John Durham sent a message to the attorney general and the countryOpinion by Kevin R. Brock, opinion contributor - 5h agoJohn Durham has been a special prosecutor for almost a year and a half - not a long time, but plenty of time for a drumbeat to begin that he was showing little progress against his orders to examine the origins of the debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative that convulsed a presidency. His few indictments so far have been directed against peripheral players, feeding a fear among Donald Trump's supporters that elites higher up the stack are going to get away with their chicanery.
The problem for Durham is that these perceptions were providing the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) with increasing political top cover to shut down the special prosecutor's office as an unproductive, politics-driven exercise in futility that is wasting taxpayer dollars. If Durham were to be terminated, the American people might not even push back much since no one had a clue whether his investigation was bearing meaningful fruit.
Attorney General Merrick Garland already had undercut Durham's investigation once by taking steps to rehabilitate the reputation of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a key figure in the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion debacle. The Biden DOJ is not friendly to the goals of Mr. Durham.
Durham couldn't hold a news conference or pen an op-ed touting progress; that's just not done by investigators in the middle of an investigation. So, he turned to a readily available vehicle - a routine, fairly innocuous motion filed with the court - to embed an explosive message to the DOJ and the American people. It landed like fireworks at a funeral. No one saw it coming.
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