Why is an aide to Durham resigning becoming such a big story?

Nora Dannehy, Connecticut prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr?

Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned — at least partly [so maybe not actually the reason, but a tiny part of the reason?] out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said. [Which colleagues? How are they in a position to know?]

Dannehy, a highly regarded prosecutor who has worked with or for Durham for decades, informed colleagues in the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Haven of her resignation from the Department of Justice by email Thursday evening. The short email was a brief farewell message and said nothing about political pressure, her work for Durham or what the Durham team has produced, according to people who received it.

Durham is notoriously circumspect and neither he nor members of his team have revealed anything about the direction of their work. But Durham associates, none of whom have specific knowledge of the investigation [so people who don’t have actual knowledge], have said recently that it is their belief [so people who don’t have actual knowledge believe something, that’s not evidence of anything] he is under pressure to produce something — perhaps [in other words, pure speculation by people who don’t have actual knowledge] some sort of report — before the presidential election in November.

So there may or may not be any real first hand knowledge of why Dannehy is leaving the investigation and it may or may not be just pure speculation on the part of people who are supposedly leaking this information that there is some nefarious political reason she is doing so.

The most recent buzz is that she was actually leading the so called "filter" team which is set up in most every internal criminal investigation to save the actual prosecutors from garnering information that otherwise would legally "poison" them from being involved in an investigation. If that was the case, and Durham's probe was nearing the end, this would make perfect sense that she would resign as nobody from the "filter" team would be allowed to take place in other portions of the investigation or any decisions on prosecution (because they have been legally poisoned). It's also said that Dannehy was offered to work with Durham as a temporary position, which would be consistent with this sort of assignment,and fairly inconsistent with a broader role.

But either way, once again the media has "jumped the shark" by making assumptions based on what is likely little more than speculation from anonymous anti-Trumpers who are looking to do no more than stir the pot. Perhaps they should wait until they have actual evidence of something/anything before they criticize the DOJ, Barr, or Durham for what they see in their own imaginations as happening. At this point there is literally no evidence of any report that might be coming, or that anyone from the DOJ or the Durham team is considering breaking any laws or internal rules and protocol.

What it could mean, however, is that this is the start of a concerted mutual Democratic Party and Media effort to discredit the Durham investigation as a preemptive strike against something larger than a report that might be coming down the line? Perhaps this investigation is wrapping up, there was no actual need for Dannehy, and maybe even another indictment or two might be coming down the line? Perhaps that is why there is a renewed criticism of the Durham investigation? 

Nobody seemed to care a couple of weeks ago about this investigation (when the main speculation is that Durham had nothing else to offer and that the investigation would be ending with a thud rather than a bang). Why the sudden concern? 

Oh... and why would anyone be concerned with an interim report if there was no wrongdoing or anything embarrassing to anyone to report. Perhaps there just might be a report from Durham that simply says that they are wrapping things up and that everything was hunky dory. 

But ultimately you can't have it both ways. You cannot suggest that an investigation into a bunch of people who themselves investigated Trump and his team pretty much 24/7 in public either via leaks or special counsel reports should otherwise be shielded from having anything exposed to the public. The hypocrisy and irony is stunning.