Sarah Longwell is the founder, president and CEO of Longwell Partners, executive director of Republicans for the Rule of Law and publisher of The Bulwark.
Posted on 12/11/2019 1:50:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Attorney General William Barr does not seem to have read his own Justice Department report published this week finding that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign was justified.
If he had, he would be aware that the DOJ inspector general reached two principal conclusions about whether the FBI acted properly when it looked into whether the campaign colluded with Russia. First, the investigation uncovered troubling abuses of investigatory power. Second, those abuses were not motivated by political bias, because the decision to open the investigation was well warranted by the available evidence.
Yet Barr summarized the work his own department did by saying that “the F.B.I. launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.”
Barr is America’s top law enforcement officer, a lawyer by trade and the ultimate head of the FBI. But he seems to view his principle role as being the president’s communications director of last resort. He doesn’t just shape optics; he creates optical illusions.
Barr has made it his primary goal in office to manage President Donald Trump’s crisis communications, and he’s done a masterful job throughout his tenure. It should come as no surprise that, as a consequence, law enforcement itself is the victim when the head of federal law enforcement engages in political hackery.
Barr is portraying himself as a stricter protector of civil liberties than the IG. But by undermining the assessments of the official watchdogs, he’s weakening their oversight in the future. That’s exactly the opposite of what an attorney general is supposed to do.
Come to think of it, so is PR.
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Sarah Longwell is the founder, president and CEO of Longwell Partners, executive director of Republicans for the Rule of Law and publisher of The Bulwark.
ya ya blah blah
FAKE NEWS
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Democrats try to impeach Barr.
Actually the Whorowitz report illustrates that Whorowitz believes his job is to cover-up FBI and DoJ crimes.
Where was Sarah when Obama’s AG publicly declared himself Obama’s Wingman?
These so-called “republicans” are simply Never Trumpers.
At first, I thought the article was going to be authored by Eric (the red) Holder.
Now, that fellow treated his opponents in a consistent manner...badly and full of venomous prejudice.
No HE read YOU obviously did NOT NBC
The FBI used the fraudulent Steele Dossier, knowing it was fake, to get the warrants. They suppressed exculpatory evidence to renew the warrants
Time to stop being mindless political bigots Fake News. Just this ONE time stop and think.
Change only ONE thing about this report. Instead of Candidate Trump imagine it was Candidate Obama or Candidate Sander or Candidate Clinton being spyed on by the US Governments Law Enforcement arm
Stop your habitual childish partisan bot politcal behavior for “your team” and think about that hard “Journalists”.
Really think this sort of criminal corruption in the legal arm of the US Govt is “No big deal” just because it was “your team” that was doing it?
That’s a Neo-Con *itch.
“Second, those abuses were not motivated by political bias, because the decision to open the investigation was well warranted by the available evidence.”
“Bwahhhahhhhhhaaaaaaahaaaa”
I do so enjoy a good joke.
That is exactly what they have been tasked to do.
They don’t think, they follow orders of people who want America as founded destroyed.
Sorry to be such a bummer.
WTG with the DEM talking point(s), SarahIdiot.....gg!!!
/s
She is also a liberal lesbian Trump-hater ...
Perfect for an NBC “analyst”.
Check out her group.
She’s a Deep Stater.
I wonder what she would have thought of Bobby Kennedy as Jack Kennedy’s attorney general?
My money says she is most likely Connected to somebody that is about to go down when all this goes public.
Barr is spokesman for TRUTH.
I don’t expect the devil to like the person who kicked him out of heaven. Same with Democrats.
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