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Sussing Out Durham’s Sussmann Case

What's going on in the fifth year of investigating the investigators?

FILE - This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut's U.S. Attorney John Durham. Attorney General William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investiga... FILE - This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut's U.S. Attorney John Durham. Attorney General William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation, giving him the authority of a special counsel to allow him to complete his work without being easily fired. Barr told The Associated Press on Dec. 1, 2020, that he appointed Durham as a special counsel in October under the same federal statute that governed special counsel Robert Mueller’s in the Russia probe. (U.S. Department of Justice) MORE LESS

December 15, 2021 5:42 p.m.

It’s been more than five years since the 2016 election. The Trump administration is gone, the statute of limitations for many related crimes has expired, but there’s something still going on: the John Durham investigation.

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