💬 Quoted… “We conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law.”

In a 308-page report published yesterday, special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

• The report, compiled by Durham who was appointed by the Trump administration, doesn’t recommend any changes beyond those enacted by FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2019, which came after the bureau’s inspector general pointed out flaws in the FBI’s efforts to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser.

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⛪💰 Number of the Day: ~$150 billion = the alleged size of investments currently held by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the form of a “clandestine hedge fund” – at least that’s according to whistleblower David Nielsen, a former investment manager for the Mormon Church, who revealed the estimated figure in a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night.

🤯 Did You Know?... In 1938, a man who was shot in the head during the Spanish Civil War woke up seeing the world backwards. Dubbed “Patient M,” he was then studied for nearly 50 years by Spanish neuroscientist Justo Gonzalo, representing the only known case of such a phenomenon in recorded history.

📖 Worth a Read: On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world → (The Guardian)