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Barr Taking Over Antitrust Probes of Silicon Valley Tech Companies
National Review ^ | 3/2/2020 | MAIREAD MCARDLE

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agbarr; antitrust; barr; techcompanies
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I don’t bother trying to have discourse with defeatists with no ability to think rationally.


21 posted on 03/02/2020 3:07:47 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: bitt
I do not like anti trust, but these hi tech guys are doing mind control toward a Leftist bent. google figured it did evil because Donald Trump was elected and gppgle is trying to censor and shadow ban us evil people.
22 posted on 03/02/2020 3:32:39 PM PST by Stepan12 (potusm)
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To: bitt

Barr’s on the case, no need to worry........ for Big Tech that is!


23 posted on 03/02/2020 3:37:35 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: little jeremiah

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


24 posted on 03/02/2020 3:41:28 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Howie66
"Can WE have some INDICTMENTS, Please?"

Here ya go...

25 posted on 03/02/2020 3:51:53 PM PST by TXnMA (Most people have things happen to them. | Effective people >make< things happen!)
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To: bitt; All
A constitutional problem with federal antitrust laws is the following imo.

The Founding States gave Congress the express constitutional power only to grant temporary monopoly power for innovative products, not to break big companies up.

Corrections, insights welcome.

26 posted on 03/02/2020 3:52:14 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: little jeremiah

“This thread is chockfull of defeatist eeyores who appear to be of childlike reasoning capacity.”

****

Have you been to ANY wall threads? I’ve seen some idiots who even claim that NOT ONE 10 foot wall has been built.


27 posted on 03/02/2020 4:09:39 PM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: Obadiah; bitt; little jeremiah; ransomnote; bagster
"Still nothing on Hillary, or Clapper, or Comey, or Brennan, or Strzok, or Page, or any of the countless criminals you have been promising would get close review. "

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
  

28 posted on 03/02/2020 4:22:09 PM PST by TXnMA (Most people have things happen to them. | Effective people >make< things happen!)
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To: bitt
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.

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.

29 posted on 03/02/2020 4:29:25 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Obadiah
What a joke.

You're right. Trump sucks.

We should all vote for Biden.

#TrustThePlan

30 posted on 03/02/2020 4:37:56 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: gibsonguy
Barr has made it his primary objective to protect the Department of Justice.

No he hasn't, liar.

31 posted on 03/02/2020 4:38:46 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: little jeremiah
This thread is chockfull of defeatist eeyores who appear to be of childlike reasoning capacity.

So what else is new, out here beyond the trees.

Their group-think sucks.

32 posted on 03/02/2020 4:40:29 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I've been paying attention

No. No you haven't. If you had, you wouldn't be crying like a Hillary.

33 posted on 03/02/2020 4:41:58 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: proust
Cool, let me know when something actually happens.

Nope. No pings for giver-uppers.

34 posted on 03/02/2020 4:43:54 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

If I saw the world like that I’d have killed myself with my own fist a long time ago.


35 posted on 03/02/2020 4:45:06 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Lurker
Maybe it’s just me.

Just you and the rest of the sad-sack mopes.

36 posted on 03/02/2020 4:45:12 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Lurker
I've been paying a hell of a lot of attention...

To the wrong stuff.

37 posted on 03/02/2020 4:46:09 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Truthoverpower

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.


38 posted on 03/02/2020 4:46:20 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; gibsonguy

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.


39 posted on 03/02/2020 4:47:43 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Boogieman

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.


40 posted on 03/02/2020 4:49:26 PM PST by lodi90
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