Democratic and Republican lawmakers are drawing opposing conclusions from special counsel John Durham’s review of the FBI’s decision to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for alleged collusion with the Russian government. Durham, who spent four years reviewing the actions of the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice, published his conclusions last month in a 306-page […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) rules should change so that FBI agents lose their jobs when they lie to misuse the government’s spying powers in sensitive investigations, Special Counsel John Durham suggested to Congress. Durham, who recently released a report on his review of the FBI’s handling of the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation, acknowledged that he […]
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) challenged special counsel John Durham during a Wednesday congressional hearing, as Durham defended a recent report he issued that criticized the FBI’s handling of a 2016 investigation into then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. During a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Durham detailed his findings from the special counsel report he released last […]
Special Counsel John Durham defended the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) amid a push by some Republicans to defund or limit funding for those agencies in response to their alleged “weaponization.” Durham appeared before Congress on June 21 to testify about the results of his report on the investigation into […]
Two top U.S. officials traveled to Italy to look into a tip regarding former President Donald Trump, special counsel John Durham said on June 21. “You and Attorney General [William] Barr went to Italy to take a look at some allegation … and Italian officials gave you evidence that they said linked Donald Trump to […]
The FBI should not have launched a full investigation into then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign based on unverified intelligence, special counsel John Durham said on June 21. Within three days of receiving word from Australian officials in July 2016 that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos said Trump’s team had received a suggestion from Russia that it […]
Special counsel John Durham testifies to the House Judiciary Committee on his report that examined the origins and justifications of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at 9:00 a.m. ET on June 21.
After four years of working out of the public eye, special counsel John Durham arrived to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on the morning of June 21 about the findings of his long-anticipated report. Republicans applauded the report, released to the public on May 15, as a vindication of former President Donald Trump’s claim […]
A group of former national security officials is calling on Congress to investigate the FBI’s handling of security clearances after special counsel John Durham concluded that the bureau behaved recklessly in its handling of a 2016 investigation of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, former Secretary of Veteran Affairs […]
Special counsel John Durham will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on his report excoriating the FBI’s “seriously flawed” investigation of whether former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, The Epoch Times has confirmed. The hearing, scheduled for June 21, will follow Durham’s closed-door briefing with the House […]
Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) said he was “speechless” when he learned that a senior FBI official had not read the Durham report, which was released more than a week ago. Pfluger, chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, questioned Jill Murphy, deputy assistant director of counterintelligence at the FBI, during […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that special counsel John Durham’s report is “damning,” arguing the probe’s long-awaited result points out the FBI has become a political tool that “took the rule of law and threw it over to try to get a political outcome.” Graham told radio talk show host John Catsimatidis on […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Sunday that the committee is going to take a “good, hard look” at individuals highlighted in the recently released Durham report and that “nothing is off the table” in terms of potential probes. Jordan made the remarks in an interview on Fox News, in which he was […]
Former Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday that John Durham’s long-awaited report was “a success,” further indicating it has cleared former President Donald Trump of all wrongdoing “as far as Russiagate is concerned.” The key takeaway of Durham’s 300-plus page report (pdf) published on Monday was that FBI agents pursued a full investigation—dubbed “Crossfire […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has suggested that the FBI should be defunded and its agents criminally indicted after special counsel John Durham concluded this week that the federal agency should have never launched an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. Durham’s 300-plus page report (pdf) asserted that […]
Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign leaves little room but to conclude that the investigative process was deeply politicized, according to legal analyst Jeffrey Clark. Durham published a 316-page report on Monday that concluded FBI officials pursued an investigation into the Trump […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending troops to Texas to help defend the Border. And New York City Mayor Eric Adams says his city might start housing illegal immigrants on public school property. President Joe Biden held a second closed-door meeting on the nation’s $31 trillion debt ceiling. Will the two sides be able to […]
Reactions poured in after special counsel John Durham released his report on the FBI probe into Trump’s 2016 campaign. NTD sat down with Jeff Clark, former U.S. assistant attorney general under the Trump administration, to discuss the report, as well as the FBI probe.
To discuss the Durham report and recent developments, NTD spoke with former federal prosecutor Will Scharf, who is now running for Missouri attorney general in the 2024 Republican primary. Scharf says that the report reveals probably one of the greatest political scandals in American history.
