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.
Good insight. Many are very naive about this. A little reflection along the lines of your post and it’s not hard to see why the highest positions of authority must wait for the Judgement to be called to account.
+1
Well we might still get Biden on molestation
And we can’t allow this process to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate.
To DRUM UP? Yeah, I agree. But noticing a MASSIVE breech of the law AND the public trust, by its very stewards, is NOT drumming up! Anyone who conflates a deadly serious attack on Law and Order with a “drumming up” has chosen sides and is telegraphing so.
This says he isn’t going after Bozo and Biden. But it also says he isn’t going after ANYBODY.
No surprise here, of course we must adhere to the two system justice in this country, in that that pubbies get persecuted/prosecuted while the RATS are exempt from prosecution. This also gives a built in defense for the conspirators in that they could just say they were following orders of the President and his policies. This shit will never be corrected until there is a civil war.
Or “Cheap Labor Express.”
That’s my take as well. In fact, I believe it points toward prosecutions *will* happen - then see where it leads. If it leads upward, so be it.
unindicted co-conspirators?
So, black democrats get a pass on justice, huh?
Dave Blackmon at DB Daily Update is getting hyperbolic again. Barr did not let either of them off the hook. Going after a former President and VP, and I know some will argue with me on this point, but that is more a political action to take and if the Senate Republican’s i.e., Lindsay Graham don’t have the backbone to do it, I am certain Barr is looking at it like the Trump Administration and DoJ are not going to get any backing from R’s in the Senate and they’ll need support from the Senate considering the schorched earth strategy the dems will use defending those two scumbags. And it’s also possible and quite likely that Barr knows a whole lot more than we do is simply be strategic in his pronouncments.
Lucy.........football
*** The next Democrat administration will not give Trump that same courtesy ***
Having seen what both Dem & Repub has in mind for Julian Assange, I don’t really care anymore. Having watched Dem & Repub destroy countries in the ME in which Americans have come home maimed or in coffins, my give a damn is not working.
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.
Nobody is going “rat out” Obama and Biden. Especially so when the current AG is on record saying things like this.
If anyone thinks the Democrats won’t pursue criminal charges against Trump should he lose, is naive at best, and foolish at worse.
If you don’t cut the snakes head off now you will live to regret it.
I’m sure they would do the same thing if it was a Democrat president. No doubt about it.
I see the circular firing squad is busy loading.
In a perfect world, and this is far from being one, Hillary, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, and the rest of the political crooks who have operated in this country for decades, would already be serving life sentences for treason and fraud. Again, in a perfect world, they would all have been executed. I just hope I live long enough so I can spit on all of their graves. In a perfect world, I’d get my wish.
the US could end up like a banana republic.
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You mean like where the Constitution is ignored and ineligible usurpers are sworn in with the cooperation of both parties?........./s
I saw early on Barr was going to be a useless fat bum. Seeing him playing the bag pipes did it for me. At that point I just knew we were screwed.
Biden cant be replaced or he is subject to legitimate investigation. The election will be Trump verses the old demented former creep/alleged sex predator.
based on the information I have today...
Hard evidence of criminal activity could still change fortunes.
I agree Barr's bar should be set high...I am not sure that eliminates the double standard.
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