The Durham Report and British Policy


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In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today.




The Durham Report


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John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (D. Conn.) from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019, he had been assigned to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, and in October 2020 he was appointed special counsel for the Department of Justice on that matter. After 3 years of investigation and prosecutions, Durham had secured one guilty plea and a probation sentence for a charge unrelated to the origins of the Russia investigation, and two unsuccessful trial prosecutions. Durham alleged at the two trials that the FBI had been deceived by the defendants.




The Durham Report


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Properly sized in manageable book form (rather than letter-size as an ungainly memo), but retaining the pagination of the original. Issued on May 12, 2023, and publicly released on May 15, this is the final report of a four-year investigation into FBI and DOJ practices concerning the 2016 election. This is the report submitted to Attorney General Merrick Garland and publicly available soon after. This edition is more readable and usable because it is resized into a typical book footprint rather than remaining the memorandum size of the original.




The Complete Annotated Durham 'Russiagate' Report


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This book provides the complete report by Department of Justice Special Counsel John Durham regarding his investigation into the FBI's probe of Russia-related matters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election -- plus a devastating critique of the report and Durham's own track record. It connects the dots also to Russia's war against Ukraine War, bloody regime in Africa regime change and continuing election interference targeting the U.S. and other Western democracies. "The Complete Annotated Durham 'Russiagate' Report," on sale in August 2023, is the first book to examine Durham's work in depth. Product of 12 years research about the prosecutor's career, the annotated book reveals that four federal judges have vacated on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct convictions that Durham and his close colleagues won. And that was before his controversial special counsel probe and its dramatic 2022 losses in federal courts undermined his themes. The book includes coverage of Durham's appearance in June 2023 before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, whose Republican leaders and other pro-Trump partisans used his misleading report to revive his arguments that juries rejected. Author Andrew Kreig, a Washington insider, sets the scene. Curious about omissions in most news accounts regarding Durham's track record in Connecticut and nationally, the author' reveals a chilling tale -- and new hope for civic reformers of all political viewpoints. He documents official report's glaring omissions and shows that Trump allies worked with Russians to tilt the 2016 election in Trump's favor as part of a long history of Russian interference in U.S. politics. The stakes could not be higher in these ongoing struggles, the author points out, since some of the same Russian election-interference leaders have also become generals in Russia's war against Ukraine and leaders in regime-change operations in Africa making headlines in mid-2023."The Complete Annotated Durham 'Russiagate' Report is for those who want to understand the news," Kreig says, "not just to watch." The mysteries conclude with hope, summarized as KEY: "Knowledge Empowers You."Relevant categories are: Law, U.S. History, FBI, Election Law, Cyberlaw, U.S. Presidential History, Current Affairs, Russia, Ukraine




Lord Durham's Report


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In his famous 1839 call to reform, John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be accorded responsible government by uniting the two provinces under a single legislative assembly - a union which would also bring about the assimilation of the French-Canadians. The Report has been criticized ever since - from British imperialists who found it dangerously liberal to French Canadians who despised Durham for his presumed racism. This new edition of Gerald Craig's abridgement retains his 1963 introduction and adds essays that debate Durham's political assumptions and goals, re-examine the philosophical and historical context in which the Report was created, and review the Report's reception and influence. Janet Ajzenstat reconsiders the report in the context of nineteenth-century debates about the relation between culture and political institutions, arguing that Durham should be seen as a progressive universalist opposed to the divisions of race and creed who wanted to give more freedom to French- and English-Canadians alike. Guy Laforest re-examines the report in terms of British liberal imperialism and twentieth-century English-Canadian perspectives to argue that Durham was a one-sided sociologist and the first in long line who used liberalism for imperialist purposes.




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The Mueller Report Hardcover Extra Summary Editon


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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, delivered to the public in April 2019, is a lengthy 448 pages and spans two volumes. Mike Twonsky's 18-minute summary distills the Mueller Report into its key information and analysis.




Power Wars


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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.




The Durham Report


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