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Attorney General Barr says what Michael Flynn did "was not a crime"
CBS News ^ | May 8, 2020 | by Catherine Herridge

Posted on 05/08/2020 5:57:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

In an exclusive interview with CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge, Barr dismissed the notion from critics that he is doing the bidding of Mr. Trump.

Catherine Herridge: The last thing most Americans remember about General Flynn is that he was fired. And that he admitted lying to the FBI. Does the fact remain that he lied?

Attorney General William Barr: Well, you know, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes. ... And the Department of Justice is not persuaded that this was material to any legitimate counterintelligence investigation. So it was not a crime.

When a special counsel report was released last year, you were accused by critics of putting your thumb on the scale in the president's favor. Are you doing the president's bidding in General Flynn's case?

No, I'm doing the law's bidding. I'm doing my duty under the law, as I see it.

You know you're going to take a lot of incoming ... for this decision. Are you prepared for that?

Yea, I'm prepared for that. I also think it's sad that nowadays these partisan feelings are so strong that people have lost any sense of justice.

What should Americans take away from your actions in the Flynn case today?

I was concerned people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. ... I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election2016; mueller; russia; witchhunt
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1 posted on 05/08/2020 5:57:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It is hard to believe that there are people who are indifferent to the injustice done to General Flynn--and some who excuse and even applaud it.

Hannah Arendt was right that the greatest evils result from a remarkable shallowness and unwillingness to think in unremarkable people.

Some of these people have found their way into positions of power and influence. Some support those who have. The shallowness is the same.

Some of them find false assurance, from certain accumulated credentials, that they are somehow not unremarkable, but their very shallowness, moral and intellectual, and disinclination to think prove their banality.

Such shallowness and disinclination to think have permeated American society, notably among the "intelligentsia," here in the decadent phase of Western Civilisation, where truth--truth for its own sake--is held in contempt.

Breathtaking corruption, especially in the centres of power, notably Washington and the news media, is ignored, injustice tolerated, truth scorned in favour of banal propaganda, truth seekers vilified and destroyed.

The greatest danger to America--to the American Dream--to the American People--is this banal indifference, the banal unwillingness to think, to seek truth and embrace it wherever it appears.

Note tagline.

2 posted on 05/08/2020 6:02:30 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I was concerned people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. ... I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.

I'll feel better about this after a few hangings.

3 posted on 05/08/2020 6:03:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This business of “lying to the FBI” being a crime is so odious.

Unless you’re under oath you can lie to ANYBODY. That badge doesn’t make you an all powerful God that untruths must not be spoken to.

Ridiculous and offensive!


4 posted on 05/08/2020 6:04:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.

Well you aren't doing a very good job, if you were serious about "restoring faith" EVERY PLAYER in this Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow The United States Presidency would be Perp Walked and in the Lockup waiting for their CONVICTION OF TREASON.

At the very least everyone involved in the FRAUD and SETUP of Mr Flynn should have ARRESTED YESTERDAY
5 posted on 05/08/2020 6:06:51 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Savage Beast

The Flynn case still puzzles me. Flynn was in “intelligence” and the DC Swamp for many years. He had already been targeted when he was head of the DIA. Has he not seen such political games before? What was he threatened with to make him plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit? If you are going to say “his son” then please explain what the FBI thought they had on his son. To me, he rolled-over very easily - and they still bankrupted him.

Also - of all the top lawyers in Washington, WTF would he hire Eric Holder’s law firm as his defense? He got screwed twice.


6 posted on 05/08/2020 6:07:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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There is the theory that the entire Flynn thing was a strategy to get the Deep State to reveal itself very thoroughly. Kind of like rope-a-dope.

Maybe it’s too much “three dimensional chess”. But the end result was that the Deep State did reveal itself very thoroughly.


7 posted on 05/08/2020 6:12:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If General Flynn is innocent, then there are a lot of guilty Democrats.

It is time for prosecutions, Mr. Barr.


8 posted on 05/08/2020 6:17:27 AM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: Savage Beast

The more we look to government to solve our problems, the more our enumerated “rights” become reduced to “privileges” handed out by government.


9 posted on 05/08/2020 6:18:02 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of the six TV station/Newspaper websites I review every morning only one mentions this DOJ/Flynn story.

That ought to be a crime.


10 posted on 05/08/2020 6:20:18 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I was concerned people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. ... I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.”

There still is. The people that did this to flynn are still walking free.


11 posted on 05/08/2020 6:20:58 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet, Trump fired Flynn and publicly stated that Flynn had lied to him and Pence, a lie that never happened.

Trump let Flynn swing in the wind when he should have supported him. Trump acted on a whisper, top pet peeve about any manager. Trump should have acted only on verifiable facts, not whispers, especially whispers coming from the FBI.


12 posted on 05/08/2020 6:21:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Savage Beast

Well said and my tagline agrees.


13 posted on 05/08/2020 6:21:36 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: CodeToad

disgraceful post........ Freeper attacking the President is a conservative disgrace


14 posted on 05/08/2020 6:22:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
And the Department of Justice is not persuaded that this was material to any legitimate counterintelligence investigation.

This is the potential bomb many have been waiting on. Horowitz may have tried to claim the original investigation was legit, but he did not have access to all the testimony from Clapper et al that was just released yesterday.

If the AG has now declared the entire Russia investigation to be “illegitimate” the fallout could be immense.

15 posted on 05/08/2020 6:22:52 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' virus came from Wuhan lab. So, let's see it.)
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To: cotton1706

Here’s the interesting thing...

When performing an investigation, the Agent is under oath (court/depositional oath) when questioning BUT that agent is allowed to lie to you to get you to make an error?

How do they cover that in a court deposition when providing evidence?
Everything I say is the truth unless I’m lying?
Everything I say is the truth, therefore I will have to point out when I was lying to the target?


16 posted on 05/08/2020 6:27:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When we look to government to solve our problems, our "rights" become reduced to "privileges".)
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To: bert

“disgraceful post........ Freeper attacking the President is a conservative disgrace”

What’s disgraceful is you supporting the actions against Flynn.


17 posted on 05/08/2020 6:28:15 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: bert

Sycophants and their party-over-country is why we are in such big messes. Liberals do that.


18 posted on 05/08/2020 6:29:59 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This started when “Eric the Red” let the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia walk. “Eric the Red” should be getting out of prison by now.


19 posted on 05/08/2020 6:33:12 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I was concerned people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. ... I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.”

Then put the damned bagpipes down and empanel a few Grand Juries.

L


20 posted on 05/08/2020 6:33:26 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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