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The Durham Report
By Dahni
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The Durham Report, aka – The origins of the investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
To my knowledge, this was released first to the current Attorney General (per protocol), on Friday, May 12th, 2023. It sat over the weekend and was released to the public on 5/15/2023.
This report took over three years to complete. I repeat for emphasis, “over three years to complete.” It cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. One report said it cost just in its first year $3.8 million. Another report (The Washington Post) said:
“The special counsel appointed to review the FBI’s investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign has so far cost taxpayers more than $6.5 million, according to a Justice Department report released Friday. … The special counsel’s work appears to be winding down, but the Justice Department has not yet announced when it will end.”
The Washington Post
The quote above was from before the release of the Durham Report and no matter what the final bill will be, I stand by what I wrote, it has and will cost the US American Taxpayers, “millions of dollars!” But what is in it?
Perhaps it should be renamed? How about Bull Durham or Durham’s Bull? In my opinion (common sense not a legal opinion), it is just 306 pages of BS, Bull or Durham’s Bull.
I have a PDF copy of this document. Read it yourself if you like. Here’s a link to read and/or download it for FREE.
Maybe you will conclude as I have? What follows is my take:
1. The origins of the investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign – Are solely based on false, misleading and often intentional – fake news. President Trump was right all along, it was nothing more than a “hoax!”
2. A considerable amount of time (after 1 above), is spent discussing law, rules and regulations of the Department of Justice (DOJ), and how the FBI, CIA and other intelligence or information gathering agencies are supposed to instigate and conduct investigations.
3. It spends a great deal of time of reasons to prosecute crimes or not (most often as “not” there is “not” enough evidence that would lead to conviction. Question: When should wrong ever get a pass from doing the right thing?
4. The report spends a great amount of time splaining’ (explaining), “Confirmation Bias.” Question: Why should anyone not be arrested for failing to do their job, follow investigative procedures and policies, and the law (and many have sworn oaths), just because they had “Confirmation bias” ? This is more, a lot more than just doing something one is told to do without questioning. This is one just not doing their job to follow the evidence because, they already believe the evidence exists even though they have none whatsoever.
5. Even mentioning the source of Durham’s Bull made me remember Hillary Clinton and the Clinton campaign — no arrests, indictments or investigations into the perpetrators of this hoax are recommended by Durham’s 306 pages of Bull.
6. Durham’s Bull concludes with just recommendations how all investigations under the executive branch of government should be conducted in the future. These amount to nothing more than doing what the government has known for decades, how to do! Durham’s opinions are that, despite his title and education, just opinions. Well, I have opinions too. Every person, organization, agency, and etc. that knowingly participated in this hoax should be arrested. As defined in Durham’s Bull,’ those that participated in “Confirmation bias” are guilty of failure to their job, follow procedures and policies. Each should be held accountable, according to the severity of their willing participation:
a. If they are still employed by the government they should be at least fired and not able to work in the government or in public trust in the future.
b. All security clearances should be revoked and they should never be allowed any security clearance in the future nor immediately and forever, be allowed to receive in any manner, any security briefings or information of national security or investigations or private matters of the United States of America.
c. Arrests should be made of all those that have either participated in the orchestrating of this hoax or its dissemination. Each should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of whether enough evidence or probable cause is sufficient. There is more than sufficient evidence to convict on perjury or multiple perjuries in and of themselves.
d. Many that have willingly participated in this hoax are attorneys and should have their licenses revoked.
e. Some of the highest ranking individuals in this hoax should be arrested and tried for treason.
f. Media outlets that have participated in this hoax should at least apologize for colluding with the perpetrators of this hoax and that actively participated with it, should be held financially accountable and forward the amounts (at least the amount), of the Durham Report expenses, to the US Treasury.
g. The US government and the media, which participated with the government in this hoax, should make restitution to every person that was wrongfully targeted by this hoax.
h. At least a formal and public apology from the United States to Russia should be made to Russia for accusing them of this whole perpetration of a hoax.
There can be no doubt that this hoax affected not only the Trump presidency and everyone directly or indirectly with the US during his presidency from 2016-2020, it also affected the presidential election of 2020 and even continues to do so today. Because of perceived wrongdoing and “confirmation bias” that has spread to the public like a plague, it has produced lawsuits — criminal and civil, which are influentially tainted because of, this hoax.
There is in law, a legal precedent and a legal metaphor for how to handle “tainted” evidence or lack thereof (this hoax). It is called – “Fruit of the poisonous tree.”
“Fruit of the poisonous tree” is a legal metaphor used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally. The logic of the terminology is that if the source (the “tree”) of the evidence or evidence itself is tainted, then anything gained (the “fruit”) from it is tainted as well.
“Fruit of the poisonous tree” (FOTPT), even has its own ‘Doctrine, which is an extension of the ‘exclusionary rule.’ The exclusionary rule is a legal rule, based on constitutional law, that prevents evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant’s constitutional rights. It is grounded in the fourth amendment –
Fourth Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
US CONSTITUTION
“Fruit of the poisonous tree” (FOTPT), has four main exceptions to admitting tainted evidence:
1. it was discovered in part as a result of an independent, untainted source
2. it would inevitably have been discovered despite the tainted source
3. the chain of causation between the illegal action and the tainted evidence is too attenuated [weak]
4. the search warrant was not found to be valid based on probable cause, but was executed by government agents in good faith (called the good-faith exception).
OK, lets look at numbers 1-3 of the “Fruit of the poisonous tree” (FOTPT), doctrine in allowing tainted evidence of Durham’s Bull or the hoax.
Was it discovered in part of an independent untainted source? No, it was known that there was no evidence to this and it was a hoax. It was tainted!
Would it have been discovered, despite it being tainted? Absolutely not, and it was known there was no evidence, that it was tainted and it was a hoax.
Was there a chain of causation between [any] illegal action and the tainted evidence too attenuated [weak]? There was no chain of cause. There was no evidence. It was all made up [a hoax] and it was all, therefore – tainted!
Lastly, what about search warrants and specifically those ordered by the secret FISA Court – The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), also called the FISA Court? Did government agents in good faith, execute these applications for warrants? What is the definition of “good faith”?
Good Faith Exception
Evidence collected in violation of privacy rights as interpreted from the Fourth Amendment, can be admitted at trial [or as in the execution of a search warrant(s)], if police officers [and other government agents – local, state or federal], acting in good faith (bona fides), rely upon a defective search warrant — that is, they had reason to believe their actions were legal (measured under the reasonable person test).
Well, how about that last long-winded and legalese definition? It being number four of the exceptions in allowing tainted evidence in the doctrine to the “Fruit of the poisonous tree” (FOTPT), does it pass the smell and rotten test? OMG no! The good faith exception does not apply. It is perhaps above all the others, the stinkiest and rottenest fruit of the poisonous tree! Every person that submitted these applications to the FISA Court for a warrant or a renewal knew it was based on insufficient evidence. “In sufficient evidence” is just a nice way of saying there was no evidence! It was “tainted!” It was a hoax.
Despite standards, rules, regulations and law, every person that sought renewal of these warrants, never spent the required amount of time (about 45 days), to re-investigate or to confirm their reasons for the warrant were valid to renew them.
So what does this all mean? What should it all mean? It should mean that it should have never happened in the first place and the courts should view it as having never happened as it is all tainted and there are no exceptions to have ever allowed this hoax to have been brought! It also means that no other case (criminal or civil), that has come from this “poisonous tree” should have ever been brought. It should also mean that despite cases having been brought, are pending, in place or may be in the future, “the fruit of the poisonous tree” should all be dismissed as if, they were never brought!
I am not going to opine here about the presidential election of 2020. Neither will I commit to whether or not any indictment, charges or lawsuits brought, ongoing or pending were or are exceptions to the rules or the statue of limitations is re-interpreted or that evidence cannot even substantiate the year or there is no clear jurisdiction to try the case exists. All I am saying here is, it is more than abundantly clear that these are all — “fruit of the poisonous tree” and are “tainted.”
So now, what to do with this information? How is anyone held accountable for any of this? Many have been involved and for years, in the accusations of a few, now understood as innocent as charged. The character of people under duress has long been understood. Perhaps you have heard the following or something similar –
“When the going gets rough, the tough get going!”
The earliest occurrence that I have found is from ‘Thomas Won’t Let Hornets Scrimmage, in the column Good Evening, by Joe Scherrer, published in The Corpus Christi Times (Corpus Christi, Texas) of Tuesday 15th September 1953—the Green Hornets were a football team.
Well, when it gets rough, the tough get going is one way of looking at one’s character. It can be simplified as just – doing the right thing. Our grandmother when we three children were growing up, always insisted on us always telling the truth. She did not want us to hide the truth, deny the truth, avoid the truth, or keep the truth from her. This is also part of character. Yes, human nature wants to avoid being caught or getting into trouble. We would not have this in the first place if, we would always do the right thing and tell the truth.
“Rumour the swiftest of all evils. Speed lends her strength, and she wins vigour as she goes; small at first through fear, soon she mounts up to heaven, and walks the ground with head hidden in the clouds.”
Excepts from a poem ‘the Aeneid’ book IV starting around line 173, by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC
How about this –
“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to
go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old Proverb, ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’
C. H. Spurgeon, 1859
So, whoever first coined the line ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots,’ it was not likely Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde or Winston Churchill. It has always been difficult to find who said what. This is part of the problem.
Acceptability or what is acceptable? Do you remember the tag-team, husband and wife, former president and secretary of state, their responses –
“It depends on what is, is.” –
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. … Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”
President William Jefferson Clinton
“What difference at this point does it make?” –
“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”
Former Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton
I remember the days of yes are yes and no meant no; when language was clear and what was said was what was meant. We are a long time a way from those days, the good ol’ days of the specks of the unimportant past? What about today? So what if this whole thing was a hoax? So what if it wasted millions of taxpayer dollars? And so what or how many lives, innocent lives were destroyed or are still being destroyed? No one is going to be held accountable. What’s done is done and like HRC said –
“What difference at this point does it make?”
It’s all in the past now. So what? The past is past and not the present reality? We must be progressive and liberal and woke in the new social order of things?
James Madison wrote that our Constitution requires “sufficient virtue among men for self-government,” otherwise, “nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.”
On August 18, 1790, President George Washington wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, RI –
“All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. … For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.”
George Washington
“WE the People also know that we indeed hold self-evident truths. And we know that government, lawyers and judges are not the creators of our rights. Our Creator endowed those rights to We the People. Our Constitution recognizes this, restraining the power of the federal government and preserving the liberty of the people.”
Excerpts from an article August 3rd, 2020 by Mark D. Martin, Dean, School of Law
Bradley J. Lingo, Executive Director, Robertson Center for Constitutional Law
Michael Schietzelt, Senior Fellow, Robertson Center for Constitutional Law
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
Our founding documents (the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States for America), and our founders simply understood and wrote as if in stone with an iron pen, the remedy for whom ever or whatever trampled upon our rights and the governmental abuse of power.
“…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Except from: The Declaration of Independence
It is apparent that WE the People have neither awakened to the necessity of the above quote nor awakened enough to challenge the servants of OUR government, to do the right thing and to be held accountable.
So then what? The tendency first is to hide bad behavior. Then if confronted, deny it. If confronted with the undeniable truth, blame others. If the pressure to be held accountable is unrelenting, collude with others to lie about it and blame others, or don’t mention it at all or tell someone that their sins are worse. Once that is done, if still exposed by the light of truth, maybe there is a non-verbalized and unwritten admission of guilt under “confirmation bias?” In other words, OK, we did it, but for good reasons? Now what?
It is my belief that when people are no longer conscientious about good behavior, doing the right thing and are morally bankrupt, with neither compass nor rudder to navigate the sea of confusion, fear will move them to be bribed or extorted in their words and deeds. That is all “confirmation bias” is, as well. And when it reaches this depth of apathy, moral decay, hubris or arrogance, there becomes nothing less for these vacant souls to say than what my brother personally experienced with the “So What” crowd –
“What are you going to do about it?”
Yes, that is the arrogance of these people who have no fear whatsoever of ever being held accountable. They look out for one another. They stand together.
If you or I are waiting on the current president of 2023 or the next president from 2024-2028 to clean house from the top down of all these unelected bureaucrats, it is likely too deep and there are too many people that are too entrenched and hidden, for far too long, for any one person to do much if anything about it. So alas, the hoax (lies), spread for even a little while was successful. It produced the results they sought, to hold their power no matter what, even at the expense of We the People. There can hardly be one single individual in all of the USA that on some level believed or had their doubts about President Donald J. Trump being in collusion with Russia. This hoax (the lies), has, I am certain, negatively affected him personally, in many ways. That’s the “fruit from the poisonous tree!”
WE the People are either going to wake up, rise up, take a stand on our unalienable rights together or not. Either WE will continue this 200 + year experiment of a republic and self-rule or wave it a fond goodbye (if WE are awake to see it leave). WE will either stand and commit to these “self evident” truths under the banner of our being created equally and all having these unalienable rights, or sell our souls to the fear and corruption of bribery and extortion. Then this will all end not with a bang or a whimper, but the sound of thumb sucking by mostly adults that are not much more than petulant, unruly, spoiled and undisciplined children with soiled diapers. I am not sure it would be necessary to invade us by force or that anything other than the geography and natural resources would interest another nation. I am not sure of that. But I am sure of this –
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Preamble to the Constitution of the United States for America
WE need to RESET our Republic! Only WE the People can do this, not the Executive, Legislative or Judiciary branches of government, only US, WE the People! How? See:
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