News Analysis: With two acquittals, DC-area juries refuse to referee whether informants or FBI were more to blame for Russia collusion ruse. Is a Church Committee-like probe next?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/53733

The moral of the story of the Durham trials is simple: jurors won’t convict an FBI informer for providing the bureau a story that the bureau seemed to want even in the face of contradictory evidence.

Durham gave conservatives part of what they wanted, an airing of the FBI’s stunning failures and misconduct in the politically tinged probe. But in the end Durham did not deliver a guilty verdict or the sort of accountability conservatives wanted, just the narrative.