Posted on 06/03/2019 7:27:16 AM PDT by Liz
Hopefully Mueller is headed for big trouble. He looked nervous the other day.
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I love how he declared himself to be above all future questioning.
We’ll see about that.
“If those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that “Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that.” You know some wild accusations like that and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don’t think we would be hearing a lot more about it?”
Barr is a VERY smart guy. A master at wording.
Barr: “Mueller has spent two and half years and the fact is there is no evidence of a conspiracy. So it was bogus, this whole idea that the Trump was in cahoots with the Russians is bogus”
Bogus:
not genuine or true; fake.
synonyms: fake, faked, spurious, false, fraudulent, sham, deceptive, misleading, pretended; counterfeit, forged, feigned, simulated; artificial, imitation, mock, make-believe, fictitious, dummy, quasi-, pseudo, ersatz; informal, phoney, fakey, pretend, dud, put-on
WILLIAM BARR: “Well in an exceptional circumstance I have that authority but obviously I intend to consult with them. I’m amused by these people who make a living by disclosing classified information, including the names of intelligence operatives, wringing their hands about whether I’m going to be responsible in protecting intelligence sources and methods. I’ve been in the business as I’ve said for over 50 years long before they were born and I know how to handle classified information and I believe strongly in protecting intelligence sources and methods. But at the same time if there is information that can be shared with the American people without jeopardizing intelligence sources and methods that decision should be made and because I will be involved in finding out what the story was I think I’m in the best decision to make that decision”
WILLIAM BARR: “I’d rather, in many ways, I’d rather be back to my old life but I think that I love the Department of Justice, I love the FBI, I think it’s important that we not, in this period of intense partisan feeling, destroy our institutions. I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it’s President Trump that’s shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that, it is hard, and I really haven’t seen bill of particulars as to how that’s being done. From my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.”
Memorable.......
“I love how he declared himself to be above all future questioning.
We’ll see about that”.
Yep, among other things, he’s scared to death of facing Devin Nunez and Jim Jordan and others.
The Dems say they want to hear him but I’d bet they will try to stop it.
“Barr sat through the Clinton and Osama Administrations without raising a voice that I can find...”
Barr was a private citizen and worked for a private law firm. He was out of the political arena hence he did what I wish more former government officials would do....He kept his freakin mouth shut.
Here are some interesting things though pertaining to the current administration:
“During the first two years of the Trump presidency, Barr frequently criticized legal challenges against Trump and investigations into the Trump 2016 campaign and presidency.[58][59]
In 2017, Barr said that there was “nothing inherently wrong” with Donald Trump’s calls for investigating Hillary Clinton while the two were both running for president. Barr added that an investigation into an alleged Uranium One controversy was more warranted than looking into whether Trump conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 elections.[60] Barr also said in 2017 that he didn’t think “all this stuff” about incarcerating or prosecuting Hillary Clinton was appropriate to say, but added that “there are things that should be investigated that haven’t been investigated,” although the FBI began investigating the Clinton Foundation and the related Uranium One matter in 2015, followed by investigations by Republican congressional committees.[61][62][63]
In February 2017, Barr argued Trump was justified in firing Acting Attorney General Sally Yates over her refusal to defend Executive Order 13769.[64]
Barr was publicly critical of the special counsel investigation. In 2017, he faulted Mueller for hiring prosecutors who have contributed to Democratic politicians, saying his team should have had more “balance,” and characterized the obstruction of justice investigation as “asinine” and that it was “taking on the look of an entirely political operation to overthrow the president.”[65][66]
In June 2018, Barr sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to senior Justice Department officials, and to members of Trump’s legal team, with some of whom he discussed the memo.[67] In it he argued that the Special Counsel should not be investigating Trump for obstruction of justice because Trump’s actions, such as firing FBI Director James Comey, were within his powers as head of the executive branch.[68][69][70] He characterized the obstruction investigation as “fatally misconceived.”[71] The day after the existence of the memo became known, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said “our decisions are informed by our knowledge of the actual facts of the case, which Mr. Barr didn’t have.”[72] Democrats later characterized the memo as Barr’s “job application” for the Attorney General position.[73]”
Barr fired a shot across the bow of the MSM, Democratic party, FBI, DOJ, and CIA.
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