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AG Barr blasts ‘mainstream’ media for enabling ‘Spygate’ scandal: ‘They’re supposed to be watchdogs’
The National Sentinel ^ | 6/3/19 | Jon Dougherty

Posted on 06/03/2019 6:32:29 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher

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To: G Larry

Conservatives have waited too long to fight for truth, pretending that peace and going along to get along were somehow preferable.

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The GOP should have been leading the media push back but they left the battlefield long ago.


21 posted on 06/03/2019 7:13:40 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SleeperCatcher

In other words, Schiff wants to know what Barr is up to so he can undermine his probe and derail it, if possible. And he’s demanded — demanded — all appropriate documents by June 6.

I hope the appropriate authorities tell Schiffty to go get f*ed.


22 posted on 06/03/2019 7:19:25 AM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: SamuraiScot

Agree. He is positioning the MSM in the spotlight with the traitors.

I pray that little rats will rat out the big rats.


23 posted on 06/03/2019 7:28:12 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Starboard

I would instead say that we conservative Americans should have been leading the GOP push back but we left the battlefield long ago.


24 posted on 06/03/2019 7:30:00 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: newfreep

“Barr doesn’t know the answer to THAT question?”

What Barr knows is not the cutting tool. Evidence of deeds and misdeeds must be collected, supported, and presented in writing to a court.


25 posted on 06/03/2019 7:39:23 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: G Larry

“Conservatives have waited too long to fight for truth..”

Yes they have but it is not to late. It is never too late to do the right thing.


26 posted on 06/03/2019 7:39:46 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: SleeperCatcher

The DOJ investigation and breakup of the “intelligence agencies {TECH}” improper politicalization by the DNC in violation of laws by Hillary cand Obama’s Administration inner circle will see GOOGLE and FACEBOOK downgraded as USG tools. There will be a transparent nonpolicical redesign and workforce overhaul.


27 posted on 06/03/2019 7:41:26 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: billyboy15

Can 3% save America again?


28 posted on 06/03/2019 7:42:07 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Not sure what you mean exactly. If you are saying only 3% of Americans will fight, I say that amounts to over 9 million people. Seems to me a face of 9 million people, mobilized and ready to fight would get a whole lot of attention.

Besides would you personally rather fight for what you know and believe is right and die fighting or drop to your knees and live in subjugation?

I know what I would do.


29 posted on 06/03/2019 7:48:23 AM PDT by billyboy15
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Breakup Comcast.

Infrastructure companies must not also control the news message


30 posted on 06/03/2019 7:50:14 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SleeperCatcher

And you’re supposed to arrest criminals.

Where is it?

Why do we keep seeing “Decline to prosecute” for people like Deep Stroke?


31 posted on 06/03/2019 7:53:49 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Da Coyote

yeah, replace the blade with a acme anvil.


32 posted on 06/03/2019 7:59:47 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: SleeperCatcher

The MSM and the democrat party are joined at the hip. Which one drives the other is the only question.


33 posted on 06/03/2019 8:07:18 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: magua

If Barr had said anything publicly 3 years ago, no one would have paid attention to him.


34 posted on 06/03/2019 8:10:33 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Frau Mueller? "What do the Clintons, Obama and their Spygate CIA/FBI/DOJ thugs have on you???????")
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To: SleeperCatcher

They are watchdogs! They’re protecting the Democrats!


35 posted on 06/03/2019 8:41:08 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: SleeperCatcher

Something you will never hear from the DNC News, what did Obama know and when did he know it.


36 posted on 06/03/2019 8:42:51 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Barr, of course knows the answers to all his questions, it’s just bringing the country to that place [a little shrink lingo there].

There are basically several groups of people involved.

1 - The conspirators in government - and we know who the top ones are. They’re easy to find because they’re running around calling Trump a traitor. They’re looking at big-time jail sentences and are trying to get the public [i.e., their future juries] on their side, or at least enough of them...in other words ‘obstruct justice’.

2 - The ‘uninterested’ media - they simply have no interest in finding out why Trump was accused of something he didn’t do, why their sources fed them lies, or anything else. The reason they have ‘no interest’ in how the accusations came about is because they were in on it. They simply want it all to ‘go away’, so they can at least keep their credibility among the CNN crowd.

3 - The Innocents - starting with Trump, and everyone around him. There was never any crime and yet they are the only ones, so far, seeing jail time. Hopefully that changes.

4 - The Government White Hats - We don’t hear about them, but you can bet that they’re feeding Barr and his people loads of stuff. These are the people who knew what they were doing was wrong, but at their lower level, didn’t feel they had much choice but to follow orders. I’m sure many of them are Trumpers. It is their information that will be compared against what the conspirators say...which is where things will get interesting.

5 - The Choir - In other words, the people who committed crimes, such as ordering the spying, but are now singing in order to at least reduce their sentences. Lisa Page apparently seems to one, based on reports about her closed-door testimony to Congress. There are likely many others, some of them are familiar second-tier people.

6 - The ‘Protect the Reputation’ bunch - These are the people, like Coats and Wray, who weren’t involved in the spying on Trump, but are scared to death when they think of what will happen to the reputation of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and others, should the truth ever come out. These people SICKEN me, and I’m sure you guys, maybe even more than the actual felons...I’ve got news for them - the reputation of those agencies NOW among at least Trump supporters is about as high as it is for Stalin. The time to ‘protect’ those agencies is BEFORE they get in the business of trying to select presidents for this country.


37 posted on 06/03/2019 8:43:17 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: polymuser

Your point is well taken. Ultimately, it is up to us to influence the party and remove those who fail to meet our expectations. The GOP cons us every election cycle and the harsh reality is that most of us fall for it and keep the same scoundrels in office.


38 posted on 06/03/2019 8:57:38 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SleeperCatcher
‘They’re supposed to be watchdogs’

Yes, Attorney General William Barr the press IS suppose to be watchdogs. But incentives were switched by the democrats party many years ago...

First, democrats provided packs of information to top editors. Democrats had discovered that you get more 'bang for your buck' if you target a small number of people to persuade RATHER than trying to persuade millions of citizens.

News packets were researched - and it was discovered that newspaper editors would CHOOSE MORE STORIES from the packet IF it included more 'self serving' stories. (This way editors like Dean Baquet and Chris Wallace could rationalize their bias by 'agonizing over story choices')

The more biased the product the more subscribers dropped out, the more numbers dropped, the more the press had to downsize, making editors with 'great connections' MORE important. Meaning the 'most liberal' were NOT downsized and the media became more liberal and more dependent =- wash, rinse, repeat etc. etc... The press and democrats became partners... in the short run it worked - in the long run it destroyed press credibility...

And that's before the Adam Schiff's of the country brought in 'intelligence' services to partner in real time with a now totally blind and silly corrupted press...

39 posted on 06/03/2019 9:05:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (Joe Biden will be the Bob Dole of 2020... Democrat's are gonna dump him soon.)
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To: billyboy15
Only 3% fought for America in the Revolution.

Can we count on that again?

FReepers know where I stand.

40 posted on 06/03/2019 9:27:24 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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