Memo To House Democrats: Bide Your Time, Be Prepared, Then Get Barr
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/05/memo-house-democrats-bide-your-time-barr
5/03/19 9:12am
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Memo To House Democrats: Bide Your Time, Be Prepared, Then Get Barr
A modest proposal for House Democrats...Wait a week. Put your ducks in a row.
By John Amato
House Democrats should allow William Barr to stonewall their proceedings for the time being so they can thoroughly study his obnoxious four-page summary and despicable Senate testimony to be completely prepared when he finally does show up to be interviewed by the House Judiciary committee.
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Barr has admitted he never studied the underlying evidence in the Mueller report.
William Barr's testimony also provided an extensive roadmap on how to impeach his own testimony to the Senate.
As Marcy Wheeler noted:
Among the opinions the Attorney General espoused are that:
You only need to call the FBI when being offered campaign assistance by a foreign intelligence service, not a foreigner
Its okay to lie about the many dangles hostile foreign countries make to a political campaign, including if you accepted those dangles.
Because Trump was being falsely accused (its not clear of what, because the report doesnt address the most aggressive accusation, and many other accusations against Trump and his campaign are born out by the Mueller Report), its okay that he sought to undermine it through illegal means
Its okay for the President to order the White House Counsel to lie, even about an ongoing investigation
Its okay to fire the FBI Director for refusing to confirm or deny an ongoing investigation, which is DOJ policy not to do
Its okay for the Attorney General to call lawfully predicated DOJ investigative techniques spying because Fox News does
Public statements including threatening someones family cannot be subornation of perjury
You can exhaust investigative options in a case having only obtained contemptuous responses covering just a third of the investigation from the key subject of it
Barr also directly lied about his contacts with Mueller while being questioned by Rep. Crist.
Barr cannot feign ignorance or a memory lapse especially after Mueller contacted him twice about being unhappy the way he framed special counsel's report.