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[coorslite21]

This week?.......surely before Aug 1st......JMO.....CL 

 

OOPPS.......that old copy and paste issue.......click link

 

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meadows-previews-school-reopening-plans-durham-probe-results-i-expect-indictments

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2020 by coorslite21

[Shabibilicious]

Relevant to the thread topic.  ~ WARNING ~ language.

 

Bill Barr Has Pie on His Face, and One More Trick Up His Sleeve With John Durham’s October Surprise

Michael Tomasky

,

The Daily Beast•June 22, 2020

 

 

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty

Bill Barr reminded us of something important this weekend: Evil people can **** **** up, too. We usually ascribe matchless brilliance to the bad guys, hence the phrase “evil genius.” But they’re not geniuses. Hitler, thank heaven, was a terrible general. And Barr is so in thrall to his 16th century world view, so intent on turning the United States of America into a clerical theocracy, that he forgot that we have laws and that he can’t just get away with anything.

Yes, his attempt to replace Geoffrey Berman, the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney probing and charging Trump’s pals, was unethical, maybe illegal, and obviously scandalous. But it was stupid, too. It backfired on him immediately, and it deserved to. It was great to see that he and Donald Trump couldn’t get away with installing their lackey. Credit the prosecutors who objected, credit the media for its tough coverage (including at the Beast), and don’t forget to credit Jaime Harrison here, too. If he weren’t running a credible and competitive race against Lindsey Graham, there is no way Graham would have said Saturday that he’d permit Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to block the lackey’s elevation.

A central truism of the Trump era is that nothing sticks because the president or one of his minions does something more shocking than the last shocking thing every three days, so we lose track and don’t remember, but this one will stick. This one, people will remember. Barr still has all the power that an attorney general possesses, but as a figure with any moral authority at all, he’s a dead man. Like all the Torquemadas throughout history, he’s done more damage to himself than his opponents could have dreamed of doing.

Now, our attention must turn to John Durham. He’s the Connecticut prosecutor whom Barr has appointed to come up with an October Surprise to help re-elect Trump. The plan is obviously for Durham to hand down indictments before the election of John Brennan, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Chris Orr, and anyone else involved in the so-called scandal of the FBI’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.

Bill Barr’s Plan to Rig 2020 for Trump: Frame ‘Deep State’ for Russia’s 2016 Interference

Durham has been operating largely below the media’s radar. He makes the papers only occasionally. But recently, in a big New York Times Magazine profile of Barr, Mattathias Schwartz asked Barr a number of pointed questions about what Durham is up to. Barr all but admitted that what he expects from Durham is a finding that yes, Russia did interfere in the 2016 election—but on behalf of Hillarious Clinton, not Trump. Or at least, he wants something like that to muddy the picture.

Step back now and remember: Our 17 intelligence agencies agreed unanimously that Russia interfered to assist the Trump campaign. The Senate intelligence committee emphatically agreed, on a bipartisan basis. What Barr wants here is to use the Justice Department to cast doubt on all those findings, exonerate Trump, and get headlines about indictments of allegedly Hillarious-loving (and Joe Biden-loving, while we’re at it) deep staters right before the election to try to advance the narratives about Trump being a victim of a cabal and Biden somehow being part of this corrupt enterprise.

It is disgraceful. And today, in light of the Berman ouster, which followed similar shenanigans to put “his people” in place at the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s office and an exodus of top officials from Main Justice in Washington, people had better be paying renewed attention to what Durham might be up to. Democrats have to start drawing attention to this. 

What they need to do is to pre-bake public opinion here. This is something Republicans do really well, and Democrats do really badly. If you expect that X is about to happen, you start saying that X is about to happen, and X is corrupt. That way, you’ve planted the seed, so when X happens, you say, “See! I told you so! This is corrupt.” Barr, of course, did a variation on this when he pre-announced the results of the Mueller Report, making it sound much less damaging than it turned out to be.

So Democrats need to start saying right now that Durham is engaged in a phony investigation that is an attempt by Barr to rig the election. They need to say it and say it and say it. And then, when Durham issues his report or indictments, public opinion, or the important slice of it anyway, will be conditioned to believe that it’s all a scam.

And they need to pressure Durham as well. Little is known about the man. I’ve read some profiles, but they’re generally not informative. He’s held in high esteem. Fine. Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that we were reading those same kinds of profiles about Barr, before he went full General Franco on us. 

Who is John Durham? What manner of man is he? Does he really want to go down in this kind of historical infamy, of trying to bail out a lawless president? Maybe he does. Maybe that’s exactly who he is. We have no idea. But if he’s not that, if he’s actually just a decent conservative (a dying breed in this country, but there are a few), then he should want no part of Barr’s conspiracy. 

The Berman affair puts all this in much sharper relief. We’ve just seen Barr think he can get away with anything. But he didn’t. The nation rose up to say no, you can’t do anything. And if Durham tries to execute what Barr wants, and close to an election, the nation will rise up again. And Republican senators from Graham and Mitch McConnell on down, looking at bleak poll numbers and fearful of losing their elections, will decide maybe they’d better keep their distance.  

So the dam is starting to leak. Tulsa and all those empty seats showed how weak Trump is right now. And the way Berman outmaneuvered the administration to get his preferred successor in the U.S. Attorney post showed how weak Barr is. Now, it’s up to John Durham to behave like a patriot and not a hack.

Trump and Barr are evil, but they’re a long way from being geniuses. And here’s hoping that under President Biden, Attorney General Preet Bharara will make sure they get the living accommodations they deserve.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/bill-barr-pie-face-one-074423014.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

Relevant to the thread topic.  ~ WARNING ~ language.

 

Bill Barr Has Pie on His Face, and One More Trick Up His Sleeve With John Durham’s October Surprise

Michael Tomasky

,

The Daily Beast•June 22, 2020

 

 

Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty

Bill Barr reminded us of something important this weekend: Evil people can **** **** up, too. We usually ascribe matchless brilliance to the bad guys, hence the phrase “evil genius.” But they’re not geniuses. Hitler, thank heaven, was a terrible general. And Barr is so in thrall to his 16th century world view, so intent on turning the United States of America into a clerical theocracy, that he forgot that we have laws and that he can’t just get away with anything.

Yes, his attempt to replace Geoffrey Berman, the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney probing and charging Trump’s pals, was unethical, maybe illegal, and obviously scandalous. But it was stupid, too. It backfired on him immediately, and it deserved to. It was great to see that he and Donald Trump couldn’t get away with installing their lackey. Credit the prosecutors who objected, credit the media for its tough coverage (including at the Beast), and don’t forget to credit Jaime Harrison here, too. If he weren’t running a credible and competitive race against Lindsey Graham, there is no way Graham would have said Saturday that he’d permit Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to block the lackey’s elevation.

A central truism of the Trump era is that nothing sticks because the president or one of his minions does something more shocking than the last shocking thing every three days, so we lose track and don’t remember, but this one will stick. This one, people will remember. Barr still has all the power that an attorney general possesses, but as a figure with any moral authority at all, he’s a dead man. Like all the Torquemadas throughout history, he’s done more damage to himself than his opponents could have dreamed of doing.

Now, our attention must turn to John Durham. He’s the Connecticut prosecutor whom Barr has appointed to come up with an October Surprise to help re-elect Trump. The plan is obviously for Durham to hand down indictments before the election of John Brennan, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Chris Orr, and anyone else involved in the so-called scandal of the FBI’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.

Bill Barr’s Plan to Rig 2020 for Trump: Frame ‘Deep State’ for Russia’s 2016 Interference

Durham has been operating largely below the media’s radar. He makes the papers only occasionally. But recently, in a big New York Times Magazine profile of Barr, Mattathias Schwartz asked Barr a number of pointed questions about what Durham is up to. Barr all but admitted that what he expects from Durham is a finding that yes, Russia did interfere in the 2016 election—but on behalf of Hillarious Clinton, not Trump. Or at least, he wants something like that to muddy the picture.

Step back now and remember: Our 17 intelligence agencies agreed unanimously that Russia interfered to assist the Trump campaign. The Senate intelligence committee emphatically agreed, on a bipartisan basis. What Barr wants here is to use the Justice Department to cast doubt on all those findings, exonerate Trump, and get headlines about indictments of allegedly Hillarious-loving (and Joe Biden-loving, while we’re at it) deep staters right before the election to try to advance the narratives about Trump being a victim of a cabal and Biden somehow being part of this corrupt enterprise.

It is disgraceful. And today, in light of the Berman ouster, which followed similar shenanigans to put “his people” in place at the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s office and an exodus of top officials from Main Justice in Washington, people had better be paying renewed attention to what Durham might be up to. Democrats have to start drawing attention to this. 

What they need to do is to pre-bake public opinion here. This is something Republicans do really well, and Democrats do really badly. If you expect that X is about to happen, you start saying that X is about to happen, and X is corrupt. That way, you’ve planted the seed, so when X happens, you say, “See! I told you so! This is corrupt.” Barr, of course, did a variation on this when he pre-announced the results of the Mueller Report, making it sound much less damaging than it turned out to be.

So Democrats need to start saying right now that Durham is engaged in a phony investigation that is an attempt by Barr to rig the election. They need to say it and say it and say it. And then, when Durham issues his report or indictments, public opinion, or the important slice of it anyway, will be conditioned to believe that it’s all a scam.

And they need to pressure Durham as well. Little is known about the man. I’ve read some profiles, but they’re generally not informative. He’s held in high esteem. Fine. Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that we were reading those same kinds of profiles about Barr, before he went full General Franco on us. 

Who is John Durham? What manner of man is he? Does he really want to go down in this kind of historical infamy, of trying to bail out a lawless president? Maybe he does. Maybe that’s exactly who he is. We have no idea. But if he’s not that, if he’s actually just a decent conservative (a dying breed in this country, but there are a few), then he should want no part of Barr’s conspiracy. 

The Berman affair puts all this in much sharper relief. We’ve just seen Barr think he can get away with anything. But he didn’t. The nation rose up to say no, you can’t do anything. And if Durham tries to execute what Barr wants, and close to an election, the nation will rise up again. And Republican senators from Graham and Mitch McConnell on down, looking at bleak poll numbers and fearful of losing their elections, will decide maybe they’d better keep their distance.  

So the dam is starting to leak. Tulsa and all those empty seats showed how weak Trump is right now. And the way Berman outmaneuvered the administration to get his preferred successor in the U.S. Attorney post showed how weak Barr is. Now, it’s up to John Durham to behave like a patriot and not a hack.

Trump and Barr are evil, but they’re a long way from being geniuses. And here’s hoping that under President Biden, Attorney General Preet Bharara will make sure they get the living accommodations they deserve.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/bill-barr-pie-face-one-074423014.html

 

GO RV, then BV

 

A biased hit piece on Barr and Durham.....right out of the left's normal play book.....

 

Common knowledge is that the Obama DOJ broke the laws of the land....and no matter how the media try's to white wash it.......if you or I had done the same.......we'd already be locked up.....

 

Funny how these people were all respected for serving their country prior to serving it under Trump......it would still be refreshing to see the left and the media come up with some positives on how they will improve the nation......rather than just creating division within the country by constantly spewing negativity......CL 

[Pitcher]

Did they break the law.  Probably so.  If the evidence is there to indict then do it.  A jury will decide..  I will tell you one thing, this is more fact based and unbiased than the Mueller Inquiry and the Schiff Impeachment.   Deal with it Dems.  

[Shedagal]

So much evidence is surfacing, it will be obvious to all when, as Mark Meadows said, things unravel.  Not only the Russian hoax,  but also pedophilia involvement by Hollywood and politicians (from both sides).  It will be ugly, but the truth must come out.

[nstoolman1]

The Left and the Media don't want to be bothered with facts. 

Put your heads down, do your work and be good subjects. The Left knows best and will take care of you. 

[Shabibilicious]

It will be interesting to see the timing of any such report.....as the easiest way to identify political motivation is timing.   The wikileaks Dem emails and the Access Hollywood bus video/audio being two such examples.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[rw.sutton]

Well, son of a ***** he got fired!

[Pitcher]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

It will be interesting to see the timing of any such report.....as the easiest way to identify political motivation is timing.   The wikileaks Dem emails and the Access Hollywood bus video/audio being two such examples.  

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Oh you can bet this is all Political and timing will be exploited to it’s max.   This report should have been released 6 months ago imo.  

[Shabibilicious]

59 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

Oh you can bet this is all Political and timing will be exploited to it’s max.   This report should have been released 6 months ago imo.  

 

With the knowledge that any response to my following remark will most likely have a deflecting twist to it, I must simply say that any political exploitation of Durham's report should be frowned upon by those who expect ethical treatment of the Rule of Law.  As always, just my opinion. 

 

GO RV, then BV 

[Pitcher]

6 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

With the knowledge that any response to my following remark will most likely have a deflecting twist to it, I must simply say that any political exploitation of Durham's report should be frowned upon by those who expect ethical treatment of the Rule of Law.  As always, just my opinion. 

 

The rule of Law will be applied and the ones indicted will have there day in court.  

[Shabibilicious]

2 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

The rule of Law will be applied and the ones indicted will have there day in court.  

 

That is the most important thing, of course....swaying an election is simply a bonus.  I get it.

 

GO RV, then BV 

Edited July 20, 2020 by Shabibilicious

[Pitcher]

2 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

That is the most important thing, of course....swaying an election is simply a bonus.  I get it.

 

As an American you should want the entire truth.  Imagine for one minute if the tables were turned and Obama was spied on, and set up by the FBI with a Phony Dossier paid for by the Republicans.  From that Dossier the FBI launches a political vendetta by going after all of  Obama’s Supporters, and launch a Special Investigation into a Phony story about Soros owning Obama.  

 

 

Lets get the truth out. The entire truth.  Who sold out, Quid Pro Quo,  who was blackmailed after going to Epstein’s island.  Let’s get all the shenanigans on the table and see who did what.  Then the American people can vote for who they think is best.  It’s past time to expose all the greed, all the pay offs, all the lies, all the debauchery and corruption.  That includes the media who have been more than complicit in selling the American people a fake narrative.  

 

 

[Shabibilicious]

20 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

As an American you should want the entire truth.  Imagine for one minute if the tables were turned and Obama was spied on, and set up by the FBI with a Phony Dossier paid for by the Republicans.  From that Dossier the FBI launches a political vendetta by going after all of  Obama’s Supporters, and launch a Special Investigation into a Phony story about Soros owning Obama.  

 

 

Lets get the truth out. The entire truth.  Who sold out, Quid Pro Quo,  who was blackmailed after going to Epstein’s island.  Let’s get all the shenanigans on the table and see who did what.  Then the American people can vote for who they think is best.  It’s past time to expose all the greed, all the pay offs, all the lies, all the debauchery and corruption.  That includes the media who have been more than complicit in selling the American people a fake narrative.  

 

 

 

Sounds great....bring on that Durham report and let's end this once and for all.  I'm all for it...the sooner the better.

 

GO RV, then BV