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Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall. "They're basically a collection of liars. Most of the mainstream media. They're a collection of liars and they know exactly what they're doing. A perfect example of that were the riots. Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding...

US Attorney General William Barr said Operation Legend has resulted in hundreds of arrests in Chicago as he gave an update on the federal crime-fighting initiative Wednesday morning. Since the program launched in July, Attorney General Barr said more than 500 people have been arrested and 124 people have been charged with federal crimes. video - 10 min Operation Legend has deployed 1,000 federal agents to nine cities, including 400 to Chicago. In the first five weeks of Operation Legend in Chicago, Barr said murders dropped by 50 percent over the previous five weeks. "The bottom line is Operation Legend...

On Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Barr revealed that the murder rate in Chicago had plummeted "roughly in half" since the start of Operation Legend, a program that deploys federal agents to violent cities to quell violence. During a press conference in Chicago, Barr said that Operation Legend has resulted in 500 arrests as well as 124 individual federal crime charges. “Throughout the country, more than 2500 people have been arrested and more than 600 are facing federal charges as part of the operation, an ongoing government effort to combat surging crime in parts of the country,” Fox News reports. Daily...

Speaking in Chicago Wednesday morning, Attorney General Bill Barr gave an update on Operation Legend arrests, indictments and firearms seizures in the Windy City and other localities across the country. "I am pleased to be in Chicago to address the most significant threat facing this city. The explosion of violent crime, particularly homicides in Chicago earlier this year, threatened not only safety but this city's way of life. The federal government responded with Operation Legend, one of the most significant federal law enforcement operations in recent years," Barr said. "We've dedicated hundreds of the federal government's best investigators, analysts, fugitive...

Attorney General William Barr overruled career lawyers in the Department of Justice (DOJ), setting a deadline for federal prosecutors to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet—the parent company of Google—by the end of the month, The New York Times reported on Thursday. According to the report, the team of attorneys who have been working on the case for more than a year strongly oppose the deadline as being too soon to bring a strong case against the tech giant. They worry that Barr is more concerned about filing the high-profile lawsuit before November’s presidential election than allowing the department to...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), not Russia, poses the biggest threat to election security leading up to November, said Attorney General William Barr. In an interview on Wednesday night with CNN, Barr was asked about election security and who is the most assertive or aggressive nation. “I believe it’s China,” Barr said. “China more than Russia right now.” Asked about why he made that assessment, Barr said he has “seen the intelligence” suggesting the CCP is a greater threat than Moscow. “That’s what I concluded,” he added, saying that could not elaborate more on classified information. But he stressed that...

(CNSNews.com) - Attorney General William Barr has promised to get to the bottom of what happened to the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2017 when the FBI launched its investigation into alleged Russian collusion and later, Trump obstruction. Speaking to Fox News's Sean Hannity Thursday night, Barr said if the investigators "crossed the line" or "violated criminal law, they will be charged." He also said there will be "developments" today, Friday, in U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation: VIDEO AT LINK........... And John Durham is an independent man, highly experienced, and his investigation is (proceeding) apace. There was some delay because...

“There are two different things going on,” Barr said. “One, I’ve said that the American people need to know what actually happened, we need to get through the story of what happened in 2016 and 2017, now, out. That will be done.” “The second aspect of this is, if people crossed the line, if people involved in that activity violated the criminal law, they will be charged,” Barr continued. “And John Durham is an independent man, highly experienced, and his investigation is pursuing a case. There was some delay because of COVID, but I’m satisfied with the progress and I’ve...

"I hope they're not going to be politically correct,' Trump said Following Mueller’s investigation, Barr appointed Durham to then investigate the origins of the FBI’s original Russia probe, which began in July 2016, through the appointment of Mueller in May 2017. Durham’s 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...

Fox News host Mark Levin blasted the Washington Post’s coverage of his interview with Attorney General William Barr as a “shocking lie” in a series of scathing tweets on Monday. Levin sat down with Barr on Sunday’s edition of “Life, Liberty & Levin” in a news-making interview in which the country's top law enforcement officer discussed the ongoing Black Lives Matter riots rippling through U.S. cities. He told Levin that the organization – which has been characterized by the media as a fed-up activist group – is comprised of "Bolsheviks" with a focus on "some form of socialism, communism." "They...

This is a big, big deal, folks. During an interview with Mark Levin aired Sunday night on Fox News, Attorney General William Barr took the gloves completely off regarding the Black Lives Matter domestic terrorist group that, along with Antifa, serves as the insurrectionist arm of the Democrat Party. Some of Mr. Barr’s quotes appear below. Read them carefully and you will see the U.S. Attorney General speaking with perfectly clear eyes about the true nature of BLM, which is indistinguishable from its fellow Democrat-sponsored terrorist group, Antifa, as I have been pointing out to readers here for weeks now:...

Thread from 3 days ago: AG William Barr to sit down with Fox News host Mark Levin on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ - The hourlong interview will air Sunday night

@KerriKupecDOJMThat time you’re driving in Virginia and the Attorney General spots a group of people in front of a police precinct showing their support for the police. AG to FBI Detail: “Can we make a quick U-Turn? I want to jump out and thank those people.” Video...

Fox News host Mark Levin will interview Attorney General William Barr on Sunday during “Life, Liberty & Levin,” the network announced on Thursday. The hourlong interview, which will air Sunday at 8 p.m. EDT, is expected to include a candid conversation about the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest across the nation and a variety of other topics. Levin recently appeared on "Watters' World" and criticized Democrats for their treatment of Barr during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month, calling it a "disgrace." "I've never seen a senior official of any administration ever treated like that," Levin...

House Democrats Madeleine Dean (Penn.) and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) accused Attorney General William Barr of being sexist and hostile during his contentious Judiciary Committee testimony on Tuesday. Democrats repeatedly interrupted Barr at the hearing and condemned him as corrupt, racist, and dangerous, but Dean said Wednesday that Barr was "disrespectful" and particularly mistreated women. "We have to hold him accountable to the American people," Dean said on MSNBC. "You saw his affect yesterday. He was disrespectful, spoke over top of every one of us. In particular, he spoke over women. He was flanked by at least 10 staffers, not a...

Attorney General William P. Barr revealed Tuesday that he’s appointed another U.S. attorney to investigate requests by top Obama officials to “unmask” President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Mr. Barr said he’s asked John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, to look into the unmasking requests. He said that review will be independent of Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation `into the origins of the Russia-collusion investigation. “I’ve asked another U.S. attorney to look into the issue of unmasking because of the high number of unmaskings and some that do not readily appear in...

Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee - LIVE at [10:45]am ET on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio & online here: https://cs.pn/2EbeQ4D

When is it? Tuesday, July 28, at 10 a.m. ET. Barr was originally scheduled to testify in March, but that was canceled due to the pandemic. Barr agreed to testify on Tuesday after House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., threatened to subpoena the attorney general following the firing of Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. What’s the format? The hearing will be a hybrid, with some members asking questions in person and some remotely. What’s the significance? Some Democrats have suggested trying to impeach Barr over accusations he’s politicized the Justice Department. Nadler said...

Ukraine prosecutors didn't want the political spectacle that became impeachment and simply sought to turn over evidence about Joe Biden and election interference to U.S. prosecutors, memos show.Could the impeachment scandal have been prevented if the now-fired U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had followed up on Ukrainian allegations about Joe Biden and his family in 2018? That’s the tantalizing question raised by emails from fall 2018 between an American lawyer and the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan that were obtained by Just the News. The memos show that well before Ukrainian prosecutors reached out to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, in...

A standoff loomed over the purported ouster of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman Saturday as the hazy details of the move left in doubt the authority of Attorney General William Barr to replace him. Meanwhile, the president of New York state’s largest bar group condemned the effort to remove Berman, and one former assistant U.S. attorney said the issue placed the Southern District in “uncharted waters.” Barr issued a statement late Friday night announcing Berman’s resignation, but in short order Berman denied he had resigned and said he would not abandon his job. A second version of the Justice Department...