Posted on 12/10/2019 10:50:44 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Ok, if you’re still sitting around worrying that Attorney General William Barr has gone all wobbly – even after yesterday’s pointed statements by he and U.S. Attorney John Durham in response to the IG Report – then I think I may have found your cure. Earlier today, MSNBC aired an interview involving one of their hack reporters and Attorney General Barr, and boy, is it epic. Mr. Barr is making no bones about his continued consistent views on what he bluntly still refers to as the “spying” on the Trump Campaign by the Obama FBI, and is not backing off even a little bit from his assessment of the contents of the IG Report.
Below is a clip of the first 3:17 of the interview, followed by a transcript. Watch and/or read, and if you don’t feel better after doing that, then I’m afraid there is nothing more I can do to help you.
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Now, the Transcript, lovingly and laboriously prepared by we here at the Campaign Update for our audience made up mostly of voracious readers:
MSNBC Hack: Why do you say the FBI opened the investigation on the Trump Campaign on the “thinnest of suspicions?”
Barr: Well, I’m glad to get into the issue of predication, but let me just start out by saying that I think you have to put this in context. I think the heart of the IG’s report really focused on how the investigation was conducted once it got going, and that is especially the very serious abuses of FISA that occurred, much of which has in my view not been accurately reported by the press over the last day.
But, in one area I do disagree with the IG, and that was whether there was sufficient predication to open a full-blown counterintelligence investigation, specifically using the techniques that they did to collect intelligence about the Trump Campaign.
MSNBC Hack: W, w, well as a policy matter, why not open an investigation on a thin pretext? [Seriously???] I guess on the one hand you could say that it’s a presidential campaign, it’s very sensitive, you need better evidence. On the other hand, you could say, it’s a presidential campaign, we have to be very careful, it’s a threat to our political process.
Barr: I think probably from a civil liberties standpoint [Which liberals USED to be concerned about – remember?] the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state – principally the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies – both to spy [!] on political opponents, but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election.
As far as I’m aware, this is the first time in our history that this has been done to a presidential campaign. The use of these counterintelligence techniques against a presidential campaign. And we have to remember, in today’s world, presidential campaigns are frequently in contact with foreign persons, and indeed, in most campaigns there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in [!!!].
And we don’t automatically assume that the campaigns are nefarious and traitors and acting in league with foreign powers. There has to be some basis before we use these very potent powers in our core first amendment activity. And here, I felt this was very flimsy.
Basically, I think the Department has a “rule of reason” which is, at the end of the day, what you’re relying on – sufficiently powerful to justify the techniques you’re using. And the question there is, how strong is the evidence? How sensitive is the activity you’re looking at? And what are the alternatives?
I think when you step back here and say, what was this all based on?, it’s not sufficient.
Remember, there was and never has been any evidence of “collusion.” And yet, this campaign, and the President’s Administration has been dominated by this investigation into what turns out to be completely baseless.
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Things to note in this:
Barr’s intentional and pointed use of the word “spy” to describe what the Coup Cabal did to the Trump Campaign. He knows this will cause Democrats and the media to fry their own brains. Epic.
Barr’s unqualified statement that “there was and never has been ANY evidence of ‘collusion.'” That tells you that he – and presumably also Durham – simply do not accept that there was ANY premise at all for operation “Crossfire Hurricane” to begin in the first place, nor was there ANY reason for the appointment of a special counsel, much less a two-year-long investigation by Mueller. That is bad, bad news for not just Comey, Strzok, Page and McCabe, but also for Mueller and Rosenstein, who made the decision to appoint Mueller based on…nothing.
Also very interesting is this statement’s phrasing: “… the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state…”. The use of the words “incumbent government” rather than the more limited “Department of Justice,” or the even more limited “FBI” is very, very interesting, and implies that Barr and Durham are not limiting their investigation to those outside of the Obama White House, but may well be looking inside it as well. Boom, if so.
Then there’s the seemingly gratuitous noting of the fact that “…in most campaigns there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in.” Think about that one: Which two recent campaigns have been most prominent in having allegations of benefiting from foreign money? If you said “the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Campaigns,” you win the prize.
William Barr is a man with a well-earned history of choosing the words he uses carefully and with intent. He doesn’t just shoot his mouth off in public without giving a lot of forethought to exactly what the message is that he wants to convey.
There are a lot of very powerful messages directed at the bad actors from the Obama years in that short three-minute clip.
Those messages are also directed at those of you who still doubt Mr. Barr’s real intentions here. Are you listening?
That is all.
That could benefit the Rats. They could claim “just another Trump campaign stunt”.
William Barr Tosses Out Some Real, Live Bombs in MSNBC Interview
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That don’t mean shit. What he does is what counts.
President Trump needs to tell Barr that it is past time to start kicking ass and taking names.
He needs to start locking asses up.
It is time to start walking and stop talking.
Close enough to the election that people will remember people being indicted but not so close they can complain about interfering with the election.
Sorry do the math.
It has been 3 years.
I did not say Barr has been AG
3 years.
It has been 3 years and not
one single indictment. Not one.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up that anything will happen. This is just more of the same GOP crap sandwich.
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You need to watch Barr’s interview on NBC today. He leaves no doubt where he stands.
Exactly. All this nonsense about how he’s “covering for the GOPe” is absurd. If he wanted to do that, he wouldn’t need to give interviews like this one. He could just do nothing and try to let it all fade from public consciousness. YOu know - like Jeff Sessions did.
You DO realize that SPAM is an acronym for
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Which is EXACTLY what you are doing with this graphic.
At the very least, you could add a short, RELEVANT (to the article you are posting about/to) line or two before or after the artwork.
Stop being such a Richard Cranium.
I think in retrospect, all of the passivity and reluctance over the last three years will suddenly make perfect sense, once President Trump finally makes his move and says “checkmate”.
It is sad to say that after 3 years TRUMP still does not control his own DOJ FBI nor CIA...just saying that! one example Wray is still there and placed there by TRUMP! More...
TRUMP does not control the narrative..his opponents seem to do.. and SEEM to be in charge and comfortable... I said SEEM to be after three years!
Talk is Just hit air, Democrats hate President Trump is a diet. Lets see if Barr is a diet,or talker.
More reports? Many months away?
So Barr, when are the indictments?
So when does TRUMP’S majority of government (if he has it - takes charge)?
The majority of the people voted? for him and we do not control the govt and can not make the part who tried to overthrow him pay - what the hell?
Why have a govt like this - still a TWO TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM - I SEE NO CHANGE THIS WAY!
SO WHY DO WE WAIT FOR GOVT TO CHANGE WITHIN?
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Rush sounded like a conspiracy nut job to be honest. That Obama and the Top of the FBI / DOJ officials worked for some secret network of string pullers. Where the President of the United States is a mere puppet of an evil cabal.
Yeah, I heard Rush too. Sounded like a lot of sunshine pumping to me.
The kenyan spent 8 years sitting in his barcalounger in his White Hut and watching ESPN. He wasn’t masterminding some massive and intricate intel operation against Trump. Occam’s razor applies here. The FIB/CIA saw the hysterical bipartisan Never Trumpism that permeated the beltway in 2015-16 and took their green light cue from that.
Durham isn’t going find a smoking gun from the obama WH because they didn’t need one. They all just knew what to do: Take out Trump and anybody who dared support him. The coupists have failed to get Trump (so far) but massively succeeded in assaulting his supporters and his agenda.
You need to watch Barr’s interview on NBC today. He leaves no doubt where he stands.
You to watch what the Barr DOJ does. Horowitz whitewash, no indictment of McCabe after 16 months for non coup related leaking, etc., etc.
If this really happens in late spring or summer, the charge will be they are doing it to influence the election.
Sorry do the math.
It has been 3 years.
I did not say Barr has been AG
3 years.
It has been 3 years and not
one single indictment. Not one.
Yes, allegedly the start is May of 2016. So 3 1/2 years and counting. More than enough time for the guilty to destroy evidence, concoct BS CYA, find legal loopholes, etc.
If this really happens in late spring or summer, the charge will be they are doing it to influence the election.
That’s why it won’t be happening. Look how fast Mueller moved. He had perjury traps, indictmetns and guilty pleas in months. Had Barr been serious he would have given Horowitz 30 days to wrap up his report and then started rolling out indictments last summer. That didn’t happen because nobody in the DOJ wants to do it. It’s beeen 16 months since McCabe was referred for prosecution and nada there.
There is no more certain a beltway career ender than prosecuting obama admin officials to the benefit of Donald J. Trump. It’s that simple.
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