Journalists and analysts who have been following the wretched targeting of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign have been eagerly awaiting justice for years.
We got a taste of it early on when several Obama-era Justice Department and FBI officials, up to and including the FBI director and deputy director – James Comey and Andrew McCabe, respectively – were fired from their jobs.
We got another taste last week when U.S. Attorney John Durham, assigned by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the “Spygate” Russian ‘collusion’ probe got the first conviction in what turned into a criminal investigation.
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Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, not a low-level guy, copped to pleading guilty to a single count of what amounts to defrauding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
But he didn’t act alone to conceal information from the secretive court. And he didn’t come up with the ‘Spygate’ operation that illicitly spied on a rival presidential campaign.
In fact, we’ve all been told now for years that “Operation Crossfire Hurricane,” Spygate’s official name, was a counterintelligence investigation. Also, there have been no shortages of reports that the head of the country’s top spy agency, former CIA Director John Brennan was the sort of ‘mastermind’ behind the operation.
RealClearInvestigations reported in November:
— Contrary to a general impression that the FBI launched the Trump-Russia conspiracy probe, Brennan pushed it to the bureau – breaking with CIA tradition by intruding into domestic politics: the 2016 presidential election. He also supplied suggestive but ultimately false information to counterintelligence investigators and other U.S. officials.
— Leveraging his close proximity to President Obama, Brennan sounded the alarm about alleged Russian interference to the White House, and was tasked with managing the U.S. intelligence community’s response.
— While some FBI officials expressed skepticism about the Trump/Russia narrative as they hunted down investigative leads, Brennan stood out for insisting on its veracity.
— Circumventing normal protocol for congressional briefings, Brennan supplied then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid with incendiary Trump-Russia innuendo that Reid amplified in a pair of public letters late in the election campaign.
And after Trump unexpectedly beat Hillary Clinton, Brennan was the guy who oversaw the creation of the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that falsely claimed there were ties between the president’s campaign and the Kremlin.
So — all of this would make Brennan a prime suspect in the criminal behavior we now know took place in the Obama administration’s pursuit of spying warrants against Trump the candidate and Trump the president, right?
Apparently not.
According to a spokesperson for the former CIA chief, Durham — after questioning Brennan for eight hours last week — said he’s not a suspect.
“Earlier today former CIA Director John Brennan was interviewed by U.S. Attorney John Durham on issues related to Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” spokesperson and former CIA Deputy Chief of Staff Nick Shapiro said in a statement. “Brennan was informed by Mr. Durham that he is not a subject or a target of a criminal investigation and that he is only a witness to events that are under review.”
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Wow.
Now, it could be that Brennan isn’t a suspect yet, and that Durham is continuing to piece together aspects of what happened (remember, he’s conducting a criminal investigation). It’s possible that he was questioning Brennan to see if things the former CIA director said jibe with other pieces of evidence and the statement of other witnesses.
Or it could be that Brennan is going to get away with his role in the biggest political scandal in the history of the country.
We continue to hope it’s not the latter.
