Posted on 05/18/2020 11:19:24 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Well, there you have it. – During his press conference Monday addressing developments in the investigation of last year’s mass shooting at NAS Pensacola, Attorney General William Barr took time to also discuss the progress of the ongoing investigation of Spygate/Obamagate led by U.S. Attorney John Durham. During the course of his four minutes of remarks, Barr made clear that, regardless of what Durham’s investigation reveals about the involvement of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, his DOJ will refuse to prosecute either man.
Below is a clip of Barr’s remarks, followed by a transcript:
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“What happened to the President in the 2016 Election.. was abhorrent, it was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history."
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Transcript:
“So long as I serve as Attorney General the criminal justice system will not be used for partisan political end, and this is especially true for the upcoming elections in November. We live in a very divided country right now, and I think it is critical that we have an election where the American people are allowed to make the decision, a choice between President Trump and Vice President Biden based on a robust debate of policy issues. And we can’t allow this process to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate.
“I’m committed that this election will be conducted without this kind of interference. Any effort to pursue an investigation of either candidate has to be approved by me. Now, what happened to the President, and I’ve said this many times, what happened to the President in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent. It was a grave injustice, and it was unprecedented in American history.
“The law enforcement apparatus in this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian Collusion narrative against the President. The proper investigative and prosecutive standards of the Department of Justice were abused, in my view, in order to reach a particular result. We saw two different standards of justice emerge: one that applied to President Trump and his associates, and the other that applied to everybody else. We can’t allow this to ever happen again.
“The Durham investigation is trying to get to the bottom of what really happened, and it will determine whether there were any federal laws broken; and if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account. But this cannot be, and it will not be, a tit for tat exercise. We are not going to lower the standards just to achieve a result. The only way to stop this vicious cycle, the only way to break away from this dual system of justice, is to make sure that we scrupulously apply the single and proper standard of justice for everybody.
“Now, under the longstanding standards of the Department of Justice, criminal charges are appropriate only when we have enough evidence to prove each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the standard we’re applying.
“Now, I have a general idea of how Mr. Durham’s investigation is going, and as I have indicated, some aspects of what happened are being examined as potential crimes. But we have to bear in mind what the Supreme Court recently reminded us of in the Bridge Gate case: As the Court said there, there is a difference between an abuse of power and a federal crime. Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.
“As to President Obama and Vice President Biden: Whatever their level of involvement, based on the information I have today, I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.”
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Ok, so, a lot of very noble stuff in there, pretty much all of which any fair-minded American would agree with had we experienced a normal political environment over the last 5 years.
After all, how can any fair-minded American disagree with the notion that the criminal justice system should not be used to achieve a political end? Or that justice must be blind? Or that “not every abuse of power is necessarily a federal crime? Or, indeed, even that we need to do our best to end the abuse of the justice system in America?
Obviously, that’s all very just and fair.
The problem, of course, is that we have not lived in anything resembling a normal political environment for the last 5 years, and that the Obama Administration used the DOJ for partisan political ends for 8 long years. The political playing field was vastly tilted to the political left by Obama and his evil minions, and neither Barr nor Jeff Sessions have done much of anything to correct that tilt.
Plus, what if Durham’s investigation does reveal “enough evidence to prove each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt” against Quid Pro China Joe? Let’s say that result comes about during the summer – how would it then be fair to the American public and indeed the American criminal justice system to allow Biden to continue as a candidate unscathed, knowing that he would inevitably quash all evidence against him should be be elected?
Barr is absolutely correct that the U.S. justice system should have never been used for political ends as it was by Obama and Biden. But that is what it is at this point, and the damage has been done. If Durham’s investigation reveals criminal wrongdoing by either man, and Barr withholds that information from the public, regardless of timing, he will have rendered himself every bit the political tool that Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder were guilty of being.
That is all.
Barr said: “not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.”
So he’s knows Obama did it, but not prosecutable. Should be.
So it’s cool to impeach the sitting President over an inconsequential telephone call but the AG can’t find it in himself to implicate the previous President in clear corrupt use of the Intelligence capabilities of the United States.
Got it.
If we have no justice for all then he has no right to prosecute anyone.
Did anyone really think Bammy was going to be called to court?
This discussion is much to do about nothing, if the Senate called Obama to appear under oath he wouldn't show up.
Anymore than Trump would show up in the House.
“Trust Wray.” - Trusty the Plan.
LOL!
there has never been a president or ex-president run a coup on an elected president in the US. Why would we give an ex-president carte balance to commit any crime they want? Clinton and Obama and the others belong on prison or there is no equality or rule of law.
One thing to remember, Barr has always been an advocate of unchecked Executive Power.
This is idiotic. Who expected anything to happen to them? Obama and Biden held accountable...for WHAT? What actual laws did they break? Biden will be held accountable on November 3rd. Obama to history as this is all exposed.
> I think one of the lessons of history is that prosecuting ex-presidents is not the greatest idea, It leads to unpleasant consequences over the long run. <
That’s a reasonable comment. Once that Pandora’s Box is open, the US could end up like a banana republic. The new president immediately arrests the old president for treason and corruption.
Did anyone really think Bammy was going to be called to court?
Reagan was. These crimes occurred on his watch and certainly at his direction. He’s got some explaining to do.
I would be fine with that if he was going to torch the lives of some other significant Assholes...
I totally agree and have no problem with his statement.
As the Durham investigation continues, this seems to me that the door is open if the information changes or new information becomes available.
If we've learned anything from the Criminal Clinton Administration, parsing sentences is important.
Good analogy. I think if they honestly follwo through on what Barr said, and don’t pull a Lindsey Graham, then it should be abundantly clear that there was thorough and systemic corruption that had to be known, with possibe coordination, by the king.
I will wait to see if Barr gets to checkmate, or if like so often before, this all, by design, ends up as so much water vapor wisping away over the months and years ahead.
And when their dead bodies dried up they used them as wind chimes...
Most people probably never believed those two would ever be indicted. Now, will they be disgraced? I surely hope so.
It will be much better politically for those actually being charged and tried to provide the evidence (as in RAT OUT) that they were working under he direction of Obama and or Biden. Presented this way Obama and Biden become TOXIC without hurting our side.
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