The conclusions of the Durham report are not surprising to those of us who follow independent new media. For years, we’ve seen shoddy story after shoddy story revealing that the driving motivation of the two dominant flavors of corporate media is to serve as the PR Departments of the two dominant political parties. It has also long been clear (e.g., from the Twitter Files and the coverup regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop) that the FBI & CIA are partisan organizations. Many people I know don’t mind being played. They would rather think about short-term results than the long term damage that continues to be inflicted on American institutions. No matter who you prefer to be president, these revelations should be immensely disturbing.

From the National Review: “This was one of the dirtiest political tricks in American history. The damage it has done to American trust in the FBI and our intelligence agencies is incalculable.”

Here is another straight-forward account from The National Review, a conservative leaning media outlet that vigorously opposed Donald Trump: “FBI Lacked ‘Any Actual Evidence of Collusion’ between Trump Campaign, Russia When Crossfire Hurricane Launched, Durham Finds”:

The Department of Justice and the FBI did not have “any actual evidence of collusion” between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and began their Crossfire Hurricane probe of Trump’s campaign based on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” according to a report released on Monday by special prosecutor John Durham.

Durham scolded federal law enforcement and counter-intelligence officials for failing to “uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law” as part of their investigation.

He wrote that at least one FBI agent criminally fabricated language in an email that was used to obtain a FISA surveillance order. And he accused FBI leaders of displaying a “serious lack of analytical rigor” and relying significantly on “investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents,” referring to staffers and allies of Hillary Clinton, then the Democratic presidential nominee, whose campaign funded the Steele dossier through its law firm Perkins Coie.

Robert Malone Responds to the Durham Report. I am largely in agreement, this does NOT mean that I consider myself a Republican. Like many people I have met over the past few years, I consider myself to be politically homeless.

Back in 2016, I believed that the Steele report was, for the most part, real. I believed that the FBI found compelling evidence that the Russians worked with the Trump organization. So many seemingly precise but faked details. Details, upon details, upon details. Then the Mueller investigation. More Russian disinformation. I believed it because both the corporate media and our government institutions of power were telling us it was true.

Yesterday, we learned from the Durham Report, produced by special counsel John Durham, that most likely it was Clinton and the DNC who worked with the Russians to produce the Steele report. We learned that the usual standards and procedures that the FBI uses were discarded when investigating Hillary Clinton’s server mishaps, the Clinton Foundation, The Steele Dossier and the DNC. We also learned that the FBI disregarded normal procedures when investigating Trump. In his case, they used biased informants, didn’t verify documents (such as the Steele report) and generally were out to get him. Which means Trump wasn’t lying or being paranoid when he said the deep state was out to get him. They were and still are out to get him. He still isn’t lying about that. At this point in time, I am trying to sort out the who, what and where. Frankly, I don’t think anyone can ever sort it out. For instance, main stream media spent the night writing hit pieces on the report, to allay the fears from the liberal side leaning that the report was an indictment against Clinton or the DNC. But it is clear, I believed the lies from the DNC, Clinton and the FBI, and I was duped.

I completely lost faith in the Democratic party years ago. Furthermore, when I look back on their track record over the past decade, I realize that what I believe is good governance, is not how they govern. They have become everything I abhor. Their positions on war, education, urban policy, agriculture, big pharma, big tech, common decency, censorship, propaganda, medicine and regulatory capture – I can’t support any of it. Nothing that has happened over the past two years has made me change my mind about the democratic party. This is not the “Kennedy” democratic party, and there is no going back to the way things once were. Those days are gone.