Pam Bondi again examines how to deal with the Russian influence in 2016

Pam Bondi again examines how to deal with the Russian influence in 2016

The Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the federal lawyers last week to initiate a large jury examination to investigate the allegations that the Obama government manipulated intelligence information about the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This arrangement has conspicuous parallels to the processes during the first term of office of President Donald Trump when the then At the time claimed the Attorney General Bill Barr that "government power had been deployed to spy on American citizens." Barr commissioned John Durham with a four-year investigation that criticized the FBI files regarding their actions when starting and carrying out their investigation into Trump and Russia.

The Durham examination lasts without criminal consequences

Durham's extensive investigation did not lead to any criminal charges or significant allegations to the CIA and the intelligence group about whether Russia actually intervened and wanted to support Trump. Essentially, Bondi is now asking her prosecutors to examine a period of time in American history, which has been examined and checked again for over eight years. This represents a further step in a number of criminal measures in which the Ministry of Justice of Trump is against its perceived political opponents and enemies.

Questions about the news from the Ministry of Justice

"John Durham was determined to file criminal charges if he could. And he did not come close to the kind of charges or the kind of actors that they talk about here," said Elie Honig, a senior CNN law analyst and former public prosecutor. "This is already the fifth attempt to start the same attempt," added Honey. "If you want to take this path again, I see no reason to think that you will do it better unless you manipulate the facts completely."

Wilson and the allegations against the Obama government

Bondi's new investigation was initiated by the director of the National Secret Service, Tulsi Gabbard, who has decided and published several document rates in the past few weeks, which in their opinion shows evidence of a "conspiratorial rebellion", and they say that Obama civil servants should be pursued by criminal law because they have produced intelligence information that the fact that Russia will have the choice has.

criticism of previous investigations

"" I cannot understand what excuses they had previously examined, whether Durham or others were that they were unable to put together the puzzle piece and ultimately show the truth to the American citizens, "said Gabard last week in an interview with Fox Business. "The only logical conclusion that I can draw here is that there was a direct intention to disguise the truth about what happened and who was responsible."

test results on Russian influence

Although Durham's investigation mainly focused on mistakes from the FBI, which were documented by the Supervisory Board Inspector of the Ministry of Justice, Gabbard's allegations are now directed against the CIA and the intelligence group. Durham found that the assessment of the secret services about the Russian election manipulations was one of the many examinations that contributed to our understanding of the Russian election attempts.

contradictions in the allegations of gibbard

In the meantime, Gabard has confused the results of the secret services about the Russian interference in her allegations and incorrectly presented. For example, she led various intelligence reports from 2016, which said that the Russians did not change the election results through cyber attacks. However, the secret services could never prove that votes were primarily changed.

reactions to Gabbard's allegations

The Democrats have accused Gabbard and Trump to use the documents for the Russian investigation to distract from the controversy to distract Jeffrey Epstein's files. They argue that the allegations of Durham, special investigator Robert Mueller, the inspector of the Ministry of Justice and the Senate Committee for secret services, are refuted by investigating Durham, all of which came to the conclusion that Russia intervened in 2016.

origin and course of the Durham examinations

The Durham examination lasted four years and criticized the FBI strongly for its decision to examine Trump and Russia, and found that the authority did not find any "actual evidence of an agreement" between the two. During his four-year investigation, he filed an indictment against three people, which led to a confession of a low-class FBI lawyer and resulted in two acquittals.

Current developments and future investigations

With the new jury examination, it is still unclear which specific allegations Bondi want to examine the prosecutors or who will lead the examination. So far, the Attorney General has not publicly expressed herself to the Great Jury, but she announced a group of operations last month to "examine possible legal steps that could result from the revelations of DNI Gabbard."