https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/durhamreport.pdf

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Conclusion

Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we
conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict
fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report. As
noted, former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith committed a criminal offense by fabricating
language in an email that was material to the FBI obtaining a FISA surveillance order. In other
instances, FBI personnel working on that same FISA application displayed, at best, a cavalier
attitude towards accuracy and completeness. FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded
important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while
acknowledging - both then and in hindsight - that they did not genuinely believe there was
probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence
activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities.43
And certain personnel disregarded significant exculpatory information that should have
prompted investigative restraint and re-examination.

Our investigation also revealed that senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of
analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from
politically affiliated persons and entities. This information in part triggered and sustained
Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller's
investigation. In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or
funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents. The Department did not
adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them,
even when at about the same time the Director ofthe FBI and others learned of significant and
potentially contrary intelligence.

In light of the foregoing, there is a continuing need for the FBI and the Department to
recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to
rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail
to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or
restraint in pursuing allegations of collusion or conspiracy between a U.S. political campaign and
a foreign power. Although recognizing that in hindsight much is clearer, much of this also seems
to have been clear at the time. We therefore believe it is important to examine past conduct to
identify shortcomings and improve how the government carries out its most sensitive functions.
Section V discusses some of these issues more fully.

This report does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies
that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability
in how counterintelligence activities are carried out. Rather, it is intended to accurately describe
the matters that fell under our review and to assist the Attorney General in determining how the
Department and the FBI can do a better, more credible job in fulfilling its responsibilities, and in
analyzing and responding to politically charged allegations in the future. Ultimately, of course,
meeting those responsibilities comes down to the integrity of the people who take an oath to
follow the guidelines and policies currently in place, guidelines that date from the time of
Attorney General Levi and that are designed to ensure the rule of law is upheld. As such, the
answer is not the creation of new rules but a renewed fidelity to the old. The promulgation of
additional rules and regulations to be learned in yet more training sessions would likely prove to
be a fruitless exercise if the FBI's guiding principles of "Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity" are not
engrained in the hearts and minds of those sworn to meet the FBI' s mission of "Protect[ing] the
American People and Uphold[ing] the Constitution of the United States.

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This is one complicated mess. HIPPA prevents the medical profession from giving information to the police about dangerous patients. People are more concerned with privacy than life. NICS can't really get the information they need to make informed judgements on when to approve a gun sale. Ignorant clerks behind the counter ignore NICS denials and sell firearms anyway. I blocked a sale to a young lady who didn't seem quite right to me. Notified our other stores not to sell her a pistol. The third store did and she went home and k**led her mother. Not fun testifying at that trial. It IS NOT the firearm, which is just a tool but the person behind it. If no firearms were available they would use some other method to k**l. Banning any type of firearm would be just about as effective as prohibition was or as the drug bans are now. It won't work. With the millions of firearms out there now, how are you going to take them away from the public? Concentrate on the problem not on the tools.

There are some lively and interesting conversations going on regarding criminals shooting innocents. They always pretend and claim to be about saving children. They always don't care about saving children, just banning firearms. So here is the challenge. Are you for doing the things required to eliminate threats and hazards to safeguard and protect the lives of children? All the things required? Or are you just out to ban firearms and using children to further your cause. We already know the answer but go ahead and pat yourself on the back anyway and claim you are all for the children. It's what you hypocrites do best.