was it worth the tax payer's $6 million to tell us what the inspector General Horowitz report already told us?As the Horowitz Report stated, the bar for a predicate to start an investigation was so low as to be meaningless, the DOJ/FBI could and di start an investigation into 'Russian Collusion' by Donald Trump based on nothing but unverified information and a dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign. Were such actions criminal or illegal? And could they be proven in a court of law? But that doesn't make what they did to be acceptable behavior on the part of those organizations. YOU DON'T GO AFTER ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN WITHOUT JUST CAUSE, AND THE DOJ/FBI DID JUST THAT. THERE HAS TO BE REASONABLE AND CORROBORATED EVIDENCE THAT SUGGESTS CRIMINAL WRONG-DOING, AND SUCH DID NOT EXIST. Anyone who believes the DOJ/FBI were impartial in their decisions and actions is an ideologue who cannot accept their side to be guilty of any misconduct, and it doesn't have to be illegal to be misconduct.
The DOJ/FBI already made changes as a result of the Horowitz report.
Nevertheless, Durham’s report says it “does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out.”
Durham’s report charges that a “lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or restraint in pursuing allegations of collusion or conspiracy between a U.S. political campaign and a foreign power. Although recognizing that in hindsight much is clearer, much of this also seems to have been clear at the time.”
John Durham Gave Americans Something as Important as Justice - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Perkins Coie, the law firm employed by the Hillary Clinton campaign, hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump on April Fool’s Day ofspectator.org
I really do not understand how any right-thinking American can read that report and not be dismayed at the misconduct of people in the upper echelons of our once highly trusted institutions of justice. In their zeal to smear Trump and anything and everything they could whether it was verified or not, they also damaged the reputations of the DOJ and FBI who are now regarded by many as mere lackeys for the democratic party.
Durham was partisan, leaking and talking in right wing media, about his own on going investigation....in which nothing is suppose to be talked about until an on going investigation is over to keep it on the up and up....
The predicate for his investigation after a Senate and inspector General investigation was for partisan reasons just like he was investigating others for.....
As you noted the changes needed by the fbi, was already done and sufficient according to Durham?