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Kimberly Strassel: AG Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers powerful people
Fox News ^ | 05/02/2019 | Kimberley Strassel

Posted on 05/03/2019 5:21:20 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.


Mr. Barr tolerantly sat through hours of Democratic insults at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. His reward for his patience was to be labeled, in the space of a news cycle, a lawbreaking, dishonest, obstructing hack. Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly accused Mr. Barr of lying to Congress, which, she added, is “considered a crime.” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he will move to hold Mr. Barr in contempt unless the attorney general acquiesces to the unprecedented demand that he submit to cross-examination by committee staff attorneys. James Comey, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, lamented that Donald Trump had “eaten” Mr. Barr’s “soul.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren demands the attorney general resign. California Rep. Eric Swalwell wants him impeached.
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But most of it is likely fear. Mr. Barr made real news in that Senate hearing, and while the press didn’t notice, Democrats did. The attorney general said he’d already assigned people at the Justice Department to assist his investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. He said his review would be far-reaching – that he was obtaining details from congressional investigations, from the ongoing probe by the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, and even from Mr. Mueller’s work. Mr. Barr said the investigation wouldn’t focus only on the fall 2016 justifications for secret surveillance warrants against Trump team members but would go back months earlier.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agbarr; barr; bhodoj; deepstate; fearfuldems; spygate
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The crimes at the tail end of the Kenyanesian Usurpation are what is getting the attention.

What they fear is that ALL the crimes are exposed as well as those responsible for the violation of the Constitution that was the Kenyanesian Usurpation.


21 posted on 05/03/2019 7:16:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Under the democrats’ theory of obstruction of justice, aren’t all of the democrat congresscritters who have been attacking Barr and demanding that he resign committing obstruction of justice?

I think the text of the law is very dubious. In fact, Orwell could have included it in 1984.

Barr could say the same as:


22 posted on 05/03/2019 7:17:10 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: wastoute

Remember that Pelosi is the one who falsely declared Obama was eligible to be President.
She filed different forms to 49 states than she sent to Hawaii.


23 posted on 05/03/2019 7:18:38 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: pt17; Oldeconomybuyer
Perhaps, but does the honorable AG have any (indictable - in a way that can't be 'lawyered' away) bombs and, if so, does he have the inclination to release them. This to say that we'll find out how much of the right stuff Barr is made of.

A question that needs to be asked, but I hope we don't act like Dems and go ape when it doesn't get done in 5 minutes.

24 posted on 05/03/2019 7:24:28 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

This Kimberley Strassel is one sharp lady.


25 posted on 05/03/2019 7:45:55 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They’re acting like a caged, cornered wild animal.


26 posted on 05/03/2019 7:56:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: wastoute
democRATS, including Pelosi, don't need any facts to push their agenda.

Barr didn't lie. He didn't commit a crime. Pelosi knows this.

Just like Harry Reed knew that Romney had paid his taxes when he lied and publicly declared that Romney has not paid taxes in ten years. He later admitted it was a bold-faced lie just to damage Romney and that it got the job done.

Pelosi and the other low-life demoCRATS are trying to destroy Barr before he can "out" many of them as members of the conspiracy to carry out a coup against Trump.

Notice how swiftly they have pivoted to accusing Barr of being the bad guy, from their usual the orange man is bad narrative.

27 posted on 05/03/2019 7:58:26 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Good point.


28 posted on 05/03/2019 7:58:34 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: gloryblaze

She is the Wall Street Journal ‘s best columnist. She has been dogged in her reporting all throughout the Mueller investigation.


29 posted on 05/03/2019 8:07:38 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I’m not sure which ones are lying and which ones are brainwashed/insane, but the effect is the same.

That’s an excellent point but there is a third possibility……unless the category of ‘brainwashed’ also includes the subset of ‘satanically influenced and controlled’.

2 Thessalonians 2: 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

30 posted on 05/03/2019 8:36:16 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Go after them Mr AG, no holds Barred.


31 posted on 05/03/2019 10:22:12 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

AG Barr gets attacked because he will put powerful people in Federal SuperMax Prisons!

There, fixed it!


32 posted on 05/03/2019 11:08:37 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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33 posted on 05/03/2019 7:03:07 PM PDT by bitt (The pain IS coming!!!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"But most of it is likely fear. Mr. Barr made real news in that Senate hearing, and while the press didn’t notice, Democrats did."

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LOL ...... fear for sure.

The Dems noticed because they dropped a load in their pants and skirts before making it to the lavatory. It was a real mess especially for Jerrold Nadler.

34 posted on 05/04/2019 3:14:05 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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AG Barr made real news in that Senate hearing, and while the press didn’t notice, Democrats did.
Barr said he’d already assigned people to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe,
<><> that his review would be far-reaching,
<><> that he was obtaining details,
<><> from congressional investigations,
<><> from the ongoing probe by DOJ's IG Michael Horowitz,
<><> even from Mr. Mueller’s work,
<><> it wouldn’t focus solely on the fall 2016 justifications for secret FISA's against Trump's team,
<><> invstigations would go back months earlier.
35 posted on 05/04/2019 3:41:22 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

AG Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers CRIMINALS.

(the LIE is the WEAPON used most often by the CRIMINAL)


36 posted on 05/04/2019 5:41:26 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; bitt

Thanks for the post; ping.


37 posted on 05/04/2019 5:43:39 AM PDT by PGalt
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