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Preliminary findings after reading the Durham report

 After reading the report:

1. Did not exonerate Trump.


1. Did not exonerate Trump.

2. Made no suggestion for criminal charges beyond the ones made in an earlier iteration and noted below.

3. Durham found no reason for opening a full investigation into Trump/Russian collaboration at that time.

4. Suggested that the FBI should have opened a preliminary investigation. The implication being that a preliminary investigation would have led to a full investigation.

5. Durham said that it was possible that the FBI needed to put some reforms in place.


In addition, the investigation as a whole did see an earlier iteration that made 3 criminal charges: One plead guilty, the 2 others were tried and acquitted.


I am awaiting the Durham appearance before congress to do a full report.


I have an inescapable sense that there is something else going on here. Similarities between this report and the Müller report like something is being left out of the story by both.


Somewhere in my reading, I ran across the story of a cold war espionage case wherein intelligence forces had information that was needed to prevent a terrorist type action but could not get a warrant without exposing the agent who fed them the information to certain death. I can not recall for certain, but I believe it ended in the death of that agent.

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