Posted on 12/10/2019 10:50:44 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Ok, if you’re still sitting around worrying that Attorney General William Barr has gone all wobbly – even after yesterday’s pointed statements by he and U.S. Attorney John Durham in response to the IG Report – then I think I may have found your cure. Earlier today, MSNBC aired an interview involving one of their hack reporters and Attorney General Barr, and boy, is it epic. Mr. Barr is making no bones about his continued consistent views on what he bluntly still refers to as the “spying” on the Trump Campaign by the Obama FBI, and is not backing off even a little bit from his assessment of the contents of the IG Report.
Below is a clip of the first 3:17 of the interview, followed by a transcript. Watch and/or read, and if you don’t feel better after doing that, then I’m afraid there is nothing more I can do to help you.
Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson AG Barr on the IG Report and FISA Abuse
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Now, the Transcript, lovingly and laboriously prepared by we here at the Campaign Update for our audience made up mostly of voracious readers:
MSNBC Hack: Why do you say the FBI opened the investigation on the Trump Campaign on the “thinnest of suspicions?”
Barr: Well, I’m glad to get into the issue of predication, but let me just start out by saying that I think you have to put this in context. I think the heart of the IG’s report really focused on how the investigation was conducted once it got going, and that is especially the very serious abuses of FISA that occurred, much of which has in my view not been accurately reported by the press over the last day.
But, in one area I do disagree with the IG, and that was whether there was sufficient predication to open a full-blown counterintelligence investigation, specifically using the techniques that they did to collect intelligence about the Trump Campaign.
MSNBC Hack: W, w, well as a policy matter, why not open an investigation on a thin pretext? [Seriously???] I guess on the one hand you could say that it’s a presidential campaign, it’s very sensitive, you need better evidence. On the other hand, you could say, it’s a presidential campaign, we have to be very careful, it’s a threat to our political process.
Barr: I think probably from a civil liberties standpoint [Which liberals USED to be concerned about – remember?] the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state – principally the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies – both to spy [!] on political opponents, but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election.
As far as I’m aware, this is the first time in our history that this has been done to a presidential campaign. The use of these counterintelligence techniques against a presidential campaign. And we have to remember, in today’s world, presidential campaigns are frequently in contact with foreign persons, and indeed, in most campaigns there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in [!!!].
And we don’t automatically assume that the campaigns are nefarious and traitors and acting in league with foreign powers. There has to be some basis before we use these very potent powers in our core first amendment activity. And here, I felt this was very flimsy.
Basically, I think the Department has a “rule of reason” which is, at the end of the day, what you’re relying on – sufficiently powerful to justify the techniques you’re using. And the question there is, how strong is the evidence? How sensitive is the activity you’re looking at? And what are the alternatives?
I think when you step back here and say, what was this all based on?, it’s not sufficient.
Remember, there was and never has been any evidence of “collusion.” And yet, this campaign, and the President’s Administration has been dominated by this investigation into what turns out to be completely baseless.
[End]
Things to note in this:
Barr’s intentional and pointed use of the word “spy” to describe what the Coup Cabal did to the Trump Campaign. He knows this will cause Democrats and the media to fry their own brains. Epic.
Barr’s unqualified statement that “there was and never has been ANY evidence of ‘collusion.'” That tells you that he – and presumably also Durham – simply do not accept that there was ANY premise at all for operation “Crossfire Hurricane” to begin in the first place, nor was there ANY reason for the appointment of a special counsel, much less a two-year-long investigation by Mueller. That is bad, bad news for not just Comey, Strzok, Page and McCabe, but also for Mueller and Rosenstein, who made the decision to appoint Mueller based on…nothing.
Also very interesting is this statement’s phrasing: “… the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state…”. The use of the words “incumbent government” rather than the more limited “Department of Justice,” or the even more limited “FBI” is very, very interesting, and implies that Barr and Durham are not limiting their investigation to those outside of the Obama White House, but may well be looking inside it as well. Boom, if so.
Then there’s the seemingly gratuitous noting of the fact that “…in most campaigns there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in.” Think about that one: Which two recent campaigns have been most prominent in having allegations of benefiting from foreign money? If you said “the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Campaigns,” you win the prize.
William Barr is a man with a well-earned history of choosing the words he uses carefully and with intent. He doesn’t just shoot his mouth off in public without giving a lot of forethought to exactly what the message is that he wants to convey.
There are a lot of very powerful messages directed at the bad actors from the Obama years in that short three-minute clip.
Those messages are also directed at those of you who still doubt Mr. Barr’s real intentions here. Are you listening?
That is all.
Heard that too. Barr said they would not rush this, will do it right. And when asked specifically when it would be over, he said late spring, early summer.
Though we might want it sooner, that might be to our advantage as it is in the middle of the election campaign. Having names like Comey, Strok, McCabe and others exposed and up on charges will work by showing how corrupt the FBI and the Dems in charge in upper management were.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Lacking strategic and/or practical reasons for a delay, this is crazy.
Some person said some things.....
I don’t think they use any bagpipes in this song. Pure Americana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI7YzUKE_wI
Yes, and Rush explained what I’ve also felt - that Barr and Durham MUST and WILL take their time to do this 100% airtight correctly and legally, with no stones unturned, - BECAUSE, as Rush pointed out -they’re going after the DEEP STATE/PuppetMasters - not some low level lackies.
We live in an Instant-Now/Internet society, including here on FR. I don’t want some token jaywalk indictment for satisfaction now, because we have been SO furious and frustrated at the Obama/Hitlery types getting away with things. I’d rather have the final satisfaction that powers-that-be finally get their comeuppance.
Think of it another way. If Durham indicted the low-hanging fruit now, the corrupt MSM and Dems can start to spin and minimize or recharacterize as a Trump vendetta. I’d rather one Shock-and-Awe BOOM in June going all the way to the top.
Barr was not approved by Committee to take down the deep state. I’m not getting any hopes up.
Barr needs to be “speaking” the only language the quislings understand—indictments for treason.
There were no “mistakes”, no “errors”, no “poor judgement”, no “failure to follow procedure”.
Just treason.
Politics and crime are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah, literally.
Barr is a complete farce until he PROVES otherwise.
I’ve noticed the elected never-Trumpers seem to have quieted down. I think Barr and Durham are the reason.
Hiring all those political operatives into the news networks from the Obama and Clinton administrations meant cutting costs on reporters actually reporting news. So now instead of silly expensive details like travel, interviews, investigating, office support, hotels and lodging expenses, etc.... Networks just read off teleprompter scripts from John Brennan, James Clapper, Samantha Powers, Ben Rhodes, Peter Strozk, et, al. Editor’s have this content booked right up to the conventions.
Barr is a complete farce until he PROVES otherwise.
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So you give him no credit for his multiple appearances expressing how the Left has chosen a destructive path of resistance. Takes courage especially in his social circles.
“Are you listening?”
WTF? Calling us bitter clingers, deplorables?
Approaching 2020. Are you seeing clearly?
That’s all folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9434BoGkNQ
(thanks for your work ; ) )
The Mueller report only came out in May - not long after Barr was appointed. That investigation was holding up a lot of things - not just interfering with the 2018 elections.
Recall also as you will that the Administration was (lamely) being accused of Obstruction of Justice for merely claiming innocence. A counter-investigation competing with the Mueller team would have legitimized claims.
In short, Barr’s clock just started in May 2019.
If barr was up for senate comfirmation today he would not get 1 dem vote
Bingo. Everyone in the beltway is in on the money laundering and pay to play scams. It's the charter of the shadow government. Republicans and democrats, equally both exposed if not "managed" correctly.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up that anything will happen. This is just more of the same GOP crap sandwich.
It’s been 3 years.
What criminals have gone to jail?
And not one single indictment too.
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