<p>Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> shared on Tuesday his expectations for when a report from <a href="https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/durham-loses-but-lays-bare-fbi-corruption-in-russia-collusion-trials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>&#8216;s special counsel investigation will be completed, and it doesn&#8217;t appear to be that far off in the future.</p>
<p>The rare update on Durham&#8217;s inquiry into potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe came during <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?526940-1/attorney-general-testifies-presidents-2024-budget-request" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testimony before</a> a Senate committee. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Garland about why former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-clears-former-clinton-attorney-michael-sussmann-of-lying-to-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Sussmann</a>, who was found not guilty of lying to the FBI in a blow to Durham&#8217;s investigation, <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/legacy_files/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/HJC_STAFF_FBI_REPORT.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apparently had a badge</a> to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/how-fbi-bigwig-aided-and-abetted-hillary-clinton-plot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">get into</a> the bureau&#8217;s headquarters in the run-up to the 2016 election.</p>
<p>&#8220;On the particular question about Sussman, I think we’re going to have to wait until Mr. Durham finishes his report, which should be relatively soon,&#8221; Garland said.</p>
<p>“I certainly don’t in any way want to interfere with him,&#8221; Garland continued. &#8220;And he’s the one who would know the answer to that. On the more general question, I can certainly ask my team to look into how lawyers have special badges.&#8221;</p>
<p>Durham has been working on this investigation for nearly four years, dating back to the Trump administration. Though Durham <a href="https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/u-s-attorney-for-connecticut-john-durham-resigns/2432294/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned as U.S. attorney</a> after President Joe Biden took office, Garland allowed his special counsel probe to continue. Garland <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/27/politics/durham-garland/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified to Congress in October 2021</a> that he hopes to make &#8220;as much as possible&#8221; of Durham&#8217;s report public, but not that he has &#8220;to be concerned about Privacy Act concerns and classification.&#8221;</p>
<p>The investigation has been cheered by former President Donald Trump and his allies while Democrats and others have criticized it as a politically tainted endeavor meant to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller and top officials from the FBI. Democrats have even begun to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/raskin-calls-for-weaponization-inquiry-into-durham-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call for investigations</a> into Durham&#8217;s endeavor.</p>
<p>Durham has secured one guilty plea: that of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of falsifying a document in efforts to renew the authority to conduct FISA surveillance on onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was spared prison time and faced a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-one-year-bar-suspension-guilty-plea-fisa-deception" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-year bar suspension</a>.</p>
<p>Last year, Durham endured setbacks when prosecutions against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-clears-former-clinton-attorney-michael-sussmann-of-lying-to-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sussmann</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/igor-danchenko-source-of-steele-dossier-acquitted-in-blow-to-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Igor Danchenko</a>, a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s anti-Trump dossier, ended in acquittal in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, respectively.</p>
<p>The last public update on the investigation provided by the Department of Justice came in December, just before Christmas, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-shares-update-on-john-durham-probe-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the form of a financial disclosure</a>.</p>

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