Posted on 05/18/2020 10:03:26 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday he does not expect U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review into the origins of the Russia probe will lead to a “criminal investigation” of either former President Barack Obama or former Vice President Joe Biden -- while noting that their concern of “potential criminality” in the conduct of that probe is “focused on others.”
Barr did say, however, that “not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.”
“As for President Obama and Vice President Biden, whatever their level of involvement based on what I know, I don’t expect Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man,” Barr said. “Our concern of potential criminality is focused on others.”
This comes after both Obama and Biden -- the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee -- have faced heightened criticism from Republicans for any potential role in the early stages of the probe. Trump last week even called for Obama to be summoned to testify before Congress.
The politically explosive environment -- bringing the country into uncharted territory, with a former president accused by critics of involvement in a political probe related to his eventual successor, and the sitting president now essentially calling for retribution against his predecessor -- has built ever since the DOJ moved to dismiss its case against Michael Flynn.
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Maybe give Trump an extra three years, too.
This is simply a point in time.
People flip.
Evidence surfaces.
Take a deep breath and give it time to unfold.
Of course not..Messiah Obama is off limits since he’s a half black Muslim commie..they get away with EVERYTHING don’t they, people wag a finger at the commies saying “You did a very very bad thing” but nothing happens to them, no matter what..turn it around and imagine if Bush had done the EXACT same thing to Obama and his hired goons..the outrage would have been HUGE, there would have been rioting in the streets, but for Trump, since 99.9 percent of the media vote Democrat, they dont care, they hate Trump too much to give a crap
“Yeah they try to coup a sitting a U.S. President, and you think it is no big deal?”
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Well that’s right Enlightned1. You see it’s like this: “not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.”
Simple as that.
It would be nice to see that people who break the law GO TO PRISON.
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That’s so “old America”. In today’s Amerika the elites live under a different system than the proletariat.
Yes, presidents can encourage bad behavior but it is the underlings who carry it out that take the fall.
I don’t call it THE DISTRICT OF CORRUPTION without reason.
This would be just one more.
Okay, Pollyanna.
You actually believe that? That Biden and Obama didn’t commit massive corruption crimes and then seditious crimes against a duly elected and installed successor?
Barr and Durham were never gonna go after the big guys, but that’s not because they are not guilty of crime.
I think Barr is just being cautious.
To get a conviction, a specific statue has to be violated and it must be proven that it was violated.
For example, lying to a federal investigator, Title 18 Section 1001.
Transmitting classified information to an unauthorized individual is a felony under Title 18 Section 798. For example, leaking classified information to a newspaper.
I think it will be easier getting convictions on the underlings. It will be very difficult in the case of Obama and Biden.
Ergo - Trump can use the same tactics against the Dems - weaponize the FBI and CIA to fix elections
It cannot happen until after the election.
Take a deep breath and give it time to unfold.
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Yes, we need to be more patient. It takes time to whitewash a complex scandal. /sarc
I like the term, “unindicted co-conspirators.”
5.56mm
DOES ANYONE THINK THERE WOULDN’T BE PROSECUTIONS IF THE CRIMINALS WERE FROM OUR PARTY???
Your post was well stated. I get it.
However...have I not read this in Orwell’s 1984 or was it Atlas Shrugged?
“not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.”
“You actually believe that?”
Of course not. I suppose I should have added a tag for sarcasm.
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