Shadow Puppets
Reading the Durham Report, one can be forgiven for wondering whether to reach for a bottle of Advil or a tinfoil hat. I recommend both.
What the report details—I’ll spare you the 300 pages—is a politically motivated cabal of FBI Agents and 7th floor executives who seem to have forgotten, if they ever actually knew, basic investigatory procedures, rules of evidence, and their sworn commitment to constitutional integrity in the service of justice.
Agents actively, and knowingly, skipped their own procedures, worked outside of their chain of command, cherry-picked evidence to include in their affidavits--thereby omitting exculpatory evidence--offered to pay a mercenary informant a million dollars despite having an open case on him for espionage, failed to vet the infamous and laughable Steele dossier, and failed to follow basic investigatory leads that, in less corrupt hands, would have derailed the entire farce in its opening moments.
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