Posted on 05/01/2019 12:47:19 PM PDT by onyx
Attorney General Bill Barr sparred with Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Wednesday over the AG’s use of the word “spying” to describe the actions the FBI took against the Trump campaign.
Barr alleged during his testimony to the House Appropriations Committee in April that “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign as the FBI investigated alleged ties to Russia.
Whitehouse grilled Barr about his use of the term “spying” in relation to those efforts, suggesting that the term was not accurate because the activities of the DOJ were “authorized.”
“I’m not going to abjure the use of the word ‘spying,'” Barr said. “My first job was in CIA. I don’t think the word ‘spying’ has any pejorative connotation at all.”
Barr continued, “I think spying is a good English word that, in fact, doesn’t have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection, so I’m not going to back off the word ‘spying.'”
To further defend his use of the word, Barr pointed out that many members of the media also used the term before they decided to attack him for doing the same.
“Frankly, we went back and looked at press usage and up until all the faux outrage a couple of weeks ago, it’s commonly used in the press to refer to authorized activities,” he explained.
“It’s not commonly used by the Department,” Whitehouse retorted.
Barr shot back, “It’s commonly used by me,” planting a smirk on his face.
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Is Whitehouse gay?
He looks very unhappy to me.
Barr is proving to be an EXCELLENT choice for AG by Trump.
During the interchange with Whitehouse, Barr should have took his glasses off a few times, and maybe chewed on them at least once.
Am I dreaming that we could see the dissolution of the FBI? Would love to see all three, FBI CIA and NSA, tossed out onto the roadside.
President Trump has forced them to put all their chips down for the Democrats in the plain sight of everyone.
He was probably fantasizing about Pete doing the Buttgiggity on him...
I think it is because ...they DON’T NEED IT.
Occam’s razor.
They became lawyers because cleaning a dachshund’s anal glands was too complicated.
If the AG says such things before amassing the legal evidence, he deserves to be impeached.
[Barr is the real deal]
To be the real deal is to tell the truth to the public... to do what is right..
Too many forgot how to do that.. and lying/deceiving became popular... which led to where our political establishment/media is today.
We have a President and an AG who are not afraid to buck the establishment... Thank you!
Same here...we all (both sides) were a bit leery of Barr when the President nominated him.
Now it looks like the Left is afraid of him or they wouldn’t be doing the full-court press.
Happens here in the Religion forum all the time.
This; too; is now allowed in the Religion forum on FR.
Wow; so scriptural!!
It was on it's way BEFORE you asked for it!!
Matthew 6:8
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
If they ever bring Green Acres back; I think I know where an Oliver Wendell Douglas clone can be found!
Now to find a Lisa look alike...
Just wondering why Barr said no.
It was a polite “up yours”.
I’m sure that if he said what he was really thinking during this thing he would have ripped Harris and many others a new one, using words like “ignorant”, “hack”, “political stooge”, etc.
He’s as smart as most of us here and knows even moreso what’s going on with the democrats on that panel. Like Kavanaugh, he shows enormous restraint, being attacked and chastised by political boobs. Frankly, I was impressed.
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