I see many complaints on Twitter about a lack of accountability stemming from the fact that no one will be sent to jail for crimes they likely committed in connection with the Russia Hoax. Durham’s calculation — the correct one in my view — was that no one was likely to ever go to jail given the reality of bringing politically charged cases in the two venues where the trials likely would take place, and the strength of the evidence was not going to change that. That would be a “tribe v. tribe” exercise where members of the other tribe are unlikely to ever be willing to hold their own accountable. He saw that exact sentiment in the Sussmann trial where one juror made a comment after the case to the effect that “There are more important problems that need to be addressed” than the lies Sussmann told the FBI. …

I suspect Durham ran into a lot of that. He inherited an investigation where the Inspector General had covered much of this ground with witnesses/subjects before he even started. The witnesses/subjects had been witnesses/subjects — or investigators — in the Russian Hoax itself. He had the full record as developed by the Mueller SCO, the members of which had a completely different point of view and goal in mind for their efforts. That meant there was a huge volume of “evidence” created for the purpose of coming to the opposite conclusion that Durham was uncovering in his investigation. All that was not going to simply disappear if he opted to bring criminal charges against government officials or private actors. All of it would have been covered by “Brady” and subject to production to any defendant he charged.

The existence of this record — particularly the interviews of government actors done by the Inspector General and/or FBI Inspections Division — created a complication for Durham in terms of needing to exercise extreme care in what his investigators and prosecutors exposed themselves to.

[Be sure to read it all. There’s a lot more to the analysis than this behind the paywall, and the subscriptions help fund the J6 defense efforts. — Ed]