Barr right to make Durham special counsel and public must get final report

Published December 7, 2020 5:00am ET



President Trump vented at great length in a recent 46-minute Facebook video that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s long-awaited report on the spying on his 2016 campaign had failed to arrive before Election Day. He may have a point — the airing of what happened could have made a difference in what proved to be a very close-run election, decided by about 45,000 votes in three states.

“They can go after me before the election as much as they want,” Trump said, referring to the FBI and intelligence officials involved in the spying. “But unfortunately, Mr. Durham didn’t want to go after these people or have anything to do with going after them before the election. So, who knows if he’s ever going to even do a report?”

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