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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarr's Buried Report Exonerated Obama Team
Mark Follman @markfollman 8hA lot going on right now but this story deserves way more attention: The investigation exonerated the Obama team and probably would have hurt Donald Trumps reelection, so Bill Barr decided to keep it under wraps.
from MoJo:
In the pantheon of Republican pseudo-scandals, unmasking has always been one of the dumbest. National security officials routinely ask the intelligence community to unmask names that have been redacted in raw reports so they can get a better idea of whos doing what to whom, and the Obama administration did this just like every other administration. Republicans, however, have insisted for years that Susan Rice and others used unmasking requests as cover for a campaign against Michael Flynn, and naturally they demanded an investigation. Just as naturally, Bill Barr gave them what they wanted.
Sadly for Republicans, the investigation turned up nothing. Thats not surprising, and neither is this:"Bashs team was focused not just on unmasking, but also on whether Obama-era officials provided information to reporters, according to people familiar with the probe, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive investigation. But the findings ultimately turned over to Barr fell short of what Trump and others might have hoped, and the attorney generals office elected not to release them publicly, the people familiar with the matter said. The Washington Post was unable to review the full results of what Bash found."
The investigation basically exonerated the Obama team and probably would have hurt Donald Trumps reelection, so Barr decided to keep it under wraps. This is how the Justice Department works these days: its a PR shop for Donald Trump, not an independent agency serving the best interests of the American public. Hopefully that will change in a few months.
read: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/10/bill-barr-buries-report-that-exonerates-obama/
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Barr's Buried Report Exonerated Obama Team (Original Post)
bigtree
Oct 2020
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Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)1. Barr is so corrupt
FM123
(10,053 posts)2. Yep. Nothing there, never was.
"This is how the Justice Department works these days: its a PR shop for Donald Trump."
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. This fake investigation should be covered in ads.
Biden? Lincoln Project?
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)4. Barr is one corrupt Attorney General.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)5. We need a complete overhaul at Department of Justice
... from the top down. Our new Attorney General needs to be squeaky clean and ready to turn over every rock. The corruption there absolutely stinks.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)6. They just needed the story to be out there long enough to build a narrative
that would help lock in any tRump voters. It was never about facts or truth.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)7. k&r
crickets
(25,981 posts)8. But of course. K&R for visibility.
Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)9. I have posted this all over FB so it will be buried no more. nt.