The Daily Beast reports:
When Attorney General William Barr showed up at the U.S. embassy’s Palazzo Margherita on Rome’s tony Via Veneto last week, he had two primary requests. He needed a conference room to meet high level Italian security agents where he could be sure no one was listening in. And he needed an extra chair for U.S. Attorney John Durham of Connecticut who would be sitting at his right hand side.
The Daily Beast has learned that Barr and Durham were especially interested in what the Italian secret service knew about Joseph Mifsud, the erstwhile professor from Malta who had allegedly promised then candidate Donald Trump’s campaign aide George Papadopoulos he could deliver Russian “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
The Italian Justice Ministry public records show that Mifsud had applied for police protection in Italy after disappearing from Link University where he worked and, in doing so, had given a taped deposition to explain just why people might want to harm him.
Oh, there’s MUCH more.
NEW: AG Barr was in Rome last week along with U.S. Attorney John Durham on an under-the-radar mission to look into the events that led to Mueller’s Russia investigation https://t.co/sCOz1SNCs1
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2019
Barr and Durham were especially interested in what the Italian secret service knew about Joseph Misfud, the Malta professor who allegedly promised George Papadopoulos that he could deliver dirt on Clinton https://t.co/n2VNxCKpxP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2019
Records show Misfud had applied for police protection in Italy after disappearing from his work. He also gave a taped deposition to explain why people may want to harm him https://t.co/n2VNxCKpxP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2019
Sources confirm that Barr and Durham were played the tape and shown other evidence Italians had on Misfud https://t.co/n2VNxCKpxP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2019
Barr assigned Durham to look into the Mueller probe’s origins. The whistleblower complaint states Barr was directly involved in the president’s attempt to “solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election” https://t.co/n2VNxCKpxP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2019