A federal judge accused former Attorney General Bill of plotting to get a “jump” on the department’s “public relations” spin of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and then obscuring that scheme in later Freedom of Information Act litigation.
Democrat DOJ is quickly losing its mind and cowering before the Republican gods. We are doomed.
In a filing Monday night, the Biden administration acknowledged that a decision whether to prosecute Trump was never “in play,” given a DOJ policy prohibiting charges being brought against siting president.
This policy really needs to go away. If someone commits a crime, they should be prosecuted for it. It’s particularly important for that to happen when someone is in a position of great power. Trump really showed just how dangerous having a criminal who can mostly do whatever he wants in office without fear of prosecution is.
Barr was engaging in thinly-veiled obstruction of justice.
“Lack of candor.”
Wasn’t that what cost Andy McCabe his job?
So, who’s on the chopping block if the DoJ’s defense goes south?
I’m starting to wonder if the DOJ sat on its appeal until the very last possible moment was a conscience decision to make certain people sweat?
If so, which one or ones? (There’re so many to choose from.)
@benthere “Thinly” disguised?
A federal judge accused former Attorney General Bill of plotting to get a “jump” on the department’s “public relations” spin of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and then obscuring that scheme in later Freedom of Information Act litigation.
Barr & his work are similar to a cancerous lesion that wraps around a critical artery - the challenge is to eradicate the cancer without obliterating the artery!
Democrat DOJ is protecting it’s ability to do the exact same thing in the future. There is never real reform in Government because once people are in power they see how they can use all of the tricks they once complained about to their own advantage.
I’d hoped that the AG and President would just waive the former guy’s illegitimate claims of privilege, and just release the whole thing. I guess I’ll be disappointed pending a better explanation why they don’t.
A federal judge accused former Attorney General Bill of plotting to get a “jump” on the department’s “public relations” spin of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and then obscuring that scheme in later Freedom of Information Act litigation.
If justice delayed is justice denied, then Barr has already won. The wily dog knew how Washington works and that any correction, if it came at all, would take years and that the Institution would protect him.
Now, the play is for history because Trump has escaped the grasp of the Mueller Report.
Though I understand Garland’s position, it just seems like we’re arguing fine semantical points while Republicans ride roughshod over entire paragraphs of established federal law.
Oh for the days of RFK.
The administration’s appeal seems quite muddlesome, unless there is something astounding that waits to be aired. If not, Berk’s bust of the late senator needs to be removed from the Oval Office. Replace it with one of Obama.
We don’t know him well enough to just use his first name, and we really don’t want to know him that well. Really.
Remember that old “copy the redacted text and then paste it into another document” trick? Well ….
You might also note that disBarr has experience in this sort of criminality. Can you say “Bury Iran-Contra?”
We want to know him just well enough to put his fat ass into prison.
Nothing about LowBarr was ever “thinly”.
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Marcy Wheeler’s all over this. Check out her twitter feed https://twitter.com/emptywheel?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
And a policy based upon what exactly? An internal memo from decades ago that was never really tested in court…