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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Barr is one crafty bastard...
He appeases congress by agreeing to produce the unredacted Meuller report A week from now, and the very next day, is granted sweeping powers to cherry pick info from the Intel community to prove that "Angry Democrats" "spied" on Trump in an illegal "witch hunt".
I wonder what he'll do with a week's head start?
More importantly, I wonder what Congress will do once they get the unredacted report, and how quickly they will do it?
In the space of 48 hours, Barr went from being on the verge of impeachment, to being granted unprecedented powers.
Fasten your seat belts...
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Our Federal Government is a disaster area.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Seems theres a few bad apples in the Fb of I. This is starting to be a stonewall from side to side. NONE of the FBI guys have testified. It's not just mueller. It's a coup of the justice dept. They already went on a 'cleansing' to make every democrat FBI agent bite their tounge. See Strozk etc. J Edgar Hoover style FBI stuff here. IMHO.
watoos
(7,142 posts)he is just releasing more of it.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,634 posts)What have you heard?
watoos
(7,142 posts)with no grand jury testimony and no copies will be allowed, only viewing.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/barr-contempt-vote-intelligence-committee-1338354
Fiendish Thingy
(15,634 posts)From multiple sources, posted here on DU
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)He is evil.
dchill
(38,510 posts)Kablooie
(18,637 posts)In recent years it would just be locked away but now with Barr freely digging around in classified info he can pull out anything he wants to destroy Democrats.
Don't be surprised when Barr reveals some old scandal and orders some Democrats arrested.
Trump will make sure they will play as dirty as they can and I expect it to get pretty scary.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...one name is so obvious I hardly have to say it. (Yes, *him*.) But for what it's worth, a cousin of mine--who used to work for a big-name Dem pol in DC--has hinted that blackmail is being utilized right now on a Hooverian scale. I hope some of the victims confess to it all, and blow the whistle on some of these motherfuckers...
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...so maybe I better not mention names. Oh, the hell with it...one name, mentioned not just by my cousin but practically everybody, is a quite well-known Southern GOP Senator notorious for turning his coat regarding Trump. And a broad hint from my cousin--though hint was all it was--concerns a very famous GOP pol whom some have called even more culpable that Trump for the decline of our democracy. He played a significant role in the Trump/Russia scandal *not* being looked into in 2016. And he is as crooked as it is possible to be, something anyone with eyes can see...
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)But I suspect Lindsey,too.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Feed Barr some stinking wet bullshit as part of their directed "cooperation" with the DoJ. And I hope they release details on trump's cooperation with the russians.
Isn't this the third investigation into how the surveillance started? The other two didn't get trump the results he wanted.
I'm getting really tired of this treasonous shit.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)one to do it.
JohnnyRingo
(18,637 posts)Barr is indeed a smart contender. No one should underestimate him.
Leith
(7,813 posts)the whole tRump gang is no craftier than Scooby Doo villains. Barr is loud, obnoxious, and in-your-face, but there isn't any sign of intelligence to it. Just chutzpah.
NJCher
(35,693 posts)They are bumbling fools who occasionally hit a patch of good luck.
Barr has to make up his own words because his command of the English language is so perfunctory. Snitty. Please.
Cher
3catwoman3
(24,016 posts)Perfunctory grasp, indeed. Jackass.
SunSeeker
(51,579 posts)luvallpeeps
(935 posts)Don't go all nucular on W. He wasn't that dumb.
SunSeeker
(51,579 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Linda Ed
(493 posts)going to release the full report? I got my doubts,,,he will cherry pick that also,,
yaesu
(8,020 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)If I were in the intelligence community I would be seeking every possible way to thwart the AG's power to destroy sources and methods, just to please his boss.
spanone
(135,854 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,932 posts)by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agencys Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Universitys roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agencys legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican, he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for and got Bushs backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
Chapter and verse since Jimmy Carter crossed paths with the Safari Club,
Its Big Oil to the Rescue or the Seven Sisters Escape Justice Once Again with this guy Barr.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)instead of sending the sergeant of arms to arrest Barr. Let's talk Mark Herring into doing it. Barr's residency is in Virginia and Barr is probably to corrupt not to have done something to break Virginia law.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I've seen several pundits talking about it, but I haven't really heard about anything happening in Congress. Heck, they didn't even get the entire House to vote on Contempt.
bluestarone
(16,993 posts)I believe a 10 year old could do what he's doing as long as NOBODY will stop him! HELL he has FULL POWER to do whatever he wants! LOCK HIM UP!
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)(think about that!) and now in charge of the Justice Department. Another huge log on the bonfire steadily consuming our Democracy, Republic and Constitution.