Former Attorney General William Barr during an interview on Fox News last week said that if Trump did indeed have a standing order to declassify all documents that he took with him as he left the White House, that would amount to a worse abuse than actually taking the documents.
Barr said the
following:
“I can’t think of a
legitimate reason why they should have been could be taken out of the
government, away from the government if they’re classified. I frankly am
skeptical of this claim that ‘I declassified everything,’ you know.”
“If, in fact, he sort
of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said,
‘I hereby declassify everything in here’ — that would be such an abuse, and
that shows such recklessness that it’s almost worse than taking the documents.”
https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1565750413864976387
A federal
judge recently granted Trump’s request to assign a special master.
U.S. District Judge
from the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen M. Cannon ordered that an
independent third-party be appointed to “review the seized property, manage
assertions of privilege and make recommendations thereon, evaluate claims for
the return of property and “enjoins the Government from reviewing and using the
seized materials for investigative purposes”
Barr called the order
to appoint a special master a “deeply flawed” decision.
“The whole idea of a
special master is a bit of a red herring. The only documents that have been
taken, it seems to me, that there’s a legitimate concern about keeping away
from the government and insulating the government from, would be documents
relating to his private lawyer communications, him as an individual and as
outside lawyers,”
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1567235844431380480
For the media this is the gold they dream of, a former Trump
cabinet member attacking him. They carried
it with
glee.
So what are the facts?
Since most of the
warrant, the supporting affidavits, and even the cause for
redaction were redacted the key facts are unclear.
Barr was engaging in
uneducated speculation.
The only facts we
know are the following:
The raid on Trump’s
house was unprecedented.
If Trump indeed
was in possession of documents of such vital national importance, why did the
authorities not imitate proceedings to retrieve these documents immediately
after Trump depart the White House?
Why did they wait for
three months before the midterms to raid Trump's private home?
The
New York Post reported that Trump's team was "cooperating
fully" with federal authorities to arrange the return of the documents,
with the process beginning in May 2021, when it was noticed that some records
were missing and in January 2022, some of the
documents were returned.
Then in June 2022,
four top DOJ officials traveled
to Mar-a-Lago to speak with Trump's attorneys about the
documents. Trump's team showed the government officials where Trump was
storing documents — in a basement room.
Why did they not
initiate proceedings to retrieve those documents at that time?
Serious questions
need to be asked about the raid itself.
Why were Trump’s
lawyers not allowed
to see or obtain a copy of the search warrant and thoroughly read it?
Why were Trump's
lawyers prevented from accompanying FBI officials during the raid?
Why did the 30 agents
Eric arrived at Mar-a-Lago ask staff to turn security
cameras off?
Now for the redaction
If the reasons for
the raid were fair, why did the FBI redact most of the warrant and the
supporting affidavits?
The FBI claimed the
redaction was to protect the identities of the officials involved. If safety
was the concern why was the name of former Trump official Kash Patel also
not redacted?
Why did disgraced
former FBI official issue a veiled threat against Patel
https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1563263014987796480
Regarding the
appointment of a special master, there is no harm in allowing an
independent third party from reviewing the seized property.
Now let’s look at
Barr's tenure as Attorney General in Trump's cabinet.
Barr took over from Attorney
General Jeff Sessions and appeared to be stand against the swamp. He appeared
to steer the Mueller investigation toward completion. He even prepared a summary of
the Mueller report that cleared Trump. The Democrats looking to force Trump out
of office called the
summary a misrepresentation while Barr himself was called Trump’s
lackey.
But beyond were concrete actions taken by Barr's DOJ?
Andrew McCabe
confessed to leaking
information to the media and lied
about it to the FBI. Sessions had fired
him for these felonies, but Barr didn’t
charge him.
During the Mueller
probe, the investigators frequently leaked
to the press to build the narrative that the walls were closing in on
Trump. They also used pressure
and intimidation tactics to extract confessions. They also baselessly
conducted midnight raids and leaked to the media about it in advance.
Barr did nothing to ensure that the rogue elements face the consequences of
their actions.
In May 2019, Barr assigned federal prosecutor John Durham to
investigate the origins of the FBI’s
2016 investigation into the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
Nothing much has come out of that.
Back in October 2020, The New York Post had carried
myriad reports
on the shady business dealings of Hunter Biden enabled by his father
Joe Biden. Another report revealed Hunter Biden's laptop contained emails, text
messages, and financial documents which proved that Biden, as Vice President,
used his influence to reap large profits for his family.
Following the
reports, personnel MSNBC, NBC, The
Washington Post, The
Daily Beast, CNN, and
The NY Times coordinated their efforts to discredit the story.
51 former senior
intelligence officials have signed on to a letter claiming the report was 'Russian
disinformation.'
Bill Barr should have
asked the DOJ to issue a statement that Hunter was
indeed being probed. Barr should have appointed a Special Prosecutor to
look further into Hunter Biden’s shady deals.
Once again Barr did
nothing.
Perhaps Barr feared
receiving the backlash James Comey faced when he announced Hillary’s
probe.
There were serious
concerns with the 2020 election. The corporate media and Big Tech
suppressed the
Hunter Biden scandal. The sacrosanct electoral infrastructure of
the 2020 elections was
infiltrated by Democrat activists. The Democrats facilitated
large-scale mail-in voting with ballots cast long before Election
Day in 2020. Mail-in votes are vulnerable to fraud.
Barr should have
appointed a Special Prosecutor to probe the elections.
But once again he did
nothing.
Barr allowed the continuation of the two-tier justice system, one
for the Washington Democrat Establishment and another for the rest.
This led some to
wonder if Barr was dispatched by the Swamp to deceive Trump and his supporters
into thinking he stood with them.
Barr certainly said
the right things on many occasions however weren’t followed by actions.
Did he chicken out
fearing repercussions from the swamp or was he threatened or was it his mission
to protect the swamp?
We will never know.
Barr became an
ineffective ally which is often worse than being a sworn enemy. The enemy is
doing what is expected by acting against you. But real betrayal occurs when an
ally turns into a bystander, that is
Nobody expected Barr
to be partisan, he just had to do his job.
Alas, he didn’t.
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