Posted on 03/02/2020 2:19:02 PM PST by bitt
Attorney General William Barr has tightened his control of the Justice Department’s antitrust probes over the last several months, a move that could spell trouble for Google, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley tech giants.
The attorney general, along with his deputy attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, and several other officials, have personally taken over the antitrust probes, Politico reported Monday. The move makes good on a promise Barr made during his confirmation hearing, when he vowed antitrust issues would be a priority for him.
“I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers,” Barr said at the time.
“I think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers,” Barr said at the time.
Barr’s more focused oversight of the probes has effectively pushed aside the head of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim. Because of Delrahim’s previous legal work for Google, he and the official directly under him, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Barry Nigro, were both recused from the Google investigation as of earlier this month.
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I don’t bother trying to have discourse with defeatists with no ability to think rationally.
Barr’s on the case, no need to worry........ for Big Tech that is!
This is an election year therefore timing is everything
I have no doubt in my mind that if there any indictments and they’re certainly should be he’s will be falling in the late Summer and early fall when they will have the most impact on the stupid people
The Founding States gave Congress the express constitutional power only to grant temporary monopoly power for innovative products, not to break big companies up.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries [emphasis added];"
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Corrections, insights welcome.
“This thread is chockfull of defeatist eeyores who appear to be of childlike reasoning capacity.”
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Have you been to ANY wall threads? I’ve seen some idiots who even claim that NOT ONE 10 foot wall has been built.
Think so, BSK?
Judge orders Hillary Clinton deposition in Judicial Watch lawsuit
(FYI & FWIW, that's a FR article..._
Maybe they'll finally some of the questions that should have been asked in 2016:
(The image is a FReeper video link; click it to see what questions can be asked now -- that HRC is finally under oath...)
Enjoy!
TXnMA
Earlier this month? It's like Amy Berman Jackson not having a conflict of interest because she cares about the outcome of a case.
A recent article suggest that Joe is the deep-state candidate because they know he will be too ineffectual to interfere in their running the country into the ground.
You're right. Trump sucks.
We should all vote for Biden.
#TrustThePlan
No he hasn't, liar.
So what else is new, out here beyond the trees.
Their group-think sucks.
No. No you haven't. If you had, you wouldn't be crying like a Hillary.
Nope. No pings for giver-uppers.
If I saw the world like that I’d have killed myself with my own fist a long time ago.
Just you and the rest of the sad-sack mopes.
To the wrong stuff.
I am sure the DoJ is not holding off on public indictments and the rest for political concerns. They’re just dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s . It has to be air tight, the first time.
You can always tell are over the target when the personal attack flak starts. That is all the sunshine pumpers have left after 3 years of tick-tock nonsense to nowhere.
Big Tech has spread payola through Congress. Mike Lee in particular has famously flipped from a strong critic to lover of Big Tech as their cash flowed to him and investments to his state. Even if Barr did something he won’t have the support of his own party on The Hill.
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