Posted on 12/21/2020 5:41:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
During an interview last week, Attorney General William Barr gave an update on the criminal investigation into the origin of the Obama-era FBI counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, saying that a “willful if small group of people” were involved in an attempt to “topple” the Trump administration.
Barr made the remarks in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel in which he noted that he was “in a position in life where I can do the right thing and not really care about the consequences.”
Strassel wrote:
He reminds me why he took the job in the first place: “The Department of Justice was being used as a political weapon” by a “willful if small group of people,” who used the claim of collusion with Russia in an attempt to “topple an administration,” he says. “Someone had to make sure that the power of the department stopped being abused and that there was accountability for what had happened.” Mr. Barr largely succeeded, in the process filling a vacuum of political oversight, reimposing norms, and resisting partisan critics on both sides.
Mr. Barr describes an overarching objective of ensuring that there is “one standard of justice.” That, he says, is why he appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the FBI’s 2016 Crossfire Hurricane probe. “Of course the Russians did bad things in the election,” he says. “But the idea that this was done with the collusion of the Trump campaign — there was never any evidence. It was entirely made up.” The country deserved to know how the world’s premier law-enforcement agency came to target and spy on a presidential campaign.
Mr. Barr says Mr. Durham’s appointment should not have been necessary. Mr. Mueller’s investigation should have exposed FBI malfeasance. Instead, “the Mueller team seems to have been ready to blindly accept anything fed to it by the system,” Mr. Barr says, adding that this “is exactly what DOJ should not be.”
Well he does have 2 more days. /sarcasm
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Bill Barr protected Biden - period.
Durham hired his girlfriend and Never Trumper to run out the clock on Trump.
The one low level flunky showed up at the door - and his Lawyer said, we’re here to plead Guilty. They were like, you’re kidding me.
Barr protected Biden, his job, per the Senate and Power Brokers.
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Well since tomorrow is his last day on the job.....
Barrs’s future plans include heading to NYC and sucking —— until he regains his self respect and dignity.
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And, if you notice the Media keeps implying that Barr made an agreement with Rosen before he would turn it over, that Biden is off-limits.
My, they really fear a Special Prosecutor. Makes one wonder the extent to what being hidden.
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That is like an oncologist concentrating on a patients butt boil instead of treating his cancer.
Hopefully, Rosen will be out the door in a few days too. It could be he was just placed as acting AG to placate Barr until he had cleaned out his desk.
Trump makes a public phone call to Ukraine and gets a Special Prosecutor but Biden’s corruption doesn’t? Not surprised.
And yet he did nothing.
This guy belongs behind bars also now.
Note that I was adding to that list in post 36.
Yr. butt boil Metaphor. Pimping out 12 year old girls and boys or forced prostitution (that is, slavery) IS the equivalent of a cancer on society.
“What makes you think he’s done?”
The letter of resignation he wrote and signed.
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Have you read in full his latest letter to President Trump? Let me know where you see any variant of the word “resign” or “quit” in there. Meanwhile, the best is yet to come.
See #53
“ t’s not the AGs prerogative to get into the weeds like that”
Actually, that’s pretty much his f****** job.
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Bill Barr Admits Plan To Topple Trump Administration
NYT headline. So...they finally got him to confess his plan to topple the administration? (Makes it sound like it was his plan.) Omits “...that there was a plan by xyz...”
Let me guess.....you’re one of the Qballs. Right?
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The AGs job is to make sure justice is applied fairly and equally. It is manifestly *not* to seek out your favorite political enemies and destroy them by way of your favorite media mouthpieces. Grow up. It will do us all some good.
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That would be nice.
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Ha! I thought the same thing on first reading.
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