Durham at "Full-Throttle" Investigating Obamagate?

Durham moving 'full-throttle' on Russia probe review, top federal prosecutors involved: sources

U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham is going "full throttle" with his review into the origins of the investigation into suspected Russia-Trump coordination in the 2016 election, with additional top prosecutors involved in looking at different components of the original probe, sources told Fox News.

Two sources told Fox News that Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the Justice Department in February to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is continuing to help with Durham's investigation even after the DOJ's move last week to drop the case against Flynn.

The sources told Fox News that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea is also assisting with components of the investigation.

"They farmed the investigation out because it is too much for Durham and he didn't want to be distracted," one of the sources told Fox News.

"He's going full throttle, and they're looking at everything," the source told Fox News.

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"This is one particular episode, but we view it as part of a number of related acts ... and we're looking at the whole pattern of conduct," Barr said, noting that they were investigating before "and after ... the election."

Meanwhile, a source said that the "pattern of conduct" Durham is investigating includes misrepresentations made to the FISA court to obtain warrants to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

"Barr talks to Durham every day," one source recently told Fox News. "The president has been briefed that the case is being pursued, and it's serious."

President Trump on Friday offered a vague, but ominous, warning as the Durham probe proceeds.

"It was a very dangerous situation what they did," Trump said during an interview with "Fox & Friends" Friday. "These are dirty politicians and dirty cops and some horrible people and hopefully they're going to pay a big price in the not too distant future."

Meanwhile, researcher TechnoFog thinks that the Flynn phone call was leaked to the Washington Post's Adam Entous first, and only later shopped to David Ignatius when Entous refused to write an article on it. (He reasoned that the incoming NSA should be talking to the Russian ambassador, and didn't understand why his sources were attempting to scandalizing it.)

There seems to be a suggestion here that only Sally Yates, or a handpicked minion could have leaked the call at this time, and accurately described "Sally Yates' thinking."

posted by Ace at 04:11 PM

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