NBCnews: Democrats question why DOJ IG not investigating Barr.

[triron]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/democrats-question-why-doj-inspector-general-isn-t-investigating-trump-n1090666

"While inspectors general at other major cabinet agencies have conducted high profile investigations of Trump appointees, the Justice Department's Michael Horowitz — appointed by President Obama in 2012 and confirmed by the Senate — has not. Trump's three attorney general appointees — Jeff Sessions, Matthew Whitaker and William Barr — have each escaped serious scrutiny from an inspector general who investigated Eric Holder, Obama's first attorney general, and many of his top deputies. It's a record that puzzles his allies and infuriates critics.

"I don't have so much of a problem with Horowitz investigating some of the allegations surrounding the 2016 election, because that's his job," said Matthew Miller, a Democratic former DOJ spokesman and NBC News legal analyst. "But it is striking to me that with all of Barr's known misconduct, all of the instances of conversations between senior leadership and the White House, there doesn't seem to have been a single investigation into any that." "

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, Someone needs to investigate the IG then ... this is disgusting.

[Iliyah]

2. Cover up . .

Criminal Barr falsified the Mueller report and denied and covered up the WB's complaint with the help of the IG.

[triron]

3. So is Horowitz being coerced?

[NotHardly]

4. ... or is he just part of the 'bought off' crew now surrounding Trump? What do they have on him?

[Texin]

6. The Russians, i.e., Putin-Trump must have something on him.

Think about it. He's a formerly appointed IG by Obama. tRump would ordinarily have summarily fired him when he came in. I think there must be something that Putin gave to tRump on this guy which was imminently more valuable to him than simply firing him and replacing him with an unknown quantity, even one of tRump's "friends". By leaving him in place, it provides additional cover, because tRump has fired anyone Obama appointed.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. makes sense. TrumPutin has been on a crusade to undo everything Obama

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Perhaps he's part of the crowd in NY that never seemed to investigate rump and ...

cronies earlier. People have remarked that a lot of crap that rump did back then seemed to escape notice. Wonder who got brought out, eh?

[UCmeNdc]

7. What is going on here? Crooked IG ?

[Texin]

10. Krompomat on him and it's leveraged against him for Putin-tRump.

[Doremus]

9. Almost like a giant FU to the person and/or the person's party who appointed him.

The question is why.