Posted on 08/13/2020 11:32:31 AM PDT by bitt
"I hope they're not going to be politically correct,' Trump said
Following Muellers investigation, Barr appointed Durham to then investigate the origins of the FBIs original Russia probe, which began in July 2016, through the appointment of Mueller in May 2017.
Durhams team includes a number of federal prosecutors, including Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the DOJ in February to review the case against Michael Flynn. In May, Barr also tapped U.S. Attorney for Western Texas John Bash to launch a more focused review on the process of unmasking.
The Justice Department also revealed that Durham, himself, is investigating the unmasking of Trump campaign associates as part of his broader review. That line of investigation was confirmed after Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., made public a list of Obama officials who purportedly requested to unmask the identity of Michael Flynn, who at the time was Trumps incoming national security adviser.
Unmasking occurs after U.S. citizens' conversations are incidentally picked up in conversations with foreign officials who are being monitored by the intelligence community. The U.S. citizens' identities are supposed to be protected if their participation is incidental and no wrongdoing is suspected. However, officials can determine the U.S. citizens' names through a process that is supposed to safeguard their rights. In the typical process, when officials are requesting the unmasking of an American, they do not necessarily know the identity of the person in advance.
The roster featured top-ranking figures including then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Obamas then-chief of staff Denis McDonough.
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I do not believer the ‘no clue’, claimed, served the purposes of those skimming cream off the nuke players. Old Madeline Albright advocated anybody and everybody should have/get nukes.
it’s the Obamian marxist muslim coalition who brought the charges against the effective Michael Flynn, and they are the ones still seeking to keep him pinned. These are obamain marxist -muslim embedded operatives with the obamian “death to America agenda still in play.
Too many of them hav much to lose.
These are the same ones who did the spying on President Elect Trump. They are the same ones attempting to control any opposition or disruption of their “death to America” agenda.
True, Levin didn’t challenge him.
I think that President Tromp is starting to realize that his leg is being pulled. There will be no prosecutions.
Bull Sh-t Durham wont do a damn thing.
I’ll take “Average Deep State Bureaucrats” for $500 please, Alex.
IMHO Barr was buttered up on his great allegiance to the ‘rule of law’...(he’s one of the few in Washington who understands what the term actually means)... Now Barr feels he must be above the fray - a noble but totally indefensible position to take in these times.
I fear he’s doing a ‘paul ryan’ and opting out of doing what’s right in exchange for polishing his Boy Scout persona for the benefit of only one person...himself. Very commie move against him...
My only hope now is that Durham is building a Rico case against all of the conspirators. Usually you hear of cases being built from the bottom up using indictments of underlings as the conveyance. But with Rico a common criminal enterprise is identified, evidence gathered and presented to a judge for arrest warrants with indictments and trials to follow. Plus, I don’t see how Barr could say that spying on Trump before and after the election occurred but nothing will come of it because of a “lack of intent” as was rumored last week.
Ever get the feeling youve been cheated? -Johnny Rotten
The DoJ and especially the FBI are NOT law enforcement agencies. They are political agencies. Always have been. Nothing is going to happen. If snipers can shoot pregnant women with impunity. If federal jackbooted thugs can gas and immolate bunches of children and skate.
Expect no justice here either.
Exactly. Almost 4 years later, and we see a big nothing burger happening. None of those people have even been indicted, let alone convicted.
I admit to growing anxious, impatient, this has dragged on too long no matter what obstacles the AG is facing, he simply must understand he could lose the war by allowing the coup plotters to run out the clock OR BY FAILING TO ADDRESS THE DEMORALIZATION OF THE ELECTORATE. The latter is worse.
One of the obstacles Barr is probably deliberating about is the spector of DC court corruption obstructing his prosecutions of coup plotters. We already see clearly the horror of a wrongful continuance in the Flynn case. How much more would DC courts emaciate the law to protect traitors in its camp?
What Barr could do to instill confidence, could do today, is file an emergency petition with the US Supreme Court based on a clear violation of the constitutional separation of powers by the Judicial branch against the Executive branch citing the Flynn case and request an immediate transfer of jurisdiction to a federal court outside DC.
The President could follow by adding a complaint declaration to the DOJ petition citing bad faith.
Barr could then amend his petition in light of the President’s filed complaint declaration and request the US Supreme Court to order the DC courts into receivership citing bad faith with special masters appointed to oversee and review corrupt practices of these courts, AND requesting leave to pull all cases out of these courts transferring jurisdiction of existing and prospective cases while the DC courts are in receivership.
Simply put, Barr needs to be bold.
Because as of now, the coup plotters and their axis of powers in DC and globally appear to be running rings around Barr’s DOJ. Barr may think such criticisms are unwarranted and lacking but he is rapidly deflating and demoralizing the public. If he thinks this is unimportant, he is deficient in his assessment.
A countermove on the DC courts regarding Flynn would risk no loss of political capital and could bring overwhelming public support to pressure the Judicial branch to discipline its lower courts.
Moving coup cases outside DC would allow prosecutions to proceed in courtrooms devoid of bias.
Who is giving out the cyanide capsules and why are so many FReepers lining up?
It’s like a school of Krill around here. FReepers turning on a dime with any small movement of the water. It’s amazing to behold
I’m sure we’ll see it soon just like we’ll be seeing the Epstein documents. LoL!
going on 4 years and so far zero.
What the F are these gub mint asses waiting for?
Oh that’s right play it out til after the election then sweep it under the rug?
NO confidence in any damn thing federal gub mint.
He should, Trump is his direct supervisor. The AG is just another political appointee serving at the pleasure of the president. The president may direct an investigation started or stopped, or he may even conduct it himself.
Ever think of a citizens arrest of Comey? Maybe crazy, maybe not
Barr and Durham,
can either produce the obvious truths or become the traitors which other traitors are coercing them to be.
This BS as in the 2016, we can’t investigate Hillary, it’s too close to election and we can’t be seen as trying to influence an election. Crimes die and criminals walk.
I see a nation on a precipice and vigilant patriots reasonably pointing out that there has been no indictments after three and one-half years of an ongoing coup.
And I see a sit-back-and-enjoy-the-show naive.
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