DOJ accused of covering up declassified Russiagate documents

 Washington Examiner:

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"The DOJ or the FBI would consistently push back when he asked for the remaining documents to be declassified," (Mark) Meadows wrote. "In these final weeks, when the President's request was once again ignored, he demanded that these documents be brought to the White House and I personally went through every page, to make sure that the President's declassification would not inadvertently disclose sources and methods. DOJ had finally allowed key documents to be declassified and yet minutes before Joe Biden would be sworn in, they were trying to redact information they had just provided."

There remains an air of mystery about the documents covered by Trump's eleventh-hour declassification memo — only a smattering appears to have been revealed in scattered media reporting . The memo spoke of a binder of materials related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that Trump said the Justice Department provided to the White House at his request on Dec. 30, 2020.

"I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder. This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy," Trump said.

There were prior FISA-related instructions, which came in the form of tweets and a White House press release, that a judge ruled in May 2020 did not constitute formal declassification orders. Trump tweeted again about authorizing the "total Declassification" of Russiagate documents in October 2020, after which the Department of Justice argued there was no order and Meadows submitted a sworn declaration in which he said Trump indicated to him that his statements on Twitter were not "self-executing declassification orders." A judge then accepted the White House statement as rescinding Trump's tweets.
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This is all being examined by special counsel John Durham, who to this day is investigating the origins and conduct of the Russia inquiry that Republicans have long criticized as being a drawn-out campaign to drag the 45th president. John Ratcliffe, who was Trump's final director of national intelligence, says he delivered roughly 1,000 pages of material to Durham that he recently predicted would support criminal charges.
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This has the look and feel of a coverup of those responsible for pushing the Russia hoax.  Durham needs to take action against those responsible for the cover-up.