven't. I've disagreed with him on a number of policies and especially his personally repugnant attitude, but keep on lying, you're good at it.
 

Bitek

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About half the voters in this country vote Republican.

The country as a whole leans conservative.

I'm sure the Authoritarian left is attracting supporters though.

Leans conservative, yet Republicans rarely win the popular vote... ? Hmmm
 
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HomerJS

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No i haven't. I've disagreed with him on a number of policies and especially his personally repugnant attitude, but keep on lying, you're good at it.
Fucking cultist. Search function is telling. Not in the history of this forum d yidou refer to Trump or ANYTHING Trump did as "repugnant"

Nothing on his criminality
Nothing on his racism.
Nothing on his inciting violence
Nothing on his incompetency
Nothing on his constant lying

I could go on but everyone already knows. And of course being a cultist you will deny he did any of these things.
 
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The Sidney & Rudy show is all he needs. Durham is welcome to investigate his little heart out to cover Barr's lying ass as long as possible. Investigating the investigators is like Birtherism, only different.
It seems that Professor Turley disagrees with you.




"Durham is now authorized to investigate anyone who may have “violated the law in connection with the intelligence, counter-intelligence, or law-enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns, individuals associated with those campaigns, and individuals associated with the administration of President Donald J. Trump, including but not limited to Crossfire Hurricane and the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III.” The list of the names of people falling within that mandate is a who’s who of Washington from Hillary Clinton to James Comey to . . . yes . . . Joe Biden. "

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"Complicating Sally Yates' nomination
The move also complicates the nomination of Sally Yates, who is widely cited as a front-runner for the position of Attorney General. Yates would be placed in an even more precarious position than Jeff Sessions who recused himself to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest at the state of the Trump administration. Yates has a clear and obvious conflict. She played a role in the earlier Russian investigation. That investigation was based in part on the “Steele dossier,” a report by a former British spy which has been shown to be unreliable and flawed. American intelligence warned that Steele’s main source was a likely Russian agent and the dossier may have been used for Russian disinformation. While the Clinton campaign repeatedly denied funding the dossier during the election, reporters later showed that it lied after finding a money trail through Clinton’s campaign legal counsel. Most recently, it was disclosed that President Obama was briefed on an American intelligence report that Clinton had ordered the creation of a Russian collusion story to take pressure off her own scandal involving her private server. Yates testified recently that she has no recollection of these warnings and does not recall knowing about the funding of the Steele dossier.
Yates would have no choice but to recuse herself in dealing with the Durham investigation. However, if the Biden administration used her designated deputy to scuttle the investigation or the report, the Biden administration will have done what Trump never actually did. All of those columns and speeches contorting the language of the obstruction statute would come back to haunt the Democrats.
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It is, to use the words of fired Special Agent Peter Strzok, the ultimate "insurance policy" that Durham will be allowed to complete and release the facts of his investigation. Worse yet, the Democrats themselves made the case for him to do so."