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Four ways William Barr is already subverting the 2020 elections
Safeguarding the vote would be the top priority of a normal attorney general. Its the opposite now.A normal attorney general of the United States right now would be focused on protecting the integrity of the fast-approaching November elections. Instead, the attorney general we have William P. Barr is intent on doing the opposite: unraveling the governments efforts to hold accountable those who infected our last presidential election, in 2016, and undermining the integrity of the vote in 2020. Its so bad that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, who last weekend said it would be a waste of time to try to impeach Barr, is now reconsidering. (For the moment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says impeachment is not happening.)
There are four ways that Barrs approach to running the Justice Department imperils the vote: Hes letting off the hook those who contributed to interference in the last election; hes undermining confidence in the governments ability to protect the coming election; hes signaling to bad actors that helping President Trump win will garner them special treatment under the law; and hes spreading disinformation about the potential for voter fraud.
First, Barr is actively undoing work by the very department he oversees to address the counterintelligence threat exposed during the 2016 elections. At the core of Russias effort to distort American democracy was its move to obtain influence over a presidential candidate and his team. Thats what the FBI was investigating when it interviewed Trumps first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, in January 2017. The criminal charges brought against Flynn for lying during that interview to which he pleaded guilty twice affirmed federal law enforcements commitment to investigate counterintelligence threats and disrupt them.
But Barr is deliberately unwinding that work. He has overseen the unprecedented attempt by the Justice Department over the objections of the career prosecutor who handled the case to drop the charges against Flynn despite his guilty pleas and based on legal theories invented by the department for the Flynn case alone. In a nod to the departments obviously unusual handling of the case, a dissenting judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit this past week criticized the opinion issued by his two fellow judges, a ruling he said transforms the presumption of regularity into an impenetrable shield blocking the trial judge from even scrutinizing why the department took such a bizarre approach to this case. A normal attorney general would be ratcheting up counterintelligence efforts as the 2020 elections approach; Barr is standing down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/barr-attorney-general-election/2020/06/26/7ad4fc7e-b6fb-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html
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Four ways William Barr is already subverting the 2020 elections (Original Post)
Zorro
Jun 2020
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SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)1. He wants power for his Opus Dei cult. So they can impose their religion on us