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These are two important parts of what Barr said today, he made this the standard:

What happened to the president, and I have said this many times, in the 2016 election in the first two years of head is administration were unprecedented and abhorrent. The law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative against the president. The proper investigative and prosecuted standards of the department of justice were abused, in my view, in order to reach a particular result.

We saw two different standards of justice emerge. One the applied to president trump and his associates and the other the applied to everybody else. We cannot allow this ever to happen again. The durham investigation is trying to get to the bottom of what happened and it will determine whether there were any federal laws broken and if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account.

The Durham investigation is trying to get to the bottom of what happened and it will determine whether there were any federal laws broken and if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account. This cannot be, and it will not be, a tit for tat exercise.

We are not going to lower the standards just to get a result. The only way to break away from a dual system of justice is to make sure we scrupulously apply a single and proper standards of justice for everybody. Under the long-standing standards of the department criminal charges are appropriate only when we have enough evidence to prove each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

And regarding 0bola and Bite’m:

As to President 0bama and Vice President Biden, whatever the level of involvement based on the information I have TODAY, I do not expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man.

Barr was reading his statement today. Very carefully crafted to make two points:

1. There WILL be one standard of justice. If crimes were committed, those who committed them will face justice.

2. He doesn’t have AT THIS MOMENT evidence to go after 0bola and Bite’m. Maybe others do - (they do) - and maybe Barr will have it tomorrow or next week.

So it is all good.