DOJ Inspector General To Probe Seizure Of The Data Of Lawmakers And Reporters

Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced on Friday his investigation of the Justice Department’s seizure of the data of Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and of several reporters as part of wide-ranging leak investigations during the Trump years.


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It’s needed
Will it be heeded?

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DOJ Inspector General To Probe Seizure Of The Data Of Lawmakers And Reporters.”

They should probe Barr until he limps.

(Unless…you know…he likes that sort of thing.)

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Maybe VP Harris can come back as a guest inquisitor when Sessions appears. He broke out in a flop sweat and almost bolted for the door the last time he had to face that uppity negro lady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_HmEFxCpI

Barr was no better… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktdi_L0rYkk

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I like the timing of these DOJ announcements. Biden said let’s get COVID-19 under control first and start to right the economy and repair international relations. That’s what we needed first. Now that things are settling there (relatively speaking), it’s time to clean shop and name names. If the DOJ had done this quickly in the spring it would have been seen as merely vindictive and hasty. If DOJ is saying what it’s saying now, the wheels have already been turning for awhile and the GOOPERS have only made things worse for themselves in the past few months, stepping in their own shit. I am smiling on this rainy, cicada-laden day.

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Oh, well, thank god Horowitz is on the case…it’s not like he’s a totally useless cowardly turd or anything…

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Where is Billy Barr these days anyway?

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He remains at large, and should be considered bibbed and dangerously hungry.

DOJ has issued an APB for Golden Corrals nationwide.

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This’ll change, but reminders

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This is the kind of thing you see in places like Russia, where Putin’s ex-colleagues in the KGB investigate political rivals, always managing to find some way to throw them in jail. It’s common among dictatorships to use the justice system against political enemies…just another indication of how close we were to becoming a dictatorship if Trump won.

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I’m hoping he’s enjoying the warming weather, sweating, perhaps. Maybe even looking forward to a trip to ClubFed, now that the pandemic’s eased up a bit.

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Maybe I’m just dense and there is general overload of travesties but I don’t see why people are not completely up in arms about this.
Actually they probably are, just behind the scenes at the moment.

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“Schumer and Durbin stated on Friday that the Senate Judiciary Committee would “vigorously investigate this abuse of power” and demanded Barr, Sessions, and other top Trump DOJ officials to testify under oath.”

’ WILMA-A-A-A-A! '

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All I think of when I see his pic is Slimer from ghostbusters.

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OT but a humpback whale grabbed a lobster diver off Cape Cod and had the guy in its mouth, like TOTALLY IN ITS MOUTH for about 20 or 30 seconds before surfacing to spit him out. One of those “How was work, dear?” stories.

I know there are more important things happening. Just not more interesting.

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Wow. I have to wonder why the whale did that in the first place. That’s wild.

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Because they can? It actually happens every now and then. You’d think the whales would discuss it among themselves and cross humans off the list if they’re not carnivores themselves but I guess ultimately you’d have to ask the whales.

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I imagine their intelligence to be such that they actually don’t just act randomly so it’s fascinating to make up scenarios.

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Their eyes are way to the side. They probably can’t actually see what they are scooping up.

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