Barr Allows Redacted Deets About Christopher Steele To Be Released In DOJ IG Report

Attorney General Bill Barr approved the release of originally redacted details about former British spy Christopher Steele as part of the highly anticipated Justice Department inspector general’s report on the launch of the Russia probe, the New York Times reported.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1267132

This is simply Barr trying to put a little bit of fear into Steele.

Sadly for Barr, not everyone is frightened by bullies.

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To what end?

The damage here is done, what would any foreign national stick their necks out to help us only to be betrayed for political expediency?

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It’s retribution, plain and simple: the same reason they want to out the whistle blower and the same reason W’s buddies blew Valerie Plame’s cover. Cross the boss, take the loss.

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…the report is expected to be critical of Steele, whose mostly unverified dossier…

I was under the impression that, though some sections of the document are unverified (pee tape,) large chunks of the dossier had in fact been ratified.

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Barr wants to allow previously redacted material to become public?

As long as we’re about it, let’s start with the Mueller report shall we?

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Barr may be introduced very quickly to the law of untended consequences as redacted shit that is unflattering to his boy Donnie is rapidly released in retaliation . Redactions ain’t valid? Here, hold my beer

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The President has proclaimed on multiple occasions both Joe and Hunter Biden are guilty of crimes in Ukraine. These crimes obviously would be for personal gain, thus issues of revenue and payments, taxes, declarations of income, etc would be at play. These are domestic law enforcement and IRS areas of interest. Yet damned few reports of the DOJ or IRS being pressed to investigate Trump’s allegations are available. If the Bidens are suspected of crimes, as alleged by Trump, what is the administration’s explanation for lack of involvement by U.S. agencies in looking into them? I watch and read a lot of news, from a wide variety of sources, yet I don’t see Barr or others in law enforcement asked about this.

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“Mr. Steele lives at 3423 Bullseye Lane. His wife Ann works at the Crosshairs Bank and their 15 year old daughter is terrified of someone splashing acid in her face. Mr. Steele prefers his polonium tea with just a hint of cyanide.”

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Hopefully, this will result in a shower of information.

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Somehow, anything Mr. Barr does…or says he does…doesn’t feel like it can be counted on. This untrustworthy gnome deserves less regard each time he involves himself.

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And, according to Buzzfeed, Joseph Mifsud left hiswallet and passport in Madeira airport’s lost and found office. Perhaps Ariel knows where he is:

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them,—ding-dong, bell.

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Men like Barr really make me wish I weren’t an atheist, so that I could know for certain that he’s gonna burn in the fiery pits of hell for the rest of eternity.

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It’s a great argument to the minions when they keep harping on the Biden ‘scandal’.

Where, indeed, are the federal investigations on such things? Shouldn’t they also be front and center in the news?

ETA: The GOP would rapidly have another Benghazi on its hands. Nothing to see here, move along.

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The President of the U.S. says two U.S. citizens are guilty of crimes on foreign soil. Yet instead of offering that foreign nation the assistance of U.S. law enforcement for investigation of those crimes, his personal attorney does it. And when the President is asked what his personal attorney is doing in that nation, as relates to crimes he has personally alleged occurred, he claims to have no knowledge of the specifics of his attorney’s work.
And the media can’t frame it in a way people see the total inanity of it all.

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But this isn’t even on the MSM’s radar to look into. They’re more than happy to keep the drumbeat of discrediting Biden for this without providing any substantial evidence to the contrary.

And not like it would matter - 40% of Americans still think Trump did nothing wrong, despite the preponderance of evidence.

I guess the idea of not letting facts get in the way of a good narrative is getting a good workout here…

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Trumpers are so bad at their coverups that they often release incriminating info when they are trying to deny and deflect. I expect this report to be no different.

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If low barr releases anything,the caveat is not substantiated…barr is complicit in everything from IranContra to Epsteins demise…a cultist, opus dei, federalist toady…

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We don’t need to even read them. The details are either worthless or can be spun to the benefit of the conspiracy…

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I am far more interested in Chicken Littles running with the junk on OUR side of the political divide.

What Trump did…what the Dems are Impeaching him for this has nothing to do with. Both Bidens could have been axe murderers. You don’t withhold aid to an foreign ally to get dirt on a domestic political opponent.

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