Surprise resignation of federal prosecutor
ups concerns Barr is leaning on Durham investigation
The Justice Department confirmed the Friday departure of Nora Dannehy, a top prosecutor working on U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's Trump campaign–Russia investigation.
Durham persuaded Dannehy, a well-regarded career prosecutor who had worked with him for decades, to return to the Justice Department to act as his lead investigator.
colleagues said she "has been concerned in recent weeks by what she believed was pressure from Barr ... to produce results before the election."
Trump and his allies have been raising expectations that
Durham's investigations would lead to arrests of high-level FBI or DOJ officials,
vindicating his "deep state" allegations before voters cast their ballots.
"Several officials said expectations had been growing in the White House and Congress that
Mr. Barr would make public, ahead of the election, some kind of interim report or list of findings from Mr. Durham before he completed the investigation,"
Barr's "early public description of the then-still-secret Mueller report" was slammed by a federal judge as so "misleading" and "distorted" in Trump's favor
that it rendered the DOJ untrustworthy on the topic.
the Justice Department's 60-day ban on taking actions
that might affect an election doesn't count hereof course not
since Democratic nominee Joe Biden is not a target of the investigation.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/937353/surprise-resignation-federal-prosecutor-ups-concerns-barr-leaning-durham-investigation

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of course not
