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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Daily Caller ✔ @DailyCaller AG Bill Barr:
“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.
“So long as I serve as Attorney General the criminal justice system will not be used for partisan political end”
What contemptible BS. What the hell has been going on in the DOJ/FBI/Judiciary in a massive way every minute of his tenure?
“Mistakes were made....”
“No reasonable Prosecutor...”
“Changes will be made...”
Blah blah blah...bagpipes.
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My thoughts exactly.
I won’t and can’t bust patently corrupt past or present high-level Donkey Party officeholders or candidates because _____ , _______ and _______. (Fill any old thing in the blanks, and don’t worry about history’s verdict of your actions, because as the perennial winners, we’ve already written it.)
Anyone who thought King Jogger would go down as the first black president and the first incarcerated president needs their head examined.
Is anyone surprised? Our country has gone to hell in a hand basket.
I think a lot of conservatives are overreacting to this statement by AG Barr.
As I review the video and the transcript, what I see is Barr reading a prepared, carefully-crafted statement that is entirely proper.
Durham is investigating. That investigation is being conducted in a proper manner which is in stark contrast to what happened prior to Barr’s appointment as AG. What Barr knows so far is that those suspected of crimes and therefore being criminally investigated by Durham currently do not include Obama or Biden.
Barr knew he would be asked the question and this is his answer. I see absolutely no problem with this statement.
This sir, is a perfectly constructed sentence to describe this useless bag of shite.
P’s and VP’s, even ex’s are untouchable. Can’t have these top two spots held by someone not knowing if the system will take vengeance on them after they are out of office.
I actually agree with this but when someone is as corrupt as O and B it really does frustrate a lot of people; including me.
Their punishment will come after they’re dead and it won’t be pretty.
Based on the information he has TODAY. What happens after President Trump is re-elected, and more information is gleaned from both declassified documents, and individuals that have, and will be cooperating with the DOJ, could possibly bring events we never could have imagined. I'm usually a skeptic, but I pray every day that every crime that was committed for political, and personal gain, in every department under Obama's watch, be uncovered...that the persons responsible be named, that they be indicted, found guilty, and punished to the fullest extent of the law. And that includes the shenanigans in the Mueller investigation, and the lies told under oath during the impeachment hearings. Since I have no power to do it myself, all I can do is pray to God that justice will finally be meted out. I can only hope I live long enough to see it happen.
Great one liner!! You should make that your screen-name tag line.
Lol thus the FWIW.
It wasn’t very long ago I was all geared up about the rounding up of hundreds of children used in sex trafficking and satanic rituals from tunnels. I also fell for the recordings of friends of people working in Central Park for Samaritan’s Purse - assuring us that the stories about the children being rescued are true - they were being taken to the ships and the tents.
I think we were also told to Trust Rosenstein as well, weren’t we?
It looks like President Trump is trying to protect the office of the Presidency and it’s traditions. It just isn’t done.
However, when Trump leaves office, the dims will go after him anyway.
But I doubt his executive power advocacy includes violating the law and the rights of political opponents.
Is Michelle Malkin an attorney?
I have the feeling she’s the only person with the gonads to do the right thing.
Barr is absolutely right - proving that Obama and Biden did something sleazy is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they committed a criminal act. Preside t's a lot of discretion, and imagine trying to get that conviction - unanimously -with a federal jury.
I'm sure a lot of armchair lawyers will say there's an open and shut case...but there just isn't.
Once the public is aware of the crimes only then can we arrest the first black president.
To do so now would be chaos.
DON'T get your hopes up though
only then can we arrest the first black president.
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The reason he is untouchable is because everyone is still pretending he was a legitimate President.
He is not a natural born citizen.
He was never eligible.
That’s the real problem, they all knew it and violated the Constitution.
That is really why he’s untouchable.
Taking down Obama would take the ALL down. (except President Trump)
What is essentially going on here with Biden and Obama, is a bit of applied realpolitik.
Even if they had Obama on film molesting a small boy, and he were prosecuted for it, that would ratchet up the political gamesmanship enough notches that our political process wouldn’t survive. The next time a democrat had control of the presidency, Trump and any other republican that might have served as President since would be indicted for some manufactured “crime” 30 minutes after they took office. We would further devolve into just another tin-horn dictatorship where the party in power imprisons the party not in power on general principles.
Of course, I’m not sure that the restraint that is being exercised by this administration will be reciprocated anyway. Democrats seem to be all on board with criminalizing policy differences, so we can pretty much expect it to get worse anyway.
The Attorney General is Bill Barr. Bob Barr was a a Congressman from Georgia.
There were never going to be indictments on this matter.
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