The FBI should never have launched a full investigation into collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to special counsel John Durham in a report compiled over three years and released on May 15. In the report, Durham wrote, “We conclude that the [Justice] Department and FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report.”

According to Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten, the Durham report didn’t go far enough in its investigation and left many stones unturned.

Special counsel John Durham has released his long-awaited report into the origins of “Russiagate” and the subsequent investigations. The report is an indictment of our national security and law enforcement apparatus at its highest levels of our justice system, and also to a degree of the special counsel itself, corroborating much of what I’ve been arguing for months here at Straight Arrow News. 

Durham’s report lays out unequivocally that Trump-Russia collusion, which was used to de-legitimize, destabilize and destroy Donald Trump’s presidency — casting a pall over that presidency and subverting its efforts — was a farce from the very beginning. As the report notes, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. 

Further, one of the chief errors from the start of the Crossfire Hurricane [investigation] was the poor analysis the FBI brought to bear on the critical pieces of information that it had gathered, as well as an over-reliance on flawed or incomplete human intelligence that only later was found to be plainly unreliable.