Special Counsel John Durham appears to be winding down the Justice Department investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. Durham’s team used a grand jury to indict a cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton — and who has since been acquitted — and a Russia analyst, Igor Danchenko, accused of lying to federal investigators. Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten breaks down the latest developments in the Danchenko case:

Will Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of Russiagate end with a bang, or a whimper?

Recently there have been major bombshells in the pending case of Igor Danchenko, while the New York Times throws cold water on Durham by claiming the special counsel’s time is almost up.

In some ways, the question has already been answered.

It’s been more than six years since Russiagate began, and we still only know a fraction of the truth – much of which our law enforcement apparatus reportedly prevented from seeing the light of day despite an order from President Trump himself to declassify it for the public – evidence that some speculate Trump held at Mar-a-Lago.

What relatively little we do know nevertheless demonstrates corruption, lawlessness and hyper-politicization of the highest order, implicating the top ranks of our national security and law enforcement apparatuses, the political class and the media.

And after all that, John Durham has only prosecuted two cases plus Danchenko’s pending one, concerning relatively small fish and giving little indication he intends to hold culpable any of the bigger ones.

You can judge that record for yourself.

Nevertheless, at Straight Arrow News I’ve been chronicling the doings of the special counsel because it’s tasked with uncovering and pursuing one of the greatest scandals in American political history – one aimed at sabotaging and subverting a presidency by concocting a case it was treasonous, in the process thwarting the will of the American people and undermining our system of government – and that’s a story that matters. 

And it’s a story that we’ve learned more and more about via the special counsel, even if it hasn’t brought the culprits to justice – in fact, even if it’s effectively protected many of them.

In this vain, it’s worth shining a light on the latest revelations in the Danchenko case, which are eye-opening.