Apparently, Barr has been a busy little bee, all around the globe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/attorney-general-barr-personally-asked-foreign-officials-to-aid-inquiry-into-cia-fbi-activities-in-2016/2019/09/30/d50cd5c4-e3a5-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html
Excerpt:
Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016
By Devlin Barrett ,
Shane Harris and
Matt Zapotosky
September 30 at 6:07 PM
Attorney General William P. Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of possible connections between Russia and members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter.
Barr’s personal involvement is likely to stoke further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment that he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries.
[State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton’s former aides]
But the high level Justice Department focus on intelligence operatives’ conduct will likely cheer Trump and other conservatives for whom “investigate the investigators” has become a rallying cry. Barr has voiced his own concerns, telling lawmakers in April that he believed “spying did occur” when it came to the U.S. investigation of the Trump campaign.
Notice the rationale behind this isn’t to clean up the CIA and Intel overall, or to go after torture programs or black sites/black ops. It’s not to review its history of coups and assassinations and so on. It’s all about discrediting an investigation into Trump and his campaign. IMNSHO, leftists shouldn’t be fooled by this, or cheered by this.
It’s quite similar to the ruckus the GOP raised about the FISA program, because it went after Carter Page. Their ruckus was all about their own team being behind the eight ball, and it happened right after the GOP joined the Dems in reupping FISA legislation.
It would be one thing if they raised a ruckus about the totality of bad practices, illegal, immoral, unethical and otherwise. But there’s no evidence that Trump, Barr, Jim Jordan or any Republican has the slightest intention of doing that. They’re not concerned with “civil liberties” for all Americans. Just their own peers and auxiliaries.
This nightmare needs to end.
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