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NARRATOR: No one broke the law and no one was prosecuted.
NARRATOR: No one broke the law and no one was prosecuted.
It's getting to that point where Flynn's defense team should accelerate his sentencing, IMO.
Come next January, his potential option of being pardoned might expire.
Once Barr and Trump are removed -
THEN - we can get to the bottom of this.
Barr trying to cover his criminal ass -
IG took the whistleblower report to the DOJ -
DOJ buried it immediately and hoped it would go away like all of their other cover ups -
Nope -
the IG happened to have integrity and reported it to Congress -
now
Criminal Barr is trying to spin it - no different than his criminal boss and no different than his complicit cult - like TSA -
simple to see the cover ups - but they sure work hard spinning the simplest trump/barr crimes into something
nefarious from the DEEEEEP STATE!!!!!
AG William Barr says Russia probe was started ‘without basis’
Attorney General William Barr believes the Russia investigation that shadowed President Donald Trump for the first two years of his administration was started without any basis and amounted to an effort to “sabotage the presidency,” he said in an interview with Fox News Channel that aired Thursday.
Barr offered no support for his assertion that the FBI lacked a basis for opening the investigation and made no mention of the fact that the bureau began its probe after a Trump campaign adviser purported to have early knowledge that Russia had dirt on Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Barr, who has appointed a U.S. Attorney to lead an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, said the Justice Department has evidence there was “something far more troubling” than just mistakes during the investigation that eventually morphed into special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
“I think the president has every right to be frustrated because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history,” Barr said in the interview with Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham.
The attorney general said the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia “without any basis.”
“Even more concerning, actually, is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president,” Barr said. “To sabotage the presidency, and I think that — or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency.”
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The inspector general’s report identified significant problems with applications to receive and renew warrants to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2016 and 2017. Investigators were concerned about Page’s ties to Russia but never charged him with any wrongdoing. Inspector General Michael Horowitz told senators the FBI failed to follow its own standards for accuracy and completeness when it sought warrants from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor Page’s communications.
The report detailed 17 errors and omissions during those wiretap applications, including failing to tell the court when questions were raised about the reliability of some of the information it had presented to receive the warrants. Those mistakes prompted internal changes within the FBI and spurred a congressional debate over whether the bureau’s surveillance tools should be reined in.
But Barr believes they were more than just mistakes, offering a personal view of the probe, a highly unusual move for a prosecutor in an ongoing investigation.
“My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,” he said. “There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/willia...site%20buttons
Damn, even if anything ever does go to a trial, Barr and Trump are basically guaranteeing mistrials or appeals based on their redassing.
Most likely won't get anywhere near that though. Sorry, TSA!
Under federal law, a member of the intelligence community may file a complaint with the inspector general if it relates to a matter of “urgent concern.” The law defines a matter of urgent concern as a problem relating to “an intelligence activity within the responsibility of the Director of National Intelligence.”
The complaint Atkinson sent to Congress was about a diplomatic phone call, not an “intelligence activity.” It did not fall under the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memorandum explaining that point.
Thus, it did not qualify as a valid whistleblower complaint. Atkinson either failed to understand the law or decided to ignore it.
Strike one for Atkinson.
Another law states that the inspector general should refer the complaint—even if it was not a valid whistleblower complaint—to the Justice Department for investigation. Atkinson did not do that.
Strike two.
The law also requires the inspector general to determine whether the complaint is credible. At the time Atkinson received the complaint, long-standing department policy required, for good reason, that a complaint be based on firsthand information—not hearsay—to be considered credible.
That was not the case with the complaint Atkinson greenlighted. The supposed “whistleblower” was not involved in the phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy, didn’t work in the White House at the time the call was made, and clearly had a political ax to grind against Trump.
Despite all of his knowledge being thirdhand, Atkinson deemed his complaint to be credible anyway.
Strike three.
Usually with three strikes, you’re out. But Atkinson kept swinging—and missing.
When asked about how he made his credibility determination, Atkinson admitted that he never reviewed the White House memorandum describing the content of the call between Trump and Zelenskyy.
Strike four.
When the press asked Atkinson why he violated the policy, he acknowledged that the policy prohibited him from deeming the report credible, but said he changed the policy after receiving the complaint.
Strike five.
Perhaps realizing that he had backed himself into a corner, Atkinson tried to spin his way out.
He said that, regardless of what was written down, the true policy actually always had been the opposite; that is, complaints were totally fine, even if they were not based on firsthand information. And anyway, Atkinson continued, the complainant checked a box on a form that said he had firsthand information, even though the body of the complaint made it obvious he didn’t.
There are several ways to slice this, and none make Atkinson look good.
He either allowed a defunct policy to sit on the books for years, disregarded an established policy for political ends, or didn’t do his job with the care required from the inspector general of the intelligence establishment, one of the most important functions of the executive branch when it comes to the nation’s security.
Strike six.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/...gnore-the-law/
Turns out it was credible and, in fact, true.
Home run.
impeachment trial confirmed that it was urgent and necessary on a bipartisan basis
end of ing story
IG did his job
Dems in congress did theirs
the GOP/Barr/DOJ/Trump - all part of a criminal cover up
end of story
in the future - a proper investigative authority will expose all the criminality and cover ups
The IG actually didn't do his job, as you were just shown.
And yet, the complaint was credible and true.
Why you want it suppressed is your burden to explain.
he reported it to the DOJ
IG established- it was urgent and credible - which was in his authority to do-
the corrupt barr- dismissed it/refused to investigate (this alone should have caused barr himself to be impeached)
18-plus witnesses corroborated it
evidence was corroborated by trump and mulvaneys own statements
and trumps “not so perfect” phone call
the entire planet witnessed all of the above
/thread
Sorry, the IG didn't do his job correctly. Nothing you say will change that. And you are in the wrong thread anyways
TSA continues his jihad for footnote accountability while Trump is responsible for thousands of American deaths.
FISA!!!
who cares if hundreds of thousands die?
FISA ABUSE!
fixated whataboutism
Trash is a Pootin puppet, and welcomed Pootin ing the 2016 election, which is why Trash and his mafiya have lied, "forgotten", OBSTRUCTED any and all investigations.
TSA and similar ilk simply cannot accept Trash, an illegitimate President, and his mafiya a cheating, lying, stealing crime syndicate.
eg, Barr just said Trash was correct to fire a bunch of "disloyal" IGs
Barr does not say this on national tv if he already doesn’t know.
is about to blow up.
Of course he says this on Fox News even if he knows nothing. You haven't been paying attention.
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