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===John Durham===

===John Durham===

In 2000, U.S. Attorney [[John Durham]] exposed a group of FBI officials who used murderers as informants. The agents covered up a murder committed by a pair of mobster informants by framing four innocent men. The conspiracy to cover up for the murder involved the agents, their supervisors, and the FBI director himself, according to a ruling by a judge who awarded the framed men and their estates more than $100 million in 2006. The bureau didn’t appeal the ruling.

In 2000, U.S. Attorney [[John Durham]] exposed a group of FBI officials who used murderers as informants. The agents covered up a murder committed by a pair of mobster informants by framing four innocent men. The conspiracy to cover up for the murder involved the agents, their supervisors, and the FBI director himself, according to a ruling by a judge who awarded the framed men and their estates more than $100 million in 2006. The bureau didn't appeal the ruling.

In 2003, Congress released a scorching 3,500-page report titled “The FBI’s Use of Murderers as Informants.” The report concluded that the FBI’s conduct in the case amounted to “one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement.”

In 2003, Congress released a scorching 3,500-page report titled “The FBI’s Use of Murderers as Informants.” The report concluded that the FBI's conduct in the case amounted to “one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement.”

==FBI Director==

==FBI Director==

Of the eight cases or incidents of alleged Trump Campaign interaction with the Russians investigated by the Mueller team, the proposals to interact with the Russian Government or with Putin originated with FBI informants, MI-6 assets or people paid by Fusion GPS, and not Trump or his people.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/07/how-us-and-foreign-intelligence-agencies-interfered-in-a-us-election/ </ref>

Of the eight cases or incidents of alleged Trump Campaign interaction with the Russians investigated by the Mueller team, the proposals to interact with the Russian Government or with Putin originated with FBI informants, MI-6 assets or people paid by Fusion GPS, and not Trump or his people.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/07/how-us-and-foreign-intelligence-agencies-interfered-in-a-us-election/ </ref>

The Mueller report concluded that the Russian company Concord Management [[US v. Concord Management|was guilty of the crimes Mueller accused them of]]. The company however is still in pre-trial proceedings in US Federal Court that forbids under criminal penalty any assertion of this kind be made pending a [[jury]] determining their guilt or innocence. Lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting asked U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia, a Trump appointee, to order the government to show cause as to why Robert Mueller should not be held in criminal contempt for violating local criminal rule 57.7 by releasing Mueller’s report, interfering with their right to a fair trial.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5978065-4-25-19-Concord-Motion-for-Show-Cause-Order.html</ref>

The Mueller report concluded that the Russian company Concord Management [[US v. Concord Management|was guilty of the crimes Mueller accused them of]]. The company however is still in pre-trial proceedings in US Federal Court that forbids under criminal penalty any assertion of this kind be made pending a [[jury]] determining their guilt or innocence. Lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting asked U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia, a Trump appointee, to order the government to show cause as to why Robert Mueller should not be held in criminal contempt for violating local criminal rule 57.7 by releasing Mueller's report, interfering with their right to a fair trial.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5978065-4-25-19-Concord-Motion-for-Show-Cause-Order.html</ref>

==See also==

==See also==