Barr Appoints U.S. Attorney To Investigate The Investigators

We're in banana republic territory now:

Attorney General William P. Barr has tapped John H. Durham, the U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Barr picked Durham in recent weeks to work on the review, which is designed to ensure the U.S. government’s “intelligence collection activities” related to the Trump campaign were “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the decision said.

This would be the third investigation of the origins of the Mueller probe into Russian interference. But that's not the point. The point is to give Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump something to lie about between now and November 2020 (since Durham is said to work very slowly), and just the fact that there's an "investigation" goes a long way toward legitimatizing Trump's vicious "deep state coup" blabber for his base and other low- information voters.

Once again, toady Barr is doing the bidding of the would- be autocrat and undermining the Justice Department and the rule of law.  Surprise.