Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 20

saltwn · #1 (**permalink**) 09-30-2019, 05:47 PM

Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016

oh fvcking wow

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Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of possible connections between Russia and members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter.

Barr’s personal involvement is likely to stoke further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment that he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries.

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But the high level Justice Department focus on intelligence operatives’ conduct will likely cheer Trump and other conservatives for whom “investigate the investigators” has become a rallying cry. Barr has voiced his own concerns, telling lawmakers in April that he believed “spying did occur” when it came to the U.S. investigation of the Trump campaign.

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The direct involvement of the nation’s top law enforcement official shows the priority Barr places on the investigation being conducted by John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, who has been assigned the sensitive task of reviewing U.S. intelligence work surrounding the 2016 election and its aftermath.

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The attorney general’s active role also underscores the degree to which a nearly three-year old election still consumes significant resources and attention inside the federal government. Current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials expressed frustration and alarm Monday that the head of the Justice Department was taking such a direct role in re-examining what they view as conspiracy theories and baseless allegations of misconduct.

FrancSevin · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2019, 01:45 AM

I have no trouble with the USA AG seeking help in finding out the facts concerning the attempted coup of a sitting USA President. But, I am betting a few hundred Democrats do.

GetAClue · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2019, 05:23 AM

Good. They need to get to the bottom of the lawlessness of the investigation and bring those responsible to justice. If that means that we need the help of foreign intelligence agencies to uncover the truth, so be it. After all, that is the job of the DOJ to hold people accountable to the law.

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