8/19/2021- 9:00 a.m.
Washington – Durham was appointed in 2019 to conduct review of origins of FBI’s investigation into Russian collusion.
More than 40 GOP senators signed on to a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation be allowed to continue and the report be made public.
“The Special Counsel’s ongoing work is important to many Americans who were disturbed that government agents subverted lawful process to conduct inappropriate surveillance for political purposes,” the letter reads.
Durham was appointed by former Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to conduct a review of the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian collusion during the 2016 election.
“The truth pursued by this investigation is necessary to ensure transparency in our intelligence agencies and restore faith in our civil liberties. Thus, it is essential that the Special Counsel’s ongoing review should be allowed to continue unimpeded and without undue limitations.”
“Attorney General Merrick Garland must pledge to publicly release the full report and allow Special Counsel Durham to continue his investigation uninhibited past September 2021,” said Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, one of the GOP senators leading the effort.
Information about Durham’s probe has been hard to come by, while some have been critical of the amount of time it has taken to complete.
Trump has asked ” Where’s Durham? Is he a living, breathing human being?”
Blackburn is joined by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and 40 other Republicans in signing on to the letter, which also requests an update on the status of the investigation.
