Posted on 07/28/2020 3:25:36 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Get ready. Barr’s testimony is going to be epic. – Attorney General William Barr appears before the House Judiciary Committee for testimony today, and boy, if you think he’s going in feeling timid and cowed, do you have another think coming.
The Democrat members of the committee, chaired by Gerrold Nadler and including such rank dimwits as Eric Swalwell, Hank Johnson, Stephen Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ted Lieu, have made clear they intend to use this hearing to demonize Barr and set the pretense to hold impeachment hearings targeted at the AG. All of their bluster is designed to frighten Barr into holding fire on issuing any indictments of the coup plotters until after Election Day in November. You can be sure that pretty much every Democrat will pound on this point.
Mr. Barr is having none of it. The AG released his opening statement last night, and he is coming out with both guns blazing. Here are some excerpts for your reading enjoyment:
Ever since I made it clear that I was going to do everything I could to get to the bottom of the grave abuses involved in the bogus “Russiagate” scandal, many of the Democrats on this Committee have attempted to discredit me by conjuring up a narrative that I am simply the President’s factotum who disposes of criminal cases according to his instructions. Judging from the letter inviting me to this hearing, that appears to be your agenda today. So let me turn to that first.
As I said in my confirmation hearing, the Attorney General has a unique obligation. He holds in trust the fair and impartial administration of justice. He must ensure that there is one standard of justice that applies to everyone equally and that criminal cases are handled even-handedly, based on the law and the facts, and without regard to political or personal considerations. I can tell you that I have handled criminal matters that have come to me for decision in this way.
The President has not attempted to interfere in these decisions. On the contrary, he has told me from the start that he expects me to exercise my independent judgment to make whatever call I think is right. That is precisely what I have done.
From my experience, the President has played a role properly and traditionally played by Presidents. Like his predecessors, President Trump and his National Security Council have appropriately weighed in on law-enforcement decisions that directly implicate national security or foreign policy, because those decisions necessarily involve considerations that transcend typical prosecutorial factors. Moreover, when some noteworthy event occurs that potentially has legal ramifications – such as leaks of classified information, potential civil rights abuses by police, or illegal price fixing or gouging – the President has occasionally, and appropriately, confirmed that the Department is aware of the matter. But the handling of the matter and my decisions on criminal matters have been left to my independent judgment, based on the law and fact, without any direction or interference from the White House or anyone outside the Department.
Indeed, it is precisely because I feel complete freedom to do what I think is right that induced me serve once again as Attorney General. As you know, I served as Attorney General under President George H. W. Bush. After that, I spent many years in the corporate world. I was almost 70 years old, slipping happily into retirement as I enjoyed my grandchildren. I had nothing to prove and had no desire to return to government. I had no prior relationship with President Trump.
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The AG also addresses the Democrat/media’s lies about what is taking place in Portland every night in a very direct manner:
Finally, I want to address a different breakdown in the rule of law that we have witnessed over the past two months. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, violent rioters and anarchists have hijacked legitimate protests to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims. The current situation in Portland is a telling example. Every night for the past two months, a mob of hundreds of rioters has laid siege to the federal courthouse and other nearby federal property. The rioters arrive equipped for a fight, armed with powerful slingshots, tasers, sledgehammers, saws,knives, rifles, and explosive devices. Inside the courthouse are a relatively small number of federal law enforcement personnel charged with a defensive mission: to protect the courthouse, home to Article III federal judges, from being overrun and destroyed.
What unfolds nightly around the courthouse cannot reasonably be called a protest; it is, by any objective measure, an assault on the Government of the United States. In recent nights, rioters have barricaded the front door of the courthouse, pried plywood off the windows with crowbars,and thrown commercial-grade fireworks into the building in an apparent attempt to burn it down with federal personnel inside.
The rioters have started fires outside the building, and then systematically attacked federal law enforcement officers who attempt to put them out—for example, by pelting the officers with rocks, frozen water bottles, cans of food, and balloons filled with fecal matter. A recent video showed a mob enthusiastically beating a Deputy U.S. Marshal who was trying to protect the courthouse – a property of the United States government funded by this Congress – from further destruction. A number of federal officers have been injured, including one severely burned by a mortar-style firework and three who have suffered serious eye injuries and may be permanently blind.
Largely absent from these scenes of destruction are even superficial attempts by the rioters to connect their actions to George Floyd’s death or any legitimate call for reform. Nor could such brazen acts of lawlessness plausibly be justified by a concern that police officers in Minnesota or elsewhere defied the law.
Remarkably, the response from many in the media and local elected offices to this organized assault has been to blame the federal government. To state what should be obvious, peaceful protesters do not throw explosives into federal courthouses, tear down plywood with crowbars, or launch fecal matter at federal officers. Such acts are in fact federal crimes under statutes enacted by this Congress.
As elected officials of the federal government, every Member of this Committee –regardless of your political views or your feelings about the Trump Administration – should condemn violence against federal officers and destruction of federal property. So should state and local leaders who have a responsibility to keep their communities safe. To tacitly condone destruction and anarchy is to abandon the basic rule-of-law principles that should unite us even in a politically divisive time. At the very least, we should all be able to agree that there is no place in this country for armed mobs that seek to establish autonomous zones beyond government control, or tear down statues and monuments that law-abiding communities chose to erect, or to destroy the property and livelihoods of innocent business owners.
The most basic responsibility of government is to ensure the rule of law, so that people can live their lives safely and without fear. The Justice Department will continue working to meet that solemn responsibility.
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Boom. This is a brilliant statement with which to open this hearing, and we can be sure that Mr. Barr will give as good as he takes.
That is all.
Today’s news moves at a faster pace than ever. Whatfinger is my go-to source for keeping up with all the latest events in real time.
Barr is just running out the clock to do nothing but ‘move-on / old news’ with the Q-tards waving the 4D chess flag in the background,
It sounds like his primary concern would be the riots in Portland and elsewhere.
Did he give up on draining the swamp?
I hope Barr is telling the truth and there is a Godfather Baptism type scene in the near future where all enemies of this country and freedom are rounded up overnight.
If not, I hope Barr is eventually indicted and imprisoned for being a conspirator after the fact.
I like the way you think.
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Have you not looked recently?!?
There will be no deliverance because there is no god.
As usual conservatives are fighting the last war. The whole point of the coup was to obstruct POTUS and the MAGA agenda. In that respect it has been widely sucessful. It matters little at this point if their are indictments in the final days of his term. President Trump’s first term is gone and he’ll never be able to get those years back to MAGA.
Only questions I want Barr to answer is when will Joe Pientka testify and why or why not?
It all reminds me of the KSU shootings.
I still remember all the media BS making it out that the tragedy was provoked by the guard there.
NOT
Kids were throwing bricks directly at the guard and just like the scenario now, as I say, the Liberals have been dining out on the consequences ever since.
OF COURSE Liberals want a nasty and tragic confrontation. It is their entire objective... what else would motivate such an extreme of violence and mindless destruction? Liberals have been spoiling for this since Trump was elected... and now they think it’s all going their way! The BS media is hanging on every single pointless move made by these treasonous thugs!
If it was an a-political ‘serial crime’ (because that’s what it is), committed over weeks and by the same, self-identified group... the ‘media’ would not rest until they had the names and back story of every single person involved. Nothing like such basic ‘journalism’ is taking place.
THESE are the same MSM creeps who dug around like ferrets for information about a Trump/Putin cabal, just months ago.
It’s too bad this ‘media’ cant see their way clear to applying the same kind and level of scrutiny to the people who are driving THIS thing.
i am hoping Barr serves the entire democrat panel with a subpoena to face charges...
you have been served... is the last thing he says as he walks out passed the federal marshalls walking in.
Daily, for years.
10:00 am Eastern. I’m assuming one of the cable channels will carry it and most likely it will also be on C-Span.
...tide will turn in our favor at the right time...
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In the past few weeks, we’ve had transient conversations with strangers at various stores, a laundromat,during a tech service call. Without us leading the conversation, the others involved have indicated 1) total distrust of the media and the prog party, including progs on the right; 2)an affirmation that ‘America Matters’ (sic) and 3) indications that people in the rural areas are organizing defensive actions (sic).
These are all males, white, aged 30-40, who normally would be involved in sports and recreational activities involving cars, ATVs, and motorcycles. Not elderly political junkies at all. All have sought to inform _us_ of the true state of affairs in America.
None wore masks, BTW, not even one whose large national company mandates it for techs and homeowners during service calls. No one in any establishment where these exchanges took place was masked, either, nor did the store owners/managers (one is a very large, ubiquitous national chain)mandate or even suggest masks.
Anecdotal, but I read similar experiences here and elsewhere. I submit that the tide is going out for the proggies and a huge Average American wave is building offshore.
Maybe, like so much on our planet, everything is simply waiting for the advantageous phase of the moon.
Ditto
I’m afraid you’re right.
All Barr has to do is deputize James O’Keefe.
I believe Jimmy can quickly find enough evidence to bring them all down.
Thanks!
It’s a trap: the organized Left wants the federal officers to try mass arrests or even better, to kill someone. That’s why they keep escalating things and are at it, night after night.
Bingo. The MSM keeps supporting the peaceful protestors side in spite of the actual videos.
They got away with it in some of the Ferguson riots , and now with the Minneapolis destruction.
Hopefully the more than silent majority has seen through this theater...
Finally, I want to address a different breakdown in the rule of law that we have witnessed over the past two months.
It’s always good to hear when the rat trap snaps shut and the problem is solved.
Just listened to a few minutes of the “hearing”.
Everything I heard were vicious and mean Dim questioners firing got-cha questions at Barr and then talking over Barr when he tried to respond. The questioners sounded like Antifa howling mobs, absent the profanity.
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