The final report from the special counsel appointed by Attorney General William Barr works hard to justify its contents.
That report introduced useful, important skepticism about the decision to launch the FBI’s investigation, though it ultimately concluded that the probe was warranted.
Durham refers to this conclusion in his own report, in an effort to prove how skepticism of Mueller’s efforts was warranted. Durham spends an extended period considering the original predicate for the probe : The revelation from the Australian government that a Trump campaign official named George Papadopoulos had in May 2016 mentioned that Russia was in possession of material damaging Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton. The report quotes the actual revelation provided to the U.S. government on July 26, 2016:
It was the release of some of that stolen material by WikiLeaks beginning on July 22, 2016, that triggered the Australian government’s outreach, in fact, as Durham himself notes. That release triggered its concerns about what Papadopoulos had said … but the FBI was overreacting by launching an investigation?
We can start with the genesis of the rumor. It originated with the Russians themselves, with Durham admitting that he could not determine “the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”Then there’s the timeline.
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