Posted on 05/08/2020 10:28:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- To his critics, Attorney General William Barr is doing all he can to undercut the conclusions of the Mueller investigation to please the White House. To his supporters, he is scrutinizing the probe of a presidential candidate that even the Justice Department's inspector general said was flawed.
Those fault lines were in sharp relief after Barr directed federal prosecutors to abandon their prosecution of Michael Flynn, who served briefly as national security adviser in the early days of the Trump administration.
Barr's decision to abandon the Flynn case renewed criticism that he was doing the president's bidding.
He was accused in the spring of soft-pedaling the Mueller report before it was released. And in February, he instructed prosecutors to dial back their sentencing recommendation for former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone.
But Barr has been consistent in his view that the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign was overzealous. A year ago, he told Congress that he wanted to review "both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign."
Thursday's court filing does not end the Flynn case. The Justice Department has now asked Federal District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the prosecution and suggested in its court filing that the judge had little choice in the matter.
But Sullivan may want to look more deeply at the government's version of what happened. "The judge may want to make some sort of inquiry to see if the dismissal is being sought for an appropriate purpose," said Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Hey got to be very careful since such Slick people are Involved
Rush Limbaugh had a good point today - have you heard a single congressional Democrat speak up about this blatant subversion of the Constitution by the Federal Bureau of Fabrication and some lying ex-CIA Directors? not one - remember Howard Baker, “what did the President know and when did he know it?” By contrast, Schumer “Trump once more helps his cronies (Flynn)” or Pelosi (”I don’t need to hear the evidence bc in my 80 year old addled botoxed head I know Joe biden is a good man”).
Just call him Bob “wrecking ball” Barr.
Stand by for Barr Impeachment 1.0
Sullivan has been compromised, just like John Roberts. These guys didn’t do 180s to leftie positions overnight because they had a change of conscience.
Rosenberg having been appointed by...?
It may very well *be* the biggest in history (having an imperfect understanding of American history I cannot be certain) but it won’t “go down” as such.That’s because Maoists have a stranglehold on American education.
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The report fails to note that Mueller’s expedition was all about Russia, Russia, Russia. There wasn’t anything there! There wasn’t even enough there to make it a part of the sham impeachment.
Yes, Barr should be consumed with the blatant political use of the resources of the FBI, DOJ, and CIA, BY THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION! It is/was a national disgrace. Investigating what went wrong is Barr’s job!
The article also ignores that the political Mueller expedition consumed the House and the MSM during the same time period. Doesn’t that bear investigation?!
Well editted.
If anyone was consumed, it was the media
Pretty obvious that in order to be a Democrat
politician these days you must accept a different
definition of truth than we are used to.
God said it best. Their father is the Devil and there is no truth in them.
NBC has been consumed with DJT since he came down the escalator at TRUMP TOWER, on June 15, 2015.
And well it should consume the chief law enforcement officer of the US, especially after eight years of thieves and thugs running the show under head extortionist eric holder. The scale of the deep state crime is so massive that it could take many more years to extract justice for all the criminals involved, starting with the captain of the ship himself, obama.
No. The conspiracy of the Deepster national security apparat, including the DOJ and FBI, to overthrow a national election has consumed Barr since day 1, as it well should.
What an illiterate post.
This is the problem!
What an interesting headline.
Hitler’s Capture of Europe Has Consumed Eisenhower Since December 7.
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