Posted on 10/08/2020 11:06:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
President Donald Trump is increasingly at odds with Attorney General William Barr over the status of the Justice Department’s investigation into the origin of the Russia probe, with the president increasingly critical about a lack of arrests and Barr frustrated by Trump’s public pronouncements about the case, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump and his allies had high hopes for the investigation led by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, betting it would expose what they see as wrongdoing when the FBI opened a case into whether the Trump campaign was coordinating with Russia to sway the 2016 election. Trump has also pushed to tie prominent Obama administration officials to that effort as part of his campaign against Joe Biden, who was serving as vice president at the time.
But a year and a half into the investigation, and with less than one month until Election Day, there has been only one criminal case: a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering a government email about a former Trump campaign adviser who was a target of secret FBI surveillance.
With time running out for pre-election action on the case, Trump is increasingly airing his dissatisfaction in tweets and television appearances. Barr, meanwhile, has privately expressed frustration over the public comments, according to a person familiar with his thinking. […]
This account is based on interviews with six people who have direct knowledge of Trump and Barr’s relationship. They were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Re: Bitch Baby?
Unreal.
If Conservatives do not hold Trump’s feet to the political fire, who will?
AP should not be used in any news forum. Pravda would be more reliable.
another Russiagate hoax story bites the dust:
Tweet: Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone)
I know everyone is tired of hearing this, but the number of bombshell stories from the last four years that turned out later to be wrong or over-hyped is astounding.
Tweet: Joe Weisenthal, Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast and ‘What’d You Miss?’ on Bloomberg TV.
LINK
Financial Times: ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions
A three-year inquiry into data mishandling by Cambridge Analytica by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has come up with diddly-squat. So now what?
So the entire Cambridge Analytica controversy was basically fake?
9 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1314276433720758274
Tweet: Antonio García Martínez
This is such obvious revisionist bullshit.
The NYT and the rest of the tech journo circle covered the hell out of Cambridge Analytica for YEARS after the election, lending credence to what I and other ad tech insiders decried as overblown, laughable conspiracy theories.
8 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1313862663735144448
8 Oct: Financial Times: ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions
By Izabella Kaminska
After more than three years, Elizabeth Denham, the UK’s Information Commissioner, has closed her investigation into improper data handling by the SCL and Cambridge Analytica group.
At first glance her findings, which were released on Tuesday, dispel many of the accusations put forward by whistleblowers and digital rights campaigners over the course of 2018.
The most serious of these was that the digital marketing specialist had colluded with Russia to steer the results of the Brexit referendum and broken US campaign rules during the 2016 presidential election...
According to the final report, the Commissioner’s office is already ensuring that “any data, models and derivatives are safely destroyed” and that “several items obtained have been subsequently disowned and we are taking measures via our forensic technology provider to destroy these safely ourselves.”
That, FT Alphaville assumes, implies the underlying data that many continue to believe single-handedly “hacked” the 2016 Brexit and American elections, could soon be lost forever.
If that’s the case, it may shortly become even harder to disprove the uncomfortable proposition that Cambridge Analytica’s main data-related crime was overselling its own capabilities rather than actually hacking democracy with the help of the Russians.
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/06/1602008755000/ICO-s-final-report-into-Cambridge-Analytica-invites-regulatory-questions/
We tried to warn the “enjoy the show” numbskulls about this guy.
This account is based on interviews with six people who have direct knowledge of Trump and Barr’s relationship. They were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. …
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I am afraid that you are right. Communists would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
All spring , all summer, nothing.
The honey badger and bull Durham need to start pounding Red Bull . Get off your duffus, old men . Forward to the foe! Charge! Full disclosure and Intel dump of ALL material related to Crossfire Hurricane,..including and especial ALL that directly name Obama AND Biden as conspiracy LEADERS .
Trump’s ‘October Surprise ‘should be a nuclear bomb ! Blow them all to smithereens
Barr is worried about bringing indictments before the election. If Biden is elected, his people will find a way to put Barr in jail if he indicts and they will, of course, dismiss all indictments against D’s. At a minimum, he will never be invited to another DC party if he indicts before the election.
He is slow-walking the process to cover his ass. He’s too deep in the deep state to do his duty.
Re: “Read this and every other thread (save one).”
I’ll pass on the cheap thrill of group think.
No. Barr is a deep state plant just like Jeff Sessions.
Anyone with half a brain knows that if Trump looses, any prosecutions are finished and that is what Barr is there to assure
Of course. Why would you when you got a nice bottle of it right here.
#ReadTheThread
#HypocriteMuch
Totally agree. T
I hate the bastard
Instead of protecting those cretins within the Justice dept. Barr needs to worry about the lack of trust this has caused within the American populace.
I do not believe any damned thing federal gub mint at this point.
Simply cover for the entrenched swamp folk who have done their best to screw over The Donald. And protect the Clintons and the Clinton crime syndicate.
Hey federal gub mint you B horse crap.
Yeah, nobody is going to do anything. AG Barr, Mr Durham, justice delayed is justice denied. Go get another job. You have let the American people down.
The irony.
It stings.
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