Cleaner Barr hard at work
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Yes, Barr's investigation has confirmed that the swamp tried to overthrow or prevent a duly elected President.
MORE TO COME. Probably will be few or no prosecutions but there is going to be some damn good campaign material and exposing of the democrats right when they think dipshit Schiff is going to bring Trump down on his scam of the month.
Sleep Joe gonna go after Trump on corruption or something. Yeh, how did the first couple rounds of having Hunter's name up in lights work out for ya, Joe? Oh I see. You fell into the toilet and Jim Clyburn had to stand in for you. That's fine. Maybe Barry will rescue you the next time. Then again, he may flush you down the toilet to support a better candidate. It's all good.
https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...KI9y1qvqSZ92vD5Ysh2WiTiBiEJp8zVbkvwGsxDPEam6I
DOJ Would Support Legal Action If Governors' Restrictions Go 'Too Far,' Barr Says
Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department would support legal action against states that continue to impose strict social distancing rules even after coronavirus cases begin to subside in their respective states.
In a Tuesday interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Barr called some current stay-at-home orders "burdens on civil liberties" and said that if they continued and lawsuits were brought, his department would side against the state.
"The idea that you have to stay in your house is disturbingly close to house arrest. I'm not saying it wasn't justified. I'm not saying in some places it might still be justified. But it's very onerous, as is shutting down your livelihood," Barr said.
DOJ Would Support Legal Action If Governors' Restrictions Go 'Too Far,' Barr Says
Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department would support legal action against states that continue to impose strict social distancing rules even after coronavirus cases begin to subside in their respective states.
In a Tuesday interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Barr called some current stay-at-home orders "burdens on civil liberties" and said that if they continued and lawsuits were brought, his department would side against the state.
"The idea that you have to stay in your house is disturbingly close to house arrest. I'm not saying it wasn't justified. I'm not saying in some places it might still be justified. But it's very onerous, as is shutting down your livelihood," Barr said.
cliffnotes: let's carry Donnie's water. Odds this order targets blue states?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...5832ce-88b9-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html
Barr tells prosecutors to ‘be on the lookout’ for state, local coronavirus orders that may violate Constitution
Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday directed federal prosecutors across the country to “be on the lookout” for state and local coronavirus-related restrictions that might run afoul of the Constitution and to pursue court action, if necessary.
In two-page memo to U.S. attorneys across the country, Barr wrote that the measures state and local government officials had taken “have been necessary in order to stop the spread of a deadly disease,” but even in times of emergency, the Constitution could not be discounted entirely.
“Now, I am directing each of our United States Attorneys to also be on the lookout for state and local directives that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens,” Barr wrote, adding later, “If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court.”
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1258473274616565761?s=20
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/michael-flynn-criminal-case-dropped-by-justice-department.html
Justice Department drops criminal case against former Trump aide Michael Flynn
Justice Department drops prosecution of Michael Flynn
The Justice Department moved Thursday to drop its prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in the Mueller investigation in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
Why it matters: The politically explosive decision follows accusations by Flynn's attorneys and conservative media that prosecutors entrapped the former top Trump aide into lying. The case had become part of a broader campaign by the president and his allies to discredit the Russia investigation, which consumed the first two years of the Trump presidency.
The state of play: The Justice Department said in its filing, first reported by the AP, that it made its decision "after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information."
It concluded that the interview in which Flynn lied to the FBI "was untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn" and "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis."
In February, Attorney General Bill Barr appointed an outside prosecutor, U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen, to review the government's prosecution of Flynn for evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
Jensen said in a statement: "Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed."
The big picture: It's a major victory for Trump, who has railed against the Flynn prosecutors and teased a pardon for his former national security adviser.
Last week, Trump said he would consider bringing Flynn back into the administration, calling him "essentially exonerated" after the revelation of new FBI documents that were released as part of Flynn's effort to withdraw his guilty plea.
Between the lines: The motion to dismiss is signed by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea, described by Fox News as Barr's "right-hand man" at the Justice Department.
Shea was appointed after Trump nominated former U.S. attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu — who oversaw the prosecutions of Flynn, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and other spinoffs from the Mueller investigation — to serve in a top Treasury Department role.
Trump abruptly withdrew Liu's nomination for the role in February after reviewing one of the "Deep State" memos compiled by conservative activists about allegedly disloyal government officials.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/michael-flynn-criminal-case-dropped-by-justice-department.html
Justice Department drops criminal case against former Trump aide Michael Flynn
- The Justice Department is dropping its prosecution of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, according to a court filing Thursday.
- The move comes more than two years after Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his discussions with Russia’s ambassador to the United States in the weeks before President Donald Trump took office.
- In court documents that are expected to be filed Thursday, the Justice Department said it is abandoining the prosecution of the retired Army general after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information,” the AP reported.
Justice Department drops prosecution of Michael Flynn
The Justice Department moved Thursday to drop its prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in the Mueller investigation in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
Why it matters: The politically explosive decision follows accusations by Flynn's attorneys and conservative media that prosecutors entrapped the former top Trump aide into lying. The case had become part of a broader campaign by the president and his allies to discredit the Russia investigation, which consumed the first two years of the Trump presidency.
The state of play: The Justice Department said in its filing, first reported by the AP, that it made its decision "after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information."
It concluded that the interview in which Flynn lied to the FBI "was untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn" and "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis."
In February, Attorney General Bill Barr appointed an outside prosecutor, U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen, to review the government's prosecution of Flynn for evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
Jensen said in a statement: "Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed."
The big picture: It's a major victory for Trump, who has railed against the Flynn prosecutors and teased a pardon for his former national security adviser.
Last week, Trump said he would consider bringing Flynn back into the administration, calling him "essentially exonerated" after the revelation of new FBI documents that were released as part of Flynn's effort to withdraw his guilty plea.
Between the lines: The motion to dismiss is signed by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea, described by Fox News as Barr's "right-hand man" at the Justice Department.
Shea was appointed after Trump nominated former U.S. attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu — who oversaw the prosecutions of Flynn, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and other spinoffs from the Mueller investigation — to serve in a top Treasury Department role.
Trump abruptly withdrew Liu's nomination for the role in February after reviewing one of the "Deep State" memos compiled by conservative activists about allegedly disloyal government officials.
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Records released last week showed that handwritten notes dated January 24, 2017 — the same day of Flynn was interviewed at the White House interview by FBI agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka — showed one agent questioning whether the goal of the interview was “to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”
Funny you quote Fusion GPS Ken Dilanian