Posted on 12/21/2020 5:41:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
During an interview last week, Attorney General William Barr gave an update on the criminal investigation into the origin of the Obama-era FBI counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, saying that a “willful if small group of people” were involved in an attempt to “topple” the Trump administration.
Barr made the remarks in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel in which he noted that he was “in a position in life where I can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences.”
Strassel wrote:
He reminds me why he took the job in the first place: “The Department of Justice was being used as a political weapon” by a “willful if small group of people,” who used the claim of collusion with Russia in an attempt to “topple an administration,” he says. “Someone had to make sure that the power of the department stopped being abused and that there was accountability for what had happened.” Mr. Barr largely succeeded, in the process filling a vacuum of political oversight, reimposing norms, and resisting partisan critics on both sides.
Mr. Barr describes an overarching objective of ensuring that there is “one standard of justice.” That, he says, is why he appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the FBI’s 2016 Crossfire Hurricane probe. “Of course the Russians did bad things in the election,” he says. “But the idea that this was done with the collusion of the Trump campaign — there was never any evidence. It was entirely made up.” The country deserved to know how the world’s premier law-enforcement agency came to target and spy on a presidential campaign.
Mr. Barr says Mr. Durham’s appointment should not have been necessary. Mr. Mueller’s investigation should have exposed FBI malfeasance. Instead, “the Mueller team seems to have been ready to blindly accept anything fed to it by the system,” Mr. Barr says, adding that this “is exactly what DOJ should not be.”
Never saw a single perp walk
Too bad Barr has not done jack.
A good AG will have enemies from more than one political,side. That rules out Holder, for sure.
What makes you think he’s done?
And Barr was part of it flying cover for hillary, clapper, brennan,meuller....
Too bad Barr has not done jack.
Charge; TREASON
Punishment: DEATH BY HANGING
Proceed.
I’d have had more respect for him if he’d not said anything in his last days on the job, on the issue of no need for a Special Counsel for the Biden case, or voter fraud. His speaking on issues he will have no future input into, proves to me that he’s a political hack.
Admits being a passive part of it?
Blah blah blah . . .
It’s not the AGs prerogative to get into the weeds like that. Nor is it to use the media as his mouthpiece.
Darksheare,The rules are we are the only ones that go to jail-didn’t you know.
Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is
You ran the Department of Justice, and you knew the facts behind Russiagate, yet you settled for Clinesmith.
OK; I’ll bite.
What has Barr done?
Seems everyone wants trial by media these days. I know at least to entities that do not: Justice, and William P. Barr.
You ran the Department of Justice, and you knew the facts behind Russiagate, yet you settled for Clinesmith.
I know.
But we’re getting to the point where enough people are going to go “laws don’t apply to you? Well, what makes them apply to me, then?”
Then it will get very ugly very fast.
He then makes excuses as to why he hasn’t done squat.
Barr is complicit.
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