Posted on 12/15/2019 6:58:46 AM PST by upchuck
In each of two video appearances, on NBC News and at Wall Street Journal’s “CEO Council,” Attorney General William Barr provided the same basic information and views about the U.S. intelligence community’s actions against the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2017. A criminal investigation is underway and being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
Barr was motivated to make the public statements, he said, by the misreporting and confusion surrounding Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report issued on Dec. 9. It found serious government surveillance abuses but no evidence of political bias on the part of the offending FBI officials and agents.
Below are 24 points Barr felt the need to make after the release of the Horowitz report. (All of the information is attributed to Barr.)
1. Don’t expect Durham’s findings to be announced before late spring or summer 2020.
2. The FBI did spy on the Trump campaign. That’s what electronic surveillance is.
3. Regarding the FBI’s actions in surveilling Trump campaign associates, it was a “travesty” and there were “many abuses.”
4. From “day one,” the FBIinvestigation generated exculpatory information (tending to point to the targets’ innocence) and nothing that corroborated Russia collusion.
5. It’s a “big deal” to use U.S. law enforcement and intelligence resources to investigate the opposing political party, and I cannot think of another recent instance in which this happened.
6. Evidence to start the FBI’s investigation into Trump associates was “flimsy” from the start and based on the idea that Trump aide George Papadopoulos expressed he may have had pre-knowledge of a Democrat National Committee computer hack...
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Sharyl is right on!
Sharyl is the best.
Doubters, please see point 24.
Viewed Barr on C-span at the WSJ event. Interesting viewing.
What’d he do quit the band? I thought they were getting back together.
Billy Barr on bagpipes
Billy Clinton on saxophone
Tony Weiner on sexaphone
Peter Buttigieg on skinflute
Hillary Clinton on cowbell
etc.,etc.
I thought they were going to open at the new lounge, The Swamp, in D.C. (Divide and Control) around Christmas?
Thanks for posting, very informative.
The Clintons and Obamas are absolutely terrified of A.G. Barr.
Your sour grapes based on dogma are inappropriate
Hitlery on the cankles chimes...
Anyone else having trouble opening the linked item?
US Attorney Durham’s spring/summer 2020 timeline won’t be acceptable to many whiney FReepers.
Never mind, the server must have been temporarily overloaded.
And all of Deep State fears Sharyl. They have tried lots of despicable ways to get her and keep missing.
She must have a lot of security around her to have avoided the Clinton Involuntary Assisted Suicide Program.
Amendment 1 DICKtator. Thanks for your concern though.
"Perp walks and orange jumpsuits by Christmas or it's not happening because Barr and Durham are deep staters and Trump is their patsy!"
Not exactly. Whore o' wits parsed that conclusion VERY carefully.
What he said is very different from what's being reported (above) he said:
(he) found serious government surveillance abuses but no testamentary or documentary evidence of political bias on the part of the offending FBI officials and agents.
No 'testamentary evidence' means no one he asked would say they were biased.
No 'documentary evidence' means no one he asked would admit they were biased in writing.
He accepted their statements at face value and ignored their previous well-documented statements and all their actions to come to the conclusion he wanted.
Great post and work by Barr and Sharyl Attkisson!
Sharyl Attkisson very lightly touched on this in her point #12
Will it be “acceptable” to you when “Spring” turns into Summer and then into “Fall” when “we can’t influence an election” becomes “Spring” again? Don’t be afraid to go on record now.
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