WTH Happened with the Durham Report? Andy McCarthy on the FBI Failings
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After four years of work, the Durham Report the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation was released last week. And notwithstanding the objections of the New York Times and other partisans, the report was revelatory: the probable cause for opening the Russia collusion investigation was so flimsy that internal investigators had serious doubts and the Brits refused to even touch the case; the primary source for the famous Steele dossier was Igor Danchenko, previously suspected of working with Russian intelligence; the dossier itself was funded by none other than Hillary Clinton and the DNC. The case is convoluted and so over-saturated with petty politics that even legal experts have a hard time summarizing, but the most important takeaway remains crystal clear: the FBI acted negligently and with extreme political bias in their handling of what came to be called Crossfire Hurricane. How did we end up with institutions charged with fidelity to the law that Americans can no longer trust? Perhaps more importantly: how can we do better?
Andrew McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and the author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell is talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:34.8 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pudka. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.3 | So, Mark, what the hell is going on this week? |
| 0:43.4 | What the hell is going on is we finally got, after four years of waiting, we've got the |
| 0:47.9 | Durham report into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. And this thing is a damning |
| 0:53.3 | condemnation of the FBI, of its |
| 0:55.7 | internal misconduct. Durham has concluded that the full investigation and into the case should |
| 1:00.5 | have never happened. The FBI didn't believe that it had probable cause to pursue these search |
| 1:06.6 | warrants, and yet it misled the FISA court. Tell everybody what the FISA court is. The foreign |
| 1:11.9 | intelligence surveillance court, which is the national security court that they go to when they |
| 1:16.6 | have classified intelligence and they want to pursue a search warrant under national security |
| 1:21.3 | grounds. They didn't even believe their own intelligence going into it. It was all flimsy. |
| 1:27.3 | Then they got the steel |
| 1:28.3 | dossier, which was full of lies, paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC and produced |
| 1:33.9 | by them. And they went to the FISA court with that. And it turns out that the primary |
| 1:40.4 | source for that was a guy named Igor Danchenko, who they did not disclose to the FISA |
| 1:45.8 | court or to anyone the fact that he had been previously under investigation by the FBI in a |
| 1:52.7 | counter-espionage investigation for ties to, wait for it, Russian intelligence. He worked at the |
| 1:59.0 | Brookings Institution, our neighbors around the corner here, |
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