Durham's Probe Has "Accelerated," With More People Coming Before Grand Jury and "Cooperating" With Investigation

Special Counsel John Durham's investigation has "accelerated," and more people are "cooperating" and coming before the federal grand jury than has previously been reported, a source familiar with the probe told Fox News.

The source told Fox News Monday that Durham has run his investigation "very professionally," and, unlike Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, his activities, and witness information and cooperation status are rarely, if ever, leaked.

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[A] source familiar with federal investigations told Fox News that federal prosecutors cannot indict an individual and then use a grand jury to investigate matters in an existing indictment.

The source, though, said a prosecutor can indict an individual for a specific crime, and continue to use the grand jury to explore other crimes related to that individual, and beyond.

"They are looking at more than Sussmann," the source said.

"The Government also maintains an active, ongoing criminal investigation of the defendant's [Sussmann's] conduct and other matters," Durham wrote.

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has said that the intelligence he gave to Durham supports the indictments of "multiple people."

Fox News first reported in October 2020 that Ratcliffe provided nearly 1,000 pages of material to the Justice Department to support Durham's investigation.

But sources told Fox News this week that during his meetings with Durham, Ratcliffe, who served as a congressman and as the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, said he believed there was "enough evidence" in those materials that he provided to indict "multiple people."

The sources pointed to one key piece of declassified intelligence, which Fox News first reported in October 2020, revealing that intelligence community officials within the CIA forwarded an investigative referral on Hillary Clinton purportedly approving "a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server."

posted by Ace at 12:35 PM

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