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Trumps hand-picked Attorney General, Bill Barr, is making good on Trumps demands to investigate the investigators, as the New York Times reports he is using the DOJ to push a criminal probe in the Mueller investigation. MSNBCs Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on how Barrs call for investigation, in the midst of the Ukraine impeachment probe, is Trumps latest systematic demand to use the governments gravest powers to go after anyone has ever opposed him.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Who will step forward from within to expose both of these criminal operations?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)The head of the DoJ and a number of people in it are corrupt.
But to say the DoJ is totally corrupt is to shit on a lot of very dedicated hard-working people who are doing the best they can day to day under adverse conditions. After all, the DoJ put Manafort in prison.
I say give them some respect and drop the binary all-or-nothing thinking.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Then people within the DOJ need to out Barr and his henchmen in an attempt to reinstate their integrity.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)The DoJ that put Manafort in prison wasn't the Barr DoJ, now was it?
And if the reports are true, that Barr has "required" the SDNY work closer with the DoJ in D.C. in the investigation of Rudy and his Ukraine/Belorus pals...we can suspect that the DoJ here in D.C., will be leaking information from the SDNY, to Rudy and his cohorts who were recently indicted...all to keep Trump out of the line of fire!!!
Corruption comes in many forms...active participation as well as silent complicity...Barr and his cronies are active, those who sit and their hands are complicit...
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He wrote a fawning letter to tRump, telling him a president is above all laws. Barr is a toady, and looks the part. He should be removed from that position. Flying all over the world, getting people to lie about the Russia probe? This is making the USA look so petty and juvenile in the eyes of the entire world. Nobody respects tRump, he is a joke worldwide. Barr is aiding him in downgrading this country. I can't wait until we get adults into positions in government again. This crew is so anti-American it reeks.
calimary
(81,467 posts)James48
(4,440 posts)Who do you call when the cops are the ones who are crooked?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The Mayor and Police Commissioner, along with their closest advisors, are crooked as hell!
malaise
(269,157 posts)and they will lose
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)for anyone who dares to tell the truth about the Putin-Trump organized crime family.
Woodwizard
(846 posts)I think this will be a disaster for them in a month or so the tables will turn on Barr and ultimately 45. He is messing with people who know the game.