AG Barr is a disgrace

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattzap/status/1129345491228086272
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattzap/status/1129347529794039814
https://mobile.twitter.com/mkraju/status/1129390463742558208
So the top cop in the land is giving partisan interviews were he is accusing people of crimes but when pushed on it then admits to not having evidence of

[PragmaticPopulist]

Tell me something I don't know.

[Frodo]

Didn't his supporters say he was first and foremost a professional who would safeguard the reputation and civil servants of the Justice Department (and all its subordinate agencies, including the FBI) against any smears or abuses of power by the White House?

So much for that....  

[Hindsight was 2020]

Didn't his supporters say he was first and foremost a professional who would safeguard the reputation and civil servants of the Justice Department against any smears or abuses of power by the White House?

So much for that....   

I mean my god I never seen this before. When has an AG ever been like “the presidents enemies are criminals” let alone saying this with no proof

[All Along The Watchtower]

NYT 1992

THE PARDONS; BUSH PARDONS 6 IN IRAN AFFAIR, ABORTING A WEINBERGER TRIAL; PROSECUTOR ASSAILS 'COVER-UP'

...not since President Gerald R. Ford granted clemency to former President Richard M. Nixon for possible crimes in Watergate has a Presidential pardon so pointedly raised the issue of whether the President was trying to shield officials for political purposes. Mr. Walsh invoked Watergate tonight in an interview on the ABC News program "Nightline," likening today's pardons to President Richard M. Nixon's dismissal of the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in 1973. Mr. Walsh said Mr. Bush had "succeeded in a sort of Saturday Night Massacre."

Democratic lawmakers assailed the decision. Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, the Democratic leader, called the action a mistake. "It is not as the President stated today a matter of criminalizing policy differences," he said. "If members of the executive branch lie to the Congress, obstruct justice and otherwise break the law, how can policy differences be fairly and legally resolved in a democracy?"

Throughout the deliberations, Mr. Bush consulted with Attorney General William P. Barr and Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser, who had sat on a Presidential review panel that examined the affair in early 1987.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/25/us/pardons-bush-pardons-6-iran-affair-aborting-weinberger-trial-prosecutor-assails.html

[JGibson]

He's the worst AG this nation's ever had, beating out all of Bush 43's AGs and Sessions.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

"Disgrace" is being far too kind.

https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1129728813435371521

He does, however, continue a trend where every AG seems worse than the previous one.  (I suspect this is really just a symptom of the long decay of rule of law that has reached its current nadir in Trump.)

[junior chįmp]

Your average American voter cares more about the lotion hes going to use to wank to internet porn videos than whether or not AG Barr was a disgrace

[Fuzzy Bear]

He's blowing the Democrats' cherished narrative to Kingdom Come.  Yes, of course, he's a scumbag.

I'm fine with moving on, but I'm fine with finding out the truth on this aspect of the matter as well.  So we'll see.

[Hindsight was 2020]

He's blowing the Democrats' cherished narrative to Kingdom Come.  Yes, of course, he's a scumbag.

I'm fine with moving on, but I'm fine with finding out the truth on this aspect of the matter as well.  So we'll see.

I like how you ignore that he has no evidence for what he claims. Good partisan dog

[Continential]

He's the worst AG this nation's ever had, beating out all of Bush 43's AGs and Sessions.

[brucejoel99]

He's the ghost of John Mitchell past.

[Progressive Pessimist]

He's the worst AG this nation's ever had, beating out all of Bush 43's AGs and Sessions.

That is really saying something! I really never thought any Attorney general would be worse than Sessions. I thought Barr would have been one of the few Trump appointments who would have been a step up from their predecessor. Clearly, I was wrong, and the trend of Trump's Cabinet choices continually being worse than the one before continues.

[Santander]

Miss Jeff Sessions yet?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Miss Jeff Sessions yet?

Yes

[Nyvin]

He's blowing the Democrats' cherished narrative to Kingdom Come.  Yes, of course, he's a scumbag.

I'm fine with moving on, but I'm fine with finding out the truth on this aspect of the matter as well.  So we'll see.

He literally has no evidence of anything he's accusing people of....he's just repeatedly "asking questions" in an attempt to make a news story.   It's an obvious farce.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/trump-barr-intelligence.html
Trump Gives Attorney General Sweeping Power in Review of 2016 Campaign Inquiry

President Trump took extraordinary steps on Thursday to give Attorney General William P. Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a review into how the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia were investigated, significantly escalating the administration’s efforts to place those who investigated the campaign under scrutiny.

In a directive, Mr. Trump ordered the C.I.A. and the country’s 15 other intelligence agencies to cooperate with the review and granted Mr. Barr the authority to unilaterally declassify their documents. The move — which occurred just hours after the president again declared that those who led the investigation committed treason — gave Mr. Barr immense leverage over the intelligence community and enormous power over what the public learns about the roots of the Russia investigation.

I hope that our Honourable Attorney General Barr will crack the CIA and other Deep State organisations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/politics/trump-barr-declassify-intelligence.html
Barr’s Newfound Power Could Prompt Clash Between Justice Dept. and C.I.A.

President Trump’s order allowing Attorney General William P. Barr to declassify any intelligence that sparked the opening of the Russia investigation sets up a potential confrontation with the C.I.A., including over the possible implications for a person close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia who provided information to the C.I.A. about his involvement in Moscow’s 2016 election interference

[Progressive Pessimist]

The one time Trump actually is transparent, and it's for his interests over the country's. Because of course it is! I would expect nothing less.

He's witch hunting for witch hunters, folks. Sad!

[Hindsight was 2020]

The one time Trump actually is transparent, and it's for his interests over the country's. Because of course it is! I would expect nothing less.

He's witch hunting for witch hunters, folks. Sad!

Made all the worse by the fact that we already have had multiple investigations into this matter that all said the same thing. The dossier wasn’t used to get FISA warrants and the investigation started because George Papadopoulos ran his mouth to the Australian ambassador in London

[Progressive Pessimist]

The one time Trump actually is transparent, and it's for his interests over the country's. Because of course it is! I would expect nothing less.

He's witch hunting for witch hunters, folks. Sad!

Made all the worse by the fact that we already have had multiple investigations into this matter that all said the same thing. The dossier wasn’t used to get FISA warrants and the investigation started because George Papadopoulos ran his mouth to the Australian ambassador in London

They're desperate to find out that an investigator once donated money to a Democrat or something, and use that as their evidence of "wrongdoing." Peter Strzok has been one of the GOP'S favorite excuses, so why not find more like him?

[Hindsight was 2020]

The one time Trump actually is transparent, and it's for his interests over the country's. Because of course it is! I would expect nothing less.

He's witch hunting for witch hunters, folks. Sad!

Made all the worse by the fact that we already have had multiple investigations into this matter that all said the same thing. The dossier wasn’t used to get FISA warrants and the investigation started because George Papadopoulos ran his mouth to the Australian ambassador in London

They're desperate to find out that an investigator once donated money to a Democrat or something, and use that as their evidence of "wrongdoing." Peter Strzok has been one of the GOP'S favorite excuses, so why not find more like him?

Pretty much

[I Can Now Die Happy]

unlike Sessions who focused too much on giving dumb*** stoners a miserable time, AG Barr screwed with your Mueller Wet Dreams...which were never gonna happen in the first place because Trump is ironically one of the cleanest big businessmen in the world and one of the cleanest American politicians ever

sorry guys, you'd have been better off actually focusing on divisive $ocialist rhetoric against The Don. That would have been more effective.

[Hindsight was 2020]

unlike Sessions who focused too much on giving dumb*** stoners a miserable time, AG Barr screwed with your Mueller Wet Dreams...which were never gonna happen in the first place because Trump is ironically one of the cleanest big businessmen in the world and one of the cleanest American politicians ever

sorry guys, you'd have been better off actually focusing on divisive $ocialist rhetoric against The Don. That would have been more effective.

If there was ever a statement that sums up the alternative reality Trumpers build for themselves. Normally I’d leave it at that but I gotta just dissect this bull crap because it deserves too. Trump is an unindictment co-conspirator in a financial crime he ordered to cover up an affair he had with a porn star, has had two stories in the NYT in the past 12 months about how he blatantly committed tax fraud (which he then confirmed in a Twitter rant with the defense of “everybody was doing it”). An has a report that states he cheered on a foreign attack on our elections because he’d benefit from it and then that same report listed 12 different counts of his abusing the power of his office to shut it down. Nothing in that list is “clean”. There is a major difference between “Trump is clean” and “Trump faces no consequences for his actions because one of our two major political parties is made up of a bunch moral deprived partisan hacks who will justify and downplay his conduct but then explode over a democrat wearing a tan suit”

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/politics/trump-intelligence-agencies.html
Trump’s Targeting of Intelligence Agencies Gains a Harder Edge
The president has long waged that war by tweet, but his new attorney general is poised to professionalize the fight.

President Trump tried somewhat clumsily last year to revoke the security clearance of the former C.I.A. director who played a role in opening the Russia investigation. He then wanted to release classified documents to prove he was the target of a “witch hunt.”

Both attempts petered out, hampered by aides who slow-rolled the president and Justice Department officials who fought Mr. Trump, warning he was jeopardizing national security.

But this week, Attorney General William P. Barr engineered a new approach. At Mr. Barr’s urging, Mr. Trump granted him new authorities to examine the start of the Russia investigation, demonstrating a new level of sophistication for an old line of attack. Unlike Mr. Trump’s hollow threats and name-calling, Mr. Barr’s examination of how the intelligence community investigated the Trump campaign could offer a more effective blueprint for the president to take aim at his perceived political enemies.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump is using Barr's investigation to target (and potentially expose) US intelligence sources and methods in Russia. Spy agency veterans are horrified at Trump's decision to grant AG Barr sweeping power to declassify Russia intelligence: 'Lives are on the line'

More importantly, current and former officials say, Trump's order represents a direct threat to the lives and safety of US intelligence sources abroad.

The New York Times reported this week that Barr wanted to know more about the CIA's foreign assets in Russia in 2016, and what those informants were telling the agency about how Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to interfere in the 2016 election.

I have to admit there's a kind of malign genius here.

Step #1 - Get caught winning the election thanks to Russian assistance.

Step #2 - Use getting caught as an excuse to launch an investigation into how you got caught.

Step #3 - Hand the information on how you got caught over to the Russians, so they don't get caught helping you next time.