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Whistleblower: GOP Investigators Didn’t Want to Hear Allegations of Russian Influence Over Rudy

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., and other Democrats pushed Republicans to subpoena Rudy Giuliani during a House impeachment inquiry hearing. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.House Republicans really don’t want to hear from Rudy Giuliani. Though their impeachment crusade grew out of the former New…

John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress

Special counsel John Durham is sworn in during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia…

John Durham’s Report Used Sketchy Intelligence That Might Be Russian Disinformation

Mother Jones; Ron Sachs/Zuma; Jon Elswick/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham’s final report blasts the FBI for using the so-called Steele dossier, a compilation of unconfirmed claims about Donald Trump and Russia, without sufficiently considering the chance that Steele’s findings contained deliberate…

How John Durham Succeeded by Failing

Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham succeeded. Not in the conventional sense. This special counsel, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr and handed the task of proving Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal had been…