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FBI report criticises handling of Donald Trump-Russia investigation

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Special counsel John Durham says probe lacked “analytical rigour”

A report has criticised the FBI’s handling of its investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

Special counsel John Durham says probe lacked “analytical rigour”.

The release of the 306 page report by Durham marks the end of a four-year investigation into potential missteps by the FBI.

In the midst of the 2016 campaign, the FBI received a tip that a Trump campaign official had bragged to an Australian diplomat that Russia had offered to help the Republican candidate by releasing damaging information about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

That tip blossomed into a full-fledged counterintelligence probe, dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane,” involving government requests to surveil members of Trump’s campaign. That probe was later taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

Trump raged against Mueller, castigating the probe as a witch hunt.

“It’s just the continuation of the same witch hunt, they know it and behind closed doors they laugh at it. It’s just the continuation of the same nonsense,” Trump said in March 2019.

After securing indictments or pleas from 34 individuals, Mueller in 2019 concluded that despite an array of contacts between Trump and individuals linked to the Russian government, he lacked sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy.

That same year, Attorney General William Barr tapped John Durham to investigate the investigators.

In lieu of convictions, Durham instead castigated U.S. intelligence and law enforcement, accusing them of treating the 2016 Trump probe differently from other politically sensitive investigations.

For instance, he said Clinton and other officials received defensive briefings about being the possible targets of foreign interference, whereas Trump received no such briefing before the FBI opened probes into four members of his campaign.

“The Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report,” Durham added.

In response to the report, the FBI said it has already implemented dozens of corrective actions that have been in place for some time.

Durham’s findings are likely to become political fodder for Trump, who is currently running for re-election in 2024 despite facing criminal charges in New York and two federal investigations by Special Counsel Jack Smith that are looking both at Trump’s retention of classified records and his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump said on social media Monday that he was pleased with the results of Durham’s report.

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Musk’s Empire

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A plane arrives in China. On board, one of the world’s richest men. He’s come to convince authorities that he should be allowed to set up a brand new factory.

He is Elon Musk.

And this is his first trip to China in three years.

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The Great Resignation vs. The Great Burnout

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As employees recover from the height of the pandemic, the Great Resignation has come to light

 
The pandemic saw the term ‘the great resignation’ coined as thousands of people resigned from their jobs across the U.S. in 2021 and 2022.

Karin Reed, the author of ‘Suddenly Hybrid said the great resignation was a period of employees taking control of their future.

“A lot of people realised in their current environment they were not happy with what they were doing with their job. They chose to vote with their feet and go elsewhere,

In other parts of the world, a spike in resignations was not reported.

However, a higher degree of workers began reporting post-Covid burnout, as they made a return to the office.

“There’s been a blurring of the lines. You have work that’s not confined by a physical space.

“Instead of closing the computer and walk away, our computer is in the next room.”

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Everything you need to know about music NFTs

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Music NFTs are unique digital items comprised of a visual element like NFTs but also have a musical component.

Some analysts believe that music NFTs are the future of the music industry, while others say they might just be a fad that’s here today and gone tomorrow.

 
NFTs are non-fungible tokens. They are unique digital assets that live on the blockchain and can either be one-of-a-kind or one copy of many.

So, what are music NFTs?

Well, they are unique digital items comprised of a visual element like NFTs but also have a musical component. They also live on the blockchain and can be bought and sold.

Some analysts believe that music NFTs are the future of the music industry, while others say they might just be a fad that’s here today and gone tomorrow.

Les Borsai, the Co-Founder of Wave Financial joined us to discuss.
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