The Attorney General cannot exonerate the CIA

American Thinker ^ | 20 Dec, 2020 | Ed Timperlake

[MtnClimber]

Why does AG Bill Barr think the CIA, regarding spying on President Trump, 'stayed in its lane'?

A little-known, little-discussed stepping stone on his journey to becoming President Trump’s Attorney General is the fact that Bill Barr worked for the CIA during his George Washington law school days.

He and I were on the analytical side of working with the CIA in the 1970s. Our paths did not cross, and perhaps his experience was different from mine. But my takeaway from being contracted by the CIA was actually a pleasant professional experience which included learning a lot about their culture.

So I have a very simple question; how can Barr possibly say what was quoted from him in the press:

Attorney General Barr is reflecting on the calls he made that benefitted President Trump and a few that didn't in his final days in office – as he said the CIA didn't stray beyond its international spy brief in 2016.

Barr told the Wall Street Journal he was suspicious that CIA agents – who are barred from spying on Americans – had spied on President Trump's campaign. The president repeatedly alleged publicly he was spied on.

But according to Barr, it didn't happen. 'The CIA stayed in its lane,' he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.

How would he really know—

Imagine his DOJ/FBI “investigation":

Mr. CIA Director: “Did you stay in your lane?”

“Why, yes, Mr. Attorney General, we did.”

Well, that settles that.

Does anyone think they would tell the AG they conducted illegal surveillance?

Or did AG Barr ask the crack FBI counterintelligence team to resolve the question?

I guess when they were not sneaking around, Peter Strozk and Lisa Page would get right on that investigation.

[William Tell]

Does Barr claim to know who sent Mifsud and Tawil to George P.? Does Barr know who sent the FBI to meet George’s plane?

If so, let’s hear it.

[icclearly]

“Trump and personnel. I have seen this criticism many times. I am going to reverse it.”

Well, that’s your opinion and you are entitled to that opinion.

Sessions was an immigration supporter but had no recent experience prosecuting and running anything as complex as our DOJ. Sessions, I believe, was not a crook but he also was not a “bulldog” and that’s what we needed. We needed a republican Eric Holder and Barr was certainly not that person (a go along to get along deep stater).

So, you did not reverse my opinion!

[Vaduz]

D.C. is looking more like a movie plot all the spooks and power players put all the blackmail books on the table and the auction begins.

[reformedliberal]

...politics as it is played in the US is/was not Trump’s strong suit,...
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In a nutshell, with a quibble: this is how politics are played everywhere.

Why else are they known as globalists?

[FreeReign]

Or, did the CIA have British and Australian intel do their dirty work?

In that case the CIA would still be responsible for getting the British and Australians to do their dirty work.

[FreeReign]

That's the "one weird trick" these out of control spy agencies use to skirt the law against spying on their own citizens. The CIA spies on Brits or Australians that those governments which to spy on and conversely those countries spy agencies return the favor for the U.S.

I don't think that they are skirting the law with that little "trick". I think that they are still breaking the law.

[StAnDeliver]

• Mueller was a BushI product.

• Barr is a BushI product.

• The list goes on and on...These people made their Bones under Poppy because that's exactly what Poppy was, a Skull & Bonesmaker. They could get dirty and Poppy had the plan.

• Poppy didn't love Trump, BUT he loved him some UnitaryExecutive! All power to the President all the time.

  The Derp State Dems got hosed by Mueller, despite Mr. Magoo hiring (or having been foisted upon) a gaggle of progressive Karens, nearly the entire white-shoe-except-when-we're-on-our-knees crew in DC.

  Trump's 2016 curb stomping of ¡Yub! might have pushed the Bush cabal to the outer limit of their supine Executive worship -- but at the end of the day, the deep Derp irony is that Bushie Barr was charged with investigating the mandarin miscreants behind Bushie Mueller. Ho. Ho. Ho. Here's your Christmas present with nothing in the box, while Poppy chuckles from hell...