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Canary in coal mine dead.
Looks like profound corruption in Barr-Durham probe—attempted October surprise.
Top Durham aide, Nora Dannehy resigns partly because “team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done”! https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-john-durham-dannehy-resignation-20200911-20200911-xcsapnq7g5e63kvtw5aqi7cv34-story.html
2. @jgeltzer and I wrote this piece in anticipation.
How to prepare the public for Barr’s likely misuse of the #DurhamReport to affect the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/01/barr-durham-investigation-election/
How to prepare the public for Barr’s likely misuse of the #DurhamReport to affect the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/01/barr-durham-investigation-election/
3. I wrote this article on the DOJ “60 Day Rule.”
Now note: the article has statements by former prosecutors who served in US Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut—the office from which Nora Dannehy just resigned—about adherence to the Rule. https://www.justsecurity.org/72243/bill-barrs-hidden-truths-about-justice-departments-rule-of-forbearance-in-an-election/
Now note: the article has statements by former prosecutors who served in US Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut—the office from which Nora Dannehy just resigned—about adherence to the Rule. https://www.justsecurity.org/72243/bill-barrs-hidden-truths-about-justice-departments-rule-of-forbearance-in-an-election/
4. Important note:
Nora Dannehy resignation not only raises specter that DOJ employees are being pressured to violate a Department policy or rule.
It also raises the specter of criminal Hatch Act violations if Durham investigation/report is being used to help Trump’s campaign.
Nora Dannehy resignation not only raises specter that DOJ employees are being pressured to violate a Department policy or rule.
It also raises the specter of criminal Hatch Act violations if Durham investigation/report is being used to help Trump’s campaign.
5. A standing memo in the Justice Dept—issued by Bush's Attorney General Mukasey in 2008 and reaffirmed since—warns of this kind of Hatch Act violation:
"The Act also prohibits us from using our authority for the purpose of affecting election results"
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2009/02/10/ag-030508.pdf
"The Act also prohibits us from using our authority for the purpose of affecting election results"
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2009/02/10/ag-030508.pdf
6.
Reality check 1: Bill Barr's Justice Department will most likely not enforce the Hatch Act against employees who violate it in effort to use #DurhamReport to affect the election
Reality check 2: Bill Barr is not likely to be Attorney General on January 21, 2021.
Reality check 1: Bill Barr's Justice Department will most likely not enforce the Hatch Act against employees who violate it in effort to use #DurhamReport to affect the election
Reality check 2: Bill Barr is not likely to be Attorney General on January 21, 2021.
