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[mystery-ak]

Former Attorney General: Durham Can Release FBI Corruption Findings Close to Election, Not Violate DOJ Policy
Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal By Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal
Published August 21, 2020 at 6:49pm

Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker believes findings from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into alleged Obama administration wrongdoing during the 2016 election would not fall under the Justice Department’s so-called “60-day rule” with regard to this fall’s election.

The Justice Department has an unwritten policy of seeking not to release information or take actions within 60 days of an election that could have a direct impact on the contest.

That deadline would be in early September, if it applied to the Durham probe.

On Wednesday, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that the bureau used in an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2017.

Clinesmith’s is the first criminal case to arise from Durham’s investigation, according to The Washington Post.

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https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/former-ag-durham-can-release-fbi-corruption-findings-close-election-not-violate-doj-policy

[skeeter]

Stupid rule. NOT releasing the information, if the information is truthful, will have an impact on the election.

Of course the rat media would have to cover it.

And rats mewling about a DOJ report unfairly affecting the election is beyond ironic.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's probably "possible," but this is Whitaker, who suggested before he was the acting AG that the Mueller investigation could be simply defunded and it would wither on the vine.  True, that could have been done, but I didn't think it at all likely, and it never came to pass.

I doubt there will be major revelations after the first half of September.  And that's too bad.

[sneakypete]

If there is one thing you can count on it is that the professional political/ruling class will stick together. Any who may be up for re-election in a tough campaign will be allowed and forgiven for coming down hard on the side of law and order,but the others will do whatever they have to do to protect one of their own.

Royalty are not like thee and me. They are different.