emptywheel: Bill Barr Hid Evidence of a Bribery for Pardon Investigation During the Election

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Bill Barr Hid Evidence of a Bribery for Pardon Investigation During the Election

Bill Barr Hid Evidence of a Bribery for Pardon Investigation During the Election | emptywheel
Bill Barr hid that someone was trying to bribe Trump for a pardon through the entire election.
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Holy hell it could be Flynn. DOJ submitted its status update on November 25, the same day Trump pardoned Flynn.
5:06 PM · Dec 1, 2020

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/12/01/barr-hid-evidence-of-a-bribery-for-pardon-investigation-during-the-election/

Beryl Howell just partially unsealed an opinion she wrote on August 28, permitting DOJ to access some attorney’s communications in a bribery-for-pardon scheme. It’s unclear who the targets of the investigation are — though their names are too short to be Rudy Giuliani.

But one thing is clear: Judge Howell asked DOJ to tell her whether the opinion could be unsealed.

The order associated with that opinion directed the government to submit a “report advising whether any portions of the accompanying Memorandum Opinion may be unsealed to the public in whole or in part and, if so, proposing any redactions.”

DOJ did not respond until November 25, and in their response, they asked her to keep the entire thing under seal.

On November 25, 2020, the government submitted a status report requesting that the Court “maintain the Memorandum Opinion under seal” because it “identifies both individuals and conduct that have not been charged by the grand jury” and declining to suggest any redactions for a publicly available version.

She made them go line by line to get the redactions issued with this opinion.

So basically Barr hid that someone tried to bribe Trump for a pardon through the entire election.


*the end*

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Flynn is my guess

[wnylib]

15. Mine, too..

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Interesting,

could be Flynn,Broidy,who was just indited in a Malaysian Money Scheme which he plead guilty and said he would cooperate.

[LessAspin]

4. Erin Brockovich: Blagojevich?

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[LessAspin]

9. Blagojevich long held that they wanted him to turn on Obama..

How ironic would it be if he brought down Trump?

[LeftInTX]

17. Couldn't be...he was already free in Feb...also the person had a shorter name than Rudy Guiliani

Couldn't be Blagojevich

[babylonsister]

5. I thought the pardon for Flynn was payback for keeping his mouth shut. nt

[FSogol]

6. How long until we find out that Trumpy and family are soliciting bribes?

[Budi]

7. Manafort? Footnote says someone BEFORE they went into custody

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Is it about Julian Assange asking to be pardoned in exchange for claiming Russia had nothing to do with 2016 election interference?

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Flynn.

Where's that list of all who've been indicted?

[Hortensis]

8. Other news suggests it could be any of potentially dozens

now pushing hard for pardons as time runs out.

[FloridaBlues]

10. Hoping there's a Republican Senator involved !

[TomDaisy]

11. hid this and probably dozens of other things

[crickets]

21. No doubt. nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. Does this obfuscation by Barr square at all with the idea that he is behind the investigation?

I'm finding out about these two seemingly conflicting ideas within several minutes of each other, and I just don't have the mental energy to try to sort it out.

[wnylib]

18. Same here. It doesn't make sense.

[tclambert]

13. Bill Barr hid evidence of President Trump committing a crime?

Sounds about right.

[Cha]

14. So I wonder why it's coming

out now with Barr saying there was No fraud that would change the outcome of the election?

[radical noodle]

16. George Nader?

Ghislaine Maxwell?

So many criminals, so little time.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

19. Update on emptywheel blog: Judge Howell gave DOJ 90 days...

so Barr didn’t intentionally hold it.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/12/01/barr-hid-evidence-of-a-bribery-for-pardon-investigation-during-the-election/

[Chemisse]

20. I don't think they are supposed to reveal investigations so close to an election.

Remember when Comey blew Clinton away by doing exactly that? At the time I read something about how that is not supposed to be done because it can influence the election.