Barr Is Trying to Erase the Truth

[babylonsister]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/barr-doj-ig-russia-report-erase-truth.html

Barr Is Trying to Erase the Truth
He’s smearing the Russia investigation and covering up Trump’s guilt.
By William Saletan
Dec 13, 2019
7:25 PM

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At first, Barr seemed to be an ordinary liar. But in recent months, he has displayed a fanatical streak that suggests he might sincerely believe his fictions. “People are saying that it’s President Trump that’s shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that,” Barr opined in May. The true threat, he argued, came from Americans “resisting a democratically elected president.” In October, Barr accused “so-called progressives” of a “campaign to destroy the traditional moral order.” Last month, he denounced these same “so-called progressives,” along with a “hyper-partisan media,” for waging “a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of ‘Resistance’ against this Administration.”

This week, Barr pounced on a Justice Department report about the Russia investigation. The report, issued on Monday by the department’s inspector general, faulted the FBI’s surveillance of a marginal Trump adviser, Carter Page, but found no “documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the decisions” of investigators. A normal attorney general would have welcomed this vindication of his department. But Barr works for Trump, not for law enforcement. Instead of embracing the report, he’s disparaging it, smearing the FBI, and pretending that Trump has been exonerated.

On Tuesday, at a forum hosted by the Wall Street Journal, Barr called the Russia investigation “a travesty.” He asserted that “from day one,” it produced “nothing that substantiated any kind of collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign. In an interview with NBC News, Barr called the investigation “completely baseless” and claimed that there “never has been any evidence of collusion.”

Barr dismissed the FBI’s portion of the inquiry, which lasted a year. “From the very first day of this investigation, which was July 31, 2016, all the way to its end in September 2017, there was not one incriminatory bit of evidence to come in. It was all exculpatory,” he told NBC. He also dismissed Mueller’s portion of the inquiry, which ran from May 2017 to April 2019, as well as media reports of secret dealings between Russia and the Trump campaign. “Our nation was turned on its head for three years, I think, based on a completely bogus narrative that was largely fanned and hyped by an irresponsible press,” said Barr. He protested that “the entire case collapsed” in January 2017 but that Trump’s persecutors “kept on investigating the president.”

This account bears no resemblance to reality. The FBI had lots of evidence. The investigation began with a forensic analysis that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee in early 2016. A Trump adviser privately alluded to a Russian offer to help Trump by releasing dirt on Hillary Clinton. On July 27, Trump openly declared, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” In August, another Trump adviser predicted trouble ahead for Clinton’s campaign chairman, and WikiLeaks soon released the chairman’s hacked emails. The investigation would later confirm a two-way channel between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign.

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Barr’s propaganda is completely false. Mueller, the FBI, and the press found considerable evidence that Trump and his campaign sought to collaborate with Russia to win the election. They also found that Trump obstructed the investigation. The only reason Trump remains unindicted is that Barr declared the evidence insufficient. Now Barr is saying the evidence never existed. If he’s not delusional, he’s a liar.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If putin doesnt take over , Barr must MUST go to prison.

[napi21]

2. What has DT got on him to elicit this behavior? Any person who has lived his llfe without scandal

and reverts to sordid hateful behavior just when he should be retiring with his legacy in tact has to either be scared or getting a hell of a big payoff. I wonder what it is with Barr?

[Grasswire2]

5. He was a monster during Iran Contra.

This behavior isn't new. He's just more free to openly go rogue now.

His motive is religious fervor. Same as Pompeo and Pence. They are "end timers" who are facilitating what they think is prophecy.

[OhNo-Really]

10. He's a nihilistic zealot. Crazed Thinker, but dangerously wily!

What can we do?

Insane Pres & AG
Packed courts
Brainless Senate majority

In their brilliance & with the help of Native Americans governance techniques the Founders

NEVER imagined a partisan Congress would proudly aid & abet an insane President & his owned insane AG, all blatantly intent on destroying the bedrocks of our Republic with courts packed with partisan hacks so rich people wouldn’t have to pay taxes & theocrats can legislate womb control.

[OhNo-Really]

11. At this point, I think it's "What does Barr have on Trump" imho

[pangaia]

14. Nothing. Barr believes in exactly what he is doing. Knows he is lying and doesn;t care.

This is who he is and always has been...

[Moostache]

3. "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Barr is the physical manifestation of "Animal Farm" - he is abuse of power incarnate.

[oasis]

4. Atty. Gen. Wm. Barf is more full of shit than the person he covers for. nt

[CousinIT]

6. The stunning history of William Barr's crusade to bury evidence to protect Republican presidents

It's what he is notorious for - it's his Modus Operandi:

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/stunning-history-william-barrs-crusade-bury-evidence-protect-republican-presidents/

Back in 1992, the last time Bill Barr was U.S. attorney general, iconic New York Times writer William Safire referred to him as “Coverup-General Barr” because of his role in burying evidence of then-President George H.W. Bush’s involvement in “Iraqgate” and “Iran-Contra.”

General Barr has struck again—this time, in similar fashion, burying Mueller’s report and cherry-picking fragments of sentences from it to justify Trump’s behavior. In his letter, he notes that Robert Mueller “leaves it to the attorney general to decide whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.”

As attorney general, Barr—without showing us even a single complete sentence from the Mueller report—decided there are no crimes here. Just keep moving along.

Barr’s history of doing just this sort of thing to help Republican presidents in legal crises explains why Trump brought him back in to head the Justice Department.

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[shockey80]

7. Barr is a fucking asshole. That covers it all.

[William Seger]

8. He's NOT a "democratically elected president."

He was elected by the intentionally undemocratic Electoral College that gives a Wyoming voter 4 times more voting power than a California voter. That's happened twice in the last 20 years and it gave us the worst and second worst presidents in living memory. The Electoral College has got to go!

[Pantagruel]

9. Mueller needs to defend his work

and speak out against Barr's cover up.

[OhNo-Really]

12. Mueller has a family to protect. The fix requires a groundswell

But who is brave enough?

For the hell Barr will allow to rain down on public dissent?

I am still stunned by the huge force unleashed by Obama/Holder against peaceful Occupy!

[Pepsidog]

13. Yes he does. What a profound lack of courage on his part.

[Duppers]

15. Yes, indeed!

If not now, when?