Well since I'm under oath...
I don't know enough about Durham or what he's done to form an opinion of him. That's why I didn't say anything about him. I posted my opinion of Barr. Why do you care so much about my opinion of Durham, are you taking a poll?
This is the man you’re willfully ignorant of.
Reminder, he has more investigatory powers than Meuller, and has an actual history of busting government corruption.
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From 1977 to 1978, he served as a Deputy Assistant State's Attorney in the Office of the Chief State's Attorney. From 1978 to 1982, Durham served as an Assistant State's Attorney in the New Haven State's Attorney's Office.
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Federal government
Following those five years as a state prosecutor, Durham became a federal prosecutor, joining the
U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut.
[7]From 1982 to 1989, he served as an attorney and then supervisor in the New Haven Field Office of the Boston Strike Force in the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. From 1989 to 1994, he served as Chief of the Office's Criminal Division. From 1994 to 2008, he served as the Deputy U.S. Attorney, and served as the U.S. Attorney in an acting and interim capacity in 1997 and 1998.
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In December 2000, Durham revealed secret
FBI documents that convinced a judge to vacate the 1968 murder convictions of
Enrico Tameleo, Joseph Salvati,
Peter J. Limone and Louis Greco because they had been framed by the agency. In 2007, the documents helped Salvati, Limone, and the families of the two other men, who had died in prison, win a $101.7 million civil judgment against the government.
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Durham also led a series of high-profile prosecutions in
Connecticut against the
New England Mafia and corrupt politicians, including former
governorJohn G. Rowland.
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From 2008 to 2012, Durham also served as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia.
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On November 1, 2017, he was nominated by
President Donald Trump to serve as
U.S. Attorney for Connecticut.
[11] On February 16, 2018, his nomination was confirmed by
voice vote of the Senate. He was sworn in on February 22, 2018.
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Appointments as special investigator
Whitey Bulger case
Amid allegations that FBI
informants James "Whitey" Bulger and
Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted their handlers,
US Attorney General Janet Reno named Durham
special prosecutor in 1999. He oversaw a task force of FBI agents brought in from other offices to investigate the
Boston office's handling of informants.
[10] In 2002, Durham helped secure the conviction of retired FBI agent
John J. Connolly Jr., who was sentenced to 10 years in prison on federal
racketeering charges for protecting Bulger and Flemmi from prosecution and warning Bulger to flee just before the gangster's 1995 indictment.
[10]Durham's task force also gathered evidence against retired FBI agent
H. Paul Rico who was indicted in
Oklahoma on state charges that he helped Bulger and Flemmi kill a
Tulsa businessman in 1981. Rico died in 2004 before the case went to trial.
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Special Counsel Investigation
In April 2019,
[22] Attorney General
William Barr announced that he had launched a review of the origins of the FBI's investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections[23] and it was reported in May that he had assigned Durham to lead it several weeks earlier.
[24] Durham was given the authority "to broadly examin[e] the government's collection of intelligence involving the Trump campaign's interactions with Russians," reviewing government documents and requesting voluntary witness statements.
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On October 24, 2019, it was reported that what had been a review of the Russia investigation was now a criminal probe into the matter. The Justice Department could now utilize subpoena power for both witness testimony and documents. Durham also had at his disposal the power to convene a grand jury and file criminal charges, if needed.
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