Cracks emerged between two of President Donald Trump’s key legal allies on Tuesday as Attorney General William Barr said his department had found no evidence of the widespread voter fraud Trump alleges, while Rudolph Giuliani vowed to continue his search.
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Showing posts with label William Barr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Barr. Show all posts
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5/17/20
USA: ‘Attorney General is not done’: experts raise concerns about attorney general’s legal reach
Legal experts and and alumnae of the US Department of Justice have begun sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s attorney general, William Barr.
Recently Barr’s justice department withdrew charges against Michael Flynn,
the former Trump administration national security adviser who pleaded
guilty to lying to federal law enforcement officials about his dealings
with Russia’s ambassador over sanctions, just before Trump took office.
Read more at: ‘William Barr is not done’: experts raise concerns about attorney general’s legal reach | William Barr | The Guardian
2/29/20
USA -department of Justice: 5 ways William Barr is turning America into a dictatorship - by Robert Reich
William Barr was installed as Attorney General specifically to turn the
Department of Justice into an arm of the Trump Coverup. And we've seen
him do exactly that. Barr has corrupted and politicized the Department
of Justice, working hand in hand with Donald Trump to bend federal law
enforcement to the president's will. Here are some of the ways Barr is
helping Trump turn our democracy into a dictatorship:
2. Barr has green-lit an "intake process" for any information that Trump stooge Rudy Giuliani may dig up about Ukraine and the elections. That's right. Barr has given Trump's personal lawyer, who is under a Justice Department investigation that has led to charges against two of his associates, a direct line to the Justice Department to funnel dirt about Trump's political rivals.
3. Barr misled the public about the contents of the Mueller report. Before the report was released, Barr sent a memo to Congress "summarizing" its findings. In his memo, Barr claimed there was insufficient evidence for an obstruction of justice case and supported Trump's claims of "total exoneration". Robert Mueller was so infuriated by Barr's misrepresentation of his findings that he wrote a letter complaining that Barr's summary "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of Mueller's investigation. Barr nonetheless held a press conference reiterating his own claims, bolstering Trump's narrative of "total exoneration," and shifting the media coverage of the report.
4. Barr refused to accept the findings of the Inspector General report investigating the origins of the Russia probe. In December, Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report, finding that while the Russia probe was flawed in some aspects, there was no evidence of political bias and it was justified. This, of course, contradicts Trump's narrative that the Russia probe was launched by deep-state partisan hacks determined to take him down. The day the report was released, Barr called the Russia investigation a "travesty" and claimed that there were "gross abuses …and inexplicable behavior that is intolerable in the FBI" and that he thought "there was bad faith" in the investigation. It's unprecedented for the Attorney General to so vehemently disagree with the findings of an impartial Inspector General.
5. Barr buried the whistleblower complaint that kick-started the impeachment inquiry and tried to keep it from reaching Congress. His Justice Department investigated the contents of the complaint within a narrow scope and wrapped up its investigation within a mere three weeks, finding no evidence of wrongdoing. Yet again, Barr was running interference to shield Trump from accountability.
Read the complete report at: 5 ways William Barr is turning America into a dictatorship | Salon.com
2. Barr has green-lit an "intake process" for any information that Trump stooge Rudy Giuliani may dig up about Ukraine and the elections. That's right. Barr has given Trump's personal lawyer, who is under a Justice Department investigation that has led to charges against two of his associates, a direct line to the Justice Department to funnel dirt about Trump's political rivals.
3. Barr misled the public about the contents of the Mueller report. Before the report was released, Barr sent a memo to Congress "summarizing" its findings. In his memo, Barr claimed there was insufficient evidence for an obstruction of justice case and supported Trump's claims of "total exoneration". Robert Mueller was so infuriated by Barr's misrepresentation of his findings that he wrote a letter complaining that Barr's summary "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of Mueller's investigation. Barr nonetheless held a press conference reiterating his own claims, bolstering Trump's narrative of "total exoneration," and shifting the media coverage of the report.
4. Barr refused to accept the findings of the Inspector General report investigating the origins of the Russia probe. In December, Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report, finding that while the Russia probe was flawed in some aspects, there was no evidence of political bias and it was justified. This, of course, contradicts Trump's narrative that the Russia probe was launched by deep-state partisan hacks determined to take him down. The day the report was released, Barr called the Russia investigation a "travesty" and claimed that there were "gross abuses …and inexplicable behavior that is intolerable in the FBI" and that he thought "there was bad faith" in the investigation. It's unprecedented for the Attorney General to so vehemently disagree with the findings of an impartial Inspector General.
5. Barr buried the whistleblower complaint that kick-started the impeachment inquiry and tried to keep it from reaching Congress. His Justice Department investigated the contents of the complaint within a narrow scope and wrapped up its investigation within a mere three weeks, finding no evidence of wrongdoing. Yet again, Barr was running interference to shield Trump from accountability.
Read the complete report at: 5 ways William Barr is turning America into a dictatorship | Salon.com
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