In the rat hole they stuffed him in, long ago
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I know nothing!
Two years ago today, John Durham was assigned to investigate the intelligence services’ attempted coup. Has anyone heard from him since?
When a poll last month revealed that 67% of Americans are unaware of the Durham probe, some internet jokesters wondered if Mr. Durham himself was among those oblivious to its existence.
As the investigation sputters toward its second anniversary on Thursday with few signs of life, conservatives are questioning what Mr. Durham has been up to for the past 24 months and if the public ever finds out, will anyone care?
Now they are puzzled as to why he has yet to interview FBI officials who held senior roles in 2016. Former FBI Director James B. Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and anti-Trumpinvestigator Peter Strzok haven’t spoken with Mr. Durham, according to people familiar with the probe.
Mr. Durham did interview former CIA Director John O. Brennan in 2020 but told him that he was not the target of any criminal inquiry. The reason for the Brennan interview remains opaque.
Robert Ray, who succeeded Kenneth Starr as independent counsel during investigations into then-President Clinton, said these types of investigations have a shelf life. The longer an investigation runs, the more obstacles emerge because witnesses’ memories fade and cooperation becomes more difficult to obtain.
“If your investigation hasn’t yielded results around the time you hit 18 months, it’s a question of diminishing returns,” Mr. Ray said. “The longer it goes on, the less you achieve. You either have it, or you don’t.”
Yet, the goalposts keep moving in the Durham probe. In the spring of 2020, Mr. Barr said he expected the investigation’s conclusions by summer. When summer came and went, it was expected that Mr. Durham would deliver results ahead of the presidential election.
The entire investigation was rendered moot when Durham failed to finish it before the election, and the loss of the Senate just piled the last few shovels of dirt on its grave.
Sad.
