Federal judge: Barr misled on Mueller investigation

[IGotWorms 3,392]

A federal judge in Washington accused the Justice Department under Attorney General William P. Barr of misleading her and Congress about advice he had received from top department officials on whether President Donald J. Trump should have been charged with obstructing the Russia investigation and ordered that a related memo be released.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington said in a ruling late Monday that the Justice Department’s obfuscation appeared to be part of a pattern in which top officials like Mr. Barr were untruthful to Congress and the public about the investigation.

The department had argued that the memo was exempt from public records laws because it consisted of private advice from lawyers whom Mr. Barr had relied on to make the call on prosecuting Mr. Trump. But Judge Jackson, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011, ruled that the memo contained strategic advice, and that Mr. Barr and his aides already understood what his decision would be.

“The fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given,” Judge Jackson wrote of Mr. Trump.

She also singled out Mr. Barr for how he had spun the investigation’s findings in a lettersummarizing the 448-page report before it was released, which allowed Mr. Trump to claim he had been exonerated.

“The attorney general’s characterization of what he’d hardly had time to skim, much less study closely, prompted an immediate reaction, as politicians and pundits took to their microphones and Twitter feeds to decry what they feared was an attempt to hide the ball,” Judge Jackson wrote.

Her rebuke shed new light on Mr. Barr’s decision not to prosecute Mr. Trump. She also wrote that although the department portrayed the advice memo as a legal document protected by attorney-client privilege, it was done in concert with Mr. Barr’s publicly released summary, “written by the very same people at the very same time.”

 

Liberal fake news rag: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/politics/barr-trump-obstruction-russia-inquiry.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[KSB2424 3,086]

They got em’ this time. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,872]

One of the worst judges in the history of judges. Complete partisan only a leftist ideologue like Obama would appoint. Dismissed. And how would it be possible to obstruct a hoax? 

[Voltaire 4,575]

This smells like yet another partisan hit piece, almost surely inacurate, but the fact is that I don't know that. The pundits can play with this. As for me, I simply have neither the energy nor inclination to look too deeply into this. I'm all Chicken Littled out at this point.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

If you have ever seen Barr or heard Barr or know anything about Barr you know very quickly that he is the type of smart you don't challenge. All if his decisions are supremely defensible. Not sure of the point of all this.

[RLLD 3,514]

And the entire nation was misled by a Democrat cabal that fabricated the Russia hoax and the impeachment, we really ALL should be mad about this. I was not all that happy with that BS when they did it to Clinton, and this was way worse.

[Alias Detective 1,187]

ImpeachTrump!

[Cdub100 3,431]

I can't believe these conspiracy theorist still exist. 

[NorthernVike 2,080]

How many times did worms jack it to this article before posting it?  

[TBayXXXVII 2,155]

How many of you saw this...

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But Judge Jackson, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011

...and viewed this as a lack of credibility and ignored it?  I know I did.

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3 hours ago, NorthernVike said:

How many times did worms jack it to this article before posting it?  

3 1/2 times. I’m not 18 anymore