Posted on 05/05/2019 8:48:46 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Kamala Harris calls on DOJ Inspector General to probe whether Trump ordered Bill Barr to investigate his opponents after AG failed to answer during Senate hearing
Kamala Harris grilled AG Bill Barr during Wednesday's Senate Judiciary hearing
She erupted at him for not personally reviewing all the evidence underlying the Mueller report before delivering his conclusions to Congress
Harris also quizzed Barr on whether President Trump or the White House had ever asked him to investigate any of Trump's political opponents
Barr appeared flustered and failed to answer the question
Harris on Friday sent a letter to DOJ's Inspector General Horowitz asking to probe whether Trump had ever asked Barr to investigate anyone
Senator Kamala Harris is calling for the Department of Justice's Inspector General to probe whether President Trump urged Attorney General William Barr to investigate his opponents.
Harris made the request in a letter sent to Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Friday after grilling Barr on the same issue in Wednesday's Senate hearing regarding the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
'In response to my questions during the [Senate Judiciary] hearing, Attorney General Barr proved unable or unwilling to state whether he had been directed to open investigations at the request or suggestion of the President or other White House officials -- an alarming response that strikes at the very heart of the rule of law and threatens to undermine the longstanding independence of the Justice Department,' she wrote in the letter.
'I request that the Office of the Inspector General investigate whether the Attorney General has received or acted upon such improper requests,' she said.
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It will be interesting if Harris thinks America will vote for a bitch president. I don’t think so. They don’t like male jerks either. SO I don’t think they want a bitch.
“Commie-Law” Harris only studied the law so carefully, you know, so she could find and exploit its loopholes.
Law is, by its very nature, prohibitive, telling people what is NOT permitted, spelling out the punishment for non-compliance. Almost every law ever written has been turned on its head by clever legal “experts”, sometimes by simply yelling, pointing fingers, and pounding on the table.
"In addition, Loretta Lynch paid visits to the White House to brief Valerie Jarrett, Obamas consigliere, about the status of the investigation. It was Jarrett, acting on behalf of Obama, who urged Lynch to order Comey to call the investigation a matter.
("Traditionally--at least in the past half-century)--there have been two kinds of attorneys general. One is the presidential confidant, such as Bobby Kennedy, John Mitchell or Edwin Meese, who treats the Justice Department as the president's private law firm. The other is the faceless, trustworthy administration foot soldier. Remember Bill Barr? I didn't think so."
No, he wasn't flustered, he was answering very carefully. The questions Harris asked him were intended to trap him into saying the President broke the law or was at least unethical. He wouldn't bite.
“Kamala Harris calls on DOJ Inspector General to probe whether Trump ordered Bill Barr to investigate his opponents...”
Trump asking Barr to investigate ANYONE would fall under that rubric.
I heard that question and it seemed that Barr was wary of a perjury trap.
Yes, I watched that disgusting Kamala display, she’s pandering to her ignorant base.
It’s what you do when you’re running for president and don’t actually have a successful record or intelligent policy positions.
You just throw out any old thing, that plus her self important “I know better than all of you” attitude is obnoxious.
She’s polling at 9%.
I'm sure Barr's antenna were spinning while she was asking questions and he was on high alert for just such a thing. This isn't his first rodeo.
I think Barr ought to tell Nadler and the democRATS that if they think he's acting as the president's personal attorney rather than the chief law enforcement officer of the country, then all information requested by them from here forward, is considered attorney-client privileged.
They can't have it both ways.
Since she wants the underlying evidence to be investigated, I guess Barr will simply have to investigate if any of the underlying evidence had been tainted and by whom and for whom. So if it comes out that Hillary leaning and Democrat influenced lawyers had been on or influenced the investigation, they must be charged with obstruction of justice and removed from their office.
Agreed. Californication produces some of the very worst and most insane politicians
She thoroughly investigated every inch of Willies staff.
And yet she is perfectly okay with Obama doing. Is she so stupid that she doesn’t see the hypocrisy in her question?
One, the DOJ cannot investigate Trump without his permission. And Two, Kamala the supposed lawyer should know that even if Trump did issue such an order, it is completely legal.
The president is the head la enforcement official in America. He can start or stop a federal investigation.
He can overturn the result of one with the pardon. And he even holds the legal power to conduct it himself.
She’s a dumbass.
No, he didn’t. The rude, egotistical beyotch wouldn’t LET him answer. She kept interrupting his attempts to answer, and when she took a breath and he tried to use THAT lull as an opening to answer, she’d interrupt again and say she’d “moved on, to another question”. She’s in dire need of an attitude adjustment. IMHO. And Cory Booger sitting next to her was enjoying her obnoxious behavior.
“If all these many attacks from many directions are NOT coordinated by some Mr. Big somewhere...”
I read somewhere that the left has several contracted “think tanks” that develop and hone specific narratives that are then delivered to the Dems/media. Of course, since the truth would destroy their hopes/dreams/aspirations/plans, these narratives have to rest on a mountain of lies.
As everyone knows, it is hard to remember all the lies you tell, so it is no wonder that it takes a great number of people to keep up and track the lies. Without these “think tanks” the Dems/media would be unable to operate day after day.
Think of Dems/media as nothing but mouths that open and close robotically, with someone behind the curtain manipulating the strings, and a loud speaker playing the sounds. There is no thinking human mind connected.
Find another desk to crawl under it shouldn’t be to hard
...and Willie drilled Kamala Harris.
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