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JUSTICE COMING FOR 'RUSSIA HOAX' PERPETRATORS?

DOJ probe causing panicked FBI officials to 'correct their testimony'

Many Americans are asking as Republican lawmakers pronounce the “Russia hoax” dead in the aftermath of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony whether or not there will be justice for the perpetrators of the now debunked allegations.

Some are anticipating the long-awaited report of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation.

But two Washington legal insiders are pointing in a different direction as the report’s release continues to be delayed.

“It’s not worth squat,” attorney Victoria Toensing said of the coming IG report in an interview with the Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs.

Her husband, former U.S. attorney Joseph DiGenova explained that as a result of Attorney General William Barr’s appointment of John Durham to look into the matter, “people are flocking back to Horowitz to ‘correct their testimony.'”

“People are worried – and they should be – because now it’s beginning to become very clear that Durham is beginning to move forward with speed.”

DiGenova said FBI officials are among the people asking to be re-interviewed by Horowitz.

Significantly, Toensing said that both Durham and Horowitz already have interviewed Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who is believed to have sparked the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign.

In the 448-page Mueller report, Mifsud is identified as the original source of the claim spread during the 2016 election campaign that Russia had derogatory information on Hillary Clinton.

Toensing, addressing allegations Mifsud is a Russian agent, said, 

“You’re going to see that Mifsud was a Western agent.”

DiGenova added: “And it’s going to make Mueller look even worse when Dr. Mifsud gets to have his say.”

Mueller restrained?

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said after the Mueller hearings he believes the former special counsel declined to speak about matters related to the Obama administration’s role in influencing the 2016 election because of the ongoing Durham and Horowitz investigations, the Washington Examiner reported.

The congressman told Fox News’ Bret Baier that British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, for example, was off-limits because Durham and Horowitz are looking into how it was used by the Obama Justice Department and FBI.

When Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chaired the House Intelligence Committee, his investigators found evidence Obama officials used the Hillary Clinton-funded dossier of unverified claims against Trump to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.

“Did they use a false dossier to surveil an American citizen and thereby influence the election? 

That was something that Bob Mueller wasn’t willing to address today, and I think John Durham and the folks at the Justice Department will be looking into that,” said Ratcliffe, who is on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees and has spoken to Horowitz.

He expects the Horowitz report to be released a short time after Labor Day, which is Sept. 2 this year.

The guy who started it all

On Wednesday, as WND reported, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, zeroed in on Mifsud in his questioning of Mueller.

The congressman pointed out that the FBI opened its investigation after Australian diplomat Alexander Downer reported to the bureau that he was told by Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that 

“the Russians have dirt on Hillary Clinton.”

“What I’m wondering is, who told Papadopoulos?” the congressman asked Mueller. How did he find out?”

I can’t get into the evidentiary findings,” Mueller replied.

“Yes you can,” Jordan shot back. 

“You wrote about it. 

You gave us the answer. 

On page 192 of the report you tell us who told him: Josef Mifsud.”

Jordan described Mifsud as “the mysterious professor who lives in Rome and London, works and teaches at two universities.”

“This is the guy who told Papadopoulos. 

This is the guy who starts it all,” the Ohio Republican said.

“And when the FBI interviews him, he lies three times, and yet you don’t charge him with a crime.”

Jordan pointed out that Mueller charged several figures with making false statements, including one-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his associate, Rick Gates, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

“But the guy who puts the whole country through this saga, starts it all – for three years we’ve live through this now

 – he lies, and you guys don’t charge him,” Jordan said. 

“And I’m curious as to why.”

Mueller replied: 

“Well, we can’t get into it, and it’s obvious, I think, that we can’t get into charging decisions.

Jordan, noting the FBI interviewed Mifsud in February, asked Mueller if Mifsud also lied to the special counsel team.

“I can’t get into that,” Mueller said.

Asked further whether or not Mueller himself interviewed Mifsud and if Mifsud is Western intelligence or Russian intelligence, the former special counsel’s answer was the same.

“A lot of things you can’t get into,” Jordan commented.

‘Plot to ruin the presidency’

DiGenova, in the interview with Dobbs, called the Mueller hearings Wednesday 

“the culmination of the full plot to ruin this presidency, and it showed how vindictive they all were, and abusive.”

Toensing noted Mueller’s special counsel team put Manafort in solitary confinement and brought him out nine times and said,

 “Are you ready to tell us that the president knew about the Trump Tower meeting prior to the meeting?”

She said that “wouldn’t have been a crime in any event, but they were going to make it one.”

“They tried to get people to give false information about the president so that they could bring the collusion charge,” she said.

Mueller concluded he didn’t have sufficient evidence to refer charges against Trump and his campaign of collusion or obstruction of justice.

And as Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., pointed out Wednesday, Mueller couldn’t present any evidence to back his special counsel team’s claim that two Russian internet “troll farms” accused of planting fake news were tied to the Kremlin.

A judge “excoriated” Mueller’s prosecutors, McClintock noted, threatening them with criminal contempt for their failure to back the claim.

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