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James Comey Wrote a Letter in (October) 2016. What Will Bill Barr Do?

Will Atty Gen Barr observe DOJ guidelines, or will he "pull a Comey" ?

  • Barr will not mention Durham or details of his "investigation" until after the election

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Barr will behave similarly to Comey and violate DOJ guidelines by disclosing Durham "findings"

    Votes: 8 88.9%

  • Total voters
    9

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[h=1]James Comey Wrote a Letter in 2016. What Will Bill Barr Do?[/h]
Two investigations appear to be potential fodder for pre-election political machinations.
By Ryan Goodman and Andrew Weissmann
Mr. Goodman, co-editor in chief of Just Security, and Mr. Weissmann, a senior prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, teach law at N.Y.U.

Opinion | Will Bill Barr Try to Help Trump Win the Election? - The New York Times

My comment: DOJ guidelines discourage influencing U.S. elections from 90 days before an election, until the election.
Barr has regularly commented on the Durham investigation, contrary to DOJ policy concerning ongoing investigations, and there is no known predicate for instigating that investigation, in the first place. Last week, Barr admitted under oath that he inserted himself one time on the President's behalf, in the sentencing of Roger Stone.
 
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And your poll is where?

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William Barr is far more ethical than the partisans you've mentioned.

That's all the public really needs to know...
Have a good day sorting it all out.
 
Opinion

[h=1]James Comey Wrote a Letter in 2016. What Will Bill Barr Do?[/h]
Two investigations appear to be potential fodder for pre-election political machinations.
By Ryan Goodman and Andrew Weissmann
Mr. Goodman, co-editor in chief of Just Security, and Mr. Weissmann, a senior prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, teach law at N.Y.U.

  • Aug. 5, 2020



Opinion | Will Bill Barr Try to Help Trump Win the Election? - The New York Times

My comment: DOJ guidelines discourage influencing U.S. elections from 90 days before an election, until the election.
Barr has regularly commented on the Durham investigation, contrary to DOJ policy concerning ongoing investigations, and there is no known predicate for instigating that investigation, in the first place. Last week, Barr admitted under oath that he inserted himself one time on the President's behalf, in the sentencing of Roger Stone.

Option 2. Barr is not ethical at all and will do anything to help Trump.
 
Option 2. Barr is not ethical at all and will do anything to help Trump.

Absolutely, and everyone not a drooling Trump supporter knows this, which is why whatever Barr and his thugs come up with on Biden is not going to work. If anything, it will backfire, and make people sympathetic towards Biden after Trump's DOJ "investigates" him for purely partisan reasons.
 
"Senator" Blackburn posted this garbage just an hour after former Acting AG Sally Yates testified under oath that it did not happen!

She is a caricature of a stupid Trump supporter.
 
Opinion

[h=1]James Comey Wrote a Letter in 2016. What Will Bill Barr Do?[/h]
Two investigations appear to be potential fodder for pre-election political machinations.
By Ryan Goodman and Andrew Weissmann
Mr. Goodman, co-editor in chief of Just Security, and Mr. Weissmann, a senior prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, teach law at N.Y.U.

Opinion | Will Bill Barr Try to Help Trump Win the Election? - The New York Times

My comment: DOJ guidelines discourage influencing U.S. elections from 90 days before an election, until the election.
Barr has regularly commented on the Durham investigation, contrary to DOJ policy concerning ongoing investigations, and there is no known predicate for instigating that investigation, in the first place. Last week, Barr admitted under oath that he inserted himself one time on the President's behalf, in the sentencing of Roger Stone.

Two reasons it doesn't matter what Barr does:

1) Barr isn't Comey, and today's DOJ isn't 2016's DOJ. Barr is known to be a stooge of Trump's and hopelessly corrupt. The only people who'll care about what he says are already hard trump supporters.

2) Trump is under criminal investigation.
 
Two reasons it doesn't matter what Barr does:

1) Barr isn't Comey, and today's DOJ isn't 2016's DOJ. Barr is known to be a stooge of Trump's and hopelessly corrupt. The only people who'll care about what he says are already hard trump supporters.

2) Trump is under criminal investigation.

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The calendar has just narrowed to inside the 90 day window until election day....

An Open Letter to Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham
An Open Letter to Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham
John H. Durham
United States Attorney
District of Connecticut
450 Main Street
Room 328
Hartford, CT 06103

Dear U.S. Attorney Durham:

On May 13, 2019, Attorney General William Barr appointed you to review the origins of the 2016 Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. At some point, this review turned into a criminal investigation of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia’s efforts to undermine our democracy.

The need for your appointment was hard to understand at the time it was made, since the Justice Department’s independent Inspector General was already conducting a similar investigation that began in March 2018 into the same issues. On December 9, 2019, the Inspector General issued his report and concluded that the 2016 Russia investigation had had a legitimate purpose and that there was no evidence of political bias against President Trump in how the investigation had been initiated or undertaken.

We are now in the closing stages of the 2020 presidential campaign....
.......
.......In the event that decisions about issuing a report or bringing criminal indictments are made at higher levels of the Justice Department, you should promptly withdraw your name and publicly disassociate yourself from such actions. It would abandon your own professional duty and responsibility in this matter to allow superiors to direct you to take actions that contravene a Departmental policy designed to protect the integrity of both the Justice Department and the electoral process. Nor should you defer to any implausibly narrow or strained interpretations of the policy that might be made by the Attorney General or others.

I strongly urge you not to participate in, and to disassociate yourself from, any announcement, report release, issuance of indictments, or other public statements or actions prior to the 2020 presidential election relating to the criminal investigation you have been conducting into the origins of the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election or any other related matters in which you are directly involved.

Sincerely,
Fred Wertheimer
 
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