It's generally not the job of prosecutors to do things with an eye on Election Day (although neither should they refuse to bring clearly well-founded charges just because an election is imminent). The public legitimacy of any findings that Durham issues will be greater after 11/3
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I know some folks held out (mostly fanciful) hopes that Durham was going to blow wide open things previously unknown or only hinted at, but that was always unlikely. And it's not his job to generate an October Surprise. It's his job, in fact, to call BS on that sort of thing.
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And now we get further confirmation that Barr & Durham are doing the responsible thing here, no matter what Trump wants. Where this gets hairy is if Durham hands down indictments & the incoming Admin tries to fire him or quash them. https://www.axios.com/barr-durham-report-election-3c02ec6a-7613-4083-b35c-4844de6da16b.html …pic.twitter.com/hjS1VzyggJ
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A new president always has ultimate power to do that, of course. But with that power comes ultimate political responsibility & a duty to justify the unusual step of political interference in prosecutions. Which, of course, has been a persistent Trump-era controversy.
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