We already know that Putin’s Puppet hired Coverup General William Barr, aka Barrf, to lie, cheat and abuse the DOJ to protect his Fuhrer from consequences so thoroughly deserved. I wondered how Trump was able to predict that Barrf would protect him so thoroughly. Then I learned that Barrf has priors.
…Barr’s stated position is that the redactions will be as narrow as they can be to ensure transparency. But once the redacted report is released, it’s safe to assume that some skepticism about what was withheld will continue.
Particularly given Barr’s track record, as New York University professor of law Ryan Goodman wrote on Monday at the site Just Security, where he’s a co-editor-in-chief.
Goodman, who is a former Defense Department special counsel, details a remarkably similar fight from 1989 in which Barr, then head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, was involved. The OLC had determined that the FBI was allowed to take people into custody in foreign countries without the consent of those countries’ governments — a ruling that seemed to pave the way, Goodman notes, for the eventual arrest of former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega.
This was a contentious position to take, and Barr was asked to provide the memo offering the detailed legal rationale for allowing such detentions. He declined, instead offering a 13-page document that “summarizes the principal conclusions.” When Congress, and then The Washington Post, obtained the full opinion in 1991, it was quickly noted that several conclusions from the full document hadn’t been included in Barr’s summary. Foremost among them was that the opinion authorized the president of the United States to ignore the United Nations Charter….
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He did the exact same thing in 1989. No wonder the Fuhrer hired him.
Lawrence O’Donnell provides more depth.
Why didn’t Barrf do time for perjury, obstruction, and contempt when the truth came out in 1991? Why wasn’t he at least disBarred?
RESIST!!
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Excuse me? DEVIN NUNES signed THAT? That’s fricking amazing. Certainly a powerful weapon, and I think (and hope) that Adam is just the guy to wield it.
How much can we expect to find that Barr is hiding MAJOR conclusions? I would say more so than in 1989. As bad as George HW was, he had not established an environment in which concealment and deception was publicly acceptable. Now it is (not to us, but to the regime and the regime’s base.)
RESIST AND PERSIST!
Barrf’s main priority today is covering tRump’s fat orange arse – after kissing it.
He doesn’t care one iota of doing the job he is supposed to do, rather, he’s repeating his past, and not doing his job. Through and through.
How he gets away with this, confounds me.
*Cute Easter bunny/kitty!
I was able to procure a single page from Barr’s redacted “Mueller Report” – but I think it will accurately reflect how he handles the rest of the almost 400 pages:
Barr clearly auditioned for the role of whitewasher with his Unsolicited 19-page Memo detailing how he felt Mueller could never charge a (viz., THIS) president with obstruction:
The Memo itself
Fortunately Speaker Pelosi is well aware of this:
He is also an asshole
No, Pat, sadly, he is doing exactly what he was hired to do. Being a slime ball scumbag is what made him perfect for the job, as Dumpy sees it. Somewhere, at the Heritage society, or some similar place, funded by the Koch Bros., there there are people compiling lists of sh*thole people for Dumpy to choose from.
Barr may get away with this, or maybe not. We will see, but I will not bet against the Ahole!
It was clear from the very start, Drumpf hired Barrf to clear his a$$ and the GOP is complicit in pushing his nomination through. Don’t spend too much tie interpreting Barff’s rewritten report, but keep your eyes peeled an see what is going on behind this façade. Things that should make front page too often don’t because of these diversions.
Diversions & 🤢 Barfs 🤮
Frustrates me to the fullest, how these creeps will get away with their evil doings?? If it was you or me, we would of been fired on the spot.
The rules are sure getting screwed up with the way tRump and his cronies are doing their so-called jobs.
bArr may be kissing his leaders’ a*s, but I pray that Mueller or someone from Mueller’s team will step forward and spill all of the beans.
I wonder what the quid pro quo is for Barrf protecting his Fuhrer? The position of AG? I do not think of that as a prize at all. It is only temporary. Did Trump cut him a cheque? Barrf sold his soul to the Devil Trump. I hope the whole bunch rot in prison . . . that would make my heart go pitter-pat.
Thanks and hugs to all?