{"id":177177,"date":"2019-12-02T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/02\/well-he-would-say-that-wouldnt-he\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:01:00","slug":"well-he-would-say-that-wouldnt-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/02\/well-he-would-say-that-wouldnt-he\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, He Would Say That, Wouldn’t He?*"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now that the DoJ’s inspector general has found no wrongdoing about the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign, Attorney General William Barr is looking to subvert the report<\/a>:<\/div>\n

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Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report \u2014 that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s inspector general, Michael Horo\u00adwitz, is due to release his long-awaited findings in a week, but behind the scenes at the Justice Department, disagreement has surfaced about one of Horowitz\u2019s central conclusions on the origins of the Russia investigation. The discord could be the prelude to a major fissure within federal law enforcement on the controversial question of investigating a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz\u2019s rationale for concluding that the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016, these people said.<\/p>\n

Barr\u2019s public defenses of President Trump, including his assertion that intelligence agents spied on the Trump campaign<\/a>, have led Democrats to accuse him of acting like the president\u2019s personal attorney and eroding the independence of the Justice Department. But Trump and his Republican allies have cheered Barr\u2019s skepticism of the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not yet clear how Barr plans to make his objection to Horowitz\u2019s conclusion known. The inspector general report, currently in draft form, is being finalized after input from various witnesses and offices that were scrutinized by the inspector general. Barr or a senior Justice Department official could submit a formal letter as part of that process, which would then be included in the final report. It is standard practice for every inspector general report to include a written response from the department. Barr could forgo a written rebuttal on that specific point and just publicly state his concerns.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Barr is not Attorney General, he is Trump’s consigliere. <\/div>\n
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This man is arguably guiltier than John Mitchell was during the Nixon administration.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

*<\/sup>Mandy Rice-Davies Applies<\/a>?  Seriously, learn your history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the DoJ’s inspector general has found no wrongdoing about the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign, Attorney General William Barr is looking to subvert the report: Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report \u2014 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,407,374,454],"class_list":["post-177177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}