Barr is breaking an important rule
By Harry Litman
The Washington Post
... while attorneys general do meet with foreign officials to cement working relationships and even communicate shared general priorities, transatlantic trips to ask for help on an individual investigation are beyond rare. It would even be unusual for an attorney general to pick up the phone to call a counterpart about an individual case.
Barr’s personal globe-trotting mission necessarily communicates that this one matter — of all the ongoing business of the Justice Department — is an unsurpassed priority of the department.
... Barr already has appointed a respected U.S. attorney, John Durham, to undertake the investigation ...
... the attorney general’s personal involvement compromises .. Durham’s independence. How is Durham supposed to ignore the bear riding piggyback on his shoulders?
... No one has ever shown any satisfactory basis for the various conspiracy theories that Trump defenders have trotted out to argue that the investigation into Russian meddling was rotten at the core ...
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