Oooooh, this is getting good.
CNN Cuomo is talking about BArr and Durham
Cuomo says Durham knows his stuff and is no joke.
Joe Manchion in on and says there is no mystery about what led to investigation.
He doesn't know why Durham is needed.
Cuomo going after Lindsay Graham.
CNN ANNA NAVARRO IS BEGGING LINDSAY GRAHAM TO GO BACK TO WHAT HE USED TO BE.
SHE IS ALMOST CRYING
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CNN Cuomo said Durham was hired by Mukasy, Holder and Reno….so they can't figure him out.
Ken Cucinelli on CNN
CNN saying Huber in Utah is looking at this as well as Horowitz.
Ken says Durham has worked on very sensitive matters. Ken says this is not out of blue and many questions need answered.
namely the FISA and what they didn't tell courts.
Also said the tactics used are shaky.
Cuomo hitting ken about Lindsay, too.
they are hitting Lindsay graham hard tonight.
yeah, I have always liked him
Ken saying now there is something odd about the Trump Jr subpoena too.
I am watching tv.
try this. I think you can go back in time a few minutes.
https://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn%3Fsr
.So, Who Is John Durham?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/08/so_who_is_john_durham.html
Last month, Amanda Silverman, a reporter-researcher for The New Republic, profiled John Durham, whom she called "the man who may be put in charge of investigating the Bush administration's torture crimes."
He got the job.
Earlier today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Durham, a career prosecutor, would lead a Justice Department investigation into overseas interrogations.
In her article, called "Good Knight," Silverman charted Durham's career from the University of Connecticut Law School to the Connecticut state attorney's office:
By the early '90s, working out of the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut, he was receiving national attention heading cases against New England crime kings, providing evidence to put John Gotti behind bars, and going after crooked politicos like former Connecticut governor John Rowland. In 1999, he was asked by former attorney general Janet Reno to investigate a number of corrupt state police officers and FBI agents in Boston that had been working with the mob (a case whose players served as inspiration for characters in the Oscar-winning film, The Departed).
During the '80s and '90s, Durham became known in New England as the "white knight": dogged, spotlight-shy, puritanical, and successful. He's a devout Catholic that takes no prisoners in the court room. As of 2001, he'd never lost a case. In July 2004, he was awarded the Award for Exceptional Service by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Earlier this year, when then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked Durham to investigate the destruction of videotapes of interrogations by CIA officers, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition. She said that Durham is known as a "fierce investigator," and compared him to another U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, who investigated the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
During the '80s and '90s, Durham became known in New England as the "white knight": dogged, spotlight-shy, puritanical, and successful. He's a devout Catholic that takes no prisoners in the court room. As of 2001, he'd never lost a case. In July 2004, he was awarded the Award for Exceptional Service by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Quotes by John Durham:
"You know, I'm not the only person working on this case. Why don't you write about the others. They deserve credit."
— Responding to a reporter's inquiry about the Boston mafia probe. (Hartford Courant, January 28, 2001)
"Nobody in this country is above the law, an FBI agent or otherwise, and ultimately the ends do not justify the means."
— Unusual public remarks at press conference the day former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted in 2002. (Boston Globe, January 7, 2008)
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918738,00.html
>http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918738,00.html
•At the request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. That probe led to the conviction of retired FBI agent John Connolly Jr., sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the two avoid prosecution. The investigation helped inspire the Martin Scorsese film The Departed.
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Guest on Laura I says there is no way Barr would have appointed Durham unless he believed there was criminal activity.
He would not hav appointed Durham to investigate 'mistakes'