Patrick Lawrence: John Durham & the Burying of History
Patrick Lawrence: John Durham & the Burying of History Witness the obliteration of a highly significant passage in U.S. history. To be deprived in this way of the past — of the facts of our time — is a kind of condemnation. Riot police at the Capitol on Jan. 21, 2017, for Donald Trump’s inauguration. (Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons) By Patrick Lawrence T here are certain things I do not quite get since Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the epically corrupt conduct of Donald Trump’s enemies during the 2016 election campaigns went to Congress last week. Many things, actually. For all the ground Durham covers in his 306–page report, I don’t get why he left a lot of things undone and unexamined, a lot of names unnamed and a lot of conclusions unconcluded after a four-year investigation into the very unfunny fiasco known as Russiagate. And then there are a few things I do get. Chief among these is that, with the already-evident burying of the Durham Report, we now witness