And I commend the Eagles on their Super Bowl championship despite a lack of points.
“It is not clear whether Durham was able to get a full account from these sources, but he was still able to establish the details on how this unprecedented political hit job succeeded despite a lack of evidence.” You’d be forgiven for believing this sentence more at home on Ancient Aliens than among the collected works of a law professor, but Jonathan Turley is no ordinary law professor. And besides, Ancient Aliens at least claims to have evidence.
The 300+ pages of the Durham report present a whole lot of conjecture that Durham knew he could never substantiate occasionally punctuated by conjecture that Durham tried and failed to substantiate. Even Durham finds himself sheepishly walking back his whopper of a tale. After all those pages, Durham’s imagination comes up short when forced to issue recommendations, merely offering, “This report does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI….”
unlike Durham, the professor is upfront that the report rests on “a lack of evidence.” But Turley has a theory on how to fix that and uncover all the evidence that John Durham never could!
Buried in the detailed account is a little noticed footnote stating that Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias “declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the Office.” Likewise, Durham noted that “no one at Fusion GPS … would agree to voluntarily speak with the Office” while both the DNC and Clinton campaign invoked privileges to refuse to answer certain questions.
Interesting!
Also misleading because they both, in fact, testified.
BREAKING: Jonny Turley is too stupid to know that BOTH Marc Elias and a key Fusion GPS person testified under oath at trial, which is testimony that led the jury to decide that Durham's claims about false claims didn't hold up! pic.twitter.com/7cO7H0LCpj
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 18, 2023