Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton predicted U.S. Attorney John Durham will serve up a “zinger of a report.”
He broke with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, who took heart in White House chief of staff Mark Meadows saying over the weekend he expects indictments in the criminal inquiry of the Russia investigation.
“You’re going to be disappointed,” the conservative watchdog group leader said on Monday.
“I think [what] is going to happen is, he’s going to issue another zinger of a report that will get you nothing, and a few indictments of some lower-level people, and the Obama gang largely will fade away in terms of getting held accountable,” Fitton said.
Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham more than a year ago to investigate misconduct by federal law enforcement and intelligence officials during the Russia investigation more than a year ago. The Justice Department has signaled that it expects developments in Durham’s investigation by the end of the summer.
The politically charged review, which shifted into a criminal investigation last fall, has been decried by Democrats as a scheme to damage President Trump’s rivals ahead of the 2020 election and hailed by Republicans who claim the Russia investigation was a partisan hit job.
Fitton noted that after roughly 15 months, there have been no indictments.
Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, is said to be scrutinizing high-profile former officials, John Brennan, who was CIA director in the Obama administration, but media reporting has only identified one person, a former FBI lawyer who altered a document related to the surveillance of a 2016 Trump campaign adviser, who has come under criminal investigation.
Dobbs pointed out that Barr said earlier this summer that what Durham is uncovering is “very troubling” and is investigating people whose names are familiar to the public, but Fitton cautioned the host against getting his hopes up.
Asserting that the Justice Department, even under Trump, has been stonewalling document requests, Fitton said, “Hence my skepticism that they’re going to do what is necessary in terms of justice and accountability.”
He also asked why former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose campaign helped fund the research that fed into British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, has not been questioned by Durham.
