Posted on 06/22/2022 5:26:13 AM PDT by george76
Former AG backs the Democrats’ Jan. 6 show trial..
Last week, former Attorney General William Barr told the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee he hadn’t seen evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In late November of 2020, Barr told reporters, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
Before the 2020 election, voters may recall, Joe Biden openly touted “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Voter fraud is a crime, but Biden’s boast failed to spark any investigation by Attorney General William Barr. The addled Biden hunkered down in a basement and scarcely campaigned at all.
For AG William Barr, the Delaware Democrat won fair and square. Barr saw no need to look for evidence of voter fraud, now available in the form of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules.
The film used cell phone data and government surveillance tapes to document illegal vote harvesting in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Texas. In Georgia alone, the film reviewed four million minutes of drop-box video. In his deposition for the Democrats, Barr erupted in laughter.
The tracking and photographic evidence was “unimpressive,” Barr said, the documentary “didn’t establish widespread illegal harvesting, and the conclusions of the documentary were “indefensible.” D’Souza called him out.
“What do you say, Barr?” D’Souza tweeted, “Do you dare back up your belly laughs with arguments that can withstand rebuttal and cross-examination?” Barr wasn’t going for it, and the former AG was also of interest for what he did not say.
On January 6, 2021, Capitol Police officer Michal Byrd shot dead unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, a veteran of the U.S. Airforce. The shooting of Babbitt was the only death by gunfire on that day. In stark contrast to other shootings by police officers, Byrd faced no charges. Observers might think that a former U.S. Attorney General, the nation’s top law enforcement official, would show some interest in a case like that. When it comes to federal agents shooting unarmed civilians, particularly women, Barr can boast experience.
During the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot unarmed Vicki Weaver in the head as she held her infant child. Snipers are trained carefully to “acquire” the target so the killing was not accidental, as FBI boss Louis Freeh claimed. This went down during Barr’s first stint as attorney general from 1991-1993.
Barr showed little if any concern for the slain mother. On the other hand, he did spend two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend Horiuchi, who already had government lawyers working on his behalf. Barr told reporters he was not directly involved in Ruby Ridge but the Washington Post revealed that the DOJ made 20 telephone contacts with the operation, two of them from William Barr.
The Weaver family filed a wrongful death lawsuit and the DOJ paid $3 million. When an Idaho county filed criminal charges against Horiuchi, Barr sought immunity for the FBI sniper. Appeal court judge Alex Kozinski warned of a “007 standard for the use of deadly force” against American citizens who posed no immediate threat.
The shoot-without-provocation rules were approved by the FBI’s Larry Potts. When Clinton attorney general Janet Reno nominated Potts for deputy director of the FBI, William Barr told the New York Times Potts was “deliberate and careful” and “I can’t think of enough good things to say about him.”
With that record, it comes as no surprise that Barr would find nothing amiss with the FBI and DOJ bosses who conducted covert operations to smear candidate Donald Trump and attempted to take down the duly elected president of the United States. In Barr’s recent book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, they all get good reviews.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suddenly appointed Robert Mueller to investigate Trump. “Few can appreciate the complexities Rod faced during that tumultuous time,” writes Barr, “and even fewer will know the important contributions he made to the administration and the country.” Since Barr names not a single one, a ballpark figure for these important contributions is zero.
Barr counts Robert Mueller as a friend and helped James Comey become U.S. Attorney in New York. Current FBI boss Christopher Wray, who denied any government spying on Trump, gets Barr’s full approval.
Back in December of 1969, William Barr applied for an internship with the CIA and was admitted to the program. As a lawyer, Barr continued to work in the CIA’s Office of Legislative Counsel. Aside from Jimmy Carter pick Stansfield Turner, “a disaster,” CIA bosses some off pretty well in Barr’s memoir.
John Brennan shows up on page 190 claiming that the CIA knew what Russians were doing in the 2016 election. In the 1976 election, John Brennan voted for the Stalinist Gus Hall, candidate of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union. Barr is not curious why the CIA would hire such a person.
Barr tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into the Russia hoax, but as the memoir explains, “I made it clear that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were in Durham’s crosshairs.” So for AG William Barr, some people are indeed above the law.
William Barr still believes Joe Biden won fair and square, so by implication the people were panting for the disastrous conditions now prevailing. With no independent investigation, Barr agrees with Democrats’ proclamation that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. If Capitol cops or FBI snipers gun down unarmed women, William Barr has their back.
Unlike Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984, William Barr never needed to win the victory over himself. Right from the start, he loved Big Brother. In the depths of the DC swamp, William Barr is the lowest bottom feeder.
I thank Donald Trump every day for exposing and fracturing the Republican party. Now it’s time to take it all back.
“Barr agrees with Democrats’ proclamation that the 2020 election was the most secure in history”
This is lawyer speak.
If “secure” means that the democrats would secure the election for the democrats it makes perfect sense.
“By any means necessary”
In late November of 2020, Barr told reporters, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
The fact is he never investigated voter fraud or authorized an investigation.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Barr is a LIAR. He knows the election was stolen.
He told the PA attorney to stand down.
Yup. Easy to not see something if you don’t even bother to look.
Here I thought he was one of the good guys….
Elections have been fixed forever…how do you think democrats run cities for fifty years..
Trump only beat Hillary because her chances according to the press was 95%…and did not have enough fake ballots ready…
Which is why in his lawyer-speak he can claim he never saw any evidence, even though he US attorney in Phil saw the evidence, wanted to investigate, but was told to stand down by the DOJ. Of course it was an underling that gave the order so Barr can still claim he never "saw" any evidence.
I am so sick of seeing this quoted everywhere. He obviously misspoke, meaning something like a voter fraud unit to seek out election fraud. FFS, is a homicide department's job to go out and kill people? Am I the only one who thinks even Joey is not dumb enough to come out and say they're going to commit voter fraud?
Slow Joe does and says enough crap every day that we don't need to come up with weak sauce like this. Makes us look stupid and desperate.
Elections have been fixed forever…And they've discovered much easer ways than just using the urban machine: legalized ballot harvesting in California and, everywhere else, mass-mailed ballots using uncurated voter lists and drop boxes.
Who's the fool in this picture? Am I the only one who thinks even Joey is not dumb enough to come out and say they're going to commit voter fraud?
Apparently.Slow Joe does and says enough crap every day that we don't need to come up with weak sauce like this. Makes us look stupid and desperate.
Speak for yourself.
Was he lying then or are you lying now?
No one (except you) has ever corrected or denied his statement.
Everything else he's said out load about destroying the American way of life is coming true. The financial markets believe him. The energy sector including the CEO of Chevron believes him. The border patrol believes him...
YOU better believe him or tell us when we should or shouldn't so YOU don't look stupid or deperate next time... again.
You can’t see what you refuse to look for.
People with dementia often blurt out the truth.
Which confirms there is some evidence of fraud. Who cheats if they don't have to? Who commits fraud for no practical gain? Most criminals are stupid, but not that stupid.
A conspiracy of many will not remain secret if the FIB goes looking. At least one of the participants is certain to cave under interrogation. With so much electronic tracking feeding massive databases these days, a FIB investigator doesn't even need to leave their desk. They can do it from home in their pink underwear.
If that's what you got out of it then you are incapable of critical thinking and can be led anywhere and fall for anything. But then I have noticed that on your posts for years.
This is true, but more often they blurt out incoherent crap.
As a former military engineer and operations officer, responsible for systems capable of enormous destruction, I was aware that the notion of fault-tolerant safety and security were paramount.
When I read the morning of August 10, 2019, of the so-called suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a facility called the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan, I checked on the chain of command for the MCC and found it was under jurisdiction of the DOJ direct to the US AG who was William Barr.
Given the strictness of my military background, I looked at Barr’s professionalism as questionable, but held back from passing judgment as I trusted President Trump implicitly, understanding he had few options as DC persons are known to cover for and promote themselves. As it is said, “They all have dirt on each other.”
I knew from experience the DC class look at Presidents as “temporary”, whereas they themselves are the permanent governing caste.
I kept in mind that President Trump had little choice other than to choose from a short list presented to him for Cabinet appointments, i.e. Barr was preselected.
But I also saw something prior to the news of Epstein’s death that was unbelievable then, but is now more than plausible, a Tweet very early morning August 10th, before the ‘suicide’ hit the wire.
The tweet was forwarded by a person I follow.
After the Epstein news hit the wire and was causing a shock to the nation, I posted the unbelievable tweet to FR and other sites.
The tweet was by an anonymous person purporting to be an employee in or around the MCC, who was on the scene and believed Epstein was likely “switched out” as Epstein was seen in a wheelchair alive. This was before the news of Epstein’s ‘death’.
My reaction was confusion as I hadn’t yet heard or read anything about Epstein’s death in MCC.
Other than posting the earlier strange tweet image after the news of ‘suicide’ hit the wires, I followed for a time public reaction to the Epstein news. But I also picked up on Barr’s reaction as he was ultimately responsible for MCC security. Barr said the incident was unfortunate and the lapse in security was a cause of some ‘anger’.
My take on Barr’s response at the time was he sounded like a bumbling bureaucrat, not a serious professional.
Thus; Billingsley is accurate, Barr is Swamp. But there’s another wrinkle in Barr’s performance and character assessment, in the Fall of 2020, he and Sébastien Gorka went to Italy and Eastern Europe, notably Ukraine. To the purpose of Barr’s travel, Nancy Pelosi remarked, “It appears Barr has gone rogue.”
The meaning of Pelosi’s comment was taken as Barr had gone off the reservation. That can imply Barr was formerly on the reservation, with the understanding that ‘on the reservation’ means ‘controlled’, in with the permanent ruling class.
But then the news of Barr was put on the backburner, and now it seems he is firmly on the reservation. I say someone or something got to Barr. That sentiment is backed by Trump’s later comments concerning Barr.
Sébastien Gorka, a veritable member of MAGA; might add some detail about his travels with Barr in late 2020.
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