Let me politicize this by saying that like many libs, if you bothered to look into a topic, or man's work and accomplishments, before giving your worthless insights about "making up charges for political reasons" you might end up with different opinions from time to time. On second thought, no you probably wouldn't.
End of politization.
Durham is an A+, apolitical prosecutor and has always had a reputation in Connecticut for taking on the hard cases without fear or favor. He was nominated by Trump at the recommendation of both Democratic Senators from the State -- Murphy and Blumenthal. He's had a dozen or more apolitical cases in his career -- Reno picked him to investigate the FBI corruption in the Whitey Bulger mess in Boston and he got several convictions of agents and his report basically gutted a dozen of the top FBI brass in Boston for how they ran that office.
Holder/Obama nominated him to lead the investigation into CIA torture allegations in Iraq, and then Bush's AG later appointed him to investigate allegations that the CIA destroyed tapes of torture sessions. The type of appointments that go to apolitical prosecutors.
In that same vein, when Blumenthal's state AG office wouldn't proceed with an indictment of a Republican Governor in CT, it was Durham's Public Corruption Office in the 2nd District that did prosecute and got convictions and resignations. As he did the Dem mayor of CT's largest city for accepting around $1 million in bribes. Sadly though, in CT being corrupt doesn't disqualify you from "doing the peoples business" if you are a Dem. Ganim served his 6 year conviction and 2 years later he was re-elected by Bridgeport's Democratic machine. Then when seeking reelection, he stuck his paw into an election fraud allegation for having city employees harvest blank absentee ballots at city nursing homes. But now that we have a Biden nominee for Prosecutor nothing will ever come of that.
And just for good measure, how about being the prosecutor that got convictions against a dozen KKK members for gun running, or literally wiping out the top three tiers of the mob in New England when he got dozens of racketeering and murder charges against 60 capos and other members,.. I could add a half dozen more but I won't.
You know, I only met Durham once, at a minority outreach dinner my company participated in where he was the speaker. We had a couple tables to accommodate 20 interns and some execs. He talked about his decision after Law School and accepting a job as a state prosecutor to take a 2-year Vista assignment to a Cheyenne reservation because he wanted to better understand the impact multi-generational poverty and hopelessness had on both the citizens there as well as the institutions. To go beyond the requirements of a job and to focus on what he needed to know to be GOOD at a job. That was the theme. And so, when back in CT he trained at a Police Acadamy at his home town and spent 4 months working as a beat cop walking a beat in Groton. To understand that perspective. That was the theme.
I will admit I'm surprised that Sussman was acquitted. From my readings I thought it was a slam dunk. So it will be interesting is we get any reliable reporting on what the jury found persuasive.
Oh, so why is Durham now an outsider to the Dem elite in CT these days (other than the fact he got his law degree at lowly UConn and not Yale)? Because when the DOJIG Horowitz issued his report finding no indictable actions in the FBI handling of the Trump investigation, the politics of the times, sadly, meant that Blumenthal and Murphy wanted Durham to sign on to those findings or he would be dead to them. Properly, he issued a statement explaining that he considered the report incomplete because "the IG investigation is limited to investigating actions within the DOJ" and is therefore inherently incomplete. I can't imagine something that makes more sense. But not when Trump frenzy is rampant, and not when Nancy and Chuck are demanding roll call votes. To use a phrase often expressed by some Democrats these days of extreme politics - I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me. Well, integrity didn't leave John Durham, some Democrats left their integrity behind.
Lastly, I only met Durham once -- at a minority outreach dinner where he was speaker