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Questions for John Durham – House Judiciary Committee Testimony,
Wednesday June 21, 9:00am
Sundance
Today he testified in classified setting before the House intelligence committee. Tomorrow is the public version.
Special Counsel John Durham is scheduled to be questioned tomorrow by members of the House Judiciary Committee in a public setting. The hearing is scheduled for 9:00am ET, Rayburn Office Building [ DETAILS HERE ] – “The hearing will focus on the report of Special Counsel John Durham that examined the origins and justifications of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Crossfire Hurricane investigation against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.”
Questions have been passed along, and hopefully this summary is timed to avoid giving Mary McCord and her Lawfare team prep-time to construct their defensive talking points.
[Durham Report Here] Questions like:
(1) Mr. Durham, having spent four years investigating, researching, reviewing, interviewing and pouring through files related to the overall Trump-Russia collusion story, your report -like the report of Robert Mueller that preceded it- found no substantive predicate existed to ever open an investigation of candidate Donald Trump for any efforts with Russians or foreign actors to interfere in the 2016 election. As a result, of your time and diligence you are likely the #1 subject matter expert in the entire series of events.
♦ Question: In your opinion was President Obama aware there was no reason in 2016 to investigate Donald Trump, who then became President-elect Trump?
(2) You note in your report that you never re-reviewed any of the material evidence that formed the baseline for the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
♦ Question: Why not?
♦ Question: Who made the decision not to review the 2-year Mueller probe activity as part of your investigative review? Why was that decision made?
(3) Do you agree that both your 4-year review of the U.S government action in the Trump-Russia collusion story crossed several paths with the 2-year Mueller review of the Russian interference in the election story?
Question: In your opinion, how is it possible that Robert Mueller and his team of 19 investigators, 50 FBI agents and 100 administrative staff, could investigate Russian election interference for two years and not discover the Trump-Russia collusion story was a hoax created by the Hillary Clinton campaign?
(4) You questioned several current and former CIA officials about the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment.
♦ Question: How do you reconcile the sanctions placed by Barack Obama against 20 Russian officials in December of 2019, against the reality that there was little substantive confidence Russia interfered in the election?
♦ Question: How do you reconcile your investigative findings with the December 29th, 2016, Joint Analysis Report (JAR) on Russia Cyber Activity about Russian hacking, and with the January 7th, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment that specifically stated -falsely- that Russia was trying to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election?
♦ Question: Did Russians hack the 2016 DNC email servers and leak the information to Julian Assange at Wikileaks?
(5) You note in your report [CITATION] how former FBI Director James Comey was intimately involved in the creation of the Carter Page FISA application. You write about Comey continually asking the DOJ National Security Division and FBI counterintelligence investigators, “Where’s the FISA, we need the FISA.” However, you never interviewed James Comey or Andrew McCabe, because the former FBI Director and Deputy refused to cooperate or give testimony to you.
♦ Question: How did you discover details about the demands of Comey?
♦ Question: How did you write specific quotes from Andrew McCabe describing Comey’s demands?
♦ Question: Did you review transcripts of Andrew McCabe testimony to Inspector General Michael Horowitz?
♦ Question: Why did Inspector General Michael Horowitz never release those transcripts? And do you have a copy?
(6) The two-year Mueller investigation was headed by a gentleman named Andrew Weissmann. Mr Weissmann then gave former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein indictments of 17 Russian nationals who were alleged to have interfered in the 2016 election. Those indictments were never made public and the allegations within them were sealed and placed in the security of the DOJ-National Security Division never to be reviewed or acted upon.
♦ Question: Did you review those indictments?
♦ Question: Are those indictments valid evidence of Russian election interference?
♦ Question: In your opinion, why were those indictments never made public?
♦ Question: Mr. Weissmann created the Russian indictments that were never used, and Mr. Weissmann recently published a lengthy roadmap to guide special counsel Jack Smith in his novel use of the Espionage Act to target President Trump. In your opinion, is there a possible similarity of motive?
(7) In July of 2018 the Dept of Justice informed the FISA Court that despite the numerous material issues found by Inspector General Horowitz in the Carter Page FISA application, there was still sufficient predicate for the DOJ submission to the court. Excerpts of the letter below:
Mr Durham, your recent report seemingly contradicts this July, 2018, letter as it was written to the FISA court almost two years after the original Carter Page FISA application was submitted.
♦ Question: Is this letter truthful?
♦ Question: As outlined on Page 8 discussing the April 02, and June 29, 2017 FISA renewals, is it true the FBI factually had no control over the Chris Steele “sub source” now identified as Igor Danchenko – a man you prosecuted?
♦ Question: How do you reconcile the DOJ misleading the FISA court in July 2018 about the substance of Carter Page FISA application?
(8) Ten days after the Dept of Justice sent this July 12th letter to the FISA Court, the Carter Page FISA application was made public (July 22, 2018).
♦ Question: Who released the Carter Page FISA application?
♦ Question: Given the Top Secret Compartmented and Classified nature of the application, FISA and the processes and systems therein. Can you explain why the DOJ publicly released the Carter Page FISA application?
♦ Question: During the course of your investigation, did anyone provide to you or your investigators evidence of corruption, false statements, illegal activity, or involvement by any members of the legislative branch of congress, in the construct of the Trump-Russia collusion case, that you did not pursue?
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