Failed anti-Deep State special counsel John Durham, still working on a “report” more than two years after he was supposed to deliver it in time to be an “October surprise” in the 2020 election, attempted to get a grand jury to subpoena the email inbox of an employee of pro-democracy billionaire philanthropist George Soros, based on the contents of a Russian intel agency memo shared with the US from a Dutch intel hacking operation, the New York Times reports.

Durham apparently believed the Soros employee, Open Society Foundations Executive Vice President Leonard Benardo had in 2016 email exchanges with Dem Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke about how then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch had purposely slow-walked her investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Durham got this from one of the Russian memos – claiming that they had hacked and obtained the Soros exec’s emails saying as such – and twice asked a federal judge for a court order authorize the subpoena on Benardo, an American citizen. When that failed, he still kept trying to get a grand jury subpoena, which also didn’t work.

The Times piece is absolutely sprawling and while National Zero a fairly strict policy of not milking an upstream report for multiple articles like fucking Raw Story does all the time, this one definitely needs to be broken up. Jack has another piece on this Times report coming up soon.